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| From | "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: The Macca Bees |
| Date | Sat, 24 Sep 2005 18:05:13 -0400 |
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No, they're not worth the effort. Certainly if you don't have the album
yet.
Personally, I opted for the CD-only release. For whatever reason, I have
never watched the video content on any CD I have that has video. I don't
know why I don't; YMMV.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Good" <javagene@hotmail.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: The Macca Bees
> Are they worth the effort, meaning are the tunes cool?I would never how to
> do all that any way.I would just buy the single.I still need to get the
> album.Can't decide between the cd or the cd/dvd edition.I will get it.
>
>
>>From: "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com>
>>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>>To: "Pop" <audities@smoe.org>
>>Subject: The Macca Bees
>>Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 21:53:39 -0400
>>
>>So I bought the two McCartney Chaos and Creation B-sides (why do we still
>>call them that?) from his website, for a pound a piece (that's a buck
>>seventy-two), and boy did my woes begin. The files are .wma with DRM, so
>>I couldn't import them into iTunes (or put them on my iPod); and I
>>couldn't easily convert them.
>>
>>OK, so I opened Wave Recorder, played each file through Windows Media
>>Player, captured it as .wavs in Wave Recorder, edited out the silences at
>>the beginning and end (I started up Wave Recorder before starting the
>>Windows Media Player, and ended after it stopped), raised the volume on
>>the resulting .wav files to appropriate levels, saved them, and then
>>converted the new .wavs to MP3 using MusicMatch Jukebox. Oh, and I had to
>>rename the files too, both on my hard drive and in iTunes.
>>
>>Maybe there was an easier way to do all this. But I was so annoyed at the
>>work I had to do after PAYING for these songs in order to use them, that I
>>have half a mind to email the MP3s to anyone who asks.
>
>
>
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