"Tripper" (tripe46)
02/24/2020 at 00:30 • Filed to: None
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"Tripper" (tripe46)
02/24/2020 at 00:30 • Filed to: None | 6
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Hello. Welcome to a few days of odd houred, more frequent, and lower quality posts from yours truly. My wife is traveling until Thursday evening. I took these coming four days off for some quality time with my kiddo. However, she sleeps a lot and I sleep very little.
I never added an aux interface to the M3 now the one I like is hard to come by. So I can only play cd’s out of the factory head unit. That head unit skips like crazy with any burned cds, unless you burn them suuuuuuuuper slow (like 4x or less).
The selection today is the best album from “ The Beastie Boys”. I have never been a die hard fan, but then I have never heard this album before. I heard the song “ !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ” in a show my wife was watching last week . I caught the “Superfly” beat and stopped (to vibe) and to hear if it was the song or a sample. Shortly thereafter I heard MC A’s unmistakable wail. I said “This Beastie?” to my wife. She looked at me and sighed like she always does when I ask her if XYZ musical artist is XYZ musical artist...
A quick Shazam later and I queued the whole album to play during my run on Friday. It’s tite, if you don’t already know.
When I dusted off the M3 today I took inventory of the 3 albums in the cd sleeve in the door pocket. Jay-Z’s “ Reasonable Doubt”, Bob Marley’s “Bustin’ out of Trenchtown”, and a mix of tracks by the west coast hip-hop duo known as “The People Under The Stairs”. Ok I thought, but we need some new guys in here. Paul’s Boutique is what I like to refer to as a “Headphones” album in that it’s best enjoyed via headphones from start to finish. However I have found that I tend to like those same albums accompanied by a roofless straight six. So I figured this was a welcome addition.
On to the technical. I have some blank cds from god knows when and a headless windows 10 machine with a writeable drive in the basement. I’m the Director of IT for a small company, so naturally I googled “how to burn an audio cd on windows 10.” Found some free software (BurnAware) and made it through install with out agreeing to any of the adware.
I got the album, and spun one off at 4x. Tested it out and sleeved it for later. It was like time traveling. I’m thinking of doing another tomorrow. I’ve been super into Dave Brubeck lately, maybe one of his.
I’ve already added on to my !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! over the weekend, but I will save that post for during her first nap tomorrow.
wafflesnfalafel
> Tripper
02/24/2020 at 00:45 |
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!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
TheRealBicycleBuck
> Tripper
02/24/2020 at 00:54 |
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I c an’t stand it! I know you planned it !
phenotyp
> Tripper
02/24/2020 at 01:54 |
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Paul’s Boutique: the greatest album that can never be recreated.
They slid in just before the sample lawsuit era.
Chariotoflove
> wafflesnfalafel
02/24/2020 at 01:58 |
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Paging XJDano.
Echo51
> Tripper
02/24/2020 at 02:56 |
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I burned 4 for my mom yestaday, of some youtube relaxation music stuff... It was a 3 hour video with a 10min song looping on it, so i got so fed up with the guy who made it i downloaded his albums and burned her those instead. Up yours, relaxing my ass!
Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> Tripper
02/24/2020 at 04:22 |
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I still burn the occasional CD, but as MP3 data files instead of something that could be used in a conventional CD player. The changer in my Mazda can play MP3s off of CDs, so I make different discs stuffed full of music and can change genre just by switching discs. It’s probably more convenient than using my phone or MP3 player since I can change numerous things right from the steering wheel.
Jarrett - [BRZ Boi]
> Tripper
02/24/2020 at 08:35 |
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I can't listen to Beastie boys in the car.something about how they construct their beats encourages the right foot.
HoustonRunner
> Tripper
02/24/2020 at 09:07 |
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I don’t have a computer with a CD/DVD drive any longer. I’ve always only had laptops, and haven’t needed a physical media drive in a long time.
Though when I started working at Andersen Consulting back in the day we were issued iOmega zip (or was it jazz? ) drives.
Urambo Tauro
> Tripper
02/24/2020 at 09:18 |
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G ive me the B eas tie B oys and free my soul...
functionoverfashion
> Tripper
02/24/2020 at 09:35 |
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This is one of my favorite albums, up there with License to Ill. At least as far as Beastie Boys are concerned.
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Tripper
> HoustonRunner
02/24/2020 at 13:44 |
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It was both! Zip drives were smaller, jazz drives were larger.
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Tripper
> functionoverfashion
02/24/2020 at 13:46 |
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Yeah and I have heard licensed to ill a bazillion times. This was just one of those rare gems where I just somehow missed a brilliant album. See Physical Graffiti....I was a few years into Led Zeppelin before I heard my favorite.
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HoustonRunner
> Tripper
02/24/2020 at 14:13 |
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Wait, are you former Andersen / Accenture as well?
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Tripper
> HoustonRunner
02/24/2020 at 14:15 |
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No I just have been in IT long enough to know that way back, if your company was large enough, and sometimes even if it wasn’t you probably used zip or jazz drives for some sort of backup.
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HoustonRunner
> Tripper
02/24/2020 at 14:19 |
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The seemed pretty fit for purpose at the time. I don’t recall ever having major issues (aside from the fear of losing it).
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Tripper
> HoustonRunner
02/24/2020 at 14:22 |
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Yea they were great, particularly for the time before flash drives/cd burners became mainstream. your choice was 1.4mb floppy or 100mb zip etc...