Tag: media
Digitally Restricted Media
by noize on Mar.11, 2008, under Entertainment, Tech
Also known as DRM or by the proper name it is Digital Rights Managment. Or maybe it is just a Damn Retarded Method of annoying your customers and unless you work for a media company you’ll probably agree. They like to argue that DRM is a must for digital media since you can make perfect 1:1 copies and a copy of a copy doesn’t degrade the quality. Also with the advent of the Internet you can share them at a really nice speed. Now that we’ve got the “but what about just coping tapes” argument killed we can move on as to why DRM and this mess is suddenly a problem and a waste.
CD Shift
by noize on Feb.26, 2008, under How To
I’ve been asked several times in the last week how to do something that really should be common for people to do. Simply shift the music from a CD to your computer, for free, with no added trouble or mess. Of course we’re going to use some thing free. We’re going to use CDex a nice little app that I’ve used for years. Now back then… hrmm been a good while. You had to add the mp3 encoder too. You’d have to get a copy of LAME and that would be your encoder. LAME is also free, it has been since 2000 when it was compiled cleanly. Kinda nice really.
At that time there was a community driven project known as CDDB. It has sense been bought out and is now Gracenote, but does the same thing. Works great, you hit a button and the whole CD is named and ready to go. Now enough with the history lesson and time to explain how to do it and for that you click to read more.
