OK, so just one idea for now but I hope to add more as time goes by.
1. Have the song page where you can stream the jamendo (or other) tunes from pull in and show the lyrics (if any) from the corresponding jamendo page. See:
Lorenzo's Music - it could be you - libre.fm page
and
Lorenzo's Music - it could be you - jamendo lyrics page
It would be nice to be able to see the lyrics while the song is playing.
drew
Monday, August 24, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Standard Terms Of Service Documents?
in the long run, it might make sense for the community to develop standard TOS documents for sites to adopt unchanged and in a certifiable manner.
If you think about it a bit, the current situation is absurd on the face of it.
All your life you are told that you should get a lawyer's advice before signing contracts and the like.
So now we have the internet. And we agree to TOS documents and the like online like it is going out of style. Many are long and complex and include other long and complex agreements by reference.
OK, so who calls their lawyer in or sends the TOS along to their lawyer for an opinion before clicking "I agree" on every site they want to join? Who even reads and makes a concerted effort to study and understand the things themselves before they click on agree? Who even reads all of the documents themselves in their entirety before clicking I agree. Many claim to be modifiable by the other party whenever they wish and that we are responsible for keeping up to date on the changes in various ways. And really, who monitors the things for changes and goes through the whole process again on any change?
We need a few, clearly written TOS documents designed to protect the users but also allow the businesses / web sites to profitably function. Then business that want to can adopt these TOS unchanged and display a logo to that effect.
Then the users can get their legal advice if they wish on the few largely unchanging TOS they use and use sites accordingly.
This may be too much to hope for, but the current situation is likely going to end in much heartache on the part of many in the long run.
all the best,
drew
If you think about it a bit, the current situation is absurd on the face of it.
All your life you are told that you should get a lawyer's advice before signing contracts and the like.
So now we have the internet. And we agree to TOS documents and the like online like it is going out of style. Many are long and complex and include other long and complex agreements by reference.
OK, so who calls their lawyer in or sends the TOS along to their lawyer for an opinion before clicking "I agree" on every site they want to join? Who even reads and makes a concerted effort to study and understand the things themselves before they click on agree? Who even reads all of the documents themselves in their entirety before clicking I agree. Many claim to be modifiable by the other party whenever they wish and that we are responsible for keeping up to date on the changes in various ways. And really, who monitors the things for changes and goes through the whole process again on any change?
We need a few, clearly written TOS documents designed to protect the users but also allow the businesses / web sites to profitably function. Then business that want to can adopt these TOS unchanged and display a logo to that effect.
Then the users can get their legal advice if they wish on the few largely unchanging TOS they use and use sites accordingly.
This may be too much to hope for, but the current situation is likely going to end in much heartache on the part of many in the long run.
all the best,
drew
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Idea for a Feature for Ardour and Traverso
Idea for a feature for Ardour and Traverso.
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OK, so I use ardour and traverso depending on who knows what.
I record a band at gigs.
When I get back with the recording, I often have multiple CDs worth of material recorded. What I do for them is go through and mark up the recording to just get the songs and leave out all the between song chatter, noise during breaks etc.
I like ardour's way of doing this way more than traverso's.
So I would like to see traverso changed to do this more like ardour.
However, if you look at the quick and dirty little gimp work I did for the image here in this post you will get an idea of what I think would be an improvement to even the way ardour does this.
Ardour runs into a problem for me when I get more than one CD's worth of songs. I suggest adding a field at the start of each range line (Title is Disc and I have 1 and 2 in the graphic) by which we can indicate which CD the song belongs to.
The if we have more than one CD indicated, when we export the TOC, multipls TOC files will be exported from which we can burn multiple CDs.
If this is not clear, let me know and I will try and improve the explanation.
(May 17 edit)
Just having a chat with remon in IRC this morning about this and came up with the idea to have traverso let you mark "sheet ranges" and then auto create sheets and populate them with the marked ranges as a part of this workflow and especially one where further recording worm might be done to the songs.
Then remon had the idea to remerge the sheets back to a new master sheet for the mastering stage.
all the best,
drew
Short link to image
Full link to image
Quickpost this image to Myspace, Digg, Facebook, and others!OK, so I use ardour and traverso depending on who knows what.
I record a band at gigs.
When I get back with the recording, I often have multiple CDs worth of material recorded. What I do for them is go through and mark up the recording to just get the songs and leave out all the between song chatter, noise during breaks etc.
I like ardour's way of doing this way more than traverso's.
So I would like to see traverso changed to do this more like ardour.
However, if you look at the quick and dirty little gimp work I did for the image here in this post you will get an idea of what I think would be an improvement to even the way ardour does this.
Ardour runs into a problem for me when I get more than one CD's worth of songs. I suggest adding a field at the start of each range line (Title is Disc and I have 1 and 2 in the graphic) by which we can indicate which CD the song belongs to.
The if we have more than one CD indicated, when we export the TOC, multipls TOC files will be exported from which we can burn multiple CDs.
If this is not clear, let me know and I will try and improve the explanation.
(May 17 edit)
Just having a chat with remon in IRC this morning about this and came up with the idea to have traverso let you mark "sheet ranges" and then auto create sheets and populate them with the marked ranges as a part of this workflow and especially one where further recording worm might be done to the songs.
Then remon had the idea to remerge the sheets back to a new master sheet for the mastering stage.
all the best,
drew
Monday, May 11, 2009
Open Core Model Is Bogus
To my way of thinking, the "Open Core Model" Is Bogus.
To me, on of the key benefits of Free Software is the lack of vendor lock in.
The "Open Core Model" wants me to forgo that benefit if I need the advanced features. Well, if I am going to give up that benefit, then what benefit is the open core to me anyway? I might as well look at the fully proprietary software in that space. (I don't think so, not if there is a Free alternative.) So, in asking me to give up one of my key benefits, they lose one of their key selling points.
Plus, The mixing of Free and non-Free this way leads me not to trust them or the software they are peddling.
drew
To me, on of the key benefits of Free Software is the lack of vendor lock in.
The "Open Core Model" wants me to forgo that benefit if I need the advanced features. Well, if I am going to give up that benefit, then what benefit is the open core to me anyway? I might as well look at the fully proprietary software in that space. (I don't think so, not if there is a Free alternative.) So, in asking me to give up one of my key benefits, they lose one of their key selling points.
Plus, The mixing of Free and non-Free this way leads me not to trust them or the software they are peddling.
drew
Midnight Freedom Show 1
Midnight Freedom Show 1
OK, so since the beginning of the year, I have had a small radio show that airs at around midnight every night on Y98.7 in Nassau Bahamas.
Now, I am no big time DJ by any means but I may have learned a thing or two in the time I have been doing the show and I would like to pass on some ideas for people doing the Free Music thing and who would like to get their song played on the radio at least once.
The way the show works so far is that I play a different song that has been released under a Free License every night at around midnight. Hence the Midnight Freedom Show. Because of this I find myself spending a large proportion of the time I devote to the show looking for and listening to Free Music to see if it fits the format of the station and is OK for the radio.
Some days I have less time than other days and this brings me to a small bit of advice.
If you have your music someplace like Jamendo, Kompoz, ccMixter, MacJams, or the like, you will have a greater chance of getting played by people doing what I do if you have accurate lyrics posted for your songs.
If I am rushed for time and I am considering two songs, one with lyrics and one without, I may end up picking the one with lyrics even if I don't like it quite as much musically. I will not put on something that is "bad" musically or doesn't fit, even if it has lyrics, but for two comparable songs and in a rush, the one with accurate lyrics wins.
I will try to update the show tips as I can.
drew
OK, so since the beginning of the year, I have had a small radio show that airs at around midnight every night on Y98.7 in Nassau Bahamas.
Now, I am no big time DJ by any means but I may have learned a thing or two in the time I have been doing the show and I would like to pass on some ideas for people doing the Free Music thing and who would like to get their song played on the radio at least once.
The way the show works so far is that I play a different song that has been released under a Free License every night at around midnight. Hence the Midnight Freedom Show. Because of this I find myself spending a large proportion of the time I devote to the show looking for and listening to Free Music to see if it fits the format of the station and is OK for the radio.
Some days I have less time than other days and this brings me to a small bit of advice.
If you have your music someplace like Jamendo, Kompoz, ccMixter, MacJams, or the like, you will have a greater chance of getting played by people doing what I do if you have accurate lyrics posted for your songs.
If I am rushed for time and I am considering two songs, one with lyrics and one without, I may end up picking the one with lyrics even if I don't like it quite as much musically. I will not put on something that is "bad" musically or doesn't fit, even if it has lyrics, but for two comparable songs and in a rush, the one with accurate lyrics wins.
I will try to update the show tips as I can.
drew
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Music Player Idea
Not sure how to best title this.
The basic idea is this:
On the "song" side - supply "DJ" metadata in the audio file, either audio metadata with a human DJ or text metadata for the DJ purpose.
One the "player" side - have a "DJ button that can be toggled.
If the button is engaged before a song starts playing, the DJ will announce the song before playing the song.
If the button is engaged while a song is playing, the DJ will announce the song that just played after it ends and then switch to the previous mode of announcing before the songs.
If the button is engaged and released while a song is playing, the DJ will announce the song that just played after it ends but will not announce further songs as the button is not engaged.
If the button is not engaged, only the songs will play.
The "DJ" metadata could not only give song title, artist, album but give artist influences and the other info a good radio DJ gives.
If the DJ metadata is audio, the player can play it like it plays the song itself. If it is text, the player will need to be able to do text to speech.
Actually, it might make sense to have text metadata along with any audio metadata and have the player scroll that during song playback no matter the state of the DJ button.
Thoughts and improvement ideas please.
drew
The basic idea is this:
On the "song" side - supply "DJ" metadata in the audio file, either audio metadata with a human DJ or text metadata for the DJ purpose.
One the "player" side - have a "DJ button that can be toggled.
If the button is engaged before a song starts playing, the DJ will announce the song before playing the song.
If the button is engaged while a song is playing, the DJ will announce the song that just played after it ends and then switch to the previous mode of announcing before the songs.
If the button is engaged and released while a song is playing, the DJ will announce the song that just played after it ends but will not announce further songs as the button is not engaged.
If the button is not engaged, only the songs will play.
The "DJ" metadata could not only give song title, artist, album but give artist influences and the other info a good radio DJ gives.
If the DJ metadata is audio, the player can play it like it plays the song itself. If it is text, the player will need to be able to do text to speech.
Actually, it might make sense to have text metadata along with any audio metadata and have the player scroll that during song playback no matter the state of the DJ button.
Thoughts and improvement ideas please.
drew
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Commitment To Freedom
Commitment To Freedom
I think these ideas may have broader application but that remains to be seen.
I think too often we are faced with "one way" contracts and ones that we have no hope in understanding in aggregate in our day to day lives. I have been pondering this problem and approaches to solutions for some time now. My thinking is still fuzzy and unfinished but I want to put some ideas down to see if I can get more help from others.
What I am thinking of involves Individual Commitments To Freedom that people and companies can make (and we need to figure a way to make these binding) so that people dealing with them can have a level of comfort in their dealings with those who have made such commitments.
I am also thinking of having contracts and terms of service etc developed by citizens and then adopted by companies willing to Commit to Freedom.
More later.
drew
I think these ideas may have broader application but that remains to be seen.
I think too often we are faced with "one way" contracts and ones that we have no hope in understanding in aggregate in our day to day lives. I have been pondering this problem and approaches to solutions for some time now. My thinking is still fuzzy and unfinished but I want to put some ideas down to see if I can get more help from others.
What I am thinking of involves Individual Commitments To Freedom that people and companies can make (and we need to figure a way to make these binding) so that people dealing with them can have a level of comfort in their dealings with those who have made such commitments.
I am also thinking of having contracts and terms of service etc developed by citizens and then adopted by companies willing to Commit to Freedom.
More later.
drew
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