2004/04/28 00:41:21 - Jeremy's Web Page

2004/04/28
00:41:21

Nothing too interesting. Work has been a jumble of stuff. Jumping between OS X, different web pages, evaluating server ideas, trying to figure out why Windows and AFP hate each other so much... I'm trying to pull some drastic changes regarding that last one, which should be interesting considering how fast finals are coming. At least the server isn't crashing, just being slow. It's being slow enough that people loose data though, which is really bad. Monday night didn't do much. Stocked up the fridge with dew, hung out talking to people, and went home and did nothing. Hit some problems with encoding but have them figured out now. Takes a lot longer though now, which sucks. Tuesday after work left a bit earlier, and watched 3 more episodes of Alias - up through 18 now.

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By JoeBuck on 2004/04/28 at 17:47:32

Jeremy, what do you make of this?

http://www.apple.com/itunes/import.html

By 10lees on 2004/04/29 at 07:46:01

Argh!!! I need to have the reminder to pick up the vaccuum from you tatooed on my forehead... geesh... so could I get that today/tonight maybe?

By schdav on 2004/04/29 at 10:10:51

Joe - sounds like yet another lossless encoding scheme with 2:1 compression. Flac, and that other one, the one the music industry uses alot, I forget what its called. Apple's is probably just a little different. I'm guessing the iPod plays that format now too? That'd actually make on of thems tempting to own. I'll wait until iTunes can rip and the iPod can play SACDs though.

By Jeremy on 2004/04/30 at 00:11:19

Joe, I'm guessing you mean the lossless stuff? I don't see why they didn't just use FLAC. I mean, the Ogg people are really smart and produce great stuff (I think it's funny how if you decode an mp3 to wav and encode with oggenc no matter the settings it won't bother going much higher than the mp3 bitrate - if it can reconstruct the half mangled stream with fewer bits, why use more), and the ogg container also supports extensibility like DRM, so... Other than that, at least one person who shares at least most of my views on music quality has expressed concern about the sound quality of iTunes. And as for the iPod thing my portable music device already handles FLAC and Vorbis, so... As for the SACD thing, good luck Dave. I don't think we're gonna see DSD in any portable devices for a while...