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                                         November 22, 2011
  An odd chain of circumstances
  got me interested in burning
  "audio magazines" on DVD-R disks:

  o  My laptop was down, but my workstation was
     up, and equipped with a DVD burner.

  o  I don't own an mp3 player

  o  I have a DVD player that can
     play DVD-Rs of mp3s (though not oggs)

  o  I have the DVD player set up:

     o   by the bedside

     o   the sound from the DVD player
         was plugged into an external         Got that?  You do things like
         set of speakers, rather than         this to improve the sound from
         the television.                      the television, but there's an
                                              additional consequence: you can
                                              turn off the screen and keep
           Those points together made it      listening to the disk.
           convienient for me to listen     
           to mp3s off of DVD-R disks,        
           using headphones while lying      
           in bed at night.                    
           
           I can navigate to a particular  
           track using the TV, then shut it  
           off without losing the sound.       
                                            
                                        

   I probably can't get across how arbitrary
   and random each of these points really was:

   o  I was procrastinating on getting the laptop
      repaired, because it wasn't urgent (I
      wasn't commuting, and when at home I use a
      real workstation), and I dislike just
      throwing things out and replacing them,
      though that's what I did eventually.

   o  I have nothing at all against  
      portable audio players, and yet  
      I don't own one.                      MISSING_BOX
      
   o  After our last DVD player died young, 
      I did some research before buying        
      another, but the ability to play sound
      files was not at all a criteria.          
      
   o  I used an old computer-grade set of
      powered speakers to augment the TVs    
      sound just because our TV at that      
      point was even lamer than usual.     
                                          
                                      
And I could go on...
                            (and on...)   (I tried writing a
My original motivation:                   shorter version of
I follow a number of                      this but it came
radio shows, some of                      out even more boring.)
which I can only hear
over the internet.

   Much as I like the "live"
   character of radio, the
   time-shifting convenience
   of downloaded audio files
   often won out.

   For some reason (I don't
   remember what) I couldn't
   get burned CD-Rs to work for
   this purpose, so I burned
   DVD-Rs.

     Just burning one or two shows seems
     like a waste of the capacity of the            SONIC_WEAVE
     disk... so I started hunting out
     even more stuff, to fill out the
     disks.                                   And it occurs to me
                                              I used to do something
                                              similar in my early
                                              cassette taping days...

                                                       MISSING_THE_SUN


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