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  Leonard on 18/12/2013 - 14:00

  Thanks OP. Got it immediately.

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  ZinDeeDee on 18/12/2013 - 14:09

  I do love my classical music! thanks Op!

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  Cap N on 18/12/2013 - 14:14

  Cooool!

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  silverrat23 on 18/12/2013 - 14:25

  +3

  Dang, need to attach a credit card to 'buy' the album!

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    WNK on 18/12/2013 - 14:28

    Yep, If you haven't attached it before. I attached my CC details to Play account few months before. It's similar to Amazon, itunes, etc., but it won't charge you unless you buy a non-free item.

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    retiredfeline on 18/12/2013 - 15:43

    +1

    You can attach a DC with little money in it. Then if the purchase is in excess of that it will be rejected.

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  artfuldodger on 18/12/2013 - 14:26

  +6

  I'll get my classical music from the local library, they don't ask for my credit card details.

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    WNK on 18/12/2013 - 14:41

    Remember to return it on date. If not, they may ask it…:-).

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      artfuldodger on 18/12/2013 - 15:22

      -2

      borrow, burn, return.
      try having google return your credit details :-)

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        Sick of This on 18/12/2013 - 15:56

        +2

        Wow, now THIS is a true ozbargainer! In the face of a free digital copy of an album, and in this age of ultra-cheap access to millions of albums via streaming services, he still borrows and burns physical CDs.

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        Frankly Frankie on 18/12/2013 - 16:44

        I do the same.
        Not a fan of compressed music.

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        youknow on 18/12/2013 - 19:42

        FLAC

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        Agret on 19/12/2013 - 00:28

        No point burning, just rip to FLAC

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        [Deactivated] on 19/12/2013 - 01:41

        I tried FLAC. It took so long to convert and the final file was the same size as the song *.wav files anyway. So I couldn't understand the attraction.

        Also, if you wanted to copy say, 1000 CDs to *.wav files (same lossless format as a CD), then a 700 MB CD-R holds 80 minutes. The average album is 40 minutes, which equals 350 MB. So 350 MB x 1000 albums = 350,000 MB or 341.8 GB required to hold 1000 CDs in lossless *.wav format, that rips in a fraction of the time FLAC does, and unlike FLAC can be played on nearly every CD player. (Not to mention if someone wants a CD made, you have to convert FLAC back to *.wav again first.)

        Even if you doubled it and said all 1000 albums were 80 min/700 MB, that's still only 683.6 GB required. That means a 1 TB drive would hold 1000 x 80 min albums with room to spare. (Unless I have my maths really wrong.)

        A 1 TB external drive costs what, $100? That's about the same price as 3 CDs. But it fits 1000. And you didn't lose hours of your life swapping CDs into the tray to convert to FLAC.

        Am I missing something!?

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        Sick of This on 19/12/2013 - 07:01

        Yes, streaming services. They cost about $150 a year, repeating each year. That's about the same price as 5 CDs (using your figures) per year. But it fits a million albums. And you didn't lose hours of your life obtaining and ripping CDs to your HDD.

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        [Deactivated] on 19/12/2013 - 09:57

        I guess what I meant and took for granted was, that people have tried ripping to FLAC. Admittedly it's been a few years since I did, but it wasn't a simple thing and it took ages compared to ripping CD to WAV. They then say, "but it can be done faster", yes, but then they're no longer talking about lossless files. To do it faster you have to throw bits away (so you may as well just use higher settings on mp3).

        So people suggest using FLAC because it's lossless, but ripping lossless files takes (or is it took?) ages to rip, and when done they were the same size as wav files were anyway - and as I said, wav files copied to a CD will play on nearly any CD player. Whereas making a CD from FLAC files requires conversion back to WAV.

        If you've used CDDB to automatically name the wav files, you can then tell programs like audiograbber to convert the wav files to mp3. A couple of clicks and it does it all without further involvement from you. (Although that is probably the same as FLAC to mp3.)

        With direct CD to wav though, even ancient programs like audiograbber which I use, all you do is insert the CD. The software even opens the tray when done ripping, ready for the next CD. So you're talking about ~3 seconds of involvement per CD.

        I'm not arguing against FLAC. I just don't get what all the fuss is about, when there's no need for compression with HDD sizes today - and FLAC never really qualified to be called "compression" in the first place, as the reason people used it (lossless files) came out the same size as wav files at the lossless setting.

        (In other words, ripping CD to WAV or burning CD to CD is, or was, far quicker than FLAC.) Happy to learn different though.

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        retiredfeline on 19/12/2013 - 10:07

        Compression: Simple, try playing your WAV files on your portable player and see how far you get. Not to mention how much longer it will take to copy and how much flash disk space it will take up.

        Lossless vs lossy: Fooey. I can't be bothered. I'm not an audiophile who can tell the difference. I just enjoy my music.

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        [Deactivated] on 19/12/2013 - 10:34

        But they were suggesting FLAC for lossless files of classical music. If they were going to play classical on an ipod, would there be any point in having lossless files?

        The other thing is there's probably a few more portable players around today that play FLAC. But even so I can't imagine there's a large selection.

        As for the whole loss/lossless thing I agree. I converted several songs at many different (mp3) settings once. Beyond a certain setting, unless you'd actually heard each subsequent (larger) file and compared it with the next one down, you wouldn't have known anything was missing from the sound. It just sounded slightly 'different', not necessarily better.

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  ubor on 18/12/2013 - 14:30

  +5

  It will be good if it doesn't ask for a credit card.

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    tyler.durden on 18/12/2013 - 15:42

    Yeah

    At least itunes, you can hack it

    so you don't need a credit card to buy..

    if someone knows a hack for google play to not require CC

    I don't want google to have my details

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      WNK on 18/12/2013 - 16:03

      +2

      Can be used a Prepaid visa card for many websites Amazon,Hulu,V.me,etc., that need CC details. You can buy a prepaid Visa card from an AU post shop.

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  Sick of This on 18/12/2013 - 15:00

  Thanks OP :-)

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  SteveAndBelle on 18/12/2013 - 15:26

  +1

  Track 1 - "Kill de Wabbit, kill de Wabbit.."…. or the soundtrack to the car falling scene in Blues Brothers :)

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    retiredfeline on 18/12/2013 - 15:35

    +2

    Also in Apocalypse Now.

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  cashless on 18/12/2013 - 16:18

  +4

  Composers:
  Woof = Bach
  Woof-woof = Offenbach

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  jv on 18/12/2013 - 16:38

  Might use this music next time I work out at the gym…

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  rapid101 on 18/12/2013 - 17:06

  +2

  Hate to sound snobby but most of it's Romantic rather than classical (i.e. later than 1800). Not that I'm complaining about the great choices.

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  shaybisc on 18/12/2013 - 17:26

  I read a review of a 200 cd set of clasical music on the weekend and there were some major ommissions (eg Beethoven: late string quartets) in that.

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  french1e on 18/12/2013 - 17:55

  thanks OP

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  Composure on 18/12/2013 - 19:20

  Has anyone had any issues with sound? Debussy and Grieg sound great with headphones, but are so quiet on speaker. It is almost inaudible.
  The rest are fine.

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  OhWellThen on 19/12/2013 - 00:53

  It didn't ask me for any credit card details, maybe because I still have a little credit left from the Google Play gift card.

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  Super8Tab on 27/12/2013 - 11:05

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