Marcial,
here\'s my take on the whole thing...
i used to be that
anal cd guy.. back in the beginning, i was really picky about everything. but i was also the first person i knew (by a long shot) who ever got a cd burner. just to put it into perspective, i paid $550 for my first (2x max) cd burner. :holyshit: i was also paying $3 a disc for blank media, and i wasn\'t even using the drive for audio at the time!
over the next year or two, prices drop, and more people pick up burners. discs are still over $1 each though, but the audio cd burning scene is starting to catch on. at this time, i joined PCP - People for a Clearer Phish. and the cool thing to do was to be super anal about your discs - only use certain brands, don\'t write on the discs, don\'t say the word \'mp3\' around me, etc, etc...
2000+ audio discs later, i REALLY don\'t care anymore. i stopped keeping a list a LONG time ago... i just don\'t have the time to nit-pick about those things.. there\'s not really such a thing as trading anymore. most companies are
giving the media away now, so no one thinks twice about just hooking each other up with stuff.. no trades required... so am i gonna bitch and moan because mike dreary just burned me a dbb show on the purple fuji\'s when he
knows that orange is my favorite color, not to mention the fact that he WROTE on the discs in RED, and it CLASHES with the purple that i hate to begin with?
HELL NO!
he hooked me up with this show out of no where, i\'m gonna listen to it a few times, throw it in a binder, and it\'ll prolly never be seen again. and I AM HAPPY!
know what else??
I LOVE MP3\'s!!! there, i said it! i bought an Apple iPod a few months ago, and it\'s the best damn investment i ever made. i ripped my entire (non-live) cd collection to VBR 192k mp3\'s, and i LOVE IT!
yes, i\'m still picky about what i do with PB stuff, but that\'s different. matt and i are the keepers of a comprehensive PB archive, and our job to make those sound as good as possible.. but as far as personal listening goes now, i\'ll be damned if i\'m gonna go over every disc i receive with a fine-toothed comb just to make sure that each track was split at a sector boundary... i used to have time for that... but i\'m older now, and there are more important things in life than sector boundaries....
all that said, marsh, i\'d still be upset about the 2-second gaps in between tracks.. simple mistake, i know, but it sucks to have to listen to that on a live show.. but like i said above, i don\'t think i\'d threaten someone\'s life over it.
