from Youtube to MP3, brilliant

[John Watt]

I... I... oh no... the shame of it all, how can I type you straight in the eye,
after burning discs from You Tube, converting videos to mp3 downloads?
Sure, starting a band, getting together in Niagara Falls with the bassist and drummer last night,
puts some modern pressure on me to get songs together we'll use as references.
Sure, in this city of over 50,000 people, there isn't a CD store any more.
Blank discs are being dumped with used CD's and new CD's through flea market stores,
mostly from St. Catharines, an even bigger city further down the highway.
A younger singer-songwriter guitarist came over today to show me how to do it.
I made five disc copies for all the current band members.

Going through the process for the first time, using a lot of screens, or pages,
I could see all the different names for the providers of those screens and pages,
probably the sons and daughters of California computer employees.
Once we did our first burn, it just became about two upper tabs and waiting.

Our ideal gig:
Everyone pays a cover charge. Those who declare recording devices pay more.
The mixing board will record and CD's will be copied for sale on request and after the band is over.
Band CD prices will fluctuate with the venue and amount of original songs played.
A video of the performance and audience will be made and copies will be sold.
If posing with the band can be edited for individual endings, there will be a surcharge.
No corporate recordings will be made or retailed. No free online anywhere's.
Only live band performances. No studio anythings, just media news appearances.

I can imagine all the fantasy CD's I can burn, thinking everything and anything,
is waiting for me on You Tube.
But I'm more excited about deactivating myself off of Facebook today.
Learning a TINKICKER song and furthering my thread here is more important.
So is finishing my guitar, finishing some songs, and learning new songs.
"I'm still a cowboy riding the range,
even if the greener grass on the other side is making my life strange".
Yeah, even if I'm selling out and getting into modern country.
"Missus Hippy Raver", with her "hot knife campfire heating every stone",
on a soft, electro-funk southern Canadian country stage.
We're waiting for you, and we're sad you're not here already.
Aren't your friends sad with you? They miss us already,
even if you haven't told them yet.

 

[JHC]

I do hear that the CD is in its final stages I think there is still a market but the quality will be upgraded by about 5 or 6 times.

 

[John Watt]

CD's are a more exact recording and playback than cassettes,
and it's easier to find individual tracks.
I'm never going to be a conservator or build a music library,
but I'm keeping the players and speaker system for the CD's I like to play.
And once again, I'm picking new and used for $1 or more, sometimes less,
trying out music I wouldn't buy retail and trading them back in, DVD movies too.
I'm happiest thinking I'm owning it all, just wanting the electricity to plug it in.

The public library is now going through it's CD books, selling them for $1.
Three pounds of cod filets, seventeen filets.
Four pounds of sawtooth flounder filets, nine filets.
I'm reluctant to look up sawtooth flounders.
It's time to boil some more cranberry sauce,
and stand over the pot to inhale the steam.

 

[JHC]

I won't ditch my CDs or players either John one of the things at the moment is 'streamers' you load your collection onto a ext hard drive and beam it all over the place WiFi via a streamer so to speak, I just don't need that type of system. but the CD as a storage system is very limited, I heard on the radio that a future system will be DNA storage the nerds have managed to store music in it but there is no way of getting into your system at the moment 150.000 full length movies can be stored on 1 gram of DNA, makes you proud to be human. :crazy: and mother nature thought of it first.

 

[Krummhorn]

. . . I heard on the radio that a future system will be DNA storage the nerds have managed to store music in it but there is no way of getting into your system at the moment 150.000 full length movies can be stored on 1 gram of DNA, makes you proud to be human. :crazy: and mother nature thought of it first.

Ahah ... the re-invention of the 'walkie-talkie' ... :lol:

I suppose next the images can appear on our foreheads ... :crazy:

 

[John Watt]

That's an amazing statistic,
just like saying there is so much empty atomic space in us,
all the humans on earth could fit into one person.
But how's this for artificial free-release electricity pollution.

Free-release artificial electrons are what nuclear bombs put out the most,
considered radiation at it's highest level, everywhere on earth now geiger counter measurable.
However, everything from illuminated signs to light bulbs to satellites beam those out,
one-dimensional, and sooner or later slowing down, attracted by earth's gravity.
When enough free-release electrons gather to make an invisible puddle,
it would snap at you, giving you a mild electric shock.
When these puddles grow in size, this shock could be fatal.

But before that happens, the density of free-release electrons in the air,
will approach and then match that of the density of the electrons in our brains.
That means all brain activity will be atmospheric, all brains hearing each other all the time,
and that's the brain of every living thing, and you won't be able to turn it off.
We live in an era of electrical addiction. Electricity pollution is next.
A real Watt is sending these atomic electrons as coalescing font,
in a tasty Niagara Falls generated electrical envelope sent to you.
All your loved ones are waiting for you to tell them about it.
Your friends are starting to look for you on your favorite social site.
You just have to let them in. I can see they're sad already.
You don't want to make them sad, do you?
You don't want to walkie-talkie-rockie that boat, but you are.
Let them know. You'll feel a lot better.

 

[JHC]

[FONT=&quot]Hells bells and sock potatoes I wondered what that ringing in my ear was, I am going to sit in my Faraday's cage and ponder.[/FONT]

 

[GavinJones]

Classic!I like that.

 

[BrownDanliel]

Learned a lot of things, thank you