From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V12 #160 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, June 20 2006 Volume 12 : Number 160 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Suspended in Gaffa podcast [Michael Pearce ] Treat for Area fans ["Xenu's Sister" ] Re: Suspended in Gaffa podcast ["Xenu's Sister" ] Re: 7 Up [Bernie Mojzes ] Re: 7 Up ["Xenu's Sister" ] Re: Suspended in Gaffa podcast [Sander ] susan mckeown in brooklyn [wojbearpig ] Any Catatonia experts? ["Xenu's Sister" ] Re: Treat for Area fans ["Paul Jensen" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:14:33 -0700 From: Michael Pearce Subject: Re: Suspended in Gaffa podcast Vickie asked : > If anyone has any suggestions for > improvement, I'd like to hear them. I know you have stated before that you hate do do voicework on your podcasts, but I wish you would change your mind. Since it's impossible to embed MP3 tags for each track, I can only refer to the list when I have the web page up; nothing on the Pod when listening in the car. Repeated listenings would eventually hammer into my head who I am hearing. That would really help when trying to identify someone I have not heard before. You don't need much commentary, just name, track and album. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:45:01 -0700 (PDT) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Treat for Area fans Yep, Henry Frayne/Lynn Canfield's Area. Here's a video to "I'll Gather Flowers"!! It's rough (and tiny) but it's still something I never thought I'd see! http://rhodesongs.com/music/Area_IllGatherFlowers.mov I found it on a blog and was going to just post the URL, but I didn't want to mess up his bandwidth, and goodness knows I have tons of space and bandwidth on my new $9.24 web site, so I downloaded then uploaded it. Here's the original blog: http://www.angryrobot.net/archives/2005/07/cest_la_mort.html Vickie - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Music, all I hear is music, guaranteed to please... Happy's MySpace profile: http://www.myspace.com/happyrhodes Happy Rhodes song samples and rarities: http://wretchawry.com - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:41:30 -0700 (PDT) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Re: Suspended in Gaffa podcast - --- Rodney Kratochwill wrote: > Vickie asked : > > If anyone has any suggestions for > > improvement, I'd like to hear them. > > I don't know that this would necessarily be an > improvement for everyone, but in my case the shows > are too long. My portable MP3 player is a little > Flash based device that doesn't have much memory. > I guess I've become used to the 20-40 minute podcast I hate to disregard what you say and the problems you're having (as well as those who are on dial-up and say that it takes forever to download them) but a half-hour music show doesn't seem like a music show at all. It's hard enough keeping them to an hour. I always have extra songs that get pushed to the next (or next or next or next) show. I'll think about doing a satellite show, splitting them in two specifically for folks like you, but that would add extra work, and they'd never be exactly on the half hour either, since I don't (at this point) take that mark into account when I'm putting together shows. I'd have to re-arrange songs which would make it a completely different show. I'm sorry. If I think of an easy solution I'd love to help you out. As far as the files being too big, if I encode them at a smaller bitrate, it sounds like crap. Since I use 128kb mp3s to begin with I don't want to do anything that would degrade the sound further. 5 was an accide...experiment where it got saved at 256k, which is why that one was so much bigger than the others. I encode them at 192k now. Does anyone else think the shows are too long? > I guess I just need to break down and get the kids new > iPod's so I can use the old Mini. Wow, you'd spend all that money just to listen to my shows?? Yikes! > Themed shows sounds real interesting. Theme shows are fun, but oh boy are they a pain. It was easier when I had access to 2 turntables, 2 cassette decks and 2 CD players at the radio station studio. I have no way to play LPs or cassettes today, and I'm limited to what mp3s I have on my computer. I had some pretty cool ones back in the day though. One of my favorites was an "Across the Universe" show. Every song, either lyrically or via song title, had to do with space. I started at earth then went out into space then came back to earth. Here's my post about it right after I originally did it, with the playlist: http://gaffa.org/archives/1990-17/msg00043.html Note that that show was 2 hours long! And I had tons of songs left over. > Makes me wonder what people think when they pick up > SIG from my transmitter. Isn't that annoying though? You're listening to something then get the next car's music? I don't get it. Is it something you have to scan for specifically? If not, it seems like a breach of privacy. Not that I don't think it's funny that someone might pick up on SIG from you (I'm imagining looks if they heard something like Akiko Yano's "Rose Garden" or Nina Hagen). > I was going to ask what you use to generate your pages > but I can see now that you are doing it by hand. I have a template that desperately needs to be cleaned up (lots of useless CSS comments from when I stole it from rhodeshows.com), but it helps. It's looking for links, looking for pictures which I then need to re-size, then thinking of something to say that's a pain. However, as much as I bitch about it, I like the end result. I think the mini album covers especially look very cool. > Thanks for the little extra The only other addition I would love to see is a > little of the traditional DJ banter between sets of > music. Sort of like the commentary you have on the > pages, and the hidden extra comments. One of the things > I really like about podcasting is the human factor > in many of the shows I listen to. Regular people > talking about things they are passionate about. Michael, I saw your post about this too. I'm on the verge of changing my mind about it, if only to quickly backannounce the artists. I'm not kidding when I say I *suck* as a "DJ." My brain freezes up and I sound like a dork. My biggest problems with talking are: 1) that I have to program spaces for backannouncing when I love choosing songs that flow into each other, 2) every second spent talking takes away from time when you could be listening to music, and 3) my talking will detract from the music. If I do sound like a dork, that brings the whole show down to a "common" level, when I like to think that the music is very special indeed. A 4th concern is that it would make it more like a "radio show"/"real" podcast and might bring the RIAA or suchlike down on my head, since I'm certainly not paying anybody for anything. I am leaning that way though. Chris set me up with a nice "studio" last fall that's been gathering dust and cat hair. I feel bad for him since he worked hard on it and I've never touched it. I put all my shows together in Winamp and Sound Forge. If I did, what are thoughts about re-recording all the completed shows with backannouncing? In most shows it would mean losing a song per show to keep them around an hour. I have 13 shows done and more being worked on (it's my obsessive/compulsive/manic/depressive personality at work...at some point here soon I'll probably get burned out and you won't see another one for months). Should I keep the early shows as is or go back and add talking? > Anyway, I love SIG and hope you can keep them coming. Thank you Rod, and Michael, and Steve, and Yngve and anyone else who takes a listen. You make me happy! Vickie - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Music, all I hear is music, guaranteed to please... Happy's MySpace profile: http://www.myspace.com/happyrhodes Happy Rhodes song samples and rarities: http://wretchawry.com - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:41:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Bernie Mojzes Subject: Re: 7 Up heh - you just wanted an excuse to use the subject (7 up) to provide us more wonderful un-crapmusic. :) thanks! brni > Ah, what the heck. I just felt like it. > > http://suspended-in-gaffa.com > > In this show: Najma, Shona Laing, Terami Hirsch, Charlotte > Martin, A.C. Marias, Milla, Susan Voelz, Happy Rhodes, Noe > Venable, Nan Vernon, Inara George, Sinead Lohan, Ella Blame > > Vickie > > > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > > Music, all I hear is music, guaranteed to please... > > Happy's MySpace profile: > http://www.myspace.com/happyrhodes > > Happy Rhodes song samples and rarities: > http://wretchawry.com > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > - -- brni i don't want the world, i just want your half. www.livejournal.com/~brni ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:45:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Re: 7 Up - --- Bernie Mojzes wrote: > heh - you just wanted an excuse to use the subject (7 up) to > provide us more wonderful un-crapmusic. :) Ha, you're right. I wonder how many people didn't read it because they thought I made a post about soda. :) Thanks for listening, and you're welcome! Isn't Inara George cool? V > > thanks! > brni > > > Ah, what the heck. I just felt like it. > > > > http://suspended-in-gaffa.com > > > > In this show: Najma, Shona Laing, Terami Hirsch, Charlotte > > Martin, A.C. Marias, Milla, Susan Voelz, Happy Rhodes, Noe > > Venable, Nan Vernon, Inara George, Sinead Lohan, Ella Blame > > > > Vickie - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Music, all I hear is music, guaranteed to please... Happy's MySpace profile: http://www.myspace.com/happyrhodes Happy Rhodes song samples and rarities: http://wretchawry.com - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:01:24 +0200 From: Sander Subject: Re: Suspended in Gaffa podcast Michael Pearce wrote: > Since it's > impossible to embed MP3 tags for each track, I can only refer to the > list when I have the web page up; nothing on the Pod when listening > in the car. Just a couple of years till everyone has the bandwidth that these things can be done with FLAC and embedded cuesheets. :) (And then who knows, maybe Apple will join the rest of the world and start supporting those formats as well?) Actually, you can embed cuesheets in MP3 files as well (so basically what you're asking for), but support for that is virtually non-existent. (Not even foobar2000 does it.) Sander ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:58:11 -0400 From: wojbearpig Subject: susan mckeown in brooklyn lookie here...susan mckeown is one of the acts at the pre-canada day show at the prospect park bandshell in brooklyn: http://www.brooklynx.org/celebrate/2006_popups/canada.asp > Friday, June 23  7:30pm > Canada in New York > NATALIE MacMASTER's CAPE BRETON with DONNELL LEAHY / NATALIE HAAS / SUSAN McKEOWN / CATHERINE RUSSELL > > Our annual pre-Canada Day extravaganza is a multi-artist affair presided over by Cape Breton-born phenom NATALIE MacMASTER, who has gathered together a dazzling lineup of friends and family to explore the music of her home, a place where Celtic folk traditions collide and the fiddle is king. "With her blond hair flying, her feet tapping vigorously, and her hands dancing in the air, Natalie MacMaster doesn't so much play her fiddle as she attacks it." (The Ottawa Citizen) > > Presented with major support from the Canadian Consulate General in New York. > > Artists subject to change. woj n.p. go oilers! p.s. thanks to ms. montville for the heads up about this! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:52:50 -0700 (PDT) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Any Catatonia experts? I have a song called "Do You Believe In Me?" that I'm playing in an upcoming show, and I'm very confused about where it came from. I've looked at their discography and it's not on any album. I know very little about the band. I never paid much attention to them at the time because I just assumed (for some unknown reason) that they were a crunchy Britpop band. I tend to hate crunchy (unless it's Caterwaul) so I never bought any albums. Then a few years ago, this song fell into my lap, and it's amazing! I love her voice. So, what's with this song? I don't need a bio of the band, because I have links, but I just need to know where this song came from. V - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Music, all I hear is music, guaranteed to please... Happy's MySpace profile: http://www.myspace.com/happyrhodes Happy Rhodes song samples and rarities: http://wretchawry.com - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:07:31 -0500 From: "Paul Jensen" Subject: Re: Treat for Area fans Wow - that was beautiful, Vickie! That's one (although there are quite a few) of my favorite Area songs! Thanks for sharing! Paul - -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "This is the time. And this is the record of the time." -Laurie Anderson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V12 #160 ***************************