Metal Reviews

personally I've got a 2.5gig relatively cheap thing. it's amazing what you can pack on to these things, though. here's the current list:

Boris - Absolutego (SHFQV), Amplifier Worship, Feedbacker, Flood, Sun Baked Snow Cave
Burzum - Det Som Engang Var, Filosofem, Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Eloy - Dawn, Ocean
Esoteric - Metamorphogenesis, Subconscious Dissolution into the Continuum, The Death of Ignorance
Fantomas - Delirium Cordia
Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory
Isis - Mosquito Control EP
Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye, Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue
King Crimson - Discipline, In the Court of the Crimson King, Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Red, Starless and Bible Black, The ConstruKction of Light, The Power to Believe, THRAK
Maudlin of the Well - Bath, Leaving your Body Map
Meshuggah - Catch 33, I
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn, Tubular Bells
Mournful Congregation - The Monad of Creation
Mutiilation - Remains of a Ruined, Dead, Cursed Soul, Vampires of Black Imperial Blood
Nargaroth - Black Metal ist Krieg, Herbstleyd
Pelican - Pelican EP
Reverend Bizarre - Slave of Satan single
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Sunn O))) - Flight of the Behemoth
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Ulver - Bergtatt
UK - UK
Xasthur - A Darkened Winter EP, Nocturnal Poisoning, Suicide in Dark Serenity EP, Telepathic with the Deceased, The Funeral of Being
Yes - Close to the Edge

does anyone else maintain a list like this?

I have a 20 GB iPod. So I organized mine into albums. I'm thinking about making a play list like that though, that way I get a variety.

I don't have an MP3 player. CDs all the way for me.

Caveman.

On my iPod mini, I have:

Aborym - With No Human Intervention
The Axis of Perdition - Deleted Scenes...
The Berzerker - World of Lies
Brutal Truth - Extreme Conditions...
Brutal Truth - Need to Control
Brutal Truth - Kill Trend Suicide
Brutal Truth - Sounds of the Animal Kingdom
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metalicus
Cathedral - The Garden of Unearthly Delights
Cephalic Carnage - Anomalies
Cephalic Carnage - Lucid Interval
Coroner - No More Color
Craft - Terror Propaganda
Dead Can Dance - Aion
Dead Can Dance - Serpent's Egg
Dead Can Dance - Spleen & Ideal
Dead Can Dance - Within The Realm...
Dragonlord - Rapture
Extreme Noise Terror - Being and Nothing
Extreme Noise Terror - Damage 381
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Gorguts - Obscura
Heathen - 2005 Demos
Isis - Oceanic
Isis - Panopticon
Jesu - Jesu
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
Kreator - Coma of Souls
Krieg - The Black House
The Meads of Asphodel - Damascus Steel
Neurosis - Times of Grace
Overkill - Years of Decay
Pelican - Australasia
Pelican - Pelican
Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
Sigh - Gallows Gallery
Sigh - Hail Horror Hail
Sodom - M-16
Sunn O))) - Black1
Velvet Cacoon - Genevieve
Yob - The Unreal Never Lived.

8)

This is on my Ipod Nano atm:

...and Oceans - The Symmetry of I, the Circle of O
...and Oceans - AM GOD
...and Oceans - Cypher
1349 - Beyond the Apocalypse
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
Borknagar - Borknagar
Borknagar - The Olden Domain
Burzum - Filosofem
Emperor - Wrath of the Tyrant
Falkenbach - Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty
Finntroll - Midnattens Widunder
Zyklon - World ov Worms
Zyklon-B - Blood Must Be Shed
Gorgoroth - Destroyer
Green Carnation - Journey to the End of Night
In the Woods... - A Return to the Isle of Men
Korpiklaani - Voice of Wilderness
Kovenant - Nexus Polaris
Kovenant - Animatronic
Myrkskog - Superior Massacre
Old Man's Child - In Defiance of Existence
Opeth - all albums
Ragnarok - Blackdoor Miracle
Sargeist - Satanic Black Devotion
Satyricon - The Shadowthrone
Satyricon - Nemesis Divina
Taake - Hordaland Doedskvad
Theudho - Wurdiz
Vagtazo Halottkemek - A Semmi Kapuin Dorombolve
Ved Buens Ende - Written in Waters
Woods of Infinity - Ljuset

I've heard too much stuff about how bad iPods are to get one. Wouldn't mind a Creative one, though, one I can fit every album I own on.

Yeah I'm thinking about buying a 30 or 40 gig one. The size aspect doesn't really bother me, they aren't much bigger than the minidisc player I've been using for 4-5 years now.

To me, there's no point getting one unless it's a biggie. I could just as easily get an MP3-CD player and burn a couple of CDs. A lot cheaper, and easier to replace. iPods are, after all, just the new fad. Still, it saved Apple from fading away completely, which as an ex-Mac user is a good thing.

You realise when I say size I mean length/breadth/depth, ja?

30-40 gigs is plenty space for me.

Oh, aye. Just making the point.


That's how many albums, btw? Would suck to get one then have to leave an album out.

depends on the bitrate. at 128kbps a 50 minutes album takes up around 45Mb. but some people can't stand 128kbps.

Best quality, of course.

best quality is pretty ambiguous thanks to all the different audio codecs.. using the same LAME codec as I did for the 128kbps, a 320kbps mp3 would obviously be 2.5 times as big, so like 132.5Mb, derf derf, but then there's AAC and AAC+, OGG, monkey's, musepack etc even before we begin to talk about variable bit rate.

I just use 128kbps because I'm not proud and my ears are too fuxed at this point to distinguish anything higher..

I have no idea what you just said. How amny can you fit on at 128kbps?

EDIT: lizardtail tells it better

ok, everything on the list I made above is at 128kbps, together has a duration of 43 hours and takes up around 2.3g. so a 40g player can take about 750 hours - a month of music - @ 128kbps. probably even more.. my player is billed as 2.5g but some of the space is already taken by hidden stuff so I can't be all that accurate.

I recently evolved from caveman to ...?... something else, as I bought a MP3-player two weeks ago or something like that. I just put music on it along the way, since I have to rip my records to my computer to put them on the player and that takes quite a while. Right now I have the following on it:

Alcest - Le Secret
Angantyr - Sejr
Arcturus - Aspera Heims Symfonia
Astrofaes - Those Whose Past Is Immortal
Bekhira - L'Élu du Mal
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss, Filosofem
Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky, Under A Funeral Moon, Transylvanian Hunger, Panzerfaust
David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice
Drudkh - Forgotten Legends, Autumn Aurora, The Swan Road
Enslaved - Vikingligr Veldi, Hordanes Land
Forest - As A Song In The Harvest Of Grief
Hate Forest - Purity, Sorrow
Hellhammer - Apocalyptic Raids
Kashmir - The Good Life
Kreator - Coma Of Souls, Extreme Aggression
Larry Graham - The Jam: The Larry Graham & Graham Central Station Anthology
Leviathan - Tentacles Of Whorror
Make A Change... Kill Yourself
Massemord - Skogen Kaller
Mew - Frengers
Nargaroth - Herbstleyd, Rasluka pt. II
Nokturnal Mortum - Lunar Poetry, NeChrist
Samael - Worship Him
Sarcofago - I.N.R.I.
Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times
Sodom - In The Sign Of Evil, Obsessed By Cruelty, Agent Orange
Sombre Chemin - Doctrine
Sort Sol - Circle Hits The Flame
The Doors - s/t, L.A. Woman
The Raveonettes - Whip It On, The Chain Gang Of Love
Tormentor - Anno Domini
Ulver - Bergtatt, Nattens Madrigal
Velvet Cacoon - Genevieve
Wolfslair - Odin (Midtsjællandsk War-Metal hehe..)
Wyrd - Rota

Do any of you know how to rip vinyls? I would love to have some of my vinyls as MP3's...

I don't have a mp3 player :oops:

but my computer at work is loaded with 100+ fine albums !

I was going to buy an mp3 player but then I decided to buy an cd-mp3 player and keep the rest of the money (which is a lot).

Here's what I've got with me today.

Anal Nathraakh - The Codex Necro
Bethlehem - Sardonischer.. , Dictus Te Necare
Burzum - Filosofem, Hvis.. , Aske , Det Som...
Cryptopsy - OwN
DO - Kenose, Si Monvmentvm...
Drudkh - The Swan Road, Autumn Aurora
Edge of Sanity - Crimson II
Forest of Fog - Rabenflug, Nebelhymnen
Krieg - The Black House
Nokturnal Mortum - Lunar Poetry
Vital Remains - Dechristianize
Wintersun - Wintersun