Topic: "I am getting old" (Read 23638 times)

mojave · « **Reply #50 on:** February 15, 2022, 03:06:17 pm »

51 and my youngest of 5 kids is only 8 years old - I'll be young for a while still.

vairulez · « **Reply #51 on:** February 15, 2022, 11:18:09 pm »

turned 50 yesterday and my youngest kid is 2 years old, so getting old is not an option

Soundwave · « **Reply #52 on:** February 16, 2022, 10:16:34 am »

Early 30's

gappie · « **Reply #53 on:** February 16, 2022, 01:21:26 pm »

as long as i dont look in a mirror i still feel somewhere 40 (or that is what i tell myself)..
58 here though.

old but not grumpy

gab

wombat66 · « **Reply #54 on:** February 16, 2022, 02:17:14 pm »

Gl3nn · « **Reply #55 on:** February 16, 2022, 06:47:03 pm »

69

Interesting thread.

I guess the teenagers and 20-ers just Spotify and Netflix it...

JimH · « **Reply #56 on:** February 16, 2022, 07:02:30 pm »

Quote from: Gl3nn on February 16, 2022, 06:47:03 pm

69

Interesting thread.

I guess the teenagers and 20-ers just Spotify and Netflix it...

They often don't have the time or money to do anything very complex.

Gl3nn · « **Reply #57 on:** February 16, 2022, 07:21:27 pm »

Quote from: JimH on February 16, 2022, 07:02:30 pm

They often don't have the time or money to do anything very complex.

I wasn't going to say that...

Moe · « **Reply #58 on:** February 17, 2022, 10:29:39 am »

I turned 48 on the 12th. I am kind of shocked by how old the average user (or at least responder to this thread) is.

zybex · « **Reply #59 on:** February 17, 2022, 01:06:58 pm »

Quote from: Moe on February 17, 2022, 10:29:39 am

I turned 48 on the 12th. I am kind of shocked by how experienced the average user (or at least responder to this thread) is.

FTFY

darichman · « **Reply #60 on:** February 20, 2022, 03:10:11 am »

Spring chicken, at 38!

thorsten · « **Reply #61 on:** February 20, 2022, 02:36:52 pm »

Just turned 47 some days ago. Funny, it seems to be that I‘m in the younger 50% of the forum

JimH · « **Reply #62 on:** February 20, 2022, 05:16:50 pm »

Quote from: darichman on February 20, 2022, 03:10:11 am

Spring python, at 38!

Signs of a mis-spent youth. You've been around here for 20 years!

darichman · « **Reply #63 on:** February 22, 2022, 03:54:53 am »

Quote from: JimH on February 20, 2022, 05:16:50 pm

Signs of a mis-spent youth. You've been around here for 20 years!

Best years of my life! Time goes very quickly. I have a 2yo and a 3.5yo now.
And much less time for media curation and tagging.... one day I will catch up on it all!

mikolajek · « **Reply #64 on:** February 22, 2022, 07:25:32 am »

45 and feel a bit puppyish in this thread then!

Wheaten · « **Reply #65 on:** February 22, 2022, 09:19:42 am »

Well respect: A lot of these folks,

experienced the first recorded sound
heared the first phone call
saw the Titanic in real
experienced the name change from New Amsterdam to New York

JimH · « **Reply #66 on:** February 22, 2022, 08:27:57 pm »

Quote from: Wheaten on February 22, 2022, 09:19:42 am

Well respect: A lot of these folks,
experienced the first recorded sound
heared the first phone call
saw the Titanic in real
experienced the name change from New Amsterdam to New York

Piss off, kid.

jmone · « **Reply #67 on:** February 22, 2022, 10:52:39 pm »

Jim's still working to digitise his analogue collection.

jmone · « **Reply #68 on:** February 22, 2022, 10:57:23 pm »

...and it will go well with his Wireless Noise Cancelling Ear Trumpet.

Wheaten · « **Reply #69 on:** February 23, 2022, 12:32:07 am »

Rumour goes he's saving to go stereo.......

JimH · « **Reply #70 on:** February 23, 2022, 06:58:10 am »

You're bothering me.

Wheaten · « **Reply #71 on:** February 23, 2022, 09:28:15 am »

Harsh,

I'm going to check out that movie mentioned in this thread, a very catchy title.

The Big Labinski · « **Reply #72 on:** February 23, 2022, 10:26:35 am »

Born at stardate 37760

zybex · « **Reply #73 on:** February 23, 2022, 11:26:50 am »

Quote from: The Big Labinski on February 23, 2022, 10:26:35 am

Born at stardate 37760

Somehow I doubt you were born in 2360:
https://www.hillschmidt.de/gbr/sternenzeit.htm

Perhaps that's the internal MC date format? Since you were registered in 2004 and MC date 37760 is 2003... wow, you bought MC when you were 1 year old, talk about precociousness!

(yes, I know that stardate calculator is ~~wrong~~ for a different ST series. Is it 1960?)

Edit: now you pushed me down a rabbit hole... it seems there are different timelines, fairly arbitrary and inconsistent between them. So there's multiple TOS and TNG calculators out there, yielding different results. Most complete page on the topic is here)

marko · « **Reply #74 on:** February 23, 2022, 11:31:40 am »

Quote from: The Big Labinski on February 23, 2022, 10:26:35 am

Born at stardate 37760

So, you'd be 62 yrs young then

I'll bet the HEX ages kept Google busy... Stardate? Brilliant. I never even knew that was a real(ish) thing.

This has turned into a pretty interesting thread. Thanks to all who replied so far...

bryant berry · « **Reply #75 on:** February 23, 2022, 01:08:30 pm »

66 yrs...earliest memories are musical ....on this river 10 plus yrs....instant gratification...

Wheaten · « **Reply #76 on:** February 23, 2022, 02:14:22 pm »

me, the piss-off kid

Started the digital music in the midi era (1995). The first expensive digital audio related purchase was the Yamaha SW60XG, which held a 18-bit DAC on a 80386 (40 MHz). MP3 wasn't mainstream yet, the first public testing was during the Olympics in 1992 (mpeg1-2-3), For audio cards we could choose between the SB-Pro or market leader adlib. In 1995 the extension/name mp3 saw it's birth and came available for a PC. MP3 wasn't really used for audio as disc space was limited to 20MB, or if had 3 month salaries to spare, 2 for a 520MB disc. and 1 for a SCSI controller, you would have some room to store the 300-500kB mp3 files.
In the early 90's the CD-Rom came to the computer, so we could use the computer to play digital audio. But keep in mind not a competitor for the CD-player.
flac gained popularity around 2005, back then JRiver wasn't well known on this side of the pond, I stepped in with MC17

The Big Labinski · « **Reply #77 on:** February 24, 2022, 05:15:34 am »

Thanks to all who found out how old I am - LOL. I think I started with MC11 ?

Mans · « **Reply #78 on:** February 24, 2022, 07:34:31 am »

Today exactly 17008 days onto our planet (getting everyday closer to something like ...47 yrs).

First contact to Digital Music was Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here on CD.
We also had (and still have) the vinyl of this album, A-B testing

At that time my parents owned a ReVox B225, operation of it was only allowed after washing our hands first

Jaguu · « **Reply #79 on:** February 24, 2022, 12:23:18 pm »

Last year a company congratulated me for being on earth for 25'000 days and offered a coupon to buy something.
MediaJukebox/MediaCenter has been running on my PC for about 7500 days.

Gl3nn · « **Reply #80 on:** February 24, 2022, 06:49:03 pm »

Also a 25K club member... 30K is a LONG way off!

I wouldn't be surprised if I've had MJ/MC for a similar amount of time. Maybe we could get a free JR coffee mug?

The Big Labinski · « **Reply #81 on:** February 25, 2022, 08:24:34 am »

I´m working now 16K in the same company

KingSparta · « **Reply #82 on:** February 26, 2022, 03:53:32 pm »

I forgot how to use the MID Rule

I had to go back to the MC11 forum to see how I explained it back then.

Path Rule: Mid([Artist], 0, 1)

I started before Media Center, with Media Jukebox 6

Media Center is the best out there.

MikeO · « **Reply #83 on:** February 27, 2022, 04:53:46 am »

We are an ageing crew 😈

72 in May, my first amp was a Clive Sinclair special which kept blowing power trannies. Thankfully he was based in Cambridge a quick cycle away

Look on the bright side at my age my hearing is shot so the audiophile want want want doesn’t mean much .

The big question is will hearing aids fit in my HD800s 😂😂😂

Gl3nn · « **Reply #84 on:** February 27, 2022, 09:01:43 am »

Curious... what version of Media Jukebox existed in November 2001?

And when did the very first version come out?

JimH · « **Reply #85 on:** February 27, 2022, 09:12:45 am »

We began working in the digital media area in 1998.

marko · « **Reply #86 on:** February 27, 2022, 11:27:46 am »

I have an installer here for Media Jukebox 1.0.352... It's 1.78 Mb

lepa · « **Reply #87 on:** February 27, 2022, 02:42:02 pm »

Thank you for your purchase of Media Jukebox 8 from JRiver, Inc.
for $24.98

Best Wishes from the Media Jukebox team at JRiver
----------------------------------------------------------------

BuyButton Receipt from J. RIver, Inc.

Name: xxxxxxx
Date: July 8, 2002

zybex · « **Reply #88 on:** February 27, 2022, 02:49:32 pm »

Quote from: marko on February 27, 2022, 11:27:46 am

I have an installer here for Media Jukebox 1.0.352... It's 1.78 Mb

Nice screenshot! I can see they made a couple of UI changes since, barely changed...

The Big Labinski · « **Reply #89 on:** February 28, 2022, 07:39:31 am »

Hi friends, any possibility to get the first Windows Media Center installer?
I have a virtual W98 running and would like to install it.
tc
Stefan

billF · « **Reply #90 on:** March 11, 2022, 07:25:04 pm »

Enjoying this thread.

I'm 74 - - was a recording engineer in the 70's & 80's

Now JRiver to Exasound 8 to amp & speakers make my old ears very happy. Thanks!

AlanDistro · « **Reply #91 on:** March 11, 2022, 10:45:04 pm »

I'm 38. I've been using JRiver since I was 30. Wish I had found it earlier! My digital library was such a mess before Media Center.

davelr · « **Reply #92 on:** March 12, 2022, 09:17:46 am »

74.5 - still think those decimals are important. I wrote my first code in 1966 in a CDC non-relocatable assembler called Sycom (zappy name huh?) My first audio gear was a Heathkit AR-1500 driving a pair of JBL 4310 control monitors. They were the ugly version of the Century 100s if I recall correctly. I still can't figure out how we invited these old people to come and live with us.

abrise · « **Reply #93 on:** March 12, 2022, 07:55:43 pm »

I'll be 70 in 2 months time and in love with JRiver for 17 years.

rids57 · « **Reply #94 on:** March 12, 2022, 10:30:52 pm »

64 here and a relative latecomer to JRiver - I only use the audio side of the program and tried most of the audio players first before coming on board with MC 24 in 2018. To be fair I was with MusicBee for a few years and it was very good but once I tried JRiver I knew I had found a long term home for my music collection.

icenine · « **Reply #95 on:** March 13, 2022, 09:11:49 pm »

69. Mighty Fine

blgentry · « **Reply #96 on:** March 14, 2022, 02:29:21 pm »

I played with .MOD files back with my first PC in about 1993. They were interesting because they were small enough to fit many of them on a hard drive. But they weren't general purpose. They had to be written kind of like a musical composition and were more similar to MIDI files (but much cooler).

There were WAV files and things back then, but didn't seem practical at all. After MP3s hit the scene, I knew things were going to change big time. I heard my first MP3 around 1997 or so. I waited forever and bought an ipod around 2005 and spent weeks ripping hundreds of CDs. That turned out to be a huge mistake for many reasons. It ruined music for me for a while.

Five or six years later I discovered lossless audio formats and vaguely remembered that "weird sounding" Monkey's Audio format. When I discovered MC about the same time, I was surprised and impressed to find out that the author of Monkey's Audio was also the original principle author of MC!

MC changed my music handling drastically and gave me complete control over my library. I could finally find and cleanly organize all of my music and be my own Digital Librarian.

Some combination of lossless audio and MC reawakened my musical interest and I tripled my music collection (on CD) in the next 5 years. I've been adding to it at a much slower pace for the years since then.

I'll be 52 this year.

Brian.

RickieAbbott · « **Reply #97 on:** March 15, 2022, 11:53:03 am »

I'm DOS 3.1 = 65

Axilian · « **Reply #98 on:** March 15, 2022, 02:24:39 pm »

Quote from: jmone on February 14, 2022, 05:55:50 pm

I have a strange fondness for Stereo Wide that was on my 1980's boom box.... and the memories it evokes.

What's scary is I think I recognise the controls that looks horribly like a Bush boombox (though I think it actually only had 2.5W per channel so not so much Boom ) I had in the 80's

Myself, I watched the pyramids being built so feeling a little old now

Zhillsguy · « **Reply #99 on:** March 15, 2022, 04:11:02 pm »

64 here. Love music more than ever, but still go back to the music I listened to in my formative years.

I hope Jim keeps this going for a few more.

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