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Re: The 'Simple Questions' thread.
« Reply #1440 on: December 16, 2010, 06:34:24 pm »
Thanks a lot for the info.
But then if theres no difference between FLACs and 320kbs - why do many people keep posting FLACs? Is there some other purpose FLACs are good for?

FLAC's are 100% identical to the source whereas lossy format such as mp3/wma/ogg always remove largely inaudible sounds. People who prefer to have music identical to how it was recorded/produced(or at least ripped) usually prefer FLAC.
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Re: The 'Simple Questions' thread.
« Reply #1441 on: December 16, 2010, 10:07:26 pm »
This may or may not be a simple question...

So I'm stuck on this Java program I'm working on. Basically I'm trying to animate some bars that are sorted by width using selection sort.

I can sort the bars easily, but when i try to use repaint() after each swap...it won't work :(
Is there something else I can use?

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Re: The 'Simple Questions' thread.
« Reply #1442 on: December 18, 2010, 07:24:52 pm »
But then if theres no difference between FLACs and 320kbs - why do many people keep posting FLACs? Is there some other purpose FLACs are good for?

He said you won't NOTICE a difference, not that there is none.  I use FLAC for burning new CDs when the original ones get scratched up, because I know it'll be exactly the same.  Also, if you want to convert to different media formats, like ogg or mp3, FLAC is the best starting point.  Transcoding from one lossy format to another often makes it worse, since different formats compress in different ways.
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Re: The 'Simple Questions' thread.
« Reply #1443 on: December 20, 2010, 01:34:34 am »
And while we're on music theme I have another question:
Is there a program (preferably one that supports Winamp) that analyzes the currently playing song, and for next song it picks one that sounds the most similar to the current song? I have way too much music and I'm getting tired of trying to create "mixes" of similar kinds of songs, so I want to somehow automate that process.
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Re: The 'Simple Questions' thread.
« Reply #1444 on: December 20, 2010, 01:40:54 am »
And while we're on music theme I have another question:
Is there a program (preferably one that supports Winamp) that analyzes the currently playing song, and for next song it picks one that sounds the most similar to the current song? I have way too much music and I'm getting tired of trying to create "mixes" of similar kinds of songs, so I want to somehow automate that process.
Right click on song > Play tracks simalar to ...

Not sure how well it will work, as I just tried it but it just said playlist generator failed to initialize. Maybe you will have more luck.
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Re: The 'Simple Questions' thread.
« Reply #1445 on: December 21, 2010, 03:58:51 pm »
And while we're on music theme I have another question:
Is there a program (preferably one that supports Winamp) that analyzes the currently playing song, and for next song it picks one that sounds the most similar to the current song? I have way too much music and I'm getting tired of trying to create "mixes" of similar kinds of songs, so I want to somehow automate that process.
Right click on song > Play tracks simalar to ...

Not sure how well it will work, as I just tried it but it just said playlist generator failed to initialize. Maybe you will have more luck.
It seems that this feature is really buggy in general and a lot of people are having similar issues with it.
Thanks for mentioning it though. I didn't even think of trying this out myself because I thought it was some simple user-tags-based thingy like on Last.FM. But I found a similar program called MusicIP which is supposed to do the same thing, but better. Though I still wasn't able to test it yet because it was taking too long to analyze all of my music. :S

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Re: The 'Simple Questions' thread.
« Reply #1446 on: December 21, 2010, 08:14:39 pm »
Does MusicIP integrate with winamp or is it standalone?

heh thanks
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Re: The 'Simple Questions' thread.
« Reply #1447 on: December 22, 2010, 03:21:16 pm »
Yeah, MusicIP even used to be supplied with Winamp some time ago, but right now the program is no longer being developed. But supposedly it's still good. :S
I'll search for other similar programs, just in case there's an even better one out there.

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Re: The 'Simple Questions' thread.
« Reply #1448 on: December 22, 2010, 03:35:31 pm »
Why foxconn is still here? (I know... "Don't feed the troll..." but I had to ask this question.)
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Re: The 'Simple Questions' thread.
« Reply #1449 on: December 22, 2010, 03:59:45 pm »
Why foxconn is still here? (I know... "Don't feed the troll..." but I had to ask this question.)

I'm NOT a troll. Horve is.

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Re: The 'Simple Questions' thread.
« Reply #1450 on: December 22, 2010, 04:44:20 pm »
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Re: The 'Simple Questions' thread.
« Reply #1451 on: January 06, 2011, 11:32:21 am »


What should i play -_-

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Re: The 'Simple Questions' thread.
« Reply #1452 on: January 06, 2011, 11:59:26 am »
It seems that you already decided to play black gay, but I prefer shotgun-guy.
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Re: The 'Simple Questions' thread.
« Reply #1453 on: January 06, 2011, 02:19:42 pm »
I played TBOGT all the way through, but got bored of TLAD.
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Re: The 'Simple Questions' thread.
« Reply #1454 on: January 12, 2011, 12:07:11 pm »
Ok I have this Razer Copperhead mouse and the Razer logo on the top where the palm sits is faded away... so I would be looking for any kind of paint to touch it up again, it would need to be high gloss and like sweat and abrasion resistant.

Oh! and I liked TBOGT better than TLAD
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Re: The 'Simple Questions' thread.
« Reply #1455 on: January 31, 2011, 09:37:24 am »
Is there a way to prevent the Teamviewer connected/disconnected tabs from appearing?
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Re: The 'Simple Questions' thread.
« Reply #1456 on: February 11, 2011, 03:45:31 pm »
Who plays soldat under the name HEAVY METAL MANIAC, as he just called me a forumfag in some random server...I'm presuming he has an account. Dont know for sure.

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Re: The 'Simple Questions' thread.
« Reply #1457 on: February 11, 2011, 03:49:38 pm »
..Is the word 'forums**t'? ew, well if it was something like that, I don't think he recruits here just for get PM'ed: f**k you! :D
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Re: The 'Simple Questions' thread.
« Reply #1458 on: February 11, 2011, 04:12:55 pm »
..Is the word 'forums**t'? ew, well if it was something like that, I don't think he recruits here just for get PM'ed: f**k you! :D
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Re: The 'Simple Questions' thread.
« Reply #1459 on: March 04, 2011, 09:36:15 pm »
Laptop cooling fans suck at cooling the comp.

Is there any really good cooling device for a laptop?