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Post by keff on Feb 18, 2023 17:03:05 GMT
I have been listening to a piano group in Clitheroe this afternoon attended by some very good pianists. Puts me to shame!
Yesterday, whilst driving,I was listening to some popular music tracks that I had ripped from CDs and transferred to a flash drive. I had taken great care to maintain the order of tracks on the flash drive as they appear on the CD's but the car's sound system seemed to just jumble them all up. If I had wanted tracks in semi-random order no doubt wouldn't have been able to achieve it!
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Post by Zi on Feb 18, 2023 19:25:58 GMT
I have been listening to a piano group in Clitheroe this afternoon attended by some very good pianists. Puts me to shame! Yesterday, whilst driving,I was listening to some popular music tracks that I had ripped from CDs and transferred to a flash drive. I had taken great care to maintain the order of tracks on the flash drive as they appear on the CD's but the car's sound system seemed to just jumble them all up. If I had wanted tracks in semi-random order no doubt wouldn't have been able to achieve it! Things do seem to like to head towards that don't they? The photos I put on our photo-frame seem to have decided on an order that makes no sense to me... I'm afraid I haven't listened to anything today.
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Post by keff on Feb 18, 2023 19:51:09 GMT
If the files on tne flash drive are listed they all appear in numeric-alphabetic order as they should. However I guess this doesn't mean that the files are stored in contiguous space and perhaps the computer in the car does read them contiguously (if that is a word).
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Post by Zi on Feb 18, 2023 21:49:42 GMT
Could be. My husband has a couple of explanations but I wouldn't commit myself to one until I've had a look at what's happening on the photoframe as I likewise have a couple of explanations.
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Post by pavane on Feb 22, 2023 15:14:33 GMT
Inspired by Keff, I'm listening to Chopin. I bought a CD of the Nocturnes years ago but it's only a selection, so I'm exploring the ones I don't know so well. Some of them are exquisite.
WRT files on a flash drive, I have a little MP3 player, a SanDisk something-or-other. It's quite handy because it's small but you can put quite a large SD card in it and fit a lot of music on that; no bluetooth but you can connect a powered speaker via headphone socket so it's useful on trips. The big down side is that it insists on playing tracks in random order, which is not my preferred option under almost any circumstances, and definitely not when listening to, say, an opera. I read somewhere that newer software fixed the issue (the device is quite old) but an upgrade has made no difference. All the files have internal MP3 tags set so the track number is encoded into the file, but they also have filenames that start with a track number, so they should be ordered one would think. I organise things along straightforward hierarchical lines, so Don Giovanni for example would be wam/classical/mozart/opera/don_giovanni/01_overture.mp3 etc and I generally access what I want to listen to by going down the directory structure; going to don_giovanni would give me all the tracks jumbled up with no way of ordering them. However, if I access by going to the list of what it regards as album titles, and scroll through that till I find what I want, and play the album - the tracks are played in the correct order! It's very annoying because for me it's not usually the natural way to find something: it's much more likely that we will decide to have, say, some Bach, or some baroque, and find something to listen to that way. Even if we choose a specific item, something like, eg, Bach's Brandenburg Concertos could, depending on the whim of whatever created the MP3 files, be called The Brandenburg Concertos, Bach Brandenburg Concertos, Brandenburg Concertos, or [no title].
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Post by keff on Feb 22, 2023 15:40:53 GMT
I was using Windows 7 Media Player to rip my CDs. It didn't read the artist or album name from the CD and I failed to discover how to input them. The car reads the tracks in a semi-random order, for example the first 14 tracks of the first CD come out in order and then it jumps to another album for say six tracks followed by more jumps. Eventually it comes back to tracks it had previously jumped over.
On my piano music stand I tried the Chopin prelude in D flat, known as The Raindrop, this morning. I need to find a way of learning it without having to repeat all those notes depicting the drip, drip, drip sounds as repeating those endlessly in practice will either drive me up the wall or wear away the felt cushions in the piano action. Pavane, which of the nocturnes do you recommend I listen to with a view of learning one ?
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Post by pavane on Feb 22, 2023 16:11:03 GMT
It's flattering that you should ask but I really don't think I'm qualified to offer an opinion. Being a complete non-expert at any of the instruments I mangle things on, my choice of piece is more often determined by considerations such as key and tempo than by how much I like it. Right now I'm listening to Op 9 #1, ie Number 1; it's very attractive, not too fast, and in B♭ major, though I expect it drifts a long way from there so maybe nominal key doesn't matter so much with Chopin. As for whether it's playable or not, I couldn't say! I absolutely take your point (made in some other thread recently) that no music is "easy" as such, but some pieces do have less technical complexity than others. I'm still enjoying Number 1, now about ⅔ of the way through.
As far as ripping goes, I did all of mine on some version of Linux or other, so have no experience of Windows media player. There are lots of tag editors around that are pretty easy to use if you want to try tidying the files up. I've used EasyTag in the past which seemed simple enough. It's no longer maintained, at least the linux version, so I've been experimenting with a couple of others recently - they have more capabilities and/or support more file formats, but I haven't yet found anything easier to use.
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Post by Zi on Aug 15, 2023 16:59:30 GMT
I've been listening to Amy Winehouse singing The Girl From Ipanema because of the discussions about it and No Milk Today - Herman's Hermits. That was because of my comment about the spam bot. I haven't got that tune out of my head since!
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Post by Zi on Sept 7, 2023 9:20:08 GMT
The music to Starfield - bits and pieces on line. I'd already heard the theme played by the LSO. But the song 'Children of the Sky' is what I'm listening to right now. It's one of those songs that could easily win Eurovision. Just in case anyone else is interested but puzzled as to what this is then Starfield is the new Bethesda game title and the reason I'm pleased it's out is that it means that The Elder Scrolls 6 is only 5 years away... maybe... Children of The Sky
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