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Subject: Worlds Biggest Juke Box ? From: Fred McCormick Date: 24 Apr 08 - 01:01 PM I've just spent several entertaining months ripping every CD I've got,except the classical ones that is, to WMA and storing the results on my computer. This afternoon I finished and, just for the hell of it, compiled a Windows Media Player Playlist from this lot. I now have a library which plays in completely random order 39770 tracks, representing 2,212 hours and 1988 CDs. Brother am I going to have fun. It's just playing 'Fore Day Creep by Ida Cox by the way. |
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Subject: RE: Worlds Biggest Juke Box From: eddie1 Date: 25 Apr 08 - 02:24 AM Love the idea but how many plays do you get for £1 ? Eddie |
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Subject: RE: Worlds Biggest Juke Box From: Fred McCormick Date: 25 Apr 08 - 05:01 AM It doesn't cost a bean except for the electricity. There should have been a question mark in the subject heading by the way. I'll betcha, I'll just betcha. Some lousy sod's done it already and got even more tracks loaded than I've got. Hey cool. It's just started playing Rolling in the Dew by George Maynard. |
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Subject: RE: Worlds Biggest Juke Box From: Bainbo Date: 25 Apr 08 - 05:17 AM I've done exactly the same as you, Fred, only with iTunes on my Mac. I can't touch you for quantity, though - I don't have one tenth the number of tracks you. The jukebox thing was a great novelty at first, but I only use it sparingly now. Oddly enough, it's playing at the moment - it's just switched from Moussou T e lei Jovents to Shona Mooney. And you can organise playlsts, so you don't suddenly get a bit of jazz or classical cropping up and throwing youo off-kilter. There are also some songs I don't want to crop up unexpectedly - June Tabor singing A Proper Sort Of Gardener or Mary Gauthier singng I Drink for example. The songs are heartbreaking, and I don't want them to become so familliar that they just become background music. The big advantage, though, has been storage. I don't have shelves full of CDs any more - just as well, as we live in a house only slighly bigger than a packing crate. No, the discs all went out to the garage, and from there they make their way to the local charity shops. That's so I know where to buy them back when the machine crashes and I lose the lot! (Juke box is playing The Contours - First I Look At The Purse, now) |
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Subject: RE: Worlds Biggest Juke Box From: Acorn4 Date: 25 Apr 08 - 05:24 AM How big a hard disk have you got to accomodate all that lot? |
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Subject: RE: Worlds Biggest Juke Box From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 25 Apr 08 - 08:10 AM Sorry - "How big a hard disk have you got to accomodate all that lot?" should have read "How big a hard disk have you got to accomodate all that lot till it fails?" |
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Subject: RE: Worlds Biggest Juke Box From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine Date: 25 Apr 08 - 08:54 AM Last time I checked the iTunes library on my home PC the running time was measured in WEEKS. I don't actually have time to listen to all my music. And it takes me for ever to decide what I actually want to listen to. That said, I'm not complaining that I can carry 100 albums' worth around on an MP3 player in my pocket.. |
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Subject: RE: Worlds Biggest Juke Box From: Fred McCormick Date: 25 Apr 08 - 08:54 AM 500gb and I've got them backed up to an external hard drive, also 500gb. Just to be on the safe side I've got a second back up on an old knackered computer which ain't no use for anything else. |
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Subject: RE: Worlds Biggest Juke Box From: Fred McCormick Date: 25 Apr 08 - 08:56 AM "Last time I checked the iTunes library on my home PC the running time was measured in WEEKS." 2212 hours equals 13.17 weeks. |
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Subject: RE: Worlds Biggest Juke Box From: GUEST,The Input Date: 25 Apr 08 - 08:57 AM Fred, put these words in the correct order - Out Get I More To Need :-) Good luck with your endless playlist. |
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Subject: RE: Worlds Biggest Juke Box From: Geordie-Peorgie Date: 25 Apr 08 - 09:03 AM By heck! Ye'd need an I-pod the size of a suitcase! Apparently Apple are developin' the I-Boob - an I-Pod implant that can be placed into a women's chesticle department. A spokemean said, "This is in response to women complaining that mean are aalways looking at their breasts and never listening to them!" |
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Subject: RE: Worlds Biggest Juke Box From: Fred McCormick Date: 25 Apr 08 - 09:50 AM "Fred, put these words in the correct order - Out Get I More To Need :-) Good luck with your endless playlist." Sorry,I can't stop. I'm off out shortly to hear Sara Gray at Frodsham Folk Club. I've got a Sony car radio which supports ATRAC files. So I'll shorten the journey with an ATRAC CDR, which holds 30+ CDs compressed on to it. |
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Subject: RE: Worlds Biggest Juke Box From: Sir Roger de Beverley Date: 25 Apr 08 - 09:53 AM I use a little FM transmitter to play my 7709 ipod tracks on the car radio - it is about one third full at the moment so I may get up to the 20,000 mark in a few years. R |
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Subject: RE: Worlds Biggest Juke Box From: GUEST,The Input Date: 25 Apr 08 - 09:53 AM LOL @ Fred! Good man and fair play to ya! |
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