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[edit] New owner of MP3 player ..... how do I calculate how many songs "fit" into it using 128kbps setting to record on a 521 mb player ??????

If I store stuff at 128 kbps on a 512 mb player. What should be my normal capacity? I only got 10 songs stored on here. Maybe it's reading it wrong - since it came from a file I made on my PC but it seems like only a few songs - compared to what I thought it would hold. It's an e100 Sansa SanDisk product and it also can handle SD cards plugged into it's side for more playing capacity. Up to 4 G. What am I doing wrong????? I've searched the site at SanDisk and here but am not finding what I need to learn more with. TY for any help you can provide !!! Newbie Girl

Well, a 512MB player holds about 488.28125 MBs. That's enough to hold...
  • 31,250 seconds of music encoded at 128kbps, or
  • 12,500 seconds of music encoded at 320kbps.
31,250 is 520.83 minutes of music, or 8.68 hours.
12,500 is 208.33 minutes of music, or 3.47 hours.
So unless your songs are about .35 hours (20+ minutes) long each, you should be able to fit a lot more than 10 songs on there. Are you sure it's not 64megs? Or maybe there's other files taking up that room? --Wirbelwindヴィルヴェルヴィント (talk) 01:47, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
I have always calculated 1 megabyte=1 minute of music for reasonable estimations. 512 minutes is about 8 h 32 min. (Similar to Wirbelwind's calculation, but in base 60, instead of base 10. ) 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (< \) (2 /) /)/ * 08:20, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

TY for your replies. I will take it from here. I KNEW something wasn't right !!!!

Well, good thing you aren't using FLAC. :) --Proficient 23:40, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ugly Americans

I want to know about ugly americans (band)?Kimention 05:21, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

They don't seem to be notable enough to have an article on Wikipedia at this time.--SeizureDog 07:19, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Too ugly or too American? Clarityfiend 08:39, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
They have released four CDs, but they are on what I assume is a minor label (Zomba). I figure that 4 CDs is enough to get a shot at an article, so Ugly Americans (band). --Kainaw (talk) 12:33, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Actually the number of CD's doesn't matter that much. Per the music notability guidelines, if they've been featured in multiple non-trivial reliable sources that's enough Nil Einne 20:20, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
I don't know if Zomba Music Group is such a minor label, but the official Zomba site doesn't mention anything. 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (< \) (2 /) /)/ * 21:26, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
And if they haven't moved to Zomba for their fourth record, the information about them belonging there seems to be incorrect, according to allmusic.com . 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (< \) (2 /) /)/ * 12:48, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 1950's movie

There is a movie made in the '50s about a boy who has been kidnapped or is running from someone because he saw them commit a murder or something like that and it ends with the boy hiding in a cave or hole or crevasse on the side of a cliff in the desert. He gets rescued but it was scary ... you never knew if he would get away or not. Anyone know the name of this film? Diligent 07:08, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I think I know what movie you're talking about, but I can't recall the name. I remember reading a book in high school where most of the story takes place in the desert, including the boy killing lizards, leaving them in the sun, and then eating them. There was a black and white movie based on the book as well, which has to be what you're looking for. I'm trying to remember the name. --Wirbelwindヴィルヴェルヴィント (talk) 08:20, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Did the boy have a sister? If so, it might be The Night of the Hunter (film) with Robert Mitchum. --Mathew5000 20:48, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Toora Loora Loora lullaby, where is it from

The lyric goes; "Over in Kilarney, many years ago, me mother sang a song to me in tones so sweet and low. Just a simple little ditty, in her good old Irish way, and I'd give the world if she could sing that song to me this day.

Too-ra-loo-ra-loo ral too-ra-loo-ra-li, too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, Hush now don't you cry!

Too-ra-loo-ra-loo ral too-ra-loo-ra-li, too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, that's an Irish lullaby."

An mp3 here

Where does it come from? Who sang it (other than Care Bears)? DDB 08:42, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

  • It was written by James Royce "Shannon" (see here). The song was popularized by Bing Crosby.--Pharos 09:22, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral and James Royce Shannon got em. Thanks Pharos DDB 10:39, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] blank pages in novels

hi all, why are there some novels that have several (usually around 6) blank pages at the end of the book? thanks195.188.254.82 13:20, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Books are commonly made of several smaller books or sections with the spines of those books sewn or glued together. They hold up best if all the sections are of similar size. The other half of those pages are 10, 20, etc. pages before the end of the book with printing on them. The sections are most easily seen in text books due to the binding method that they use. Dismas|(talk) 13:24, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
(after edit conflict)It will be something to do with the printing and binding process. As I understand it most books are bound together in sections which have a fixed number of pages. If there isn't enough text to cover all the pages, some blanks at the end will result. --Richardrj talk email 13:25, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

thanks guys/gals195.188.254.82 13:37, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

See Bookbinding; the "groups" of pages are called signatures.
Atlant 16:24, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] please name this animated short film described here?

It was possibly featured in an "animated film festival" type montage/feature thingy (perhaps)?, sometime around the mid to late 1970s (perhaps)? It is possible that __name_unknown__ came out around the same time as Closed Mondays (film). It might have even appeared alongside it. A quick description follows:

    A man is depicted hunting butterflies. He is running around catching them in his
    handy little net. He catches them and then takes them home and sticks pins in
    them, fastening them in a little display case. 
    
    One day while the man is out hunting with his net, the most glorious and lovely
    butterfly ever seen appears to him. Its wings shimmer with radiant and constantly
    changing hues. Angels (or sirens?) can be heard singing in the background whenever
    it appears. The man is enraptured and chases after it, trying to catch it, until
    he finally becomes exhausted and collapses on the ground. 
    
    The butterfly then gently swoops down to the man's body, carefully lifts him off
    the ground and flies back to some cave somewhere, abruptly throwing the 
    man's body against a spike-covered wall, filled with the corpses of dead
    butterfly hunters.
    
    The end.

Can anyone name this short animated film? Thanks. NoClutter 20:39, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] please name this comic strip described here?

This was a one-time comic strip that appeared in an unkown book somewhere around the mid to late 1990s. The name of the book is unknown, but the book was basically a collection of comics from different authors, each of which was in the "counter-culture" or "alternative" style that you might find in an Alternative weekly. Not much more is known about this except a description of the strip itself, which follows:

   A man is depicted walking along wearing the staid 1950s style suit and hat 
   (e.g., [Image:Beleyesbogey.jpg]) against a totally white background. The
   man's walk changes to a steady gait, gait to a jog, jog to a run, and run
   to a full blown sprint, his hat flying off in the process. Suddenly, he trips
   over something and his body flies through the air. Transforming into a blob
   in mid-air, and then finally landing on the ground as some little black
   creature with nothing except two legs, a mouth and two eyes.

   The creature opens its mouth, and another identical creature jumps out.
   This happens again and again until the frame is full of these creatures.
   The creatures then form villages in their mouths, which turn into 
   towns, which turn into cities, and the cities are connected by highways
   that go from mouth to mouth. Then, one of the cities sends a missle to 
   destroy another city, and the cities start bombing each other into rubble.

   In the final frame, a man can be seen walking out of the dust cloud, 
   looking back at the rubble. He is wearing the staid 1950s style suit with
   an expression on his face like "what was that?"

Can anyone name this comic strip or the book it appeared in? Thanks. NoClutter 20:51, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Movies

I say a movie many years ago. It was a movie about a man who had to live the same day over and over again. He wakes up and finds the date has not changed. And he live away from home (I think)and it was some what like "50 First Date".I would like to know the name of the movie. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Emmanuel arthur (talk • contribs) 14:12, 13 March 2007 (UTC).

Groundhog Day? --Richardrj talk email 14:16, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
I second that. Great movie! 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (< \) (2 /) /)/ * 15:47, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Groundhog Day might just be one of the greatest movies of all time. from your description this sounds like the film - though he is working away for a weather-channel as a reporter covering, well, Groundhog day. I wonder if it 'groundhog day' is an example of a phrase that has come about purely based on the film? I know I use it to mean something that is repeating itself over and over again. ny156uk 18:01, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
The Collins English dictionary appears to say so. And as the film article itself notes, "Groundhog Day" has no other meaning in the UK. Spiral Wave 00:40, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
"50 First Dates" is about a girl who wakes up every day without memory of the previous day, slightly similar in scope to Groundhog Day. However, it is not about a man who lives each day over and over again. It is difficult to tell if the question has the plot or title wrong. --Kainaw (talk) 18:20, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
I figured he meant that this movie (asked about) is similar to "50 first dates". 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (< \) (2 /) /)/ * 18:34, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stradivarius Cremonensis Violin 1721

Hi,

I would like to know more about the Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis Violin 1721 that was found in Southern Germany in 2006 (this info posted on Wikipedia). How would I go about getting more information on this? It is extremely important to me to find how this information came about...who discovered that is was found in southern Germany and as much info as I can get. Please please help me. Thank you.

Susan —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Washington684 (talk • contribs) 20:01, 13 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Song about a King eating somebody??

Can anybody please help with identifying this song:


There is an old song - perhaps pre-1940 - about a king of the cannibals (or savages??) who eats somebody. I believe it is a 'comedy'-type song. It might have been by Phil Harris, but that's a bit of a longshot.

Part way through, there is a line something like,

"Then a missionary with a bible and a canary......"


and at the end is something like,

"It must have been somebody you ate King . Yeah, it must have been somebody you ate."

(n.b. the above post was added here Nil Einne 07:32, 16 March 2007 (UTC))

I can find two old Cannibal King songs, this one is almost 150 years old, while this one appears more of a kids/campfire song. Neither use the lyrics you quote, though. Rockpocket 06:05, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, Rockpocket, for trying.

Sincere apologies to any who may have been offended by my seeming impatience, incompetence or lack of manners (shouting). I am, as you may not have realised, something of a novice at this sort of thing; consequently I am not yet fully aware of all the etiquette, protocol etc. Thank you for your guidance. I was not, by the way, actually being impatient - merely registering that Rockpocket's response, helpful though it was, did not answer the question.

I'll learn (quickly I hope)