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| November 2005 by Ray of Light 06/26/2008, 9:10am PDT | ||||
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How do I convert SHNs to MP3? Ray: ... every time I think I've seen the gayest music-related idiocy there is, they think up something new to outflank me because of the loss of quality, and the fact that once MP3s of a show start to be created, it becomes more difficult to find original, non-mp3-sourced copies of the show. Fussbett: That's the funniest part. Fussbett: Compressing media? IF YOU'RE STUPID, SURE. Ray: yeah, you're ruining it for others Ray: note that the SHN format is "not designed to be listened to" Ray: to these people, that's an ancillary function, something you might hire someone else to do Ray: the paste is from here www.u2shn.com/shnfaq.php , after I downloaded an album from oink [RIP OINK!!! --ray] and found it in this queer format Ray: so you can't listen to it (BY DESIGN), you can't convert it to a listenable format (without hurting others), it's like pogs Ray: good for trading and for taking up space Fussbett: Anytime I see a FLAC album I run away sceraming as well Ray: FLAC has its downsides, but at least there's a winamp plugin for it, and it's trivial to convert to mp3 Fussbett: I'm just pointing out that even that easier GIANT file format is shunned by me. Ray: Look at this fucking goddamn installation guide etree.org/mkw.html#intro Ray: "DO NOT click the "OK" button on the window below!!!" Ray: " Before you install mkwACT program, you must first install the mkwACT Runtime Libraries, " Ray: yeah, good that they're unbundled because I often like to install just (a nonworking) half of a program Fussbett: Opensourcers and SBs do dumb shit like this. Ray: Note that, out of the half dozen broken products that handle SHN, this one is considered the most mature and easiest to use Fussbett: "You may need to download a different application that uses this runtime... In that case, I'll make the pieces available separately." Fussbett: "It's SIMPLE LOGIC" Ray: "Based on a FANTASY" Ray: but yes, you can just picture him imagining a vast universe of third-party apps that use his stupid shn runtime. Media players, p2p apps, 3D shooters, Microsoft Powerpoint Fussbett: Or more likely that he'll later make a second SHN app. Fussbett: Which is equal fantasy, of course. Ray: That, and that the six people who download it will be thankful to have saved redownloading the 500k runtime Ray: Because lossless music file sharers are mostly on dialup Fussbett: I was also going to ask why the app even had an awkward name. Ray: don't! Fussbett: Then I see it's named after him, Michael K Weiss. Ray: Before shn, which he also invented, there was the mkw format Ray: really! This was the kind of thing I was forced to learn while searching for a way to listen to them Fussbett: He fancies himself the next Phil Katz. Fussbett: Except Phil made something indispensible. Ray: Yeah, this guy jumped straight to obscurity Fussbett: Phil Katz also was a severe alcoholic who spent all of his time in strip clubs. Fussbett: So he's all-around pretty awesome. Ray: The analogy would be better if pkzip came out two years after winzip and needed a dedicated machine to run and cost $99 Ray: If I hit it rich on shareware, I'd live in a strip club too Ray: It just seems so fitting, get money for nothing, then waste it Fussbett: And by "waste", you mean "use it to have maximum fun" Ray: Yeah, maybe "spend at maximum rate" is a better term than waste Fussbett: Especially with his rapid declining health, it's the perfect way to live. Ray: It's more or less the plot of Leaving Las Vegas, except that he can't touch her genitals or take out his cock Fussbett: I assume that "millionaire, living in a strip club" means a lot more action than just putting dollars in the g-strings. Fussbett: You're supposed to not get blow and hand jobs in the strip clubs either, but.. Fussbett: www.esva.net/~thom/arczip.wmv Fussbett: Hilariously depressing! Fussbett: (20 minute documentary on ARC versus ZIP war) Fussbett: Thom Henderson of SEA is wearing a backpack for his interview. Fussbett: Perhaps it has emergency "get home" survival gear inside. Fussbett: Later on, he cries. Fussbett: "it was a hate mail campaign" Ray: later, zip gets submarined by ARJ in much the same way Ray: I remember it came with a recursive zip2arj converter for sysops to run Fussbett: Well PK started by ripping off ARC with PKARC, stealing the code, so it was a bit more nefarious. Ray: ohh yeah. Fussbett: Rep. Jack Spratt (D-S.C.). Fussbett: You've got to be joking. Ray: that was probably his campaign slogan Ray: Katz is dead?? Fussbett: Yeah, his pancrease burst or whatever happens to your pancrease when you live on alcohol and lapdances. Fussbett: Am I even spelling pancrease right? Jesus Christ Fussbett: pancreas Ray: you were thinking of "pantcrease" Fussbett: Also Pancrase Fussbett: www.pancrase.co.jp/ Ray: the big guy on the couch never stops moving his leg Ray: I read somewhere that that's a placebo for masturbation Fussbett: RESTLESS LEG SYNDROME?!?! Fussbett: I bounce my knee constantly. :( Fussbett: www.rls.org Ray: WOAH Ray: sometimes my leg jumps when I'm falling asleep Ray: but then, it sometimes falls asleep when I'm at my desk Fussbett: That's dreaming. Fussbett: Your brain hasn't paralysed your body yet. Ray: so I can't characterize it as restless. Only "nonconformant" Fussbett: Yeah, it doesn't follow directions. Fussbett: I get that pretty commonly. Just innocuous thoughts like catching a baseball -- but my body reacts and I wake up. Ray: yeah, then I'm pissed because it means i was falling asleep really fast Ray: that I pushed the envelope too far Ray: Vern Buerg, I remember that name Ray: from list.com [list.com was one of the first dot-coms --ray] Ray: I just got to the part where he cries Ray: "people would write letters to say how much they hated me... people who never met me and never would (SOB)" Ray: this had to have been filmed before the internet Ray: back when being hated by people you didn't know was still special Ray: for some reason, you can still purchase list.com, a dos-based shareware file viewer, which inexplicably includes a 170-page manual Fussbett: haha * includes:Ray: "Please choose a drive to install LIST Plus to: [ C: (30K required, 307987328755K available) _]" Fussbett: Psh, I bet there's no uninstall option. Fussbett: I'm going to write FSLIST Ray: Select installation options: _ Core Program (30K) _ Uninstaller (6MB) Ray: [15:28:35] *** "mrk" signed off at Thu Nov 17 15:28:35 2005. *** "mrk" signed on at Thu Nov 17 19:52:00 2005. *** "mrk" signed off at Thu Nov 17 20:36:41 2005. *** "mrk" signed on at Thu Nov 17 20:40:53 2005. *** "mrk" signed off at Thu Nov 17 21:23:14 2005. *** "mrk" signed on at Thu Nov 17 21:51:05 2005. *** "mrk" signed off at Thu Nov 17 21:51:07 2005. *** "mrk" signed on at Sat Nov 19 15:07:43 2005. *** "mrk" signed off at Sat Nov 19 15:56:25 2005. Ray: trying to send an AIM to mark is like some kind of sniping exercise Fussbett: haha Ray: he made a comment on Thursday, I have this great reply all chambered and now I'm just waiting for my quarry to appear |
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