So, let me get this straight, your wife had a runaway vehicle and decided to blow through toll booths and not just stop the car to save on towing?

Gee, it's a good thing that no one was trying to cross from toll booth to toll booth, or, say slowly trying to pass another car taking all the lanes so she couldn't get by them. One would think that worrying about potential pedestrians/other cars that could be hit would override the worry about the tow cost.

Perhaps, she should have, I don't know, maybe shut off the engine at the toll booth and asked for help?

It's also pretty much covered in every book about the recording industry.

See, for example:

Confessions of a Record Producer by Moses Avalon
What They'll Never Tell You About the Music Business by Peter Thall

And numerous others.

Ogg is a container, not a codec. You can put Flac in an Ogg container, just like you can put PCM/AC3, etc in an MPEG2 container. Vorbis is a codec.

Sorry, that just always annoys me :)

I'm not sure how the codecs actually encode, but I suspect that at the lower bitrate, you're getting digital distortion (very unpleasant) in addition to the analog distortion.

Most modern tape equipment has pretty much little to no track bleed/crosstalk (if properly maintained). There are way more variables that affect a tape that don't exist in the digital realm (speed, bias, tape material, wow and flutter, etc).

I think you're thinking of tape saturation, which is something entirely different.

I'm curious about this statement.

I have an iMac which came with Tiger, have Leopard, just never installed it (so I have a valid Leopard license). Does this mean to get iLife and iWork I need to go to Leopard, then to Snow Leopard?

Twitter/Facebook down, recession declared over.

Coincidence? I think not...

You might have to go to the Pure Data solution anyway as Cycling '74 is discontinuing Max/MSP

Coke, perhaps?

I've done 36 hours on, 4 off for a week when I was way younger (this was during internet time, and without drugs). It's the reason I left IT.

But I've known cokeheads who can do 3-4 days easy.

I don't disagree with your sentiment, just pointing out a factual error. S/PDIF (which stands for Sony/Phillips Digital Interconnect Format), most assuredly does contain drm

AES/EBU, the open standard you're thinking of (of which S/PDIF is a subset) does not.

That's a pretty good description of ducking. Although since the OP wanted to entirely mute the audio, s/he'd be better off using a limiter or a gate.

A limiter is a compressor with more than 20:1 reduction. A gate is (sort of) a compressor with an infinity:1 ratio.

And, if you didn't want to pay for a compressor/limiter/gate, you could probably figure out a way to get Ardour to do it.

But muting the speakers is probably the easiest way.