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I was able to convert full albums from 15GB to around 6GB. Then you will have the same playable project (with less hard drive strain!) in less than half the size (sometimes considerably less! if for example there are lot of acoustic tracks with silence (like drums))ДЄll editing, Flex etc are there. Make sure to have checked that 'change reference files' option and wait a while.

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I really love to archive project in ALAC (in mean I hate to have to manually do it, but I love there is this possibility)Д«asically you select all your audio files in a Logic project (from the audio window or Bin) and do 'copy/convert files' and chose 'apple Lossless' I use a lot ALAC as has some very great advantages for me: 1 Logic sees it as native

Government ('you can do anything, if you give us enough money'), and saner heads amend or, preferably repeal, the DMCA.Ok let me start with a simple question: do you use any of the above Lossless compressions? What did you chose? (I would like to create a poll but I don't know how!)

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After 2000, when the Republicans were able to steal control of the Executive Branch as well, they really got going, implementing the most Draconian interpretations (and penalties) of the Act, declaring by fiat that we no longer owned the music and movies we had paid for, but were merely being allowed to use them, by their leave.ДЄnd that's where we'll stay, until eitherДЄ) the entertainment companies tire of constantly trying to devise new content protection schemes, only to find them cracked by the time they are implemented, or soon thereafter.Д«) we recover from the Republican 'Fire Sale' of the U.S. They were stymied for a while by the 'Fair Use Doctrine,' declared by a Federal judge who had enough common sense to not be fooled by their BS.Д«ut by the late '90s, after the Republicans took control of Congress, they were able to buy enough votes to ram through the DMCA, and unleash it on a (mostly) unsuspecting public. The RIAA started this song with cassette recorders, and the MPAA joined in (and filed suit) when home video recorders became available. The entertainment industry cried 'Wolf!' about every new consumer-usable recording format since the introduction of home 'Compact Cassette' recorders, saying they would go out of business within (name your time frame) because they will only sell one copy of (name your media), and that one person will then make copies for the rest of the world. It's ironic that you quote Jack Valenti, since the MPAA was the major driving force behind the DMCA, and Jack Valenti was their biggest, best-connected arm twister. It's like what my old acquaintance Jack Valenti used to say: 'If you cannot protect what you own, you don't own anything!'

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(At least Google now says it will refund its customers' money.) Those episodes-along with last weekend's crash of Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage copy-control system-amount to the plainest exhibit possible of the risks of remote-controlled 'digital rights management' systems. The demise of Connect and the closure of Google's video-download store will both wind up depriving customers of things they thought they'd purchased for good. A Q&A on Sony's site breaks the bad news to Connect customers: They need to burn their downloads to audio CDs if they want to keep listening to them-after the copy-control machinery governing Connect purchases shuts down, starting in March of 2008, they won't be able to transfer purchases to new computers. They will also play MP3 and AAC files-but not Sony's proprietary ATRAC format.Д®ssentially, Sony just hit the Eject button on its entire digital-music strategy to date.Д¬ustomers who had bought into ATRAC and Connect can't be too happy about these developments. Instead of supporting Connect downloads, this new hardware will work with stores using Microsoft's Windows Media Audio format. Its confirmation arrived early this morning, in the 17th paragraph of a press release announcing a new lineup of Walkman digital-music players.

It's official: Sony's pulling the plug on its Connect music service.Д«ack in June, I'd posted an item here about reports of Connect's demise, reports that Sony denied at the time.