Monday, February 7, 2011

Husband In Plastic Panties

The Mixtape problem

These days even record a mixtape, is no picnic. So to answer many questions. So much technology, where it should really go to the music. In fact, take a tape would of course be completely fallen out of time, almost quixotic. Tape recorder run for many years in the shadows. They find themselves yet again in cars, but most only in the beds of nostalgic young adults who fall asleep like the Three? TKKG or hear. Even my car radio with cassette can not handle. So I take on mix CDs. That went so far always like this: If I had the feeling that you can fill with your favorite songs from the younger past 80 minutes, I saved this very favorite songs from CDs to my hard drive and burned it in a meaningful order to a disc. Meanwhile, this too is a typical behavior of dinosaurs. You just have to carry around even open a Discman with it - such as the regional train from Bochum to Dusseldorf - to know what I mean. Few can tolerate such derogatory views. Today, a decent car radio and USB sticks or play connected MP3 players. The decision to burn a mix CD is a nostalgic element that is not to take more practical. There are only two halfway comprehensible arguments: first
The car radio is still not USB. Is unfortunately not the case with me.
second It openly acknowledges the CD medium and its properties. I do as a supporter of the album format. 80 minutes are a nearly perfect track for a compilation, similar to the 90 minutes of classic mix tapes.
it takes half a day anyway, until I got to the decision by rings to record a CD. The remaining half day to compile it: with horror, I must say that most of my favorite songs in many different formats exist on my hard drive, the historic program that I'm putting together my mix-CDs, but has only MP3. So it's to the conversion. Various programs need to be downloaded. The most challenging part: the first three minutes of a Keith Jarrett solo concert, which I have only on DVD. A DVD Audio Ripper is very hard to find and, of course, he rips the whole chapter in a file. So a program download interface that spits out the final section as a WAV file with 48000Hz and 32bit. Re-convert. In the end I have about 100 minutes of music. So would you prefer to create a folder on the USB stick? No, this is not price enough. Decisions are needed. Really Tom Liwa two songs? Sure, as always. Really again Distelmeyer a mix? Here again is a resounding yes. But, the 10-minute, rare Pearl Jam Single-really? Actually, yes, because I could hear it in the car so pretty noisy, which is impossible in the apartment thanks to insane neighbors. And then I've also rediscovered Seu Jorge. "Carolina" - was a great song! Belle & Sebastian has finally with Jim Sullivan I was following the recommendation of Jan Wigger also very worth listening to, KORT makes a good mood, Joanna Newsom is just too cute to delete it, John Grant is, after all Klaus Peters Album of the Year Iron & Wine and rock perfectly out of the plate. Now I say even drive. Actually, from record should also contain the mix CD. But if I try, I'll definitely crazy. Where at all is a blank? I thought I had one more. One last. DC has come: I surrender. There are no more mixtape. Not even on CD. These times are endültig over.

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