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LISTENING TO: Bob Dylan Live at the Gaslight - 1962 Live, very early Dylan. I picked up my copy at Starbucks. I'm a Dylan fan, so I like this - but even those who don't might like a couple of the cuts, including "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" and "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright." Young, fresh, live, with background noise...this is a nice addition to the Dylan Library. Show the potential that will become the Icon. All reviews

Ever since I began this stero diet (never turn it on; just rip my CDs/iTunes to computer), the one missing link has been classical music.

I can still tell the difference - in some cases, at least - betwixt an MP3 and the original DVD, but - for most rock 'n roll, that's not an issue.

With classical, it's more of an issue. The quiet passages, the fermata...hard to really capture with digital compression/decompression. I loaded up a Schubert CD (The Complete Impromtus) on the computer - big mistake.

Basically, there are two issues:

• Especially with classical, the "ripped" versions are aurally weaker.


• The shuffle concept fails. Even if I create a playlist of classical (or Mozart, or Copland....), I don't want Movement X of Symphony Y played and then Movement Z of Symphony ABC next. Or second part of Sonota BB and so on. And shuffle is a big part of the whole "non-album" direction music is taking. But classical doesn't work that way.

Thought I'd mention it...