Loads of Birds

[potatobroth]

I think it fits nicely with the album. I have it last after Best Ever but that's probably not the best place for it.

As for ordering from Japan... what a pain in the ass that can be. Back when JAL came out, I did the whole buy-a-japanese-itunes-gift-card thing. Dis.as.ter. I managed to get the tracks onto my machine and listen to them. But suddenly one day, they were locked and I was told by my computer that I no longer have the rights to play this music and it shall remain locked. Can't burn it, copy it to the iPod, nor convert it to aiff etc.

[nosajmunson]

[COLOR=indigo]I love this song. It haunts me. It has a very dark feel to it. [/COLOR]
[COLOR=indigo]On the movie Sunshine, a version of it repeats throughout the film. I wish the version from the movie would be released some day, but that's another thread.[/COLOR]

With the Japanese iTunes stuff, I've had a similar problem. I also got locked out of songs I purchased. What I did was this:

In iTunes go to Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Importing.
From there I changed the "Import Using" to MP3 encoder and the "Setting" to "Higher Quality (192kbps)". You can set up the 4 checkboxes however.

I then went to my "Music" list and found the tracks that were locked. I right clicked on them and selected convert selection to MP3. Each one took about a minute to convert. When it was done, I was then able to play, burn and export the new MP3 to my iPod. I then deleted the original locked file I got from iTunes. It's convuluted, but it's a great way to use iTunes against itself to unlock the tracks you already paid for.

This may or not help, but it did work for me.

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/1...estricknj1.png

[potatobroth]

oh great tip! thanks!

[industri_studios]

I think that re-encodes and loses some quality, sadly, but I agree - getting the music is better than not... even if it's slightly degraded.

[mondokat]

Originally Posted by nosajmunson

[COLOR=indigo]I love this song. It haunts me. It has a very dark feel to it. [/COLOR]
[COLOR=indigo]On the movie Sunshine, a version of it repeats throughout the film. I wish the version from the movie would be released some day, but that's another thread.[/COLOR]

With the Japanese iTunes stuff, I've had a similar problem. I also got locked out of songs I purchased. What I did was this:

In iTunes go to Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Importing.
From there I changed the "Import Using" to MP3 encoder and the "Setting" to "Higher Quality (192kbps)". You can set up the 4 checkboxes however.

I then went to my "Music" list and found the tracks that were locked. I right clicked on them and selected convert selection to MP3. Each one took about a minute to convert. When it was done, I was then able to play, burn and export the new MP3 to my iPod. I then deleted the original locked file I got from iTunes. It's convuluted, but it's a great way to use iTunes against itself to unlock the tracks you already paid for.

This may or not help, but it did work for me.

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/1...estricknj1.png

Last time I tried this, it told me it couldn't recode it because it was drm locked. Itunes really sucks sometimes.

[nosajmunson]

Originally Posted by mondokat

Last time I tried this, it told me it couldn't recode it because it was drm locked. Itunes really sucks sometimes.

I've had that happen too. Honestly, I have been able to recode/convert about 40% of the locked tracks I've tried. The other 60% I get that DRM Locked crap. Why this trick works on some "locked" tracks and not others is beyond me.

Stupid iTunes.