i burn brand new cds of just the tunes i want to play for the night i'm booked. of course i have the prior nights cds still in the booklet in case i need to play longer than scheduled, and i usually end up burning more tunes than i need for the night. i've never had a problem this way.

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Originally posted by the_gamemaster If you're going to keep the vinyls, then why not just download the tracks off limewire or something? Although this is technically illegal, no one can tell and its going to save you loads of time and i dont think there's anything morally wrong with it. Unless you have to have the 'vinyl sound' of course.

Because they'll sound shit.

I started doing this (although not with Limewire cos it's even worse than most others) for a few tunes I had on vinyl to save ripping them, but regretted it when I found about 12 out of the 20 I downloaded had glitches in them, so just went back to ripping them myself anyway.

There are a couple of dodgy Russian MP3 download sites with quite reasonable copies of just about everything for next to nothing (I think one of them wanted about $0.15 per track)... they're technically legal due to Russian laws, although the artists don't get any money out of them so morally they're not really any better than piracy - but you might decide they're acceptable for obtaining backups of tracks you already own on vinyl. Of course then there's the issue of whether you trust them with your card details...

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Ive downloaded a few and they've all been fine, I suppose it depends on how popular the track is and what genre/label it is - my collection is mostly uplifting and progressive trance from big labels so im probably more likely to find good quality mp3s.

Some tips though - always choose ones with larger file sizes - around 15-20Mb, as they are more likely to be 320's, and dont type the full name into the search, then you know the results with only the words you typed in are adware/not the track you want.

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery Oh man, the smell of failure is starting to attract the other retards as well.

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Originally posted by elFreak i like how you omited to give any credit to the vocalists who's lyrics you bootlegged with fruity loops, unless that is you singing. either way this is great stuff and it will be used to scare birds away from my weed harvest this summer.

I think I'll stick to avoiding it in general thanks

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Originally posted by Stu Cox Because they'll sound shit. I started doing this (although not with Limewire cos it's even worse than most others) for a few tunes I had on vinyl to save ripping them, but regretted it when I found about 12 out of the 20 I downloaded had glitches in them, so just went back to ripping them myself anyway. There are a couple of dodgy Russian MP3 download sites with quite reasonable copies of just about everything for next to nothing (I think one of them wanted about $0.15 per track)... they're technically legal due to Russian laws, although the artists don't get any money out of them so morally they're not really any better than piracy - but you might decide they're acceptable for obtaining backups of tracks you already own on vinyl. Of course then there's the issue of whether you trust them with your card details...

i'm not sure about this, but i think those russian sites get the stuff they sell from p2p anyway, so the quality won't be any better.

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Get Dropbox, with 250 MB extra space!

I wanted this one track that I couldnt find anywhere else but on one of those Russian sites. I kept telling myself no because "it seemed too good to be true".. until one day:

I went to Walmart and bought a $10 pre-paid Visa. Loaded it on that site (they have a $10 min for credits). Picked the jam I wanted, and downloaded away. Ran it through Norton, and played it. Success! It was a great track. Started and ended with a few seconds. Def was 320k, as claimed.

So I go back to that site, nearly a year later (figuring I paid $10 for this song so.. oh well) and my credits are still there.. all $9.74 of it! lol