Power to the people!

Vat vas dat? Achtung, you americanische Schweinhunde!

I see nu-ting, hear nu-thing!!! Alles klar?



Thank you for interjecting... LOL



:D :D :D

If we're tossing around images to put into threads--and thread wars--then I must drop this one into the fray, just for the heck of it:

http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~nowickt/rando.../thumbs_up.jpg

;-D

petey likes Mikey-San's link.

Yeah, it's a favourite of mine. The guy who made it (nowickt/Terry Nowicki) has a neat little Web comic if you have some time to kill:

http://rugg.keenspace.com

gsparks in a moron
 

hey mr brilliant DJ, what exactly is wrong with encoding to VBR?

i believe there is a reasonably wide consensus (outside of your audio challenged circle of DJ's) that encoding ANY audio or video to the same bit rate with variable bit rate encoding gets better results than with constant bit rate encoding.

of course, perhaps you are pioneering revolutionary new encoding tactics which you will have to share with us someday after the acid wears off.

best,
-petey

Re: gsparks in a moron
 

Wow, Petey, it took you two whole months to figure out
how to respond to my post... your amazing mental and
verbal skills are astounding. Oh, gsparks "in a moron"??
I guess your typing skills are right up there, too...

That said, WTF is your problem? How about having adult
conversations instead of always acting like an adolescent?

FTR, just because you claim a consensus doesn't make it
so... it's also widely known that VBR can cause havoc with
a wide variety of software applications, most notably resulting
in sound cutting-out occasionally. This is in large part due to
how Quicktime processes VBR audio files... The release of
QT 6 was supposed to have helped address this, but reports
are still coming in that the problem persists.

Before you go and start spouting off again, check your facts
and talk to people who make a living in this business and
stop harrassing those of us trying to help others. From what
I've seen of you, I'm not impressed.

Love and kisses,
GS

PS... ignore that sign-off... must have been the acid talking...

ok gsparks, perhaps you are not completely talking out of your ass this time. perhaps there is some grain of truth in this pronouncement of yours. but given your track record, you can understand my initial skepticism.

i'm curious in what specific real world situations VBR causes problems? honestly curious. i like to learn new things, even if they've been discovered by acid-muddled morons.

for MOST uses, VBR is clearly the way to go, both in audio and video. for my use of MP3 (basically an end product to be played thru iTunes or 3rd party MP3 players) VBR has never caused a single problem.

and i'm sorry it took so long to get back to you. i decided to take a break from sufferring fools over the summer.

incense & peppermints,
-petey

Um, so did it get resolved?
 

I glanced briefly at the replies, and it seemed like there was some resolution to the original problem, but I never really understood if he got his one authorization "ticket" back. It sounds like he's still limited to 2 authorizations, but maybe I'm not sure.

If this is the case, there's a simple solution to deauthorizing the non-existent system. I don't think anyone mentioned it. All you have to do is fill out a form to send to the iTunes Music Store team. Here are the links:

-- Knowledge Base article describing the problem and giving the link to the iTunes Music Store support page

-- Direct link to the iTunes Music Store customer service page

It sounds like you guys went through an awful lot of trouble to fix a problem with a simple solution. :) Although maybe I missed someone else pointing this out...

Re: Um, so did it get resolved?
 

SimX,

yes, it did get resolved.