Please help me find and/or replace these stolen CD's

I think this is being rereleased soon, 3xCD edition with bonus disc being original remixes.

It was the Warp 10th anniversary single-disc sampler. just a promo, no big deal.

I work out at CD World in Eugene. If I see any of these titles come through, I'll let you know ASAP. You can bet I'd be on the lookout for any used NWW or Zoviet France in any case ;)

Lost, Broken and Gone

I've just had a 5O-CD wallet stolen from my bag in the office

I've just had a 5O-CD wallet stolen from my bag in the office

How much do you say your stolen, out of print, jazz CDs are worth in a police report?

I already re-bought two of the discs that I am afraid will be OOP soon (Eyvind Kang and Aeolian String Ensemble). However, the possibility of ever replacing the actual Zoviet France CD seems slim at best (barring reissues). And WTF is up with those O Yuki and V. Delay discs being impossible to find? Tragic!

The only ones I could help you with are the Star Time discs, but I see Billy Dods has already offered them. I can, however, help you out with some information about lossless audio file formats. http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/froehlich/g015.gif

FLAC is the standard lossless format used these days. Well, pretty much, anyway. I don't know why anyone bothers encoding in clunky ol' SHN anymore, but some still do. *shrug* Here is a link to an informative page about FLAC from the EtreeWiki and a link to the FLAC homepage on sourceforge. You'll find information on FLAC's features, comparisons to other lossless formats and download links for Windows, Mac and Linux there.

You can play your lossless FLAC, SHN and APE (a.k.a. Monkey's Audio—another lossless format, which compresses WAV files smaller than FLAC can) files using foobar2000, Winamp or VLC Media Player. After installing the lossless audio codecs you wish to use, you'll just need to download and install the FLAC/SHN/APE plug-ins for whichever player(s) you choose. foobar2000 is my personal favorite since it's so versatile and simple to use. It can even burn CDs (never tried that feature myself since I have Nero). Also, even though foobar2000 can decode lossless files to WAV and encode WAV to lossless, I always use FLAC Frontend to encode/decode FLAC files and Trader's Little Helper for the rest. Trader's Little Helper is a marvelous little program. I use it all the time because it can:

· Verify checksum files (md5 signature, FLAC fingerprint, shntool md5 fingerprint)
· Create checksum files (md5 signature, FLAC fingerprint, shntool md5 fingerprint)
· Test/Verify FLAC, SHN and APE files
· List audio file details
· Fix sector boundary errors
· Decode FLAC, SHN and APE files to WAV format
· Encode WAV files to FLAC, SHN or APE format

Very handy! Especially if you download/collect/trade lossless live audio recordings... like me. :)

Oh, one more tip:
If you are going to look on slsk, make sure to include "FLAC" or "SHN" in your search terms. I've found it very tough to find lossless files of specific bands or artists' music otherwise. Too many of those damn MP3s out there to clutter up your search results! http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/frech/p031.gif

Hope this info is helpful to you, sleeve.

I got my incident report from the sheriff today and will find out fairly soon whether my home insurance will cover $50 Nocturnal Emissions CDs.

On a more hair-pulling note, I just remembered another stolen disc, which is the Pop CD by Gas. Totally out of print, of course. Fuck. I forget the name of the distro that collapsed and took Mille Plateaux with it, but I hate them.

Thanks to Billy Dods for the offer of help.

This experience has convinced me that I have to back up my entire CD collection as flacs on DVDs and put them in a safe deposit box somewhere. Or at least back up the ones I take anywhere. It's ridiculous how much semi-recent stuff is out of print in these days of "everything supposedly being available."

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. Before I moved city a month ago, I boxed up my entire CD collection. Just found out my fucking junkie bitch sister stole them all, about 500 CDs. :( :( :(

More than that, probably.

this was revived earlier and is on a pretty similar groove :

Your record collection has gone and you're starting again

but i wholeheartedly echo your : 'shiiiiiiiiiiit' reverend.

Can't tell whether I'm shaking from the cold or anger tbh

man that fucking sucks.....

Any chance you can get her to cough up where she sold them to?

As if I have enough spare change at hand to buy one of them back, let alone all of them. Besides, it sounds like this happened a month ago, because my mom thought I took them with me when I moved.

daaamn that sucks

the CDs I started this thread about were found on our work site in the office, buried behind some boxes after we had a post-event cleanup. I never bring very many real CDs anywhere anymore, though.

And even if I could convince the store to give them back, they're about 200 miles away.

Damn. What the hell does your sister say about it?

You live in Portland now. Time to start buying records! (ps - sorry to hear about your loss)

Jesus Christ, 500 CDs... Very sorry to hear that. I assume you still have music (ie LPs) to listen to?

krakow: I don't know, I have very consciously not talked to her since I moved.

I have a phono back at home, but no working receiver, and probably won't at any time in the future, due to the fact that I barely used it anyway.

As of now, I'm all mp3.

"Home" meaning my parents house, north of Seattle.

I haven't bought music in physical format in about 2 years anyway, and don't really plan to in the future, but you know, it would be nice to have what I did have not fucking stolen from me by my own damn sister.

A year and a half, I guess. Last CD I bought was the Portishead joint.