rewgs

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by rewgs 6y ago
> Spotify is not for putting out art, it's for generating buzz about your art so you can get paid for it later. If your goal is the best art you can produce, then perhaps Spotify and that roller coaster isn't what you should ca
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by rewgs 6y ago
You are still completely missing my point w/r/t the number of listeners with radio, but I’m not sure how else to get you to see it, so I’m gonna duck out. Best of luck to you.
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by rewgs 6y ago
Try reading your first paragraph again. You’re contradicting yourself and are completely missing the point. You say that you “know” that terrestrial broadcast isn’t based on the number of listeners, and then go and make the same argument th
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by rewgs 6y ago
Terrestrial radio isn’t paying based on the number of listeners. The radio station is paying for a license to broadcast the music (so that people listen to the ads in between, just like TV), a portion of which goes to the songwriter(s), and
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by rewgs 6y ago
You are incredibly uninformed on the lives of pro musicians. Trust me, I am one. Labels are dead. Studios are dead. The onus to procure the gear and space to make music is entirely on the artist now. Yes, costs for some gear have come down,
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by rewgs 6y ago
What do you mean by the term “indie” here? Are the stations themselves not affiliated with larger corporations? Or are they mainly playing independent artists? Or both? I’m a professional musician and categorically reject the “but at least
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by rewgs 6y ago
It would be nice if you cared about things beyond $$$ and worked on code for the sake of code. Try listening to only amateur musicians for a month while you work. You might come back with an appreciation for just how much effort and money i
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by rewgs 6y ago
On the other hand, money earned from streaming vs money earned from CD sales (especially a few decades ago) is completely incomparable. If selling CDs through a store could earn you (using simple but realistic numbers here) $100k per year,
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by rewgs 6y ago
True, but an indie artist is nearly always the songwriter and publisher (no one else owns the publishing rights, hence “independent”). So it’s a fair comparison, and unfortunately, all else being equal, streaming woefully underperforms to r
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by rewgs 6y ago
Ah, right, yeah. Admittedly I never think about Home, as I've just come to accept the quality of life upgrade that comes with Pro (this being one of them), regardless of the machine.
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by rewgs 6y ago
Hmm, weird. I just set up a new machine at home with Windows 10 Pro and it worked just fine. No more web search. Perhaps since you're at work there's something else negating it?
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by rewgs 6y ago
Has everyone forgotten about Skype? My D&D group switched from Zoom to Skype and the performance/quality is noticeably better. There's 5 of us and it's great. Free, no time limits, etc.
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by rewgs 6y ago
You can disable web search in Group Policy.
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by rewgs 6y ago
> I would call it meditation but there really isn't much thinking -- just feeling what I feel. Accepting where I am, as best I can. I would very much call that meditation.
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by rewgs 6y ago
In addition to everything else said in this thread -- all good stuff -- it's worth noting that there's often an upfront expense that's hard to overcome in order to invest in the stock market in any sort of meaningful way. For
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by rewgs 6y ago
Totally. I see it as just an extension of the 80's Yuppie. Instead of Patrick Bateman's friends bragging about the restaurants they go to (without even really caring about the food), their stereo equipment (while having absolutely
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by rewgs 7y ago
I was referring to the "Intel-specific" part of your comment, not the price. I'm a professional composer and haven't ever come across an Intel-specific plugin -- loads of people use AMD. I think what you meant is x86-spe
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by rewgs 7y ago
Agreed, same here. When I finished it I felt that I had witnessed something profound and ancient and true. No other book has done what it did to me, though I'm not sure I can even describe it.
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by rewgs 7y ago
Citation/example?
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by rewgs 7y ago
> I don’t quite understand how “windows” work on a Mac. The app and having a window open of that app are decoupled, simple as that. Open up, say, Safari, press Cmd+W to close the window, and Safari will still be open. Press Cmd+N and you
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by rewgs 7y ago
I thought for sure that holding some combination of option, shift, and control would reveal the command to show all hidden files, and...nope. It’s truly only available as a key command. Wow.
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by rewgs 7y ago
Hence the importance of "feel" and "flow" -- they abstract away the simultaneous complexity.
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by rewgs 7y ago
I would be absolutely surprised if it weren't bit perfect. We're dealing with 7 bits of MIDI data controlling, typically at most, 48,000 samples per second. These numbers are chump change for modern computers. The bit depths can
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by rewgs 7y ago
> I'll give an example - you have your PC with $DAW_OF_CHOICE running and plug in $MIDI_2_CONTROLLER to USB and enable a track and hit record, play your stuff, and stop. When you play it back, unless the cosmic forces are exceptiona
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by rewgs 7y ago
It's a bit lame that you're being downvoted, but no, viruses aren't much of a concern. That line is more Apple fear mongering than anything else nowadays, generally speaking.
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by rewgs 7y ago
Yeah, I saw that as well. Regardless, I think my point stands -- I find it pretty alarming how quick the internet is to armchair-diagnose people with serious mental illness. For example, a good friend of mine was internet-diagnosed with Sch
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by rewgs 7y ago
Sigh...I'm not bipolar. I thought I made that pretty clear in my post. I am literally never manic. Sometimes I get pretty down -- that's it. Very well within "normal" range. And yes, I've talked with a professional
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by rewgs 7y ago
I think you're jumping to conclusions a bit, based on your own experiences. It's textbook bipolar behavior, sure, but it's also textbook a-hundred-other-things behavior as well. Take me, for instance: as far as I know, I&#x27
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by rewgs 7y ago
This is not true, in my experience. The best way I can describe shrooms is “they show you what you need to see at that moment in your life,” and sometimes the “bad trip” is exactly what the doctor ordered. I have literally only ever seen “b
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by rewgs 7y ago
Professional audio person here. RX is the tool to use, but even for someone skilled at this, it's going to be tough and will likely result in some degradation of the rest of the music. Get in touch and I'll give it a shot, but no

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