whine-fi

went to hook up my listening rig at work to get some... uh... listening... done, but the ihp wouldn't play my gorram knights of cydonia! so i copied it to my windows box, downloaded itunes, hooked the DAC up via usb, and went to a-listen.

sounded rather crappy. i'm sure i missed some windows setting some place to turn off "crapify the sound", but if i may pontificate, i shouldn't have to dig for it. dare i say that on the mac, it "just works"? on the mac, it "just works". sure, there's a setting i'm sposed to check, but guess what? by default it's set to "don't crapify the sound".

not only that, but on the mac, i use toslink. on the windows peecee i had to use usb, which means: pops and cracks. sigh. that's what happens when you share your bus.

get off my bus, you stinking non-audio bits!

it turned out, sadly, that there are bad sectors on the ihp's drive. i'm not exactly sure why itunes could play the song copied *off* of the bad sectors while the ihp could not. however, i seem to have fixed it, and tomorrow i can groove to dragonforce pop-free.