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Hey I found this in the Songstuff newstreams: http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/33487.html RIAA has withdrawn offer of amnesty to filesharers... Cheers John

Hey Welcome to Songstuff! Sorry I'm not a FL user. Check out this FL forum though http://www.tmr-presents.com/floopsmusic/index.php There's some guys who know their way around it there. Sorry I can't help more! Cheers John

Hey Thanks Chris! What's your label called? Cheers John

What's your background Chris?

Hey I've read your 3 posts, and this was the first to be posted on the Songstuff boards. I'm puzzled. Have I missed something? I take it that I'm not the John you're talking to... John

Hey Lazz Great to see you back on Songstuff! Cheers John

Good review Chris! Thanks!

Hi Chris Nice one! Do I detect an interest in writing articles? Cheers John

Hey I found this in the Songstuff news streams and thought you would find it interesting... http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/04/arts/mus...artner=MOREOVER Cheers John

Hi I found this in the Songstuff news streams: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,3902064...39159288,00.htm Cheers John

I have to agree, a great album...

Helicon! Thanks! I can feel the pain lessening as I type... Seriously though, thanks! Cheers John

I guess next time I'll just reply with a couple of words... :-X :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

Nice one Marc.

Hey Didier It's an interesting interview. I agree with with what he says when it comes to songwriting, but he's a bit harsh when it comes to Britney. I guess Britney is a performer who happens to write songs, as opposed to Crosby who is a songwriter and musician who performs. For Britney its a package where music is part of it, a bit like modern musichall . She and her like are accomplished artists, it's just that areas other than Music are as important if not more so. They're just as valid. Music has always had performers. Similar things have been said in every decade about the pop Music of the time. It might be a chronic condition just now, but there's always an undercurrent of good Music in the alternative scenes. More and more of the music biz is shifting away from songwriters, and purist music, but I reckon it'll come back around again, where the emphasis is placed back on the quality of the songs and what the songs say. As usual though it's up to the artists. At several points indie artists have revitalised the Music industry, and it will happen again. I saw Crosby, Stills and Nash a number of years ago and Dave Crosbys' voice was amazing. Cheers John

Tom Was my answer enough? Cheers John

Hey Steve The main problem with Defrags is when there is too little room left on your drive. Basically there's not enough memory to do the defrag properly, so it goes very very very slowly. So delete all your unwanted and temp files before a defrag! Cheers John

Hey mooneyes Sorry to take so long to post back. I'll have a look around and get back to you. Have you tried the editor? Cheers John

Hey Dave Well it depends on if you're on your own at the time... Seriously though bottling up all that latent sexual tension will affect your songwriting! A driving beat and climaxing string sweeps are a dead give away... Cheers John

Don't believe, or don't use the progs? Ah well...

Hey Ok, data CDs and music CDs are different in several ways. Apart from the data format there is a difference between the data density on the disc surface. For some background info: http://www.ee.washington.edu/conselec/CE/k...audio2/95x7.htm http://www.ee.washington.edu/conselec/CE/k.../cdrom/95x8.htm The second one describes most of the data diffrences in detail. I also found these comments on other boards: "there is no quality difference between audio-CDRs and data-CDRs; however, if you have a standalone CD player/recorder, you may need to buy audio-CDRs because it checks for some coding on the CDR. (There's a way to trick it using a data CDR anyway.) The audio-CDR label is just more expensive because of the royalties being paid to the RIAA." and "audio have reduced playback margin, less jitter and play on standalone's better as that's what they're designed to do. Data cds as mentioned manuf slightly different for that reason. Good audio media will always sound better than others not spec designed for audio all other fctors being equal imho" Both have points. But the second one reveals what I think is the reason. If you read the articles on data format you will see that data cds use two levels of error detection and therefor correction. This generally means that they can afford to have slightly more read errors. The data density and packaging is different too. Audio uses an iinterleaving process and has a different amount of data in each packet. Add to this a CD has to produce a constant throughput of data otherwise an audilble click can be heard. On a data CD there isn't normally the same demand for constant throughput. All in this means that there is less time for repeated data reads. To combat this audio CDs are made to a higher standard. They tend to be slightly thicker and more opaque, and light does not shine through them as easily (therefor less read errors). Add to that less data write errors, and of course the RIAA code. Is this enough, or should I go on? Whatcha mean you fell asleep? Cheers John

Hey Dave What happens when you try to access the symantec pages? Here's a few ideas: Try deleting all your offline content. You could also try checking your cookies and deleting any symantec ones. try updating your system with windows update. try uninstalling Norton, then try and access the symantec pages. Look in their help files. email symantec support Cheers John

Hi Dave Good to see you! De-fraging your drives regularly is very good idea. Fragmented files, as you noticed can heavily impact the performance of your PC. For streamed files, audio or video, this can be very noticable. Basically, as you open, edit and save files, they can become split over various parts of your hard disk, instead of being stored in one contiguous block. This makes your hard disk work very hard, and bad fragmentation can make streaming data impossible. So, defrag regularly! Cheers John

Hey Didier Fair points all, but I guess my concern really kicks in when a well intentioned fan buys your CD and then adds that to the peer to peer. I wouldn't be happy about that.... Cheers John

Thanks Nigel....