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AOL Radio Now Makes Building An IPod Music Collection A Breeze.
AOL Radio and Yahoo! Launchcast listeners are now building their iPod music collection for free thanks to iGetMusic, a new recording tool.
Building and expanding a song collection for an iPod has thus far been a tedious task. This process would normally involve ripping CDs and converting tracks to MP3. Finally, meta data such as title and artist information would be added either manually or by going to an online source.
Nowadays more and more songs are being purchased from online vendors such as iTunes or downloaded from other sources, some of which may or may not be legal. Downloading songs however still remains a tedious task, not to mention the fact that the recording industry, plagued by falling sales, is putting tons of fake titles onto peer-to-peer (P2P) sites in order to slow the process of illegal downloads. However, downloading a large number of titles still takes a reasonable amount of time. Just imagine entering the search information, waiting for the download to complete etc. for several hundred or even thousand tracks.
To simplify this task, internet radio rippers have become more widespread, such as StreamRipper as a legal alternative to P2P downloads. These programs help automate the process. However, the biggest problem with internet radio rippers is that they are unable to produce cleanly cut tracks since online broadcasters will cross-fade between individual tracks. Thus each song will miss a portion at the beginning or end to remove the cross-faded section. These rippers use the meta data broadcast by online radio stations to determine the beginning or end of each track in order to split tracks. Broadcasters, however, are deliberately varying the time when the meta data changes in relation to the beginning of each track. As a result, in order to get properly cut tracks, a user will manually have to process each track which will take a significant amount of time.
A new recording tool from Amphony called “iGetMusic” avoids the drawbacks of these traditional approaches by extracting tracks from free online radio services such as AOL Radio and Yahoo! Launchcast, which each offer hundreds of music genres. This application will run in the background and store each song that is being broadcast by these online music services into a directory of choice. Each track is properly tagged by iGetMusic with title, artist, album and genre information which allows organizing tracks in iTunes and other music organizers. The tracks saved by iGetMusic are full length, i.e. do not miss anything at the beginning or ending. Having properly tagged songs is important when trying to play songs from a particular artist or album.
After starting iGetMusic, a user will start one or several browser tabs and tune each tab into the desired music channel. iGetMusic is able to extract the songs from any number of browser tabs in parallel thus greatly increasing the recording speed. In practice, the maximum recording speed is only limited by the speed of the internet connection and the speed of the computer. This means that several thousand tracks can be created in a single day. iGetMusic will recognize which songs already exist and not record any duplicate songs.
As an added bonus, iGetMusic has a feature that automatically saves the album cover of each song which is pleasing to the eye when playing back songs on a computer with a media player such as Winamp or on an iPod. A user can set up a blacklist which contains names of artists that iGetMusic should not record.
One important consideration when using iGetMusic is storage capacity of an iPod due to the large number of tracks that iGetMusic will create. An iPod nano has a memory of up to 16 GBytes and can hold up to 4000 MP3s depending on the sound quality or bit rate. Instead of MP3, iGetMusic uses the AAC Plus (M4A) format which cuts the size of the song files in half without sacrificing sound quality compared to MP3s. Therefore an iPod nano can store up to 8000 tracks generated by iGetMusic (somewhat less if album covers are stored as well). Some MP3 players do not yet have AAC Plus support. In this case iGetMusic recommends batch conversion of the tracks using a free 3rd party tool.
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I need a new vest for airsoft. MOLLE of course. I need to know, should I get a plate carrier or something more like the S.T.R.I.K.E. - ELITE VEST. I have an m4, and will have about 6 mags,plus a radio,speed loader,deadrag,hydration pack,
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If plate carrier, what kind?
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