Malte Müller
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When it comes to the feeling what it means to Travemünde through space
“Travemünde” is surely some auto correct fun, right? There is only some open sea 😉
Not sure if it fits and it is not “off grid” but I had to think of THE EXPANSE where space travel at least has no lightspeed and such.
I have no problem with the piano (and I also love the classic Rhodes/Wurlitzer e-piano sounds). Not sure if I have any real favourite (orchestra) instrument but I always liked the cello for its “voice like” timbre.
Multiple genres are also allowed in the ALAC specification, which, ironically, came from Apple. 🙂
Guess the overall demand is pretty low so we likely never get this…
Well, I’ve been expecting this (increased CD sales, that is). After the resurgence of the LP, I suspected it would only be a matter of time before the same thing would happen with the CD.
Would not really count on it large scale but who knows. Did I already mention that my soon 13 year old nephew is totally into BluRay currently? We’ll see how long that will last…
We’re less people 😉 But we maybe able to better hold our horses until there is anything proper to discuss, too.
Yeah, multiple genres would be nice.
It’s really weird it isn’t supported since this is a base organising principle with digital database. Well, niche problem possibly 😉
Interesting concept! As we already dicussed that would not really a problem with files if only iTuness/Apple Music would allow multiple genres per item…
When, as the author described, MP3 and Napster etc. came along, I was pretty much imune to it. I would never trade sound quality for convenience large scale, and MP3 was anything but good sound quality.
Yeah, 128er and lower MP3s were/are bad back then (with 320er I have no issue as said previously). During Napster times we here still had mostly dialup connections except universities and even lowe quality took forever. And I was not immun I fear…
I re-did the whole thing in lossless (ALAC), so I’d never have to do this again.
That is exactly my way when I slowley/occasionally work on my CDs.
I just had an Amiga 500. Your track sounds right like these demo ones 😉 Mine were a bit less sophisticated as I just had the Soundtracker 2 program (here the first image https://www.amazona.de/uebersicht-tracker-vom-c64-ueber-den-amiga-bis-heute/) and some sounds discs. I could not sample and I had no keyboard or such back then. But fun days and how much time I wasted with it 😉 I still have a few dozen tracks I could save from an MC decades ago, the C64 ones didn’t survive sadly.
I now define it as “research” in my company so it becomes an expense 🙂
Being freelancer I don’t think this trick will help me in any regard 😉 I used Reason years ago, a very short time a limtied version of Cubase and then 15 years ago Logic when my then new Mac allowed it. And the overall package is quite unbeatable as with no other DAW you get as many sounds included. I started on tthe C64 by programming in music in Basic and then with Soundtrack on Amiga, so I find Logic quite comfortable. As with any tool, it’s also a matter of personal taste and such.
Thanks! There’s a whole album of flying birds and collapsing ecosystems too 🙂
As always: So much music and so limited time! But I will try to listen to more. What DAW do you use? Any specific libs. I use Logic and since I only occasionally do things at all I use just what comes with it and that is a lot. Of course there is always better… There are a few newer free and a little limiteed libraries that I want to expore when I get the time. I have basically no budget to buy any expensive library… That or or music by proper composers is the choice basically 😉 (Just realize that is more for the other topic but we can move it later)
I have a filesystem that keeps track of files by composer/artist and then album (I never collect anything that isn’t a complete album).
I have lots of single files but if by composers I group them in a compilation album.
Loudspeakers can generate sounds/frequencies that headphones can’t, so there’s no comparison, but you need to have decent acoustics otherwise it doesn’t help.
Yeah, for sure it is a different sound since on headphones the space is missing. I don’t have that proper acoustics and there is not that good sound isolation, too. So full blast would’t make me and my neighbours happy 😉
Never been a HiFi buff: A few years old Onkyo amplifier and CD player plus an late 1980s Fisher turntable and two Fisher speakers. There is also a JVC tape deck from the 1990s I think. That’s my office/music room.
In my living room is an inherited old also 1980s Sharp amplifier with speakers plus a probably 20 years old Phillips CD player.
And I have two fairly modest and also older Sennheiser headphones…
I either love it or loathe it, depending on my mood
Isn’t that true for all music?
Yes, my mistake actually as I misread it somehow as “I neither love it nor loathe it” 😉
I listen on loudspeakers mostly. Only use headphones if travelling or listening to something specific. Speakers have far superior dynamic range (at least with a good amp).
Interesstingly I love to listen via headphones since I feel to be more focussed and able to hear/dive into more details. But I don’t have any high end equipment or ever had…
in Apple’s awful proprietary format,
Just to correct, AAC which the iTunes stores uses is not a proprietary format. It is the successor of MP3 and actually technically the better codec. Although at 320kbps they are basically the same quality (and I don’t hear a difference to lossless which I still prefer to buy if reasonable priced).
We should all celebrate the fans orgs/companies who restore old soundtracks. They do a fantastic job, even though it’s annoying that they won’t sell digital FLAC instead of having to buy a CD.
Well, since as often stated the often don’t have the rights and they would of course “kill” their own niche, too… Gladly several of these old scores or expansions are available, although except by Varese from the film company’s labels mostly (which our labels don’t benefit from).
Btw, do you have a folder system for your files? The Apple Music app formerly iTunes by default handles that but I disabled it to have my own structure. Of course Apple Music handles it but I am somehow a file system guy that often accesses directly for quick listening via finder or VLC…
So I have separate folders for general each main genre poprock, jazz/worldmusic, classical and scores. Most are just by band with the albums within. Since scores are the majority it is divided into compilations, and a rough A-Z folders (for surnames, sometimes combined if there are only few names) with composer folders containing the albums. SOmetimes however like with Williams his classical works are within scores, too (At some time I probably will all join to one A-Z as the separation does not make that much sense for some).
Pretty nerdy but how is yours? Do you care at all?
Indeed nice article. Nice how he makes categoriess. We are of course mostly at “archive” level 😉
at no point did I consider selling off my entire CD collection (only individual titles in trades and the like). Nor did I get rid of my cassettes when I moved into CDs.
Me too excapt a bunch of CDs 15+ years ago which (as stated several times) I regret now. The “space win” and the “money win” even back then was neglectable 😉 expect most of my own recorded MCs just didn’t survive technically.
SUPERMAN IV, which has brand new Williams compositions. THAT is a must-have.
Yeah, but it’s mostly Thorne variations besides that, too.
Had to look up what he did afterwards. Somehow I thought SPACEBALLS was way before 1987… I heard parts of his YELLOWBEARD only but that nice swashbuckling adventure like. No idea how it holds up completely. And I think SCARLETT is the latest of hos I generally heard but I don’t remember it…
I don’t know if I ever saw SHINE. But I have a compilation with film score related “piano concertos”:
https://www.discogs.com/de/release/14859418-Philip-Fowke-RT%C3%89-Concert-Orchestra-Proinns%C3%ADas-%C3%93-Duinn-WARSCHAUER-KONZERT-Gro%C3%9Fe-Klavierkonzerte-AOf course the Addinsell and Herrman are classics that appear everywhere and the other ones possible a bit of a stretch 😉
