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Did blink-182 inadvertently violate the Geneva Convention?
When people hear about violations to the Geneva Convention, their thoughts usually go to mass genocide, war crimes, deliberately targeting civilians & aid organizations in conflict zones, the list goes on. Most wouldn’t even consider the possibility of an album cover being a violation. Well, that’s exactly what happened to the punk band, blink-182. In…
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Exact Audio Copy
A while back I wrote something on dbPowerAmp, a software suite for ripping, encoding and organizing music CD’s. Considering the prevalence of streaming services, especially high resolution streaming, you wouldn’t be alone in thinking CD ripper programs would go the way of the dinosaur. That being said, there are still quite a lot of people…
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Qobuz
With the advent of streaming services on the Internet, it was inevitable that a lot of brick & mortar stores would go by the wayside, and music stores were no exception. Many of the music stores of yesteryear that we saw in malls, or even the sections of the department stores where there were racks…
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dbPowerAmp
If you’re anything like me, you rather enjoy listening to music, and have a fairly extensive CD collection. That being said, the standard Windows fare for ripping CD’s onto your computer, as well as iTunes for that matter, is somewhat lacking in terms of what you can do, which format you can encode in, and…