kargatron
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(Quote) Very cool. In light of the sale, I'll plug this mammoth, inventive, unpredictable and wide-ranging set from pianist Matt Mitchell and drummer Kate Gentile, with lots of guests: in Flash Bandcamp Sale Comment by kargatron June 17
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> the downward spiral is continuing?
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Devastating: the great person, trumpeter, and composer Dennis Gonzalez died yesterday.
https://www.facebook.com/stefan.gonzalez.146/posts/1433128507104… -
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Yeah, CRYONIC CHANTS is great - I think we have bn to think for that, been a while tho.
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I meant population (of library), so 2. 164 comes from the unique set of playcounts? That doesn't seem very illuminating by itself. In the same vein maybe a list of top 10 playcounts would at least illustrate your peak relistening habits? My 10th hig…
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That's literally 20x the size of my or likely anyone else's lib here. :-P Have you managed to actually tag it all correctly??
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9y later update, no surprises really:
Tracks: 66k
Size: 600GB
Median track length: 4:25
Median year: 2002
Median track plays: 5
% of library with no plays: 0.6%
Listened to 55% of the lib in the last 2 … -
Btw, I still like this idea, and this thread is old - will be interesting to see what's changed when I have a chance.
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omnifoo, I just noticed I never responded to you. Median I get from copying lib contents (if applicable) into a playlist, which is always numbered. Then just sort and go to mid-way by track count.
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A Tribute to Peter Rehberg (NYOP)
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Gp, not knowing more, it *sounds* like iTunes is trying to play cloud tracks (even if you have local copies), and you're not logged into your account (if applicable), so it's playing online samples. Some configuration setting may be relevant, hard t…
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https://reggieworkman.bandcamp.com/album/summit-conference is quite good, just check out the band:
- Reggie Workman: Bass
- Andrew Hill: Piano…
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(Quote) Steve's an old friend of mine from the early 90s - he's a wonderful and generous listener, writer, and arts advocate.
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My comment is more a reflection of using the car as a forcing function to listen to CDs and benefitting from that. My recent cars are all old, with no aux-in or better, so my only option for phone play is using one of those bluetooth/FM transmitters…
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Huh, I never thought about new cars lacking CD players. That's a drag, I actually like listening to CDs in the car sometimes because I do so rarely at home. No biggie, just hadn't occurred to me about car stereo evolution and market in that respect.
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last.fm year overviews are up: https://www.last.fm/user/vkargatis/listening-report/year
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These are audio or mp3 CDs? Audio only uses CD-Text, right? Could there be inconsistency in how CD-Text is burned? If mp3 and you've compared files, then sounds like player bugginess.
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I'd guess there are some deep values differences there, and I'm not quite up to trying to suss them out. But the logical extreme of it seems deeply anti-humanistic to me, imagine requiring that all ideas be owned by some legal entity or another for …
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"Columbia invested considerable funds in Kind of Blue"
Of course, and copyright exists to protect that investment and allow the ability to recover it. You're offering that as a response to my post implies to me that nothing ever move from… -
I see two versions of Kind of Blue, for example. A reminder that these are copyright free second generation copies; no royalties are being paid to the Davis estate.Concern about contemporary artists and labels not getting pa…
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The image I refer to I think (after looking) is only available to subscribers ($3/mo). Basically, though, it spends 10 seconds displaying one of three stats collections, damn annoying.
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https://www.last.fm/user/vkargatis/listening-report/year for me. I'm trying to get used to the UI update. Not a fan of the "rotating" artist/album/track stats imag…
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The recent thread "Pruning your hard drive" reminded me of this old thread.
A couple factoid additions (not bothering updating above stats):
How fast do you "cycle through" your library? One fast measure is the median last-pla… -
"if you say that if one doesn't donate to the "highest value" charity target, it's in the "probably immoral" category"Heh, I certainly didn't claim "probably"!
in Music Access Moral Continuum (Please rank yours!) Comment by kargatron May 2020
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"I wonder if someone could commit a noble but immoral act"
Hm, that strikes me as pretty easy, since both are distinct value judgments. Seems trivial to think about acts many would consider noble that violate utility, for example. In fact… -
Bobby's put one of his best/classic records for NYOP.
https://bobbyprevite.bandcamp.com/…
(Quote) It's a significant artistic effort, for sure. Over 20 hours of music and counting, like, he's speculating 200-odd submissions! It's hard to keep up!
Penguin emblem was courtesy of Yuko Zama, creator of the wonderful new-mus…Hal Willner died of COVID same day as Prine. Only 64.