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Ripping vinyl records on a Mac

April 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

After getting my E-MU 0404 USB audio interface I have started to rip my vinyl record collection. I want to retain as much as possible of the amazing sound of vinyl, so I rip everything in 24bit 48khz. Why not use 96khz? Well, my preferred playback device, the Squeezebox only supports 24/48 unfortunately.

Here’s how I do it…

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Tags: Life and times of Jacken · Technical stuff

VPN Tracker, Leopard 10.5 and dns problems

October 30th, 2007 · No Comments

After trying to start VPN Tracker 4 and failing after upgrading to Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 I could no longer contact any servers at the same domain as the network I tried to connect to. To fix this, look inside the /etc/resolver directory, if there is a couple of files called vpn-resolver-#### you have [...]

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Tags: Technical stuff