kargatron
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Nothing to add, but: Seconded. But this was useful, I hadn't grabbed Fly By Night yet, had forgotten about it, so grabbed from amie now.
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Another good one is American Bandstand on Songlines from 2000 (now renamed Forever I think because of some Dick Clark-related legal thre…
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Jonah, here's a great record of early recordings (a few years before Bring Yr Camera and Miracle Mile):
in Wayne Horvitz Comment by kargatron February 2010 -
There is at least one anomalous old thread (some lyric thread) that I've seen resurrected, figured that's a one-off bug kind of error. Never seen a range of threads that could be bumped past expiration. Finding old threads just requires googling, …
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Jonah, that's the longest-standing, most severe complaint about the emu message boards I know. It severely hampers the potential for constructive discourse, in that it forbids bumping of older but good, useful threads. I've begged for a change of …
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(Quote) Jonah, is this your "subtle baiting" version by misspelling his name consistently?
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None of the above. Threads a certain age just fade off the list display, though they exist in the database and will return on search results. The only thing happening is lower traffic.
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At the moment, Grizzly Bear's Veckamitest, and moments before in the car, part of Steve Reich's Works box nabbed for 12 credits. But in general, there's always
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Of course they'll be highly subjective, but that's not relevant to the assumptions of my test: that (simple) "pleasure" is decently measurable by this time with the right equipment, and a statistically significant sample (1000-1500 is a typical poli…
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I find the least-wanted painting far more palatable, though the Washington figure in the most-wanted is a good laugh. Anyway, that Dave Soldier thing is a riot - hear them in full at in What is the perfect pop song? Comment by kargatron January 2010
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Dr. Mutex, I said "randomly sampled", not "AARP-sampled"!
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I think I'm comfortable with the objective criteria of hooking up (EEG or MRI, whatever works) a thousand randomly sampled individuals (from a western culture), and measuring the cumulative pleasure hearing candidate songs induces. The winner would…
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The Beatles' (Harrison's) "Here Comes the Sun" is what first pops into my mind with the question.
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Doofy, you may not care too much about "live updating", but you may still enjoy it, if, for example, you would rather not rehear something you heard very recently. You could put 'not heard in the last 3 days' or similar on your recently-added playl…
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And the Complete Atlantic Mingus is still 12 credits, for some of the classicest of classic jazz around. Seriously, if anyone is still sleeping on that (which, granted, includes very few jazz fans), grab it.
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Fan or not, anyone lucid about cognitive bias should be skeptical about recently heard recordings placed in long-term "best of" or "essential" lists - and that's irrespective of how one eventually judges it. That's all I'm saying.
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Definitely the wiser choice imo, thom - I think Big Time as a record is ok, but really just a dollop of gravy on top of the essential trilogy, and Bone Machine is Waits' masterpiece afterwards. I do really enjoy the movie Big TIme<…
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C'mon, thom, by January, the previous decade is old hat! And really, anything from the very end of a decade is pretty suspect in a list …
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In case it's not clear, lala is awesome - for anything they have (which is a lot), you can stream the full album once. Really an incredible resource. Really great for checking year end lists, or, as I've started doing, going through Tom Moon's 100…
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A 2nd gen nano? There's almost no way that doesn't do live smart playlists - I'm pretty sure mine is the same, and that's a late ipod in any case. When you sync it in itunes, before you unplug it, are there any "!" besides any playlists in the ipo…
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Jonah, should I assume lala.com is unavailable to you for streaming? This label's records can be heard in full there.
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I've never had a ipod that didn't live-update its smart playlists if those playlists were properly synced. Some early generation couldn't do that? If yours is that old, I'm impressed it's still alive!
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Re: emu 12 credits for a 4 track, 36 min album. That's ripe to complain to the label about that, emu's stupid pricing scheme pretty much destroys the marketability of that album onsite. It's label-mate album is 5 cr for 40 mins, so they're even dr…
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If a smart playlist on the ipod references a playlist that doesn't appear on the ipod (i.e. wasn't synced), then that playlist will not be "smart" (live updating) on the ipod.
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Katrina, that would not keep the playlists live on the ipod, since the cycle-outs wouldn't be synced, so isn't quite syncing "best practice" (though of course he might not care). Also, it can get a little cluttered, since you have to include those …
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Dr. Mutex, do any of your playlists on the ipod remain dynamic? I can't tell from your description. I've always been curious if non-iTunes-loaded ipods can retain dynamic playlists. Never heard one way or another.
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Warner Bros it is, including Nonesuch.
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If the lack of live updating doesn't bother you, sure, continue on. I love live updating, my whole method of listening is partially dependent on not listening to the same thing in a short time, and live updating gives you total confidence that it's…
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"Cycle out" playlists don't really work for ipod syncing (because those playlists have to be synced for others to reference them). Instead you need to do the inverse in with "cycle in" playlists - that is, for synced playlists, their criteria shoul…