Tulips and Musepack
Today, we went as a family to the Tulip Festival. The event is almost
over, and most of the tulips had wilted by now. But there were still
several varieties that looked fresh. The digicam in macro mode captured
images with proper depth-of-field, and the colours look great: vibrant
and exactly as in real life.
Upon downloading a few classical albums via BitTorrent, I'm quite annoyed that they're in a new format called "Musepack." This format is characterized by files with a "mpc" extension. Googling for a way to play these, all I got were message board comments like "mpc >> mp3," which was really quite useless. Eventually, I found the xmms-musepack plugin, and it seems to work, though it freezes the program at the end of every stream. I'm not generally in favour of new audio formats, even if they do sound better. Especially formats that pop out of nowhere.