Comments on: Redoing my entire Classic ISKCON Music collection

By: eric

eric — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:00:30 +0000

Haribol!

I don’t have it. I’m not even sure I’ve ever heard of it. Thanks! So that’s Radha Krisna Productions #6. Wonderful! Now I just have to find it for myself.

Thank you very much!

By: Mikael Sjödin

Mikael Sjödin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:01:19 +0000

Eric prabhu, I see you are missing the ISKCON BBT LP entitled “Mayapur”. It looks similar to INDIA (Acyutananda Swami) in design, and has two tracks (one each side) of “Live Recordings of a Hare Krishna festival”. The label says GEMA, RKP-1006. It is produced in Sweden. There is no date info, but I am sure it was released in the mid-70´s, just as the INDIA and “HARE KRISHNA FESTIVAL” LP´s.
Do you have this album? I have it here myself.

By: eric

eric — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:35:27 +0000

But don’t all services get cash money? Even direct service to the deities? That’s why Prabhupada came to America, right?

Mo’ money.

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:10:59 +0000

Spiritual dollars, Eric—can’t spend those here.

Seriously, thanks for your service.

By: eric

eric — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:29:52 +0000

Well, I do love simplicity and performance in both my hobbits and my web browsers.

I also have Firefox 3.5, but it’s not a Shire-based browser. Just the regular ol’ resources hogging Firefox.

Mostly, I use Flock though.

By: Dwija

Dwija — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:20:39 +0000

I figured out that the big nose red face thing is actually the Mozilla dinosaur. Yes, Shiretoko is the lesser known Shire, famous for: http://www.tokous.com/NordicMain.htm

It is also Firefox 3.5 for Linux Mint that has some improvements on Firefox 3.0. You have to download it for now because it doesn’t come with Gloria. It also doesn’t update Firefox but adds another version, Shiretoko, that you can set as the default browser.

By: eric

eric — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:19:53 +0000

Thanks! This first album was really easy as it was super clean and pretty much unplayed. I’m doing another album now and it’s mega scratched up. There’s no way to remove all of the scratches, but It’s not bad.

Somewhere you suggested that I do Vrndavana next. I think I shall. I have two different Vrndavana albums (same recordings), so if one is scratchy, I can use the other one. The same goes for Srila Prabhupada’s Govinda LP, which I’ll do soonly.

De-clicking/popping the songs takes a really long time. I spent five hours on one song (it was heavily crackly). Some folks take out the pops, etc automatically, but I’ve found that it sounds much better if you do it manually. Though it apparently takes about an per minute of music. The second song that I did, also five minutes long, took about an hour. It was less scratchy.

I actually feel like I’m doing some sort of service. Pretty neat, huh?
Now… how much am I getting paid?

By: Rati

Rati — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:53:20 +0000

i’m afraid i don’t have all the techy geek knowledge of you two. i recognised roland (yay) and shure (again yay!) i’ve listened to both a few times, and definitely like the new one better. a big yay you for doing this!!!

By: eric

eric — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:22:15 +0000

Ubuntu and Debian get their own logos, but any other linux is just plopped onto tux. As for the browsers, I’m using Flock, but it’s coming up as an out of date Firefox.

What is Shiretoko? Is it some Tolkien thing?

By: eric

eric — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:20:09 +0000

It’s very very infuriating what the BBT and Archives have done to the digital files. I just hope to god that they have the source files. Sometimes I doubt it, but nobody is that irresponsible.

The lectures are listenable and I think that’s what they were going for. They (hopefully) have the high quality versions squirreled away somewhere. And like any museum, we don’t have access to them.

For voice, you don’t need huge mp3 files. 128 should actually do it. But they did 32 first and then upped it a bit to 64, no? Still horrible, but listenable. The gate thing drives me insane.

The facility I have isn’t perfect, but I think it’ll be better than what they’re doing (though not better than what they could do).