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#227316 - 16/07/2004 07:55 How does Napster work?
tahir pooh-bah Registered: 27/02/2004 Posts: 1900 Loc: London	I've recently signed up for napster and burnt some CDs the thing I don't understand is how does napster burn the CD so quickly when it has to download 700 mb as well as burn? Is it just transcoding the wma files to cda or what?
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#227317 - 16/07/2004 08:52 Re: How does Napster work? [Re: tahir]
BartDG carpal tunnel Registered: 20/05/2001 Posts: 2616 Loc: Bruges, Belgium	I don't know how Napster works, but I can tell you that it won't download 700mb/cd. It will download the music in mp3/wma format and then the cd burning tool will transfer those files to wav format and burn them onto cd. This means that the download is effectively 50-70mb/cd, no more. _________________________ Riocar 80gig S/N : 010101580 red Riocar 80gig (010102106) - backup
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#227318 - 16/07/2004 09:00 Re: How does Napster work? [Re: BartDG]
tahir pooh-bah Registered: 27/02/2004 Posts: 1900 Loc: London	That's what I thought, so why am I paying £9.95 a CD for a bunch of wma's transcoded to cda that I'm going to rip & encode as mp3??? I asked Napster and they said that the cda is downloaded for burning, but it just can't happen that fast
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#227319 - 16/07/2004 10:20 Re: How does Napster work? [Re: tahir]
peter carpal tunnel Registered: 13/07/2000 Posts: 4173 Loc: Cambridge, England	Quote: That's what I thought, so why am I paying £9.95 a CD for a bunch of wma's transcoded to cda that I'm going to rip & encode as mp3??? Good question. Peter
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#227320 - 16/07/2004 10:23 Re: How does Napster work? [Re: tahir]
msaeger carpal tunnel Registered: 23/09/2000 Posts: 3608 Loc: Minnetonka, MN	I thought most people used those services to get individual songs not the whole album. Like if you have ten albums that you only want one song from. _________________________ Matt
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#227321 - 16/07/2004 10:25 Re: How does Napster work? [Re: msaeger]
tahir pooh-bah Registered: 27/02/2004 Posts: 1900 Loc: London	Quote: I thought most people used those services to get individual songs not the whole album. Like if you have ten albums that you only want one song from. I tend to download & listen to complete albums
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#227322 - 16/07/2004 10:30 Re: How does Napster work? [Re: peter]
tahir pooh-bah Registered: 27/02/2004 Posts: 1900 Loc: London	Quote: Quote: That's what I thought, so why am I paying £9.95 a CD for a bunch of wma's transcoded to cda that I'm going to rip & encode as mp3??? Good question. Peter I only started using it because Napster's CS said that when I chose to burn I'd be getting "Original CD quality files", I wish someone did a (fully legit) allofmp3.com. I don't mind paying for music I just want the option of encoding to whatever I'd like at whichever quality I choose
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#227323 - 16/07/2004 13:46 Re: How does Napster work? [Re: tahir]
msaeger carpal tunnel Registered: 23/09/2000 Posts: 3608 Loc: Minnetonka, MN	I like complete albums too, that is why I haven't bothered with those services. _________________________ Matt
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#227324 - 16/07/2004 13:49 Re: How does Napster work? [Re: tahir]
msaeger carpal tunnel Registered: 23/09/2000 Posts: 3608 Loc: Minnetonka, MN	I would like to see when record labels sell their cds directly that they would mail you the actual cd and also let you immediatly download the entire album in some format. Even wma files that expire in a short time would be good enough. _________________________ Matt
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#227325 - 16/07/2004 14:11 Re: How does Napster work? [Re: msaeger]
JeffS carpal tunnel Registered: 14/01/2002 Posts: 2858 Loc: Atlanta, GA	I've bought whole albums online before (just got two this weekend). I like it because it's cheaper and you gete the music immediately rather than having to go out or wait for it to ship. So far I haven't noticed any quality loss doing the rip-encode process, but I'm keeping the origional drm files for my wife's Karma (when I get a replacement). _________________________ -Jeff Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings; they did it by killing all those who opposed them.
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#227326 - 16/07/2004 14:58 Re: How does Napster work? [Re: msaeger]
tahir pooh-bah Registered: 27/02/2004 Posts: 1900 Loc: London	I'm not interested in owning the CD, I've already got 1200 of the buggers, I just want the music, full CDA or lossless so I can decide how I encode it
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