[thechat] high fidelity quiz

William Anderson neuro at well.com
Wed Aug 6 18:27:14 CDT 2003


Martin Burns wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 09:56  pm, Erika Meyer wrote:
> 
> > but I honestly prefer records.  Whoever came up with the notion that
> > CD's were in some way better than records and convinced the world,
> > needs to melt in hell.
> 
> To be honest, I'm really not that hung up on format (beyond that any
> recorded music format is garbage compared to the live). Since getting
> the iPod, I'm listening to and buying more music than at any time in
> about the last 10 years.

5.1 audio from a dvd-a sounds lush tho.  Beat that, iPod :)

> And playlists based on metadata are just the business. "Gimme a
> playlist of 80s music that I've either not rated at all, or rated above
> 3/5, and limit it to 4 hours of the least played tracks"
> 
> "Gimme 3 hours of chilled music (genre, title, album or comments
> contains the word 'chill')"
> 
> "I want 74 minutes' worth of Cuban music - the top rated tracks please
> - so I can put together a CD for a party at someone else's house"

that does rock, however.

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