In the case of just two songs, yeah, merging might be ok. Although I would still argue gapless playback would be prefered over merging.
By merging the two tracks you lose the ability to rate both songs seperately. You can't include an individual song in a playlist without the companion song. You can't easily find the beginning of the second song. You are left adding dual information in field like composer, which then makes searches for that one composer not as functional. The list goes on regarding why it is not a good solution even for just two songs.
In addition, if you have 10gigs plus of live concerts, merging them down to 800+meg files is not the way to go. There are just too many reasons why it's not a good solution.
The 10 second problem is not there anymore. A past update fixed that.
I would add to your comment that just because I want to listen to Pink Floyd's "Brain Damage" go straight into "Eclipse", doesn't mean that I want to listen to it that way everytime. Nor do I want to have to try and cut it apart if I ever only need one of those songs. Some continuous mix albums or concerts would end up being a 120+ minute track...try finding anything in that.
Classical concertos are another perfect example of something that most often would be listened to continuously, but if I were working out certain portions of the music in practice I would be most annoyed to have to fast forward to multiple minutes into the performance to find the second movement.
You are totally right, there is no way someone like James Spader would take a role he crafted in a movie and then mildly adapt it to a recurring role on a tv show. That's just crazy talk to believe that!
I am unaware if he does do the arrangements, but it would not detract from his skill if others were responsible for them. Good arrangements of bad music are still bad music. It takes quality source music to produce quality arrangements. Like the old saying says "You can dress a pig up in fine clothing, but it is still just a pig."
Ok, I won't tout prevailing opinion, but I will disagree with you.
Uematsu is an exceptionally talented composer. The themes and motifs that he created for the FF series and other games are argueably some of the better for the entertainment industry. After several years of studying music in college and still having many friends and colleagues who are professional writers/arrangers, I can say that his music would stand up in any concert hall against most of todays prominent orchestral composers.
Now, the one coveat to all of this is that Uematsu needs to arrange the works for the appropriate ensemble. For a looped track in a game that could go on forever, the game system audio tracks are great. However, for an orchestral suite, there is a lot of work involved to properly craft it to that venue.
There are some previous FF works arranged for orchestra and performed in Japan and to the average non-gamer they sound just like a Hollywood soundtrack (in the best sense of that phrase, not in the soundtrack to You Got Served sort of way). A concert of his works is completely appropriate and I applaud them for bringing quality, modern soundtrack music to our concert halls.
You know, you may be on to something there. Comparing two products that are not aimed at the same market segment. I dare not explore that further. I might find hidden meaning in my first post.
Why would someone spend $250 for 4 gigs in a iPod Mini, when I can by a brand new Dell Dimension 2400 with 40 gigs of space on it for only $400! That's only $150 more dollars for 36 more gigs of memory!
It's ridiculous that they could charge that much for something with no storage in it at all. I don't care if it's a little smaller. It's absolutely a crime that they should even insult us like this.
Well, I have to say, I boot into OS 9 a couple times a week because Finale by Coda is not available for OSX. This isn't a problem of Classic mode so much as it is of Coda in not providing software that is even mildly up to date. Finale just won't function under OSX Classic Mode and Coda doesn't care that their users are cryinng out for solutions. They are so far behind the times it's unbelievable. If any of the other music notation software starts to come close in functionality I'd switch, but until then, I'm stuck booting into 9.
I'm guessing it was something like that. If memory serves I think I thought I had actually selected a different window and wanted to open all of the documents in it, but didn't notice that the wrong window was selected. Eh, not really that important, but man was I suprised when a thousand and one things flew open in my dock.
I accidently selected my entire "Applications" folder once and hit enter. Yeah, sure did launch every single program on my computer...sure did max out the dock...sure did drag my computer to an utter halt. I just hit restart rather than try and clear that up. Seems like there are many little pranks you could do around that exploit.
Actually, they ask you *not* to only write down one resteraunt and blame it. You have to go through everything you ate and from where for the last couple of days. I don't remember how far back (maybe a week?), but it was pretty hard for me to remember all that stuff. Took quite some time too. They don't really have a good system for entering the food either. I imagine that classifying all of the food out there into easily recognizable groups is pretty hard to automate.
Last spring I had the unfortunate experience of getting horrifically ill from a local resteraunt here in East Lansing. I had just read about RUSICK2, so I signed up and headed off to use the site. Sure enough, when I searched for others who might have been ill during the same time as me I found three others who ate at the same place.
Unfortunately, the site was quite laborious and no one is really going to take the time to fill out *all* the information that they ask for. Here in East Lansing, MI almost no one has ever heard of RUSICK2. If no one knows about the site, the sampling size will never be large enough to be useful. To be fair though, it is a great idea and definitely steps in the right direction.
And on a side note...avoid the kimchee cheegae. Ugh.
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How about a game of tic-tac-toe instead?
By merging the two tracks you lose the ability to rate both songs seperately. You can't include an individual song in a playlist without the companion song. You can't easily find the beginning of the second song. You are left adding dual information in field like composer, which then makes searches for that one composer not as functional. The list goes on regarding why it is not a good solution even for just two songs.
In addition, if you have 10gigs plus of live concerts, merging them down to 800+meg files is not the way to go. There are just too many reasons why it's not a good solution.
I would add to your comment that just because I want to listen to Pink Floyd's "Brain Damage" go straight into "Eclipse", doesn't mean that I want to listen to it that way everytime. Nor do I want to have to try and cut it apart if I ever only need one of those songs. Some continuous mix albums or concerts would end up being a 120+ minute track...try finding anything in that.
Classical concertos are another perfect example of something that most often would be listened to continuously, but if I were working out certain portions of the music in practice I would be most annoyed to have to fast forward to multiple minutes into the performance to find the second movement.
You're right. Not everything on the web is real. However, there is an occasional kernel of truth.
Hey, check me out! Replying to my own post...doh!
You're right. Not everything on the web is real. However, there is an occasional kernel of truth.
Or you could just try checking google and find out that it is correct and that humans can breath liquid.
You are totally right, there is no way someone like James Spader would take a role he crafted in a movie and then mildly adapt it to a recurring role on a tv show. That's just crazy talk to believe that!
I am unaware if he does do the arrangements, but it would not detract from his skill if others were responsible for them. Good arrangements of bad music are still bad music. It takes quality source music to produce quality arrangements. Like the old saying says "You can dress a pig up in fine clothing, but it is still just a pig."
Uematsu is an exceptionally talented composer. The themes and motifs that he created for the FF series and other games are argueably some of the better for the entertainment industry. After several years of studying music in college and still having many friends and colleagues who are professional writers/arrangers, I can say that his music would stand up in any concert hall against most of todays prominent orchestral composers.
Now, the one coveat to all of this is that Uematsu needs to arrange the works for the appropriate ensemble. For a looped track in a game that could go on forever, the game system audio tracks are great. However, for an orchestral suite, there is a lot of work involved to properly craft it to that venue.
There are some previous FF works arranged for orchestra and performed in Japan and to the average non-gamer they sound just like a Hollywood soundtrack (in the best sense of that phrase, not in the soundtrack to You Got Served sort of way). A concert of his works is completely appropriate and I applaud them for bringing quality, modern soundtrack music to our concert halls.
If you select "Collapse Sections" in the preference menu-->Homepage it will place all the sections stories on the front page also.
Well, as we can clearly see from this discussion. There are several other automotive gems that might equally live up to this goal.
I, for one, think I will spend my money on llamas. They're mobile so just think of all the music they could hold...and they spit!
Eh, s'all good. Just keepin' the non-mac lovers on their toes.
Does that mean I can eat musical Altoids then? That would rock!
As a side note, since all food will be eaten in pill form in 5 years, I'm not going to eat until then either.
You know, you may be on to something there. Comparing two products that are not aimed at the same market segment. I dare not explore that further. I might find hidden meaning in my first post.
Why would someone spend $250 for 4 gigs in a iPod Mini, when I can by a brand new Dell Dimension 2400 with 40 gigs of space on it for only $400! That's only $150 more dollars for 36 more gigs of memory!
It's ridiculous that they could charge that much for something with no storage in it at all. I don't care if it's a little smaller. It's absolutely a crime that they should even insult us like this.
My error, read that as control. Man, any optometrists on /.?
Uh, no. Command-w is close window in Windows. There is no mac joke here. If it were a mac joke it would be Apple-w. Sheesh.
Well, I have to say, I boot into OS 9 a couple times a week because Finale by Coda is not available for OSX. This isn't a problem of Classic mode so much as it is of Coda in not providing software that is even mildly up to date. Finale just won't function under OSX Classic Mode and Coda doesn't care that their users are cryinng out for solutions. They are so far behind the times it's unbelievable. If any of the other music notation software starts to come close in functionality I'd switch, but until then, I'm stuck booting into 9.
I'm guessing it was something like that. If memory serves I think I thought I had actually selected a different window and wanted to open all of the documents in it, but didn't notice that the wrong window was selected. Eh, not really that important, but man was I suprised when a thousand and one things flew open in my dock.
I really don't remember what I did at the time. I just remember that everything suddenly flew open. I love errant key strokes.
I accidently selected my entire "Applications" folder once and hit enter. Yeah, sure did launch every single program on my computer...sure did max out the dock...sure did drag my computer to an utter halt. I just hit restart rather than try and clear that up. Seems like there are many little pranks you could do around that exploit.
Actually, they ask you *not* to only write down one resteraunt and blame it. You have to go through everything you ate and from where for the last couple of days. I don't remember how far back (maybe a week?), but it was pretty hard for me to remember all that stuff. Took quite some time too. They don't really have a good system for entering the food either. I imagine that classifying all of the food out there into easily recognizable groups is pretty hard to automate.
Last spring I had the unfortunate experience of getting horrifically ill from a local resteraunt here in East Lansing. I had just read about RUSICK2, so I signed up and headed off to use the site. Sure enough, when I searched for others who might have been ill during the same time as me I found three others who ate at the same place.
Unfortunately, the site was quite laborious and no one is really going to take the time to fill out *all* the information that they ask for. Here in East Lansing, MI almost no one has ever heard of RUSICK2. If no one knows about the site, the sampling size will never be large enough to be useful. To be fair though, it is a great idea and definitely steps in the right direction.
And on a side note...avoid the kimchee cheegae. Ugh.