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hats-digest          Tuesday, March 21 2000          Volume 02 : Number 182




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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 16:27:38 -0700
From: "Richard Holdman" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (hats) Safety Dance Music Video and other random thoughts

Well a lot of you know that I am capturing Music Videos from M2 and post the
ones by Men without Hats.

I thought for sure they would play Safety Dance but they skipped right over
it. Is that weird or what? They are suppose to be playing every single music
video they have. You would think they would have safety dance since they
played, I like, Pop Goes the World, and Moonbeam.

Luckily a friend of mine already had it. He also redid the sound so it
sounds a lot better. If you have ever seen it before on MTV or the VH1 pop
up video you know that sound was real bad.

Below is a direct link to the music video.

Please don't download the video below unless you own the Original Masters of
the video including the extra footage of IVAN tripping over his own shoe
laces dancing down the street.

http://www.softcom.net/users/holdman/MWH-Safety_Dance.mpg

- -Richard

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A side note

They also did not play "Open Your Eyes" - I was hoping they would because I
really love IVANS new music. I would even dare say I like his "SPELL" Album
more than I like most of the Original MWH albums. It Rocks! I was very glad
to see that IVAN did not continue the sound of the sideways album. I love
the new synth sound he currently has and I love the up to beat synth version
he did of Safety Dance (which is not available on any album).

I can't wait until the next "IVAN" album comes out!

If Ivan is reading this I just want to say "The music you are making now is
your best so far! Keep it up!!!"



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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:36:45 -0700
From: "Richard Holdman" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (hats) Men without Hats Videos

I have gotten a few request to put some other videos back online because
people have missed them.

For the next two weeks I will leave these Videos on the server

I like
safety dance
pop goes the world
moonbeam

You can get these from the address below

http://www.holdman.com/mwh/vids

Please do not download any of the videos unless you own your own licensed
copy of each video.

Thanks

- -Richard Holdman



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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:37:31 -0700
From: "Richard Holdman" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (hats) lossless compression for those that want it.

Nobody has been talking about the Men without Hats cover project much
anymore but I figured this would be some good information for those that
need it.

I know we have been talking about what kind of format we should use to send
files to the person that is going to be making these cds (WAVE, MP3, CD,
Cassette tape superglued to a post card, etc.)

I have come across a really neat audio compression format that is lossless,
meaning you can compress the Audio File and Uncompress it and the quality
will be the exact same, bit for bit, as the original.

The URL for the program is
http://www-ft.ee.tu-berlin.de/~liebchen/lpac.html

On average it only compresses 1:2 but sending 25megs of data is easier than
sending 50megs for those that may have a slow connection.

I figured somebody on this list would be interested in this

See ya!

- -Richard Holdman

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LPAC is a codec (coder / decoder) for lossless compression of digital audio
files. "Lossless" means that any compressed file can be decompressed in a
way it will be bit-wise identical with the original. This is the main
advantage of LPAC compared to lossy formats like mp3 or realaudio. On the
other hand, lossy codecs can achieve higher compression ratios. For example,
mp3 at 128 kbit/s achieves a (fixed) compression ratio of 11, whereas LPAC's
compression ratios range from 1.5 to 4, strongly depending on the audio
material. Typically they are around 2 for pop music and 2.5 for classical
music. This may not seem much, but remember you will get back every single
bit, no matter how often you subsequently compress and decompress a file. It
is true that general archivers (Zip, LZH, gzip) are lossless, too, but they
often achieve nearly no compression on audio files.

LPAC is your choice if you want to save disk space without any quality
drawbacks introduced by lossy codecs like mp3. The LPAC file format (*.PAC)
is designed to be compatible and lossless across different platforms and
processors. There are versions of LPAC for Windows, Linux and Solaris. LPAC
Archiver is the user interface of the LPAC codec for Win32
(Windows95/98/NT/2000). The codec itself is supplied as a DLL.




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