Ha, good question. money, i suppose. i think you may have pushed me into going to find it. so in some research, i found some interesting .xml files available in each users last.fm profile. im dying to know how you did this.   Quote:  

Quote:       mind sharing some details on your setup here? real interesting stuff. how do you pull information from last.fm? like profile information and similar artists? nice layout as well. here is my current setup:   clicky      

sounds like you dont even 'upload' anything to the cloud per se.    imo, it sounds like the itunes store is really just making a list of your songs; and then make 'your' music available to you out of the itunes store's collection of tracks. I dont think any replacing of your tracks goes on...

When ive tried Br3tt's work in the past, it has bumped foobar up to ~30% cpu utilization, and way too much memory usage, anyone else seen this?

heres mine, its a person child of mnt's foovert  

klipsch promedia 2.1

klipsch promedia 2.1   outstanding sound from a small, budget priced system.   msrp is $150, but im sure it can be had less via google...   http://www.klipsch.com/promedia-2-1-computer-speakers

klipsch promedia 2.1   msrp $150, im sure you couls snoop around the wez and find them cheaper...   http://www.klipsch.com/promedia-2-1-computer-speakers

write a script

you cant beat 128kbps mp3

epic bump. bass is cool. but dont forget about the trout.

i like dbpoweramp. but it costs $.   try xrecode

i still dont see why the computer has anything to do with playing a vinyl...

Why are you tuning an analogue sound into digital and right back to analogue just for playback? after all, isnt your source here the turntable? not the computer? imo, the reason vinyl has the potential to sound best is because the whole system is analogue.    i dont see why there is such...

i think the next logical choice for bass is ultrasone. although im not too familiar with their models...