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In this week's installment:

• If you want to rip music into formats compatible with the iPod and Rockbox-capable players, listen up. We detail the pitfalls to avoid and how we paid for some very poor assumptions (900 CDs later).


• Long time internet radio listeners have probably encountered the music of Andre Louis without realizing it. After over seven years of releasing music into the public domain, he has finally put a CD together that contains higher quality remasters of some of his personal favorites. The album can be previewed and purchased right here.


• Vertical Horizon has a pending album as well. Their independently produced record, "Burning the Days," will be available on September 22. You can preorder it from their website.


• We next play the Vertical Horizon single available from the band's site. I contend, and think you will agree, that it is the best example of home recording I have yet to hear.


• Karen next tells us all a delightful tale of unexpected bees that were found in her yard. An appropriate Simpsons excerpt follows.


• Ninja, a character we introduced last week, is back to share some timeless wisdom.


• Just into the second hour of the show, our two-year-old nephew unexpectedly shows up to say "night night" to both of our microphones.


• I turned said nephew into a ringtone for someone very special.


• We then introduce Old McDongle who hab a far.


• John Hughs died this week. We play a song to commemorate his movie-making career and create some potentially awful show themes.


• German pop, a lounge parody, and a smoke off make up a short musical break.


• Karen devises twilters, realtime server-side filters for the Twitter messaging service. We hope such an idea can come to pass shortly, especially as more people sign up with, and abuse, the service.


• They bet we wouldn't play this song on the radio, but we did anyhow.


• We close the show with another rare track I recovered during a massive CD ripping project earlier this week.

That does it for another show. See you next time.