I live in my uncle's house which is relatively big, and we have these wooden doors with lots of small windows on them on our backyard side, well this guy used one of the shovels we left outside our house (sigh) and broke the doors and got inside. Luckily I armed the alarm before I left the...

Hi all, my cousin is getting married in Hong Kong this December and she asked me to play piano for her at the dinner banquet! Now I am not familiar with ANY wedding songs at all, so I was hoping some of you music lovers here can give me some suggestions! Here's the background info: 1. I...

I play piano and have been listening to lots of Ben Folds' music, and although his piano rock is a lot more wild, he does say it was Elton John's music that partly influenced him. Any Elton's fans on here? Any recommendations for which of his album I should start with (he has quite a few)...

My ever-increasing CD collection is needing a new rack, this will probably be placed in my living room beside the hi-fi. Any suggestions for something that looks a bit more fashionable? I remember earlier one of the sponsors for this forum (it might still be there) made this CD holder with...

I have a 4 month old 30GB video iPod, and 80% of the time when I select a song to play on it, somehow it plays the next song on the list. So let's say I wanted to play a song on my playlist, it would try to play the song (I see the album artwork and stuff come up), but then it fails and...

I am looking for a software with which I can play music with "slow motion" so it is easier for me to transcribe solos. Any suggestions? I am looking for something free. My Creative NJB3 can do this, but I don't have all my music on it anymore since I got the iPod.

I live in Canada and so my DVD player is one that can only view North American DVDs. I have also set my laptop DVD rom to view the same region DVDs. Since listening to Muse though I really want to get their live DVDs, but they are only available in UK's region code. What are some ways I can...

Conditions: -I have been going to the gym almost everyday the previous few weeks, but not to do weights, only to do cardio, and situps -I haven't lifted anything heavy -I have been sitting in front of my computer for a long time these days Under these conditions, I have been having a...

I got some vinyl decal stickers of bands off ebay, got the Radiohead logo and another sticker of Ben Folds (an indie piano rock trio). I am having trouble thinking where to put them Where would you put your stickers? I am thinking maybe my keyboard (synthesizer) or my water...

I have had my IBM T42 for about 9 months now and have had no trouble with it so far, until today when something weird happened. I have its LCD display turned off, with my LCD Monitor plugged in, my mouse also plugged into the USB. I was doing nothing much but only looking at some bittorrents...

Just got it in the mail and it looks quality. I can't comment on it much yet because my 5G 30gb iPod has yet to arrive, but the skin plus the solid face plate (it has 2 parts to it) seem to be a lot better than the previous skins. Also the skin now covers the click wheel as well, that part...

I remember in Jamie Cullum's first album twentysomething, on his track SINGING IN THE RAIN, there was a spot where I clearly heard a mistake made while mixing/printing where like half a sec was skipped. Now I am listening to his newest album, Catching Tales, and I think I am hearing something...

This is actually a question not related to music-listening, but performing. I am a keyboard player and for the longest time I've been playing live with mono speakers. However, it is obvious that since my piano samples are stereo, if i can play them with stereo speakers things sound much...

Has anyone heard of Dee Daniels? I haven't before - not until last night. One of my friends has got the connections, and he hooked us (my church worship team) up with Dee for a little vocal lesson at her place. Although we spent 3 hours on no actual singning techniques, it was well...

I have a 4th gen 20GB iPod and I'm now using iTunes 4.9. Before I got iTunes 4.9, I was using 4.8 and song transfer (syncing) was real fast. I use USB 2.0 But now, I don't know why, it's taking at least 1-2 minutes per song. Anyone else experienced this problem?

I have tried my best to avoid this whole Apple craze, getting Creative mp3 players instead of iPods (Zen Micro and NJB3), and using Winamp instead of iTunes. But last night I finally gave iTunes a try and MAN! I spent my whole night organizing my music library because it's such a great...

On Jamie's album twentysomething, in the track Singin' in the Rain, can anyone hear a glitch at about 1:38? When he sings "Happy refrain", the "refrain" gets cut off a bit early and does not resolve properly. I thought it was my CD but when I downloaded off some website I heard the same...

Hi, I am helping a friend to get a MP3 Player. 1) He wants a wireless remote for it (does any player have aftermarket wireless remotes?) 2) He wants at least 5GB, so no flash players. I can't think of one that has a wireless remote, so any help would be really appreciated.

I am having trouble viewing these symbols here: http://www.philosophy.ubc.ca/faculty...en/sentho2.htm The sentential operators should look like their descriptions, as in dot, wedge, tilde, horseshoe etc, but all I am seeing are weird symbols. I tried various different encodings on my Mozilla...

What do you guys think about it? I absolutely loved their live album The Central Park Concert, but I have to confess that I found their studio albums like Crash hard to "understand". This new album is a lot more easier for my ears. It sounds more like most rock songs I usually listen...

I admit defeat. My beloved K240S has totally broken down. Not only is the cable not working (no sound coming out of the right cup), it is also falling apart physically (plastic parts that should stick together don't stick together anymore). It's a sad, sad day. So, I am...

How do you carry your laptops around? I've tried asking the people over at notebookreview.com but they are really unresponsive to these kinda questions. I have just purchased a IBM ThinkPad T42 14.1" (yet to arrive, still shipping) and have been looking at the following options (I can't...

Does anyone have any real bad experience with Compaq laptops/notebooks, or have heard anything real bad about them? I'm talking in terms of build quality, service, customer support etc. I have never owned a laptop before, but I plan on purchasing the Compaq V2110 model soon. It has a 1.3...

I am having some poor cable connection on my AKG K240S. A couple weeks ago I pulled the cable out of my headphone just to see what it's like, and ever since I have been having some poor connection at times - I only hear sound coming out of the left cup. Is there any sort of fluids that I can...

Why can't the manufacturers in the MP3 player industry design the "perfect" machine? There is always one that has replaceable battery and another one that doesn't. Then there's always one that does gapless playback and another one that doesn't. The list goes on and on but there's never one...