Nine Inch Nails - "Year Zero" -- My 5.1 Surround Project

Original Post(modified): At first I was pretty disappointed that "Year Zero" was not released in 5.1 surround sound right away. Now I'm actually pretty glad, as it inspired me to work on a 5.1 version of the album myself, its been fun and a good learning experience. Back then I went through a long process of getting the Macintosh OS X installed on my PC so I could play around with the GarageBand files Trent provides on his site. I have since moved onto Ableton Live within windows which makes the process significantly faster.

I still have finishing touches to do on the ones I have released so far, but I think they are pretty good the way they are too. After my first couple songs I was listening to the official version of "The Downward Spiral" in 5.1 and realized I need to remove the drum beat from the rear speakers altogether for them to sound more official. Aside from fixing that with the first couple songs, theres only a few minor things I know I intend to change.

The individual songs are in Dolby Digital *.ac3 format, and with the right codec they will just play in windows media player through analog or spdif. Of course they wont help much unless you have at least 4.0 surround on your computer or unless you wanted to make a dvd-video yourself. If you are a fan of NIN and you're able to check them out, I don't think you would regret using the bandwidth.

Update(11-26-07): Long overdue beta2 of my DVD released, grab it from megaupload. Features the correct version of "Vessel" that was previously available in a patch for beta1, a much better version of "The Beginning of The End," and previously unreleased "God Given." Total of 7 tracks. I will have the pre-formatted Ableton Live versions of the remaining 9 tracks and looking forward to working on those :)

Update(7-20-09): I just started working on this project again. Going to do most of them from scratch mainly because I lost my source files, and they will be more consistent with each other in a few ways(higher bitrate for one). I finally have all the multi-track files in Ableton Live format, and too much free time on my hands lately, so I'm hoping to have the whole CD done within a few months. To start off, I worked on "Meet Your Master" a few hours ago and have added it to the list of ac3 files below. If anyone would like to be notified of updates to this project, email me and I will add you to a notify list.

Update(11-20-09): I guess I lied about getting the rest done real soon, and I no longer have a shit-load of free time, but I am still hoping to have it all done eventually.

Here's the latest version of each individual *.ac3 file:
Capital G: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VR24NTA8
Me I'm Not: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=19EKAIQO
Survivalism: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4SA0F306
My Violent Heart: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7EHTQ70J
Vessel: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E9Q16L32

Meet Your Master: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AS59CMG8

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Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero[AC3 5.1]beta2-GW99

Just decided to release a second beta of my Dolby Digital 5.1 "Year Zero" DVD...

7 tracks so far...

Changelog:
beta2
-fixed wrong version of "Vessel" in beta1
-much better version of "The Beginning of the End"
-updated to include previously unreleased(by me), "God Given"

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NYC toddler survives 20-foot fall

Associated Press
Fri Nov 23, 12:25 PM ET

NEW YORK - A toddler who crawled out a third-floor window during his family's Thanksgiving festivities and fell onto a store roof not only survived — he didn't even break a bone.

Brandon Priebe said his 14-month-old son, Bradley, tumbled from a bedroom window in his aunt's Brooklyn apartment on Thursday. His relatives said they thought the window was closed.

Bradley fell about 20 feet onto the roof of a music store next door, police said. Priebe told police that his son wasn't seriously injured in the fall. The boy was in stable condition later Thursday at a local hospital, where no update on his condition was available early Friday.

"It's a miracle," said Anna Priebe, the boy's mother.

Source: Yahoo! News

Nine Inch Nails' "Year Zero" finally on the net!

I knew trent planned on getting this out there before the release date, wasn't quite expecting it to show up on the offical website for free though. I had been searching at least twice a day for the past few weeks or so and the wait is finally over. Friggin awesome...

A link from yerzero.nin.com: LISTEN!
Lyrics: metrolyrics
Torrent users: Get it in mp3 format, 256kbps

Tot found high on coke at preschool

ASSOCIATED PRESS

JACKSONVILLE — A toddler was being treated for having cocaine in her system after workers at her church preschool noticed the girl acting unusual, authorities said Wednesday.

The unidentified girl, who is between 18 and 24 months old, was taken to the hospital by her parents after workers at Promise Land Preschool at First Baptist Church of Mandarin noticed she would not eat and was unsteady on her feet Monday, according to a report from the Jacksonville Sheriffs Office. The girl was expected to be fine.

The toddler’s parents tested negative for cocaine, authorities said. Authorities also could not link the drugs to the church, the Rev. Steve Newbill told The Florida Times-Union.

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Full story: BreakingNews(floridatoday.com)

2-year-old allegedly shoots father

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minneapolis police are trying to find out how a 2-year-old boy allegedly ended up with a gun and shot his father. The 24-year-old man walked into Abbott Northwestern Hospital last Saturday with a gunshot wound to his arm. The man told police that his 2-year-old son had taken the gun from his mother's purse and fired it at him.

"I cannot think of the last time a 2-year-old was involved in a shooting," Lt. Amelia Huffman, a police spokeswoman, said Tuesday. "It's a pretty rare thing, thankfully."

Huffman said the 22-year-old mother was home but not in the room at the time. A 4-year-old child also was in the house, but there was no other witness to the shooting.

Police were investigating whether there was any child endangerment, since the 2-year-old apparently was able to reach a gun. No was arrested or charged.

The type of gun involved wasn't disclosed.

However, Joe Penaz, who teaches local gun safety classes at gun clubs and gun stores, said that it was possible for a small child to fire a gun if it was an automatic, which are as light as 7 ounces.

"Women seem to gravitate to small automatics," he said. Penaz said he carries an automatic that requires only 16 ounces of pressure on the trigger to fire.

Huffman said the incident underscores the importance of safety when a gun is in a household. "If you keep a firearm, keep it locked up," she said.

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Original source: cnews

Court strikes down Internet porn law

POSTED: 4:10 p.m. EDT, March 22, 2007

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A federal judge on Thursday dealt another blow to government efforts to control Internet pornography, striking down a 1998 U.S. law that makes it a crime for commercial Web site operators to let children access "harmful" material.

In the ruling, the judge said parents can protect their children through software filters and other less restrictive means that do not limit the rights of others to free speech.

"Perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if (free speech) protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are chipped away in the name of their protection," wrote Senior U.S. District Judge Lowell Reed Jr., who presided over a four-week trial last fall.

The law would have criminalized Web sites that allow children to access material deemed "harmful to minors" by "contemporary community standards." The sites would have been expected to require a credit card number or other proof of age. Penalties included a $50,000 fine and up to six months in prison.

I found this via: neowin.net
Full story: CNN.com

Video Game Decency Act returns

By Brendan Sinclair Special to CNET News.com
Published: March 21, 2007, 9:31 AM PDT

The Video Game Decency Act of 2006 was one of a handful of pieces of proposed federal legislation that failed to get traction in Congress last year. But it is by no means an abandoned issue.

Much as Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., did with the recently resurrected Truth in Video Game Rating Act, the legislator behind the Video Game Decency Act is taking a second crack at the idea by resubmitting a functionally identical version of the bill to Congress.

As reported by GamePolitics.com, Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., last week introduced the Video Game Decency Act of 2007 to the House of Representatives, where it was quickly referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. The bill aims to criminalize any attempt to obtain a less-restrictive age-related rating on a game by failing to disclose the game's true contents to the Entertainment Software Rating Board.

... Shortly after the Oblivion re-rating, the ESRB revealed that it already has the power to fine companies as much as $1 million for not disclosing objectionable content. The board has also said it could punish repeat offenders by refusing to rate their games at all, effectively preventing their games from being carried by major U.S. retailers.

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Full story: News.com

Hackers Promise Month of MySpace Bugs

Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
Friday, March 16, 2007 06:00 PM GMT-08:00

They won't divulge their real names, they call their project a "whiny, attention-seeking ploy," and they appear to take their fashion cues from Beastie Boys music videos.

But two hackers going by the names of Mondo Armando and Müstaschio promise to begin disclosing security vulnerabilities in MySpace, News Corp.'s popular social networking site, every day next month.

"The purpose of the exercise is not so much to expose MySpace as a hive of spam and villainy (since everyone knows that already), but to highlight the monoculture-style danger of extremely popular websites," wrote Mondo Armando in an e-mail interview.

"We could have just as easily gone after Google or Yahoo or MSN or IDG or whatever. MySpace is just more fun, and is becoming notoriously [obnoxious] about responding to security issues," he said.

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Full story: PC World