comfort and happiness

[azurelunatic]

I am now sitting on my beanbag chair with Thalia on my lap. eris_raven is lying sideways on my real computer chair, looking at me and asking me, "brrrrr?", which, I infer, means, "So when are you going to pet and/or feed me, Human?"

All threats to upgrade/replace Thalia with a newer, shinier, larger-hard-drived desktop should now officially include the phrase "Yo' momma".

Also, the music software has recovered songs from my scratched CD, the first CD I ever bought for myself. That is some serious sentimental value there.

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[amberfox.livejournal.com]

CDParanoia. CDex, my favorite (free) MP3 ripping software, can use the paranoia approach, which I think may be a little slower, but is utterly amazing at recovering from scratched CDs. I've seen it manage to pull songs off of CDs that didn't even look shiny anymore.

[wibbble]

I know someone who used cdparanoia (under Linux) to rip the raw audio from a favourite CD, and then took the files to his uni CD lab and had it remastered. Not 'burnt' in the sense of using a CD-R drive, but in the sense of a proper silver disc burner, the kind that makes real CDs.

I would've settled for a CD-R copy, but maybe he had old audio equipment that didn't like CD-Rs.

[azurelunatic]

Now there's a feat.