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I know this is called an MP3 forum but we should remember that Creative are producing "windows" products which support WMA as well. WMA is always improving (MP3 is stuck). Well I have been trying to make WMA files "I" find acceptable. I wasn't happy with the sounds produced by the standard CVR/VBR settings avialble with the usual software, be it Creative or Media Player on my Zen sleek. I want clear treble on cymbals, and good bass. I would prefer this without tweaking using the "custom equaliser". So I decided to download the Windows Media Encoder. After some experimention I found using the Quality75 setting fitted my bill. I can access this setting using Exact Audio Copy, something many using with Lame. To me it sounds better than other VBR compressing options available with Media Encoder even at similer bitrates, it just sounds more like what I hear on my Hi-Fi.
P.S. Quality90 is even better but exceeds the 320 limit far too often. Yes I could use the VBR Peak encoder but this dosn't sound as good as Quality75 in my opinion. It would be great if microsoft would allow more settings such as 80 or 85.

Yes, this software gives you more control over how WMA files are encoded, not to mention a command-line version that can be used with EAC to rip everything from scratched discs to XCP discs (after turning autorun off to block the rootkit, of course). Go to this site, change the dropdown from "Windows Media Player" to "Windows Media Encoder", select the 9 Series encoder, and download.

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Hi - my first post so take it easy
Was told that this was the place to ask regards my PC
Its a Medion PC which has a Micro-Star MS-6701 Motherboard - as I understand it this board is an OEM one which MSI has made for the Medion Company
I wish to upgarde the drivers for the motherboard so that I cabn get the best from it and enable Fast Writes if possible
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Can anyone help me please ?
Details of board
Manufacturer MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD
Model MS-6701
Version
BIOS Vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD
BIOS Version AWARD - 42302e31
BIOS Release Date 22/02/03
BIOS Properties Plug and Play, Flash, AGP
AGP
Revision 3.0
Rate 4x, 8x (8x enabled)
Available Rate 0x0000000c
Selected Rate 0x00000008
Aperture Size 128 MB
Sideband Addressing supported (enabled)
Fast Write not supported

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Processor
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Speed : 2.67GHz
Performance Rating : PR2940 (estimated)
Type : Standard
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Mainboard
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MP Support : 2 CPU(s)
MP APIC : No
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System : MEDIONPC
Mainboard : MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD MS-6701
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How to get the best from Lightroom with my Nikon D700

I am having real trouble with the results from Lightroom from my Raw files.
I love Lightroom but am going to have to use another program unless I can figure out what to do.
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I have never had to use presets etc. so am in need of basic help please.

Ed
I assume you tried to:
If you are on Mac OS X, drag the "Camera v2 beta" folder to:
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles
Do you have admin rights on your mac? Otherwise, I am not to up on macs, and hopefully someone with more expertise can help with the installation.
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Rory

How to get the best from a PC? Some guides...

I have recently made available three different 'guides' (from my perspective of course) and I thought it might be worthwhile to have it all in one place:
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2. Storage rules for an editing rig. Some basics.
3. Guide for installing and tuning a Vista 64 PC.
I hope you can profit from these postings.

Harm,
Have not gone to 64-bit yet, so I only linked to that post. Have not read it, but will, prior to the next build
As for the hardware, some of the comments are on more current CPU's, etc., than I have. From my reading, I do not disagree with any of it.
For the I/O layout, the only thing that I saw (and think I commented on when that first was posted) was the FW-800/external. My comment was based on my personal experiences with my hardware and SD material only. I do not debate that eSATA is better, but I have a lot invested in FW-800 externals, so have not made that jump. Also, my workstation's slots are full, so no eSATA for that box. I do recall that Jim Simon tried FW-800 and had nothing but problems. Guess that I have been lucky. To date, they have worked well for shuffling some Projects between the laptop and the workstation. As an aside, if I can work by the pool for much of a Project vs being in a dark interior room - guess which I will choose. So long as I can struggle by with the 17" monitor, I'll go for the outside. Need the big screens, or more power, and I just cart the external upstairs. Still, I do not disagree with your comments.
Though I have a pretty good I/O system, when I do a new build I will definitely have your article in hand. Things have changed, since my last new machine and there is no reason to not incorporate the latest/best into it. I also have a printout of your "middle-of-the-road" workstation, and will likely model off of that too. Yes, things will change between now and then, but you provided a good template for me to work from.
In total, I really liked all three articles (see comment on the OS one above). You distilled many discussions into concise form. Now, you also furnish a single link to all. Beats doing a Search on the fora, trying to remember which thread Harm, Jeff, Jim, Bill, Eddie, et al replied to with hardware suggestions. You put it all together for all users.
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Getting the best from Connect: Ideas, Examples?

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Thanks. That's useful but it's not exactly what I'm looking for. I'm trying to bring a level of production value to my webinars that goes beyond those fixed by Connect and am looking for unique and creatives uses beyond the basics. It may not exist as Connect makes creativity difficult in this environment, but I thought someone might have squeezed a bit of beauty out of it. If so, I'd like to see it.

How to get the best from 8gb ram in macbook pro_bootcamp Win 7

Hi guys,
I know what you are going to say, (run 64 bit windows) but bare with me. I have brand new 2011 unibody macbook pro 13" 2.8 ghtz dual core 8gb of ram. When running bootcamp windows 7 it shows only 2.16 gb ram usable. I thought that 32 bit windows can handle 4 gb ram so how can I get at least that much grunt out of the machine.
Yes, yes thanks for telling me that I can use 64 bit windows 7, but see I have downloaded a lot of autodesk 32 bit software (at 3gb per program) so it will be a month or so before my broadband is up for that kind of downloads again. I was wondering if you have a solution to at least get closer to the 4gb that should be available.
Cheers

The only way to have Windows use 8GB ram is to, as you said you don't want to hear, use 64 bit Windows. Do the math 2^32 vs 2^64. It does not matter that you don't want to hear it, it is what it is.
BTW, 32 bit programs will run in 64 bit Windows.
And the reason you Windows can't use all your 4GB ram is because some of that 4GB is being used by your graphics etc.

A check on my settings to get the best out of them.

Just checking base with you as you always offer me the best advice.
Have just received my extra 2gb ram (yipee) which now takes me to the max 4gb allowed for my OS.
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You're sort of right... of course, you can physically have 4GB of memory, but when using a 32bit OS due to addressing limitations there'll only be about 3-3.5gb available RAM. You can use a 64bit OS which is able to address all the RAM, but any 32bit software you run will face the same limitation.
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You cannot utilize 4096MB in 32bit enviroment, to do so you need 36bits ... just simple math
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I Am from Brazil And I Would Like to know if I buy iPad In Hong Kong or In Japan if The Store can Change The language to Brazilian language thats Brazil portuguese. Is That possible??? Where I can get The best price In Hong Kong or In Japan? Than If I but

I Am from Brazil And I Would Like to know if I buy iPad In Hong Kong or In Japan if The Store can Change The language to Brazilian language thats Brazil portuguese. Is That possible???
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Robertafromsp wrote:
Which iPad is The newest do you know?
I am puzzled why you could not find that info yourself on the web in a second or two:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad#Model_comparison

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I have updated Firefox to 8.0.1 but the main screen still says " You're not on the latest version of Firefox. Upgrade today to get the best of the Web!" What is the problem?

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This - http://www.google.com/firefox - is the old Firefox Start Page used by the Firefox 3.6 and earlier versions of Firefox, I don't think it is being maintained.
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How to get the data from mysql database which is being accessed by a PHP application and process the data locally in adobe air application and finally commit the changes back in to mysql database through the PHP application.

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Okay all you Logic and OSX Gurus. I need your help. I've finally made the LOGIC leap from OS9 and have hit the SYSTEM OVERLOAD wall like many of you before me.
I've been pouring over this, and many other Forums and Blogs, for about two weeks now, and have tried many of the fixes / solutions to no avail. I estimate I'm now getting about 25% of my OS9 Logic performance from Logic in OSX.
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Kevin Saunders Hayes
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And after months of using Express, and a week of
using Logic, I hadn't had a system overload until
today. Now I'm having them all the time. It wasn't a
set up change, it wasn't running on the battery, it
wasn't running software monitoring, it's set up with
512 i/o buffer, medium processor buffer. And it
wasn't brought on by number of tracks - that's for
sure. After it started happenind and I took a break &
came back, I was sitting on my couch, Powerbook in
my lap, tapping a beat in with the onscreen
keyboard.... a SINGLE instrument, mind you. NO plugs,
no other tracks of ANY kind. And it happened.
There's a lot of great, relevant and very helpful info on this forum and it all helps and it all counts. But..... so many people are suffering this when moving up to Pro 7 from either Pro 6 or Express. One expects a change in system load when a major update comes along but more and more people are reporting that simply recording 1 or 2 tracks of audio, pure, no plug-ins or EQ is causing an overload whereas in the previous version(s) this was easily accomodated. This, you may have guessed, has happened to me as well. Are we to accept in 1 version increment (albeit a major one) there is such a massive increase in demand from hardware that you cannot record a pure no-plug-in stereo track? When going back to 6.4.3 it will happily record 8 at once, let you EQ and reverb and then do another 8 AND then another. With no troble at all.
It is pointing more and more towards fundamental flaws in the programming. Did L7 come out too soon? Are we just beta testing what is pro software? We are only on 7.1.1 and 6 went to 6.4.3 but at no stage was it this bad at the fundamentals of what the App is for. I love Logic, I really do, but I think, even with all the great help we are fighting what Apple should be addressing. Not that you can find/contact/talk to or get any sort of response from them.
I have tried but have gone back to 6.4.3 until 7.1.2 or even 7.2 appears, but I'm not paying for 7.2. My £200 upgrade from 6.4.3 is now sitting on a shelf desperately wanting to use it.

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How do I get the music from my iPod classic onto my computer if it came from a different iTunes account?

Hello JLGBone,
It sounds like you are needing to transfer your music from your iPod classic to your computer. The following article will help you transfer your iTunes Store purchases:
iTunes Store: Transfer purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
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