Re: OT Goodbye

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:25:07 -0300, Linda Nieuwenstein wrote:

> ????? He better not be dead there is a whole fundraiser going on to
> help him and his family rebuild their home in New Orleans, and to
> replace his instruments that were lost. He also has had a lot of medical
> expenses in the years past. He evacuted with his family before Katrina
> hit to his home town of Orange, Texas, where I believe he owns a
> second home. As of two days ago monies were still being raised for his
> fun, so if he has died than hopefully Earl closes down the request
> for donations.

There was a very brief mention of his death at the very beginning
of (I think) Weekend Edition that mentioned mentioned his N.O. home,
stress from the recent events and probably something about failing
health. Today's ATC spent more time, playing cuts from several of
his recordings, starting with Okey Dokey Stomp. This was more of a
carefully produced obit. that mentioned that he died in Orange, TX
after leaving N.O., had been suffering from heart disease, emphysema
and lung cancer (he smoked a pipe).


> I have two cousins here in the community that own their own
> sound mix/recording studios (the real equipment) and because
> these are disco and motown artist 45s they will digitize them for
> nothing as long as they can have the 45s. I like DVD for the reason
> you mention (easy backup), but also because close to all files will
> fit on 1 disk for easy pop'N'play. CDs only fit about 17 files don't they?

Not when they've been converted to MP3. The quality varies with
compression as well as the ability of the MP3 converter. If done
properly, a CD can contain not 17 files, but 17 hours worth of very
decent sounding audio. Much more if high compression is used, but
then you'll probably notice the falloff in sound quality. Sony's
products (both CD and MiniDisc) use their proprietary ATRAC Plus
format which is superior to MP3, but is harder to use due to
annoying copy-protection restrictions and proprietary nature. I've
made personal copies of the contents of CDs using no computer,
directly linking a CD player to a MiniDisc recorder using an optical
cable. The inter-track gaps are automatically recognized, and using
the lowest quality Hi-MD ATRAC format (Hi-LP) get recordings with
superb quality sound. Some may hear be able to detect a very slight
difference from the original source CD, but with most disks using
good headphones or high quality earbuds (that cost as much or more
than the recorder), I don't. This allows for over 10 hours of audio
on an old standard minidisc (about 320MB and less than $2 each) and
over 33 hours on the newer Hi-MD discs (1 GB). If the older
non-HiMD formats are used with their lowest quality format (LP4),
the manual mentions that depending on the source material, if the
lowest quality ATRAC format is used, an occasional "artifact" might
be heard. That should still produce very decent sound, by if you
listen closely you should be able to hear a difference compared to
playback directly from the original CD. The latest generation of
Hi-MD recorders now support MP3 files, but mine are the older ones
that only record ATRAC. As far as I know, the Sony CD players that
handle ATRAC files have always supported MP3 formats. While not as
compact as the smallest MP3 players, MiniDisc recorder/players are
small enough to easily fit in any of my pockets and models that use
a single AA battery can last for more than 25 hours per alkaline or
NiMH charge. Very thin versions using Lithium-Ion batteries are
also available. BTW, if you weren't aware, the minidiscs are
rewriteable magneto-optical discs, smaller than 3 1/4" floppies
(maybe even smaller than a mini-CD), are enclosed in a similar
shell, and should be far more reliable and long lived than
rewriteable CDs.

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