Music

[Handruin]

I used CDex also. If you connect to my slimserver, you will find complete rips for Barenaked Ladies Rock Spectacleand and Linkin Park Meteora. I did the same as you and let the CDDB name everything...but I do't get the sense it is organized as well as your music... I'll work on it to see if I can make it better.

ska is good stuff if you like a bit of brass with your rock. I have some good stuff I can rip if you're interested in listening.

 

[Handruin]

I can't figure out why it says "Your music library contains 1 album with 39 songs by 2 artists." I created 2 folders, one for each album, but it doesn't recognize it that way.

 

[ddrueding]

I can't figure out why it says "Your music library contains 1 album with 39 songs by 2 artists." I created 2 folders, one for each album, but it doesn't recognize it that way.

Does it create the directory structure from the ID3 tags?

 

[The JoJo]

Do you mind if I try this when I get home, Merc?

 

[Mercutio]

You can try. My upload bandwidth is pretty limited. I think I can handle one WAN connection at a time. You just got up, right, JoJo?

The structure represented is in facted based on ID3. I just did some tests and it's all ID3. You could dump everything in one big folder and let the program sort it out, if you're a wildman.

 

[Handruin]

I can't figure out the directory structure yet. :-?

 

[Handruin]

Ya know, I kinda like the device they sell... $249 is a bit steep, but it's cheaper than building a wireless laptop...
http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_overview.html

 

[The JoJo]

Yup, the sun is just rising here.

And I just remembered that I didn't put sshd up at home, so I can't configure gentoo until this evening....

What is you upload bandwidth? Mine was just upgraded to 512kb.

 

[The JoJo]

Doh, my usual luck. Just when I get online and logged in here everyone leaves and goes to sleep

 

[Mercutio]

128k, unfortunately.

 

[ddrueding]

1.5Mbps

But due to construction delays, the server's won't be up until later this week. Might not be until the weekend.

 

[Onomatopoeic]

...Philip Glass and...

I first became familiar with Phillip Glass back in... maybe... 1977 or '78. I bought an "Einstein On The Beach" LP box and the album "North Star" pretty closely together in time.

Then, a few years later, about 1984 or '85, I was throwing out Phillip Glass for good after owning maybe a couple or three more of his albums. The guy just seemed to be stuck in a repetitive rut. By 1984/85, the "Einstein On The Beach" album was a pretty rare comodity (long out-of-print at that point in time) and I sold it in one of my LP auctions for a decent amount.

 

[Onomatopoeic]

Why don't people like classical music?

I don't *hate* classical music, per se, I just prefer its derivatives -- same thing with blues, jazz, and various "ethnic" musics.

I had classical music pounded into me during my youth. Now, I have rebelled.

 

[Onomatopoeic]

Current playlist follows:

• 
  Cassius - Music Sounds Better
  CJ Bolland - Electro Power
  Collective Soul - Gel
  Collective Soul - December
  Cracker - Low
  Craig David - Key To My Heart
  The Cranberries - Salvation
  The Crystal Method - The Crystal Method Dubiliscous Groove
  The Crystal Method - Magic Carpet Ride
  The Crystal Method - Wild, Sweet And Cool
  The Crystal Method - Name of The Game
  Danny Tenaglia - Music Is The Answer
  Dave Brubeck - Take Five
  David Gray - Sail Away
  DJ Shadow - Building Steam With A Grain of Salt
  Don't Look Down - Still The One
  Dynamite Hack - Anyway
  Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
  Elvis Presley - A Little Less Conversation
  3 Doors Down - Better Life
  311 - Amber
  4 Non Blondes - What's Up
  The Who - Pinball Wizard
  The White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl
  Violent Femmes - Blister In The Sun
  Veruca Salt - Volcano Girls
  US3 - Cantaloop
  Unified Theory - Breathe
  U.N.K.L.E. - Eye 4 An Eye
  Twisted Pair - Vampyros Lesbos
  Tracy Chapman - All That You Have Is Your Soul
  Tool - Opiate
  Tokyo Ghetto Pussy - I Kiss Your Lips
  Tom Cochrane - Life Is A Highway
  Toad The Wet Sprocket - All I Want
  Texas - Say What You Want
  Sublime - Saw Red
  Stroke 9 - Little Black Backpack
  Stone Temple Pilots - Wicked Garden

From your list, the only one's I'm NOT familiar with:
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Cassius - Music Sounds Better
CJ Bolland - Electro Power
David Gray - Sail Away
Don't Look Down - Still The One
Dynamite Hack - Anyway
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
Unified Theory - Breathe
Tokyo Ghetto Pussy - I Kiss Your Lips
Stroke 9 - Little Black Backpack

• Beth Orton
  Catie Curtis
  Cristine Kane
  Cindy Morgan
  Cowboy Junkies
  Frente
  Gillian Welsh
  Jan Krist
  Jill Phillips
  Kate Wolf
  Kelly Willis
  Kim Hill
  Kristy MacColl
  Loreena McKennit
  Lucinda Williams
  Mary Chapin Carpenter
  Merril Bainbridge
  Over the Rhine
  Patty Loveless
  Sam Phillips
  Sara Groves
  Shawn Colvin
  Innocence Mission
  Suzanne Vega
  Victoria Williams

And, from your list, the only one's I'm NOT familiar with:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Catie Curtis
Cristine Kane
Cindy Morgan
Frente
Jan Krist
Jill Phillips
Kelly Willis
Kim Hill
Over the Rhine
Sara Groves

 

[ddrueding]

Cassius - Music Sounds Better - Mid-Tempo modern dance (house music)
CJ Bolland - Electro Power - Mid-90's Hi-Energy Electronic (definatly dated, but I'm nostalgic)
David Gray - Sail Away - Beautiful "Soft Rock". Great voice/piano. Fairly popular
Don't Look Down - Still The One - Grunge/Punk cover of a country song
Dynamite Hack - Anyway - Grunge/Punk song, fairly depressing. There is a beautiful acoustic/vocal version as well.
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight - Quite pop-ish, but well done. Good feelings.
Unified Theory - Breathe - Blind Melon re-incarnate.
Tokyo Ghetto Pussy - I Kiss Your Lips - Classic asian-electronic. Worth hearing ONCE, good for a laugh.
Stroke 9 - Little Black Backpack - Modern punk, but with definate skill.

 

[Mercutio]

...Philip Glass and...

Then, a few years later, about 1984 or '85, I was throwing out Phillip Glass for good after owning maybe a couple or three more of his albums. The guy just seemed to be stuck in a repetitive rut. By 1984/85, the "Einstein On The Beach" album was a pretty rare comodity (long out-of-print at that point in time) and I sold it in one of my LP auctions for a decent amount.

I can sit and listen to all 3 discs of "Music in 12 parts", which is probably his most visciously minimalist piece, and be entertained. But if you get the urge to try his music again, I'd suggest tracking down his scoring for "Dracula", the album he did with Uatki (a lot like Blue Man Group, uses found objects for instruments) or his Solo Piano CD. Whatever else you might think, Einstein on the beach is a really unique experience.

 

[Howell]

http://mercutio.dnsalias.com:9000/stream.mp3

I connect but then it just "buffers" to 100% over and over again.

Did any body else open the link in a web browser? Interesting.

 

[Handruin]

I did now. That is very interesting...

 

[Explorer]

I can sit and listen to all 3 discs of "Music in 12 parts", which is probably his most visciously minimalist piece, and be entertained...

Yes, I recall having that one as well back in the late '70s. I bought it on the cheap, something like $4.99, new, on Virgin Records (UK), or their budget Caroline label. It seemed like it had a gaudy orange jacket with white artwork -- orchestral charts, maybe. I half way kinda liked that one, actually. You say 3 discs, I know that this one was only one disc (LP). "Einstein..." was a 3-LP set (box actually) on Tomato Records (Netherlands).

I have a printout from about 1984/5 of all the vinyl I owned, then, before I auctioned it all off. I was at maybe 2400 LPs, then. None of it common crapola. I'll have to dig it out and see what Phillip Glass I had.

 

[Mercutio]

You're thinking of "Music in Changing Parts". I don't know what the album looked like; the Nonesuch CD issue is a cool silvered photo of the composer.

 

[Howell]

Merc, at what bitrate do you rip?

BTW, I use Audiograbber and it creates the same directory structure as you describe.

 

[Mercutio]

It depends. 160kpbs, most recently. 192k, typically.
I could go back and encode a bunch of stuff at 128k or 96k to see if that would make my slimserver run better over the internet...

 

[Howell]

It depends. 160kpbs, most recently. 192k, typically.
I could go back and encode a bunch of stuff at 128k or 96k to see if that would make my slimserver run better over the internet...

Do you use variable bit rate encoding?

 

[Mercutio]

Yu. And I'm using LAME for a codec, if that matters.
I probably ought to switch to OGG. IMO 128k OGG sounds better than 192k MP3.

 

[Howell]

Howell, you really bought "Secrets of the Old"?

That's the one I bought.

 

[ddrueding]

Merc, I have to ask...what can use more cowbell? I can think of many things that could use less, but more?

 

[ddrueding]

Thanks for the hint, but I'm still having issues....BOC is not my strong point...

 

[Howell]

http://mercutio.dnsalias.com:9000/stream.mp3

I connect but then it just "buffers" to 100% over and over again.

Am I supposed to have opened any ports on my firewall?

 

[Mercutio]

Not on the client end. You're requesting traffic. Usually that's something that's explicitly allowed.

Probably you're just not getting enough of a stream to actually play anything.

I need more DSL lines.

 

[ddrueding]

Jungle sounds so much better after 2AM.

Dieselboy - Invid

Awesome

 

[tealeaf]

Isn't "Blues" short for "Rhythm and Blues"? I believe that's where R&R has it's roots but I could be wrong. I know I've heard not only Hendrix play what I would call "Blues" but also Slow Hand and even Bill Wyman (SP?). OK so the last two are white. But as I heard The Giver say once, "They're blue eyed and pale but they sure can wail".

Flagreen, I'm sure you meant R&B. When I saw you mention "wail", I thought of Louis Prima - many of his songs have great rhythm.

Actually I did mean Rock and Roll. But I don't know enough about music aside from what I like and dislike to say so. I'm not a fan of J L Hooker though I like his brand of music in general. I just don't care for his vocals or guitar playing. Not that I can do either. Keith Richards (actually when I said Bill Wyman above I was thinking of Richards) is very talented though as are the rest of the people time mentions. Clapton in particular is an excellent R&B man. Van Morrison is also one of my favorites.

You are right Flagreen, Rock & Roll does have its roots in R&B - they just took the rhythm section and ran! Elvis, Bill Haley, Johnny and the Hurricanes – great music from that era.

Not forgetting Chuck Berry - the man acredited with inventing R & B?

 

[.Nut]

Jungle sounds so much better after 2AM.

Dieselboy - Invid

Awesome

Back in 1997/98, I liked jungle / drum'n'bass. By 1999 I was sick of it. Still am.

 

[.Nut]

You're thinking of "Music in Changing Parts"...

I went back and looked at my old LP listing, and it was "Music in 12 Parts, Parts 1 and 2" on the Virgin / Caroline (UK) record label.

 

[Howell]

Leo Kottke

 

[Mercutio]

Dear lord yes. That man can play guitar.

 

[Howell]

I can't believe nobody meantioned him before. I just heard him in the last couple of weeks and I can get "Vaseline Machine Gun" out of my head.

 

[Corvair]

I can't believe nobody meantioned him before...

I met up with Leo K. almost 30 years ago ('77 / '78-ish). I did an interview with him. Anyway, I recall that he was out promoting his "Burnt Lips" album at the time, because I recall bringing back a box of 20 promo LPs to the radio station. I believe I've known of him since about '73 or so.

He's mostly a 12-string (acoustic) player. In fact, when I saw him play on his "Burnt Lips" tour, that's basically all he played -- 12-string - and very little 6-string. If you know something about playing a 12-string (acoustic or electric) guitar, it's harder to press down the strings to the frets. Well, I recall hearing some rumours, a while later after I saw him play, that he had to take a rather extended break to allow his newly-acquired carpal tunnel syndrome wear off.

Yes, he's one of the best 12-string acoustic players ever! Even then, he's hardly a household name (e.g. -- Clapton, Page, Hendrix, Beck, etc.).

 

[Corvair]

OK! Here's my entire audio compact disc collection. I'm posting it for informational / educational / discussional purposes only! None are for sale, and... erm... I'm not gonna burn copies of anything either.

I dumped all my vinyl LPs back during the 1982 ~ 1984/5 time frame. Then, as they became available, I began replacing the vintage vinyl LP titles that I wanted to have again (maybe 85%) with compact disc equivalents. Most of that 85% has been reissued on CD, but there are still a few that haven't. I also picked lots of mid-80s - to - present-day titles along the way as well.

Every once in a while I'll dump a few titles or even whole groups that I don't listen to anymore or that I now dislike. Example: I recently dumped all my "In The Nursery" (a group) CDs and I also whittled my 5 or 6 "Damned" (The Damned -- a group) CD titles down to just the 2 that I still care anything about. I store the titles in a database to keep track of them.

NOTE: It might take a number of seconds for it to load 8)

• The CD Listing:
  
  http://www.gary-hendershot.com/cd_list/

 

[timwhit]

One artist caught my eye and that was Durutti Column. Durutti was a Spanish Anarchist that lead a division called the Durutti Column in Aragon during 1936. What kind of music is this anyways?

 

[Onomatopoeic]

One artist caught my eye and that was Durutti Column. Durutti was a Spanish Anarchist that lead a division called the Durutti Column in Aragon during 1936. What kind of music is this anyways?

Yep. Buenaventura Durutti, I believe.

The music of Durutti Column is pretty unique -- sort of electric guitar chamber music that at times meets jazz with maybe a touch of Brazilian, Spanish, or Jamaican influence. A couple of the last 2 D.C. releases weren't very good in my opinion (I don't own them for that reason) as they were sort of "normal" rock recordings. But, the first 4 albums especially ("Return of The Durutti Column," "LC," etc) and a few after that were quite amazingly good. Those were from 1979, '80, and '81, then some bright spots in the mid 80s including the first "solo" Vini Reilly album.

The amazing fact is that Durutti Column actually started off as a *really* grating punk band around 1978/9. Then one by one everybody left except its founder, Vini Reilly. Once everyone was gone, he wiped the slate clean. Fortunately, the first Durutti Column release didn't come out until Vini was in control. I bought those early releases after I heard the two D.C. tracks on the various artist album "A Factory Sampler" (Factory Records, UK) released in 1979.