I'm curious...  are all the pods working?  (Is it just mine that missed November and never posts on the forums?) 

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Mixtape Culture Club December Co-hosts in bold:
 
not-a-fish - September (9/25/09)
Kat - January (1/15/10)
driver8 - October (10/16/09)
Lazy8 - November (11/13/09)
kurtster - December (12/11/09)

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M - September (9/25/09)
phineas - January (1/15/10)
Zep - December (12/11/09)
OCDHG - October (10/16/09)
pdhski - November (11/13/09)

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Welly - September (9/25/09)
lily34 - November (11/13/09)
ScottFromWyoming - October (10/16/09)
Deidre (my sister) - December (12/11/09)
maryte & dionysius - January (1/15/10)

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newwavegurly - September (9/25/09)
mem_313 - November (11/13/09) 
jagdriver - December (12/11/09)
lunar1963 - January (1/15/10)
rmgman - October (10/16/09)

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PoundPuppy - November (11/13/09)
Yibbyl - February (2/12/10)
rachlan - January (1/15/10) 
Jimi_the_Saint - October (10/16/09)
Sean-E-Sean & meower - December (12/11/09)

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OmegaConcern - November (11/13/09)
SeldomSeen - December (12/11/09)
rosedraws - October (10/16/09)
KDK - January (1/15/10)
pdxbiker - February (2/12/10)

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Alexandra - March (3/12/10)
Alafia - November (11/13/09)
NoEnzLefttoSplit - January (1/15/10)
Matt - February (2/12/10)
Laurie - December (12/11/09)

 Sean-E-Sean wrote: 
Not bad for a coupla girls. 

twins, yet!

...another teaser from the epic 'Songs that make Sean sneer in a good way' disc...

I hope no one takes my theme. I can't take a turn til March!

 jagdriver wrote: 


Yes yes YES! tis here.. Just in time for me to go to my company christmas party tomorrow night.. that will be my "getting dressed" CD! 

sweet...  

 newwavegurly wrote: 
Yay! That means rmgman and mem_313 also probably got theirs. It'll be a few more days before lunar_1963 gets his, the package having to whoosh through that great undersea pneumatic tube on its way to Rotterdam.

JAG, I got my CD(s) in the mail today!
Haven't listened yet (or really looked at it too closely), but wanted to let you know that I had received mine. 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Things may have changed over the past few years regarding retail price, especially when it comes to Walmart. That said, there is still the protection scheme and reduced recording time to deal with, never mind that the audio CDs won't work with some computer optical drives.

So.... why fool around with 'em?

 jagdriver wrote: 
Bullshit unless it's 3% of wholesale maybe. I looked at walmart just now, 10 for $10 regular, 10 for $13 audio.

 Welly wrote: 
Yep... sorry you fell prey to this scheme.

And to complicate matters, an "audio CD" may or may not work in one's computer. They were created for said component recorders, like the Denon pictured below.

 jagdriver wrote: 
Bugger. Ok, now I know what to buy when my ten pack runs out. Grrrrr.

 Welly wrote: 
Yes, really. The so-called "audio CDs" are yet another ploy by those in cahoots with the RIAA to rip off consumers.

EDIT: From Wikipedia (and a host of other sources) —

<edit> Recordable Audio CD

The Recordable Audio CD is designed to be used in a consumer audio CD recorder {a separate component similar to that shown above, as opposed to a computer}. These consumer audio CD recorders use SCMS (Serial Copy Management System), an early form of digital rights management (DRM), to conform to the AHRA (Audio Home Recording Act). The Recordable Audio CD is typically somewhat more expensive than CD-R due to (a) lower volume and (b) a 3% AHRA royalty used to compensate the music industry for the making of a copy.^<28>

 jagdriver wrote: 
Really? Well colour me embarassed, slap a sticker on my ass and make me walk the plank. Huh.

 Welly wrote: 
Do not use audio CDs. You are paying a premium for nothing, with a surtax going to the megolithic music conglomerates.

You can burn any audio onto a data CD any day of the week, and these discs play in all devices. At places like Best Buy, you just have to look for blank data CDs in another part of the store.

Don't be fooled!

 phineas wrote: 
I can't seem to find audio CDs in any stores here that hold over 80 mins. So yeah, all my discs are about that many tracks too.

 phineas wrote: 


Interesting. I had no issues on my itunes getting 20 on there. I also changed all mp4's to mp3's. Just make sure to back up the 4's before you do that.

Good luck morph. Xo

 phineas wrote: 
Dear Chris, 

Miss you on the circuit. How's Martina?  I heard you kids bought a condo together. 

Anyway, compression doesn't apply when you're making an audio CD. The limit is number of minutes, which is 74 or 80.  If you're making an MP3 CD — which may or may not play in car CD players — then the limit is the overall filesize, and that's either 600-some MB or 700 MB.  700 MB is a lot and you can fill that up with enough tunes to last a few full matches.  

PS - That beeyotch Serena's got nothing on you.  

 phineas wrote: 
Hmmmm...... I got 20 tracks on mine, but then most were under three minutes in playing time.

Can't help you with iTunes, but maybe this alternative may be of use to you.

I mixed my tracks using (the free) Audacity, then burned my CDs using J River's Media Center. Any burner software will do, however. This link provides many sources of free burners for the Mac.

(Why everyone thinks iTunes is the only available tool is beyond me!)

Hello fellow members of Culture Club: The Mixtape Years...

I'm making playlists with maybe 11, 12, 13 songs... and that's a discful.  Is there a way to compress tracks out of iTunes to increase the number of songs I can put on?

I remain yours in Chris Evert,
 
Geoff_Morephineas