eBay chatboard archive: Jun-25-07 to Jul-01-07 week

Posted by bjornmu   ( 935 ) on Jul-01-07 at 22:53:56 PDT   Listings
Sorry about the bold, need more coffee....
Posted by bjornmu   ( 935 ) on Jul-01-07 at 22:53:35 PDT   Listings
Paul, Polish forces in WWII? That doesn't sound right, the face value is in MAREK which I presume is Marks, which was in use until 1924.
Posted by peterc8888   ( 327 ) on Jul-01-07 at 21:31:35 PDT   Listings
Mitch

It is fun to find information on those stamps. Anyway, the first stamp from the left in the 3rd row is revenue stamp from Austria. The overprint Deutschösterreich means German-Austria.


PC
Posted by jaywild   ( 956 ) on Jul-01-07 at 21:09:32 PDT   Listings
Lynn… This is the Hanmer Guide to early US machine cancels. As you can see, mine has been through the mill.

Jim
Posted by dbenson   ( 8362 ) on Jul-01-07 at 20:50:25 PDT   Listings
Paolo,

maybe this is what you need,

http://www.answers.com/topic/a-cup-of-tea-a-bex-and-a-good-lie-down

David B.
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jul-01-07 at 20:43:11 PDT   Listings
David B.,
Thank you for looking, for detecting the cancel and for your advice!
I should have distinguished 'BEX'...I don't know what I was thinking...and this, unfortunately, already for some weeks -- funnily, somewhere I remember to have seen at least one full strike of that CDS of that post office. Perhaps, I am just so obsessed with fake cancels that I unconsciously denied the evidence.

All the best,
Paolo
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 637 ) on Jul-01-07 at 20:41:42 PDT   Listings
PC Thanks for looking. I also found Lynns last stamp there

Dave F That makes sense. I have quite a few Japanese revenues but that on is different than the rest.
Paul Thanks, I had thought it was a bogus issue.
Bjorn I see the Neder... on it now, I was thinkig it looked like the Finnish coats of arms.
Posted by billsey   ( 848 ) on Jul-01-07 at 20:27:29 PDT   Listings
Great topic Mitch, as all my stamps are packed up, pretty much, I can't show anything [I'm also at Georgia's this weekend, the stamps are in the sotrage unit in Tillamook, 3 hours drive away]. It also looks as if what I could ID are already done. The DBSR issue is a nice one, though often forged and also available in non-standard colors through the release of a bunch of trials. Somewhere in my Turkey collection I have a couple of pages showing them and the more common forgeries.
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 195 ) on Jul-01-07 at 20:23:29 PDT   Listings
jaywild A fascinating display of cancellations. What is the Hanmer's guide you refer to? Sounds like a good read. Lynn
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 195 ) on Jul-01-07 at 20:10:46 PDT   Listings
220man, peter, sayasan, stamps12345 Thank you all for taking the time to help me out.
antonius-ra Again, I really got a lot out of this topic, was able to see some things I might never have seen otherwise.
Lynn
Posted by dbenson   ( 8362 ) on Jul-01-07 at 19:55:24 PDT   Listings
Paolo,

not BFX but the small village of Bex, (they look OK to me)

The 70c. look like missing colors, if it was me I would try for a certificate and hope,

David B.
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jul-01-07 at 19:51:06 PDT   Listings
"Sitting Helvetia with sward", or "Helvetia of L'Eplattenier" (like I decided to call this Issue).

Good continuation,
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jul-01-07 at 19:46:45 PDT   Listings
Good day all!

On meeting topic, or almost, I have these following questions for Roger or anybody else regarding Swiss stamps:

1. I found these two stamps at top, 1908 Helvetia with sawrd, 70 (c) brown and light chrome yellow, in a group of about 250 pieces.
The problem is that the light chrome yellow underprint is missing on the two stamps at top (at bottom there are three normal stamps).
Not being listed as a possible variety, I suspect the yellow was taken away chemically?
Here is a detail of one of the two stamps without underground print.

2. Here are two airmail stamps out of the 1923 Issue, with a
"B.F.X." cancel dated 18.IX.24 (September 18, 1924).
I couldn't find reference about this CDS: is it real or is it fake?

TIA,
Paolo
Posted by jaywild   ( 956 ) on Jul-01-07 at 18:13:19 PDT   Listings
NOIP… As promised, here are some early machine cancels I received this past week.

Columbia repeater, LKU. This exact card is illustrated in Hanmer’s Guide, top of page 80.
Universal repeater, test use from Washington DC.
American “tiny 2”. This machine was in use for about a week. This exact card is illustrated in Hanmer, page 19.
Standard SXd-3, very scarce.
Standard Sxa-2 very rare, used for only one day.
Leavitt #27, rare.
Barr-Fyke X-7a, MCS rarity factor f, used only 4 days.

Jim
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jul-01-07 at 17:19:14 PDT   Listings
LYNN----The overprint is ADPO ZO ----ZO{Zone Ouest} was the western zone
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jul-01-07 at 17:13:14 PDT   Listings
DAVID ----Portomarka is postage due
Posted by deh3   ( 1685 ) on Jul-01-07 at 16:59:55 PDT   Listings
The first left, second row among the Montenegro (Czerna Gora = black mountain = monte negro; the Cyrillic reads Cz. Gora) is an AR (= avis de réception) stamp (Scott Hxxx), which Montenegro issued by the dozens. The stamp beside it reads Portomarka, which someone here should be able to translate (parcel post stamp?).

David H
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jul-01-07 at 16:56:53 PDT   Listings
MITCH ----To answer your question about the 5pts stamp from Tanger .It is the high value of six stamps which was issued in two different colours. It was for orphans of employees of the telegraph servive of Spain .....paul
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jul-01-07 at 16:14:00 PDT   Listings
LYNN-----The first stamp of your second scan is a Turkey revenue stamp overprinted ADPO .That stands for French Occupation of Western Lebanon {administration Dette Publique Ottomane} ,the administration of the ottoman public debt,western zone
Posted by peterc8888   ( 327 ) on Jul-01-07 at 15:47:26 PDT   Listings
Mitch

I finally find something about the 2nd stamp from the left in the 3rd row.

Polish stamp


PC
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jul-01-07 at 15:32:05 PDT   Listings
BJORNMU----Its Polish Forces in Italy during WWII
Posted by peterc8888   ( 327 ) on Jul-01-07 at 15:31:55 PDT   Listings
bjornum

I guess you mistake my post to Lynn as to Mitch.


PC
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 468 ) on Jul-01-07 at 15:17:38 PDT   Listings
Jaywild: Yeah that windows media player you have must be an older version. The ones I'm using are version 10 and 11 each on a different computer.
The trick is to change the names before you "rip" (or copy), unless the "find album info" button has identified the songs.
You might want to upgrade to a version that has those features.
I think each version is written by a different candidate for the ant hills.

I was digging through my stamps for my unknowns, so far I can't find them.
Posted by bjornmu   ( 935 ) on Jul-01-07 at 15:00:20 PDT   Listings
Argentina? No, the tall imperf grey stamp is Dutch, but I don't know kind of stamp. The one to its left is Polish, again I don't know what for.
Posted by sayasan   ( 676 ) on Jul-01-07 at 13:38:06 PDT   Listings
Sorry, sniped by claghorn.
Posted by sayasan   ( 676 ) on Jul-01-07 at 13:36:51 PDT   Listings
On reflection, make that Middlesex Water Board, or some other county beginning with M. Water supplies were localised in those days.
Posted by sayasan   ( 676 ) on Jul-01-07 at 13:35:16 PDT   Listings
Lynn


Top row right, KGVI with "MWB" is a firm's overprint for fiscal use, i.e. on a receipt. "Midlands Water Board", I'd say.

Lower row left is Armenia, unissued without a surcharge, 1921 I think or thereabouts. The surcharges are usually forged, but even the basic unissued stamps have been forged. Not sure offhand whether yours is.

mitch - Yes, the first two on the second row are part of the Montenegro issue, but are a different series - postage due, I think??? Hence the different appearance. But they always show up together.

Third row, right end - British impressed fiscal.

Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jul-01-07 at 13:35:00 PDT   Listings
Mitchell Yes, the first two in the second row are from the same issue. Look HERE and HERE too

Forgery Identification Site

Posted by greenwave4u   ( 78 ) on Jul-01-07 at 13:30:47 PDT   Listings
NOIP The joys of manual sniping, squeezed through by 2 seconds....and I know the 2 bidders I was up against. The seller's ID was wrong BTW.

http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=130128200052

Peter
Posted by dbenson   ( 8362 ) on Jul-01-07 at 13:21:11 PDT   Listings
Mitch,

I wouldn't call them rare, they sell for between $5-10 unused but used are very scarce and on cover are a king's ransom.

David B.
Posted by philatarium   ( 234 ) on Jul-01-07 at 12:42:17 PDT   Listings
Mitch: That Japanese stamp on the far right of the second row is a revenue stamp that, if I recall correctly, is for the Ministry of Education and is related to the sale of school textbooks. I believe it is one of a series.

Jim/Io You're correct that your Japanese revenue is for tobacco purposes. Again, if I recall correctly (a bigger if here), that it was the wholesale purchase of tobacco, but I could be wrong. It is one of a series.

I'm still traveling a lot right now, but hopefully when the dust settles, I can pull out my references and check relative values for you.

Sheryl: Welcome back! So good to see you and Steve here in LA. Thanks for organizing that wonderful afternoon, and thanks again to Jim for hosting!!
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 637 ) on Jul-01-07 at 12:28:24 PDT   Listings
PC Good job! Actuallly I was aware of the Chinese and Japanese as well as the Tangiers the question I had about them is what kind of stamps they are. I think the
Spanish Tangier is similar to French type Fichy issue.

he rockin good news is that of the last Romanian railway
stamp. I had always thought it was Turkish for obvious reasons knowing that it is Romanian of Turk occupation is a great help. The thing I like most in that article is that it states they are extremely rare! No doubt, as with most simply printed rarities there are probably fakes. I have three of them that I am soaking right now. I will post them later to see if anyone is familliar with the issue and
hopefully tell whether they are good or not.
Mitchell........thee excited
Posted by peterc8888   ( 327 ) on Jul-01-07 at 11:41:18 PDT   Listings
Mithc

The second from the left is the 4th is this.


PC
Posted by peterc8888   ( 327 ) on Jul-01-07 at 11:34:51 PDT   Listings
Mitch

The first from the left in the 4th row is a Spainish Telegraph stamp (1947/1948?).


PC
Posted by peterc8888   ( 327 ) on Jul-01-07 at 11:09:46 PDT   Listings
Mitch

The first from the right in the 2nd row is a Japanese stamp.

The first from the right in the 4th row is a Chinese stamp and one of the overprints/cancels is a province in China.


PC
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 637 ) on Jul-01-07 at 10:44:48 PDT   Listings
Bill C. Thanks much, now I can put them in their place. Are the first two stamps on the second row part of the set on the first row? They don't seem to fit.
Posted by peterc8888   ( 327 ) on Jul-01-07 at 10:31:51 PDT   Listings
Lynn

The third from the left in the 3rd row looks like some kind of Argentina stamp (may be tax stamp).


PC
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jul-01-07 at 10:19:08 PDT   Listings
Mitchell THe first ans seond row are Montenegro. They are the "Too Late Jubilee Set". King Nicholas ordered the set but the day they were delivered he had to flee to Paris for his life. THey were never postally used. They are the last stamps for Montenegro.
Posted by 220man   ( 152 ) on Jul-01-07 at 09:27:25 PDT   Listings
Lynn: The second from the right in the top row looks like a S&H Green Stamp from the 1950's.
Phil
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 637 ) on Jul-01-07 at 09:06:55 PDT   Listings
Here are some whats-its. The origin of many of them rather obvious but the usage isn't clear to me. The first line really has me baffled. I think they might be unissued stamps from Greece or Serbia or somewhere close.
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 195 ) on Jul-01-07 at 08:22:08 PDT   Listings
Knuden and Alec, Thank you for the assist.
I have enlarged the scans and added some more http://www.photodump.com/direct/mtndew/unident.jpg stamps.
TIA Lynn
Posted by jaywild   ( 956 ) on Jul-01-07 at 07:26:12 PDT   Listings
NOIP… In keeping with the “unknown” theme I offer this cover I recently bought. There are a number of different cancels from Pittsburgh by the same manufacturer, all very early (1870s) but nobody knows which firm it was that made them.

I will post more of the early cancels I just received later today.

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 956 ) on Jul-01-07 at 07:09:46 PDT   Listings
Sheryll & Steve…

WELCOME BACK!!!!!

Jim
Posted by knuden   ( 2291 ) on Jul-01-07 at 06:13:39 PDT   Listings
Lynn

Row 1 (from left):
"Ticket" by which you could by a book for 2 kr. Denmark
Fom Norway but can't clearly see what it is (it's not postal)
Can't see what it is.
Looks like a french revenue of a kind.
Sc. 480 (Egypt)

Row 2:
Local stamp from Hannover, Germany.
Sc. 423 (Libya)
Italian (religious due stamp??) better scan please.
Sc. O1 (Bulgaria).
Local stamp from Hannover, Germany.

Row 3:
Sc. RA14 (Lebanon)
Revenue from Switzerland?
Better scan please.
Revenue from Poland.

K.E   I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by wrd3   ( 100 ) on Jul-01-07 at 06:05:20 PDT   Listings
antonius-ra I think the weekend topic is a good one. I've been unable to scan any pages from my "Unidentified" notebook because I've been camping with the Boy Scouts this week. Hopefully I'll be able to scan some pages between mowing the lawn, setting up, cleaning and drying tents, etc. (We've had LOTS of rain in central Texas this past week, so the tents are muddy and still wet).

Bill D.
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jul-01-07 at 04:41:13 PDT   Listings
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Posted by soccers_cn1   ( 34 ) on Jul-01-07 at 04:12:04 PDT   Listings
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Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1366 ) on Jul-01-07 at 04:05:54 PDT   Listings
Greetings

and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all


jaywild
Thanks for the remarks about WavePad. I’d been trying to copy an old CD and the computer at the office keep skipping. Mine at home didn’t skip, but the Disk copy function would not leave me a playable music CD, not matter what I tried. Now I’ve got my friend a copy of their CD without all the scratches.

Anyone
Does anyone know about those WW II era images I posted yesterday?


Jim L.

member
INDYPEX 2007

is coming. :8^)
July 9, 10 & 11 at the Convention Center 500 Ballroom
 (100 South Capitol, Indianapolis, Indiana)

You can get more information at Indiana Stamp Club's Home Page
Some of the exhibits sound like they’ll be very interesting.
Posted by infla-alec   ( 545 ) on Jul-01-07 at 03:00:31 PDT   Listings
Reported my last post. Somehow half of it disappeared when I hit the post tab.
Should have appeared as ,
Griselgrum Welcome to the ebay board. If you need to you can post your question here in German. There are a few here who can translate what you ask into English if need be. This is very much an International board with people from all over the world who can help. For many English is not their native tongue but everyone is welcome here.
Worth saving this useful Multilingual Philatelic Dictionary
Posted by griselgrum   ( 51 ) on Jul-01-07 at 02:33:56 PDT   Listings
Ah..thanks.. :)
Posted by stampmad   ( 1086 ) on Jul-01-07 at 02:29:14 PDT   Listings
griselgrum Se-tenant is a joined pair of stamps of a different design.

http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://i17.ebayimg.com/06/s/000/77/36/adbe_2.JPG&imgrefurl=http://reviews.ebay.com/Guide-to-Se-Tenants-and-Catalogue-Order_W0QQugidZ10000000002389893&h=125&w=200&sz=8&hl=en&start=20&tbnid=3aonS1PFYRDLNM:&tbnh=65&tbnw=104&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dse-tenant%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

Marius
Posted by griselgrum   ( 51 ) on Jul-01-07 at 02:21:41 PDT   Listings
Hi All..
I´m from Germany and collect stamps.. now I found a word I don´t know and also can´t find in my dictonary..

What please means "setenants"?

Thanks a lot, Gg
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 78 ) on Jul-01-07 at 02:14:11 PDT   Listings
Mitchell Excellent topic keep up the good work, maybe because it's the holiday season over your side people are out and about. Here in the UK with one of the wettest June's on record having just closed and terrorist alerts everywhere, best place to be is inside with your collection:-)
To any readers/watchers who have a query and don't know how to paste a picture to the board and struggle with html, if you send me an email I will post later to day for you, but remember my time zone is GMT +1. You can find my email under member list on www.iusc.org.

Jim/Jaywild Not sure if you are running XP but if you are, upgrade to media player 11 free download on the MSN site, it will do everything for you.
cheers
Peter
Posted by 22028   ( 1617 ) on Jul-01-07 at 01:50:05 PDT   Listings
Ripping Music from CD's, well, since many years I am using successfully this freeware program...:
http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/
All you need is a good CODEC which you can find for free as well.
Posted by sheryll*net   ( 91 ) on Jul-01-07 at 00:22:04 PDT   Listings
Hi all! I arrived back in Oregon a week ago. Had to get my skates on and start on my exhibit basically straight away, so all is in disorder here and I haven't been able to read the board regularly. I haven't even looked at the photos I took!

0410e - I (ahem) fiddled with my webhost/email settings a few days ago and last night I found that I had inadvertently deleted my and the SCADS website in the process. Moral - if it ain't broke, don't fix it! Both websites are back now. Let me know if what you want isn't on there.

One of the best parts of my trip was catching up with other chat board members. You have already seen photos of jaywild and Dave F., with whom I had the good fortune to spend lunch and an afternoon in LA. Their suggestions of what else to see there were followed up over the course of the next few days. Many thanks, Jim and Dave, for your great companionship and for posting photos of our get-together on the board.

In Oz, D2 and his wife Yung were wonderful hosts at Sydney Stamp Expo. Thanks to them, we enjoyed a memorable PISC (Pacific Islands Study Circle) dinner at a restaurant in Randwick, and were grateful for their dropping us off at the railway station on both Friday and Saturday nights in the pouring rain.

In San Francisco on the way back, we had dinner with Richard Doporto (aka "anerdman") and the following day we all visited the Santa Clara ASDA show, where I picked up a bargain New Hebrides cover to France showing scarce late but legitimate use of the Port Sandwich cancel.

S2
Posted by infla-alec   ( 545 ) on Jun-30-07 at 23:56:33 PDT   Listings
Mitch Nothing wrong with the subject meeting. Of course it would be nice for others to participate more but as has been said the weather, holiday season etc all have an effect.
For the queries I had yesterday I have myself managed to find out which category to list the emphemera items. It took me a lot longer than expected because either so little similar is being listed on the ebay categories are very obscure.
Still time enough for anyone to comment on wether the covers are fancy cancels or not.

Lynn I can only id a couple of items from your scan & guess at a couple more.
Row 1 1st stamp Norwegian railway ticket ? Same row last stamp Egypt ?
Row 2 1st and 5th are German and Hannover local post stamps.
Row 3 4th stamp Poland revenue / postage due stamp ?
Pretty difficult to id some because the scan is a little on the small side. But maybe some others can help further.
Posted by peterc8888   ( 327 ) on Jun-30-07 at 23:09:25 PDT   Listings
Can someone tell the plate # of these ugly 1c Franklins?


Thanks,

PC
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jun-30-07 at 23:09:11 PDT   Listings
jaywild All I did was get the right Google search and it showed the rhapsody free download as first choice and the eBay listing was also at the bottom of the first page.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3708 ) on Jun-30-07 at 23:01:59 PDT   Listings

IO this must be my day for double entendre (spelling?) I was at the grocery today and looking at the tabloids covers while in line, one headlined,

Laura nails cheating Bush

What happened to the conventional chastity belt?

Jeff
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 195 ) on Jun-30-07 at 23:01:10 PDT   Listings
I personally like the topic, wish I could have been here sooner. These are some of my Unidentified Lynn
Posted by bradstonian   ( 1274 ) on Jun-30-07 at 22:24:28 PDT   Listings
Hi Mitchell,

I think the topic this weekend is an excellant one! I have been waiting to see what others post in the unlikely event that I would be able to help..........

My own lifetime accumulation of unidentifieds was put in a stock book and disposed of through a local auction. I would never have got round to them, now they are gone!

Martin.
Posted by jaywild   ( 956 ) on Jun-30-07 at 20:37:18 PDT   Listings
Last message was for Ant-Ra.

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 956 ) on Jun-30-07 at 20:34:04 PDT   Listings
NOIP… Perhaps third time will be the charm…

Your topics are fine. I don’t have anything to show myself that isn’t flogging a dead horse—there are a few 1¢ Franklins I have that I can’t determine the plate position for, which the board has already seen.

By all means, show some of your stuff! Perhaps when you initiate a meeting topic, post an example to get the ball rolling. Also, I think a lot of people are out enjoying the weather this weekend. The traffic on the board has been very light all day, except for me relating my troubles…

?

Jim


Jim
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 637 ) on Jun-30-07 at 20:24:34 PDT   Listings
Jim, et al I'm sorry but hopefully you guys will possibly understand what a "test" it is to come up with new meeting topics?!?!?!?
I wish you would have informed me that ripping a CD should have been this months meeting topic, I never would have guessed!

I'm sorry but i seem to enept at picking a worthy topic. Please, please, please anyone with some good ideas email me........................
Posted by jaywild   ( 956 ) on Jun-30-07 at 20:16:41 PDT   Listings
Bill C… Wow—I had no idea. I’ve looked on the iPod site (and others) and the pickens for very early bluegrass are pretty slim, or for any music outside the mainstream. I always use that song as an example of hard-to-find music. I found it on an obscure LP many years ago and copied it to my computer and then combed through it to get all the pops and hisses out of it. It is quite a pleasure to see that others are taking the trouble to resurrect this old music, which is as distinctive and “American” as any art form ever was.

That said, there are many, many bootleg recordings of old hill music that just can’t be found anymore. There was a wealth of this material on the old Napster, but those days are gone.

I hope you took an opportunity to listen to “Little Bessie”. It’s not to everyone’s taste, but for authentic you can’t beat it with a stick.

Jim
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jun-30-07 at 19:55:38 PDT   Listings
http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-BLUE-SKY-BOYS-BLUE-SKY-BOYS-RM-5-CD-BOX-SET_W0QQitemZ300125084098QQihZ020QQcategoryZ307QQcmdZViewItem
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jun-30-07 at 19:51:21 PDT   Listings
Jay Wild

Little Bessie by Blue Sky Boys on RhapsodyListen to the full-length version of Little Bessie by Blue Sky Boys on Rhapsody.com. Plus, thousands of albums, music videos, playlsits, radio channels, ...
play.rhapsody.com/blueskyboys/classiccountryremasteredcharlottencrockhillssc19371938cdb/littlebessie


http://play.rhapsody.com/blueskyboys/classiccountryremasteredcharlottencrockhillssc19371938cdb/littlebessie

There are several rippers which capture these listen files too.
Posted by jaywild   ( 956 ) on Jun-30-07 at 19:42:09 PDT   Listings
Lindy… I thought I was going crazy. The buttons at the bottom of the screen (here) show the windows that are open on my computer. It’s not part of the program—I should have trimmed that part off the image. I created the “rip” folder for use with the program that I was eventually able to use, and it was open on background while I went back into Windows Media Player.

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 956 ) on Jun-30-07 at 19:29:52 PDT   Listings
Roger… The downside of sites like the Apple site for iPod is that esoteric music is pretty hard to find. The beauty of Napster in its original incarnation was that it was possible to find obscure jewels simply because there were others out in the world that were eager to share what they had. Now that it is all strictly controlled and profit-driven, much of the creative steam has been taken out of internet music “sharing”. If you can find the Blue Sky Boys’ November 1938 recording of Little Bessie on any pay-to-download music site I will sign up yesterday!!

Jim
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 401 ) on Jun-30-07 at 19:25:34 PDT   Listings
JayJim I think Roger was referring to the little button right at the bottom of screen in the blue bar ..rip...
Posted by jaywild   ( 956 ) on Jun-30-07 at 19:13:20 PDT   Listings
Roger… I don’t see any RIP button at bottom right or anywhere on that program. I am assuming you are referring to the image I linked to.

“Rip” means (I guess) to take a track off a CD and render it available for installing on either another CD or a hard drive. I suppose the idea is to distinguish the operation from “copying”, which you can’t really do in the drag-and-drop sense with a music CD, because of the format, in this case files with cda extensions. I can drag and drop cda files, but I end up with tiny files that I can’t do anything with.

Jim
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 401 ) on Jun-30-07 at 18:35:57 PDT   Listings
ZA is the international sign of SOUTH AFRICA ZUIDAFRIKA
Posted by malolo   ( 845 ) on Jun-30-07 at 14:46:24 PDT   Listings
jaywild -
So what does the "rip" button do that is located lower right line of buttons at bottom of screen?

Does one "rip" a song when copying it, or what does "rip" mean? You guys are much too hip for me. LOL

I like drag and drop the way its' done on my wife's Apple. The only complication there seems to be the continual automatic features of Itunes that puts things where you don't necessarily want them.

Roger, off to rip some passengers.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8362 ) on Jun-30-07 at 13:18:24 PDT   Listings
Gauteng is one of the provinces of South Africa, it is part of the old Tranvaal province,

David B.
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Jun-30-07 at 13:17:10 PDT   Listings
jaywild...Your window looks different than mine, different version I suppose. Mine shows the same path as yours but the where it actually stores the file is in a subdirectory of the directory shown. The problem with searching is that the stupid thing renames the files according to options you have set up (or not) so that it may not be possible to search on the title. I assume they are trying to force you to only use their program and their interface to play music. Microsoft is quite good at doing that.
Posted by infla-alec   ( 545 ) on Jun-30-07 at 12:46:16 PDT   Listings
za could be Zambia at a guess
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 637 ) on Jun-30-07 at 12:45:17 PDT   Listings
Just Googled it. David is correct it is So Africa
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 637 ) on Jun-30-07 at 12:41:53 PDT   Listings
I could not figure where Gau is either. I thought possibly Zaire as the email address ends like so: onwe.co.za
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-30-07 at 12:39:38 PDT   Listings
As I stated previously, in Windows Media Player there are no buttons or anything else to click or engage in order to cause the selected files to be loaded onto my hard disk. Here is a view of the Windows Media Player screen. There is no “Rip” button anywhere, unless it is invisible. The “copy” button at middle top to the right merely copies the file to the Media Library, quite a useless function since it is already in the Media Library. The insoluble problem is getting it out of the mysterious Media Library.

Whoever wrote Windows Media Player banged it together without bothering to see if it would be of any use. In vivid contrast is the ease of use I found with WavePad. No copying to a “Library”, no creating a “Session”, no opaque menus, no detours into anything extraneous to what I wanted to do.

Jim
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Jun-30-07 at 12:38:46 PDT   Listings
infla-alec...I think South Africa.

jaywild...You are correct, that "one" sure makes a difference.
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-30-07 at 12:28:28 PDT   Listings
Stamphick… Um—definition 1 here might clear things up for you. While the Principal is the head of a high school, the word has other meanings, such as the use I put it to.

Jim
Posted by infla-alec   ( 545 ) on Jun-30-07 at 12:19:37 PDT   Listings
IO I'd guess Gau is in Netherlands as witpoortjie sounds Dutch.
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Jun-30-07 at 12:07:52 PDT   Listings
jaywild...The rip function is a button at the very top of the Windows Media Player window. After you rip, if you have set your options to save in My Music WMP will create a new subdirectory there named for the artist and another subdirectory under that for the name of the album and then the music file in that directory. You may not always have artist and album name known.

WMP also renames your music according to the options you have set in the rip music tab

Remember, the principal is your friend.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-30-07 at 12:03:35 PDT   Listings
Where is Gau?
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 637 ) on Jun-30-07 at 11:54:36 PDT   Listings
It's my pleasure to 5 new members to the EUSC.

Helmar Herman
UserID=Helmar
Kittery, Me
Interests=Pre-1940 world, non-US

mervyn baily
UserID=pre-1900
witpoortjie, Gau
Interests=world before 1900 including local posts ,revenues,bogus stamps

Gary STEELE
UserID=sportster
LOWER SACKVILLE, NS
Interests=Canada covers 1952 down,

Svend Waever
UserID=bicowrap
Aglantzia, Nicosia
Interests=Newspaperwrapper from before 1900
Danish Bicolored 1870 - 1905, Schleswig - Holstein

Lloyd de Vries
UserID=LloydStamps
Paramus, NJ
Interests=Modern and unusual first day covers, mostly U.S.
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-30-07 at 11:53:02 PDT   Listings
NOIP… Found the solution—Express Rip’s WavePad program. Piece of cake.

? ? ? ? ?

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-30-07 at 11:31:26 PDT   Listings
dragonstamps… I don’t think there is a “rip” function that I can find. Here are the steps I follow.

I insert the music CD in the drive. (When I open up “My Computer” and look at the drive all the files have cda extensions. They can’t be transferred from the disk using drag and drop.) Windows Media opens up and asks if I want to copy music from a CD, I click yes and a new screen opens showing the files on the CD, and the program begins “copying” them, presumably to put them into the “Media Library”.

When this finishes, all files have the notation “Copied to Library” beside them. At left of each file is a check box. I then select the files I want to copy to my hard drive, and at the bottom of the screen there is a message “7 files checked to copy to […../My Music folder]”. However there is no button to click, no menu to open, no option for choosing to copy those files anywhere! If I open the File menu there is a “Copy” option, but that just takes me back to the beginning. At the left there is a “Copy to CD or device” button which only allows copying to another CD, which I don’t want. I already have the music on a CD, I want it on my computer.

The program is telling me that the files have been copied to my Media Library, which is supposed to be located following the path named above. There is no such folder, there are no such files anywhere on the computer, and believe me I looked all morning.

Different interfaces and ways of doing things is only one aggravation. The principal one I am dealing with is that this program was designed by someone who never bothered to run through the steps and see if it actually works. Thus my thoughts about the anthills…



Jim
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 468 ) on Jun-30-07 at 10:40:44 PDT   Listings
Music software can be very frustrating. All the software writers just have to be different, so the learning curve can be steep. Even windows media player has 2-3 different versions of how to rip, burn, find items, etc.
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 468 ) on Jun-30-07 at 10:31:50 PDT   Listings
Actually if you wrote them, there won't be any info, so click on the rip tab. Insert the CD. Then go to the track info and right click on the section of track (especially album), but artist also, and edit the names you want in before you start the rip. When you've typed in all the info you can stand:), rip it.
I hope it works for you.
Posted by infla-alec   ( 545 ) on Jun-30-07 at 10:26:23 PDT   Listings
Eusc Topical Post Ok unusual for me but I have a few questions.
1. Is this a US fancy cancel ?
2. Another Fancy cancel ?
3. This is obviously some sort of US shipping freight receipt , dated 1852 but which category can I list it in on ebay ?
4. This being a Railway menu card , but again where can it be listed ? Inside is a menu with prices. That I haven't scanned yet but can do so if ones wish to see it. I also don't know which era the card is from.
5. Another railway item I have is a 1885 Kansas & Gulfline Pass Again which listing category & is it an anuual pass ?
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 468 ) on Jun-30-07 at 10:07:00 PDT   Listings
Jim if you use windows media player, and are looking for music you already ripped... Click on the library tab, then clicking on things like artist, or album, on the left will find items that don't normally show up.
I would make sure that when I rip a CD that I'm connected to the internet and that the album info shows up first before I start the rip.
I just recently ripped some great interviews with WWII veterans, and there was no album info, so that was a pain finding those files. If there is no album info, then it shows up in the unknown album file (after clicking library, then album).
Good luck.
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-30-07 at 09:33:55 PDT   Listings
Io’s house is over yo