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Hello, kind network.
Tuesday, 11-Sep-12 15:47:02 UTC from web-
@hakupony Hi! /)
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@omni ^_^ I like hugs. So how are you, omniscient one?
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@gameboy152 I don't know what this brohoof is for but sure... (\
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got to go back to class see you all later./)
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@hakupony Because brohooves! /)
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@hakupony Better than yesterday. I slept little, though, so I have a bit of a headache, but it could be worse. Also, I'm not that smart :(
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@eaglehooves Ooo... kay. (\ ... damn, I just can't resist.
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@omni I'm just in a lazy mood. Also - I know you are not that smart but smart you are.
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@hakupony I see, I'm downloading music again, I love music :P. I need to find a solution to my storage issue, though, I don't want to go back to MP3 files but playing all my music from our external "backup" drive doesn't seem that good of an idea...
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@omni IKR?! I hate not having HQ music, but also having too little storage space, I'll probably just get a terrabite harddrive...
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@gameboy152 Oh, cool, another non-MP3 user. Which file format do you prefer, if I may ask?
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@omni Get a NAS with a media server and stream it?
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@omni What do oyu have against MP3?
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@omni If I knew how, I'd use other types
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@gameboy152 Normally what i get straight from disc. I do use my iphone for most music, it sucks cause of compression
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@eaglehooves But that takes money. Also, streaming to my PC and then streaming it from my PC using MPD? That doesn't sound like a good idea (also, won't it strain my network to constantly download FLAC files from the NAS? Are NAS systems even strong enough to render FLAC without lagging?)
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@omni You might have heard me? I am technically a non-Mp3 user, in that I encode music that deserves it losslessly.
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@omni I'm an internet/PC n00b. I know basic file moving due to my time on gmod, but I don't know squat about minecraft mods or anyother kind of downloads...
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@gameboy152 Seeing how you use iTunes, I will assume you're not using Linux, so I can't really help you with all this "installing codecs" stuff (Windows has a codec pack online, Mac OS X, no clue) but the hardest step is finding high-quality files. Bandcamp allows you to download stuff in FLAC or ALAC, which are lossless high-quality formats (FLAC does not work in iTunes, ALAC does). I download and rip my music as FLAC, but both FLAC and ALAC (and WAV) don't use any lossy compression so you won't lose any quality :P
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@hakupony It uses lossy compression, so you lose parts of the music. For some songs it's unnoticeable, but for some songs you can really hear (or, in the case of Merzbow, feel) the difference.
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@ceruleanspark Oh, hi :P
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@omni My cousin is an editor for a radio program, he was saying he used .WAV for audio files. Not sure how to use music on a PC without freaking Itunes, or how to listen to non Itunes music on my IPhone without jailbreaking it...
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@omni Depends on the network. I assumed you were listening on the PC if you were using FLAC, so I'm not sure about how you're bouncing it around. As for speed and network strain, I have my computer and my NAS both plugged into a gigabit router. Transfer speeds are usually pretty good, but I've never actually enabled the media sharing side of mine.
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@omni I'm a fan of the ogg format I wish I could my phone to play ogg format songs
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@omni Yeah, I was listening to one of my fav songs on disc in my mom's car. awesome bass. then i stream it from my phone. it wasn't even close, it got rid of ALL THE BASS!
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@gameboy152 How to listen to non-iTunes music: Go to iTunes, Click File, then click Add file to library. Then pick the file you want and it'll be in your library.
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@gameboy152 There are enough free music players that allow you to listen to music, especially for my platform (we have several called "Yet Another Music Player") and syncing with your iPhone should be possible, though sometimes a bit harder. I wonder what Operating System you are using, though. Windows? Mac OS X? (Also, personally, I won't let iTunes ever touch my music collection again after the mess it made once)
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@eaglehooves I have my music on my PC as FLAC, and let MPD play the FLAC stream locally, but also stream a 192kbps OGG stream which I can listen to over the Internet (our upload speed is relatively bad, so it's barely possible to use higher quality). However, with a NAS being on our local connection, it'll probably be a completely different story.
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@shadowdash454 Is it a smartphone or not? Which OS does it run? Perhaps it is possible.
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@omni Windows 7 and xp, I use two computers atm. My grandma's SUPERFRICKING POWERFUL AMAZING PC vs my 5 year old homebuilt crappy thing, which still needs a new video card :/ but i has no money like most of us
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@omni It also depends on your headphones and sound chip whether or not you'll be able to hear the difference.
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@omni If you're streaming it already, the NAS probably isn't a good idea. You're probably straining your network enough.
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@omni yeah it's smart phone it's running android
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@gameboy152 My PC is older than 5 years, and still running swiftly under Linux :P
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@omni ANYTHING runs swiftly on Linux.
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@shadowdash454 Which phone and which version of Android are we talking about? Google says Android supports FLAC, but this may be up to the phone and Android version at times, I suppose.
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@omni You did use itunes once? I am surprised...
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@omni I don't know a thing about linux, it's a simple OS right?
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@eaglehooves My old desktop ran some linux distro really slowly the one time I tried it, so
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@eaglehooves Like this Pentium 3 computer with Windows 95 someone donated to me. Windows 95 was having nothing but issues, but ran Arch Linux greatly :P
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@gameboy152 It's a nerd OS. c:
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@gameboy152 It can be anything from http://www.handyarchive.com/images/scr/71304.jpg to https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Unity_5.12_on_Ubuntu_12.04.png to https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Gnome_3.2_shell.png to http://kde.org/workspaces/plasmadesktop/screenshots/general-desktop.png, depending on what you want it to be.
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@redenchilada I'm planning on doing game design one day at a nerd collage, better check it out :3
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@omni Its' Motorola Atrix and the android version 2.3.6
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@hakupony I also used to use an iPod Touch, and I've used Windows 98SE through 7 for a VERY long time... After looking around for other possibilities, that didn't last long anymore though :P
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@gameboy152 Most game design schools teach you how to use DirectX and so, which doesn't run under Linux, so that's quite a waste of energy if you really want to do that (unless the Linux market will grow exponentially enough to make those school realize that OpenGL is actually pretty damn awesome).
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@gameboy152 Yey, nerdpower :3
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@shadowdash454 How strange, quick research says it supports .OGG. What's going wrong when you're trying to play it, if I may ask?
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@omni I think that things will change once Steam runs on Linux...
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@omni Well, ok. Yeah, it's a cool collage though. hope i can afford it :/
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@omni maybe I'm not putting the song into my phone right or something
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@gameboy152 Ubuntu can be installed without modifying your system at all, so that should be easy enough to try anyway :P
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@omni What is that? Like i said, sad excuse for a nerd here
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@gameboy152 Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution for the desktop.
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@redenchilada Either you picked a too intense distro, or it's worse than a pentium 4 with sub 1g ram.
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@eaglehooves It had 256MB of memory and I forget what kind of processor but it was pretty junk. Either way though, XP still ran better
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@gameboy152 You can download it for free and burn on a DVD. It really is worth trying - and if it is just to have a comletly bootable operating system for the case when yours doesn't boot any more.
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@hakupony Okay, I just don't know how to boot another OS, do I just start the computer with the disk in if i got it?
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@gameboy152 You'll probably have to change the boot priority from your BIOS.
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@gameboy152 Usually, your computer is set so it does try to boot from that drive first. if that is the case, it is enough to just turn the computer on with the DVD in it. Otherwise, you would have to change a setting in the BIOS. But never mind, it isn't as hard as it sounds :3
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@hakupony Ok, I'll try that later
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@gameboy152 So what else does make you nerdy?
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@hakupony I am a die hard halo fan, I study warp physics and the concept of slipspace travel. Along with several other things
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@gameboy152 Cool. I have no idea what slipspace is :3
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@gameboy152 for my PC
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@gameboy152 Sorry, I don't.
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@hakupony It's a concept from halo, a kind of hyperspace, where the dimension is smaller and you can travel much faster
