aaronem

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by aaronem 13y ago
No. The article was written by a woman.
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by aaronem 13y ago
Please, please tell me you're joking about 4chan having been valued at $1.2 billion dollars by anyone .
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by aaronem 13y ago
I suppose it depends on the particular prejudice in question.
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by aaronem 13y ago
Sure I have, even on HN. But, here at least, they're much more the exception than the rule, and I've never before encountered such an egregious example of the type. Even growing up in rural Mississippi, no one ever accused me of b
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by aaronem 13y ago
Nightingale is what I actually ended up using after I failed to convince foobar2000 on the subject of self-signed SSL certs. A little flaky on occasion, sure, but for my relatively simple purposes, it worked nicely.
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by aaronem 13y ago
Thank you for the link! I'd looked for something like that, but hadn't found it, and I greatly appreciate your cluing me in that it exists after all.
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by aaronem 13y ago
> As a last resort, I'm sure there's a plugin to transcode on the fly to vorbis or something. I'd have to do that on the server, which is plausible in theory, but would be an ugly mess when it came to FLAC/CUE-per-alb
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by aaronem 13y ago
Glad to help!
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by aaronem 13y ago
It's easy to assume that the problem lies with the assorted hicks, rednecks, and crackers who make up so much of this country's population. As a Mississippi son, though, I have the good fortune to know better. After all, I doubt t
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by aaronem 13y ago
That it's necessary for you to include such a disclaimer, in order to avoid being misread, saddens me. I appreciate your efforts, in defense of civil discourse on HN, nonetheless.
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by aaronem 13y ago
No. I was suggesting that, now that they've been booted out of Russia and retooled around an exclusively online presence which lacks any firsthand information about events in Russia and has therefore degenerated into a useless ideologi
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by aaronem 13y ago
Oh, sorry, I see what you mean now. I don't know if I agree that that falls within the scope of my plaint, because as far as I'm concerned, the modern habit of mismastering albums with half a decibel of dynamic range produces a re
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by aaronem 13y ago
By means of an amazing new technology on which Ames and Dolan, the eXile's erstwhile proprietors, saw fit for some reason to publish much of the same content which they included in the pages of their newspaper. This new technology of w
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by aaronem 13y ago
If you're referring to the comment I'm thinking of, in which you mentioned mpd not knowing how to read but one format of ReplayGain tags, then it's a good example of what I'm talking about. The correct solution to that p
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by aaronem 13y ago
A general observation, which the comments in this thread have brought to the point of perceptibility: Perhaps only in the field of music management and playback is it considered so reasonable to suggest that an acceptable solution to lousy
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by aaronem 13y ago
Sure, I could do that, and I don't mind driving command-line tools to do the tag modification so that's no real problem, but even with a 99.9% success rate, the size of my music library makes manually fixing up the ones that don&#
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by aaronem 13y ago
So much for intellectual debate [1], then, I suppose. Congratulations, if you like, on having genuinely astounded me; perhaps it's merely foolish naïveté on my part, but I'd never have expected anyone to conclude that I am a trait
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by aaronem 13y ago
See my comments elsewhere in this thread for the detailed answer. The short version is that I'm streaming from home, and for some reason, if I do that with MP3-encoded content over an unencrypted transport, I can only get about a half-
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by aaronem 13y ago
I'd hate to think anyone misread me as speaking in support of Putin for any reason. To conclude, from my explanation of why people in Russia support Putin, that I must support Putin as well, strikes me as bearing the same relationship
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by aaronem 13y ago
I can only conclude they do that or something like it, based on the following observations: 1. When I stream MP3 content unencrypted from home to any other location, everything works well for up to the first half hour or so, and then packet
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by aaronem 13y ago
How, though? As discussed elsewhere in the thread, it doesn't seem as though "smart playlists" are quite that smart, and I'm not familiar enough with iTunes to make a guess as to how else it might be accomplished.
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by aaronem 13y ago
I should've mentioned earlier that I've run across that and found it not really suitable for my purposes; I have close to a hundred gigabytes of music, much of which is not properly tagged so that "Shuffle (albums)" does
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by aaronem 13y ago
I no longer have an OS X box, but I do have iTunes installed on my Windows machines in support of various pocketable devices of Cupertinian provenance. I've never actually tried using iTunes as a music player, so I didn't know abo
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by aaronem 13y ago
My source is the eXile, and while their archives from the years during which they published in print are in some disarray, you may safely take this article [1] by John Dolan as representative of its editorial stance on the matter under disc
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by aaronem 13y ago
I'd try something like that, but most of what I listen to is from the common-practice era, so the quantum of content is not an individual file, but a playlist. "Shuffle" therefore doesn't work for me; what I really need
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by aaronem 13y ago
What really crosses me about iTunes on OS X is that there seems to be no way to pry the media control keys loose from it, which I found perennially vexatious back when I still had an Apple laptop.
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by aaronem 13y ago
The ability to play every music format under the sun; an infinitely configurable UI; a reasonably broad plugin ecosystem, albeit not one which encourages new developers very well.
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by aaronem 13y ago
Well, the source on which I'm relying most strongly here, especially for estimates of the death toll of the post-Soviet interregnum, is a newspaper whose American-expatriate writers were hounded out of Russia, shortly after Medvedev &q
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by aaronem 13y ago
I've had good results running it over Wine on OS X. I see no reason why it shouldn't work at least as well under Linux, subject to that platform's perennial audio output woes.
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by aaronem 13y ago
I'd like to agree with you on that, and a year ago I would have done, but foobar2000 has some problems which, combined with its closed-source nature, have driven me out of bed with it and back to the music-player equivalent of Match.co

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