Oscar Wilde Fry recordings now available

[triedunture]

I just bought Stephen Fry's Oscar Wilde Fairy Tales audiobook. My first ever iTunes purchase. Oh, how I hate Apple's DRM policies. Still, it is currently the only place to get my Wilde Fry fix: http://tinyurl.com/oscarfry.

It's a giant 2 hour chunk of audio, or else I would parse out a story or two for y'all. And though I'm sure we will soon be able to find this free somewhere, I am feeling pretty free with the old green and papery. Hopefully this purchase will help keep Fry's home site afloat. (And I also donated to NaNo because their servers did do spectacular work for the amount of traffic they have, and I would like to give it another shot next year.)

Oh dear. It looks like there are some Chekhov stories available too. I don't really LIKE Chekhov...

Mmmmm.

Maybe for my birthday.

THAT REMINDS ME. I THOUGHT OF A FANTASTIC BIRTHDAY EXTRAVAGANZA FOR Y'ALL.

Tomorrow is my Fake Birthday, the birthday I always celebrate because the 2nd of December is sort of like the 20th minus a zero and a lot less Jesus. I hope to have several presents for YOU on my Fake Birthday, because that's the way Fake Birthdays work. :D



BTW: Mr Fry is in my fair city tonight. Anyone know why? As in, is there some THING I should be watching out for?

Comments

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Gosh, I had no idea he was in this neck of the woods.

And what a good idea, an Official Birthday where presents are given as well as received.

[triedunture.livejournal.com]

The Queen stole my idea???

*shakes fist in air* Damn you, Your Majestyyyyyyy!

[octopireggie.livejournal.com]

The Wildean goodness not available in the mexican itunes store >_> *pout*

[triedunture.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, sir! You're in Mexico? Oh, how sad...I mean, that your iTunes store isn't fully stocked. Not that you're in Mexico. I'm sure that's pretty pleasant.

Well, if it's still unavailable, I might be able to swing some succor your way the day after tomorrow. I'm sure you will make up for this one breach of file-sharing by heaping money on Mr Fry's other ventures.

[mxdp.livejournal.com]

Damn, I want those audiobooks.
Rofl-I actually participated to #oscarwildeday. I knooooow, sorry. But it's like the tiniest drawing EVAH so. :/

Oooh, it's your bday today! *grins*

[octopireggie.livejournal.com]

I know, *stuffed frogness* I doubt it will ever be available, such things never are D=

And absolutly would make up for it xD *will eventually purchase QI DVDs*

[triedunture.livejournal.com]

I tried to convert the locked mpeg4 to an mp3 but no dice! any ideas as to how I can send this to you?

[triedunture.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhhhh I wanna seeeeeeeeee.

[jackpy.livejournal.com]

I'm not familiar with iTunes, but there's a nifty program out there I use to steal music off of YouTube or other websites. It's a freeware program called Mp3 My Mp3 (http://www.mp3mymp3.com) , and you can direct it to record whatever you would normally hear from your speakers just as well by selecting Mono Out from the Source tab. Best to play around a bit before you record the whole thing, you don't want it to come out too loud/too quiet.

[mxdp.livejournal.com]

Well, they're somewhere on Twitter I suppose. Dunno where though. (Which is good, believe me) I should have been ashamed for posting them, but, uhm, it was 23.30 when I discovered it was oscarwildeday. :P
Yes, I do have an ecxuse for everything. ^^

[mxdp.livejournal.com]

Apparently, not even *that* hard to find. ^^

http://twitpic.com/pj9h

*SF is gonna murder me...personally. Yay!*

[mxdp.livejournal.com]

Oops-here's the first one http://twitpic.com/pivx
"Oops" indeed.

[triedunture.livejournal.com]

awwww, they're adorable!

[mxdp.livejournal.com]

You're such a sweet liar. ^^

[octopireggie.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure, perhaps jackpy's suggestion would work.

[triedunture.livejournal.com]

ARGH. I downloaded this program but the recording volume bar has something wrong with it. It's stuck at 0 and any attempt I make to pull it up to a proper level makes it shoot back to 0 in the end. And the source tab only offers Mic or CD, no Mono Out. I can't record anything. Halp?

[jackpy.livejournal.com]

That ... is really bizarre. Try uninstalling and reinstalling? Else, I'll see if I can't find another recording program.

[jackpy.livejournal.com]

This is awesome. I used to run an older version of Audacity, but this is the beta for a newer version which allows one of it's sources as Mono Out. Additionally, you'll actually be able to edit the audio as opposed to letting it run its full course.

[triedunture.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I'm running 1.3.3 right now, but I guess I should take a look at this. Now, can you perhaps explain this Mono Out business as if you were speaking to a very, very old grandmother?

[jackpy.livejournal.com]

Lulz. Mono Out records whatever sound come from your speakers. Like how Audio Out hooks a stereo up to speakers, if that makes any sense to you?

[triedunture.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, I mean how to I do it in this new Audacity? I just finished installing it.

[jackpy.livejournal.com]

*Facepalm* Sorry, Gramma. There's a drop-down menu when you open it up, right below the 6 square buttons and right to the sound adjusters. It will be preset to Microphone.

[triedunture.livejournal.com]

OH GOD, THIS IS MY WORST NIGHTMARE. I'M ABOUT TO SAY THE WORDS OF EVERY CONFUSED TECH-LOSER PARENT EVER.

"IT'S NOT THERE."

I got 2 drop down menus, both below the output and input level meters. But those are for those meters' settings. No choices about Mono or Stereo. I don't see any other drop downs.

[jackpy.livejournal.com]

Here's what it looks like for me. I'm wondering if it's a difference in systems or drivers? What operating system do you run? I'm 2k but have XP and Vista at my disposal, so I can see if the trouble might be there.

[triedunture.livejournal.com]

LOLZ @ big red circle. Yeah, I don't got that, though I'm running on XP. Here's wut I got. (http://i38.tinypic.com/2ymtw8n.png)

[jackpy.livejournal.com]

Okay. Problem probably that *Ahem* I linked you to the wrong one. 1.3.3 is good, and perhaps to be safe, exact version I used is at this drop. Installed it on a machine with XP here, should work.

[triedunture.livejournal.com]

Uh, ok, installed that version, same interface shows up. :/

Maybe Mr Fry and Apple have worked some kind of freaky magic on me that keeps me from attempting to break DRM? It just doesn't seem in the cards.

[jackpy.livejournal.com]

Close iTunes, open Audacity, open iTunes? D=

Else, how much were they? I could have a shot at it.

[triedunture.livejournal.com]

Oh balls. I just can't seem to find anything helpful in Audacity. The manual is no help either.

SIGH. I feel lame for not being able to deliver this to everyone who is suffering. It was like $15 on iTunes or something like that.

[jackpy.livejournal.com]

I know, it's terribly unfortunate. I've just stopped being stupid and will now flood you with links that you might want to try if you don't mind the extra work, else I'll see if I can purchase and get them later:

http://askbobrankin.com/convert_itunes_to_mp3_format.html

http://www.tech-faq.com/convert-itunes-to-mp3.shtml

http://www.m4p-mp3.com/

[triedunture.livejournal.com]

OK, I've heard that the CD burning method is iffy but I'll give it a shot. :(

[triedunture.livejournal.com]

ARGH. The track is too long to fit on a disc. I am officially out of ideas. I am sorry, sir! But thanks for trying to help.

[jackpy.livejournal.com]

Aw, I'm sorry I couldn't figure it out for you. I will definitely try to do it, as well.

According to your Fry's tweets...

[vdovault.livejournal.com]

...on Twitter he's in the USA until sometime in January.
http://twitter.com/stephenfry

Don't know why he's on our side of the pond though.
He did do a blog post to his own stephenfry.com on his mobile phone addiction...scary numbers of smartphones has he. Really scary.

We bloddy well better get the actors a decent contract via SAG or poor Stephen will no longer be able to afford the terrible tech monkey on his back. ~$23 bucks in residuals every 6 months is not going to keep him in hardware much less pay his monthly cell phone bills!