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WITCHCRAFT posted:The thing that took me longest was going through my giant pile of poo poo to get rid of stuff I won't listen to anymore, and migrate the keepers to new storage. Sifting through it manually got me back into stuff that I hadn't listened to in a long while and still enjoy. And then since I haven't listened to that artist in years, might as well see if they released new stuff and download that and put it into the "to listen" pile.
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doctorfrog posted:I find it a little irritating that there isn't a way I can just download the most-loved 30 gigabytes or so from modarchive.org or whatever. That music's been around long enough, surely there's a curated collection for the curious dabbler. 30GB and 120000 downloaded modules later...
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doctorfrog posted:30GB and 120000 downloaded modules later...  Is XMPlay the best windows player? It's been a while and I have a sudden urge to waste 30GB
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Dec 6, 2021 23:24
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Now I have to investigate just to see if any of my songs ended up in that compilation. And to hope if so it was not one of the songs I wrote like six weeks into my career that absolutely sucks yet was somehow preserved online forever Edit: Wait a minute I can just search for my name on Modarchive, why did I never think of this before Oh my god I am in so many greetz texts, my greatest legacy Dr. Quarex has a new favorite as of 00:39 on Dec 7, 2021 |
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an actual frog posted:
'best' I have no idea, but it's pretty good for this dabbler. I just pointed it at the 30GB directory full of nested zip files and it's like "okie dokie boss, just press play on these 3000 tracks while I try to grab all 120000." There are what I assume are reasonable tracker player settings, some of which can be seen in that screenie I posted. I actually used XMPlay for years as a simple skinned MP3 player without really understanding what it was designed for.
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Dec 7, 2021 05:46
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XMPlay (plus plugins) are probably still the best way of playing the weirder module formats. The SID plugin needs an update last I checked after they rejigged the song length format so it's not good for playlists of them though.
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Dec 7, 2021 12:34
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Dec 7, 2021 22:10
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Cartoon Man posted:
It mutes the TV audio and switches in your phone line. The TV set had a microphone in it so you could talk back. Basically, it turned your TV into a giant speakerphone.
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Dec 7, 2021 22:15
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Cartoon Man posted:
Grandparents had a tv with that remote. One of those big rear end floor TVs that’s also a piece of furniture. I remember the first time they called me from it they said were calling from their tv and I started waving because I assumed that meant they could see me. I’ve since developed a better understanding of technology.
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Dec 7, 2021 22:30
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Pham Nuwen posted:It mutes the TV audio and switches in your phone line. The TV set had a microphone in it so you could talk back. Basically, it turned your TV into a giant speakerphone. You mean it doesn’t call the galactic senate and execute order 66??? Useless remote…
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Dec 7, 2021 22:41
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HOLY poo poo that is my childhood remote, except crucially the bottom two rows were totally absent, so I have no personal stories of Space Phone. I can tell you I exclusively entered 17 for Nickelodeon and 21 for MTV on it, though. MAYBE 30 for VH1 at the end of its life. And that it absolutely felt better than any of the like dozen remotes Telecable/TCI/Comcast/XFinity replaced it with over the next 30 years
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Dec 7, 2021 23:50
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Dr. Quarex posted:HOLY poo poo that is my childhood remote, except crucially the bottom two rows were totally absent, so I have no personal stories of Space Phone. Were they clacky switches?
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Dec 8, 2021 08:41
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I can't find an image of it, but we had an RCA TV with an RF wireless remote that just had a rocker switch for volume and a rocker switch for changing the channel. And the knob on the TV physically turned when you changed the channel. That was a relic until one day it succumbed to the magic smoke.
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My uncle had some crappy old tv at his cabin that had a “colorize” feature on it. Unfortunately there were never any black and white shows on any time I was there to test it on. Toggling it on an already color show just gave it weird color combos, although that’s probably what it would have done to black and white too.
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Dec 8, 2021 11:54
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If I were a kid and I saw a remote with buttons labeled "Programmer" I would assume they were reserved for the use of licensed TV technicians and if I pressed them the TV would fizzle out and cost our family thousands of dollars 
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Dec 8, 2021 13:20
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Data Graham posted:If I were a kid and I saw a remote with buttons labeled "Programmer" I would assume they were reserved for the use of licensed TV technicians and if I pressed them the TV would fizzle out and cost our family thousands of dollars When I was a kid and my mum told me dad was a programmer, that he wrote programs as a job, I thought he was the guy who made the subtitles appear, some sort of typist.
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Dec 8, 2021 13:22
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Casimir Radon posted:My uncle had some crappy old tv at his cabin that had a “colorize” feature on it. Unfortunately there were never any black and white shows on any time I was there to test it on. Toggling it on an already color show just gave it weird color combos, although that’s probably what it would have done to black and white too. Sounds like an automated version of the filter sheets they sold back in the day to turn black and white tvs into “color” ones. 
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Dec 8, 2021 14:22
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Wow the blue man group has been around a lot longer than I thought
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Dec 8, 2021 14:55
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I remember learning about those sheets from an episode of Happy Days. I think Mr. Cunningham put it on upside down, causing Joanie to ask why the sky was green and the grass blue. Google led me to this project: https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/rainbow/ He built a PDF he printed onto a layer of acetate with an inkjet printer and laid it over a b&w monitor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfPV_se0Kxk
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Dec 8, 2021 15:07
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I had this baby growing up I remember staring at it during commercials and wondering what those other channels were like and who could see them
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Humphreys posted:Were they clacky switches? The most similar buttons I can think of would be, like, 3.5" disk drive eject buttons (but these were smaller obviously). Very satisfying, not gummy or "did I actually push it?" at all like basically every remote since Dr. Quarex has a new favorite as of 16:20 on Dec 8, 2021 |
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doctorfrog posted:30GB and 120000 downloaded modules later... Saw that cursed EQ config and remembered one simple trick that doctors hate  +  = 
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GI_Clutch posted:I remember learning about those sheets from an episode of Happy Days. I think Mr. Cunningham put it on upside down, causing Joanie to ask why the sky was green and the grass blue. ooh that reminds me of how the bbc managed to recover the color footage from some old shows, since the black and white film they have was a recording of a color CRT all you need to do to is apply a color mask that matches the phosphor grid pattern. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjK-b4x9ZmQ
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Yeah, I vaguely remember being impressed by that - it does suggest that the recording quality for the black/white versions must have been fairly good.
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Mod Archive update: foobar2000 is a better choice for managing that many files. Basically if you listen to 120000 items for about 2 hours a day it'll take 10 years to hear them all. So what I'm doing now is just listening to randomized collections (which foobar2000 does well) and when one strikes my fancy I use foobar's tagging and file operations tools copy it over to a 'keepers' directory. If I really like a track, I'll just figure out who the author is and either do a local binary search for their name as a string or search modarchive for more of their stuff (which is faster even though technically I probably have it downloaded already). This is all completely normal.
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Are we soulmates That sounds a lot like my life in like 2007 when I had finally decided I had the free time necessary to listen to all the Demoscene tracks in my collection to decide once and for all which of them were good enough to turn into .MP3s. Since the like few hundred songs I had converted a decade earlier were just inadequate for the purposes of my collection on my music player. Haha, remember music players?
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doctorfrog posted:I'll just figure out who the author is and either do a local binary search for their name as a string or search modarchive for more of their stuff (which is faster even though technically I probably have it downloaded already). Unrelated but this was a fun nostalgia hit, the guy takes an old socket 7 motherboard and modifies it to support MMX chips and some others... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0NLGfocviU
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an actual frog posted:Yeah to be fair to you that torrent archive is utterly impenetrable and a nightmare to browse. Spectate Swamp can fix that! 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 00:49 on Dec 10, 2021 |
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I’m using Agent Ransack, which is probably older than some of the mods themselves.
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Dr. Quarex posted:Are we soulmates yeah, the impulse to catalog and archive is very difficult to resist. I'm meeting it halfway by listening to random selections and going deeper on tracks that stand out. What I'm not doing, though, is converting the li'l fuckers to mp3, unless I have a real need to listen to them outside my PC. Playing them natively in foobar2000 with the right plugins is as far as I'm willing to go for casual listening. I will say this, for selective copying into a "favorites" folder, converting to other formats, and even tagging (to a point), foobar2000 is pretty good IMO.
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an actual frog posted:Yeah to be fair to you that torrent archive is utterly impenetrable and a nightmare to browse. doctorfrog has a new favorite as of 20:59 on Dec 10, 2021 |
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That normal frog should definitely listen to the doctor frog's advice, as he has obviously spent a lot of time researching Foobar2000 does rule. It is the only reason I am not still using like WinAmp 3.5 or whatever
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doctorfrog posted:Mod Archive update: foobar2000 is a better choice for managing that many files. Basically if you listen to 120000 items for about 2 hours a day it'll take 10 years to hear them all. It's not really mod but TGV's KiloMix '98 that was built into Rebirth RB-338 was one of the first 'non commercial' tracks I put on my 32MB MP3 Player. EDIT: Found it easily enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfjmo451aGM Humphreys has a new favorite as of 16:43 on Dec 10, 2021 |
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Pham Nuwen posted:It mutes the TV audio and switches in your phone line. The TV set had a microphone in it so you could talk back. Basically, it turned your TV into a giant speakerphone. Groove with your Space Commander, dad!
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Humphreys posted:It's not really mod but TGV's KiloMix '98 that was built into Rebirth RB-338 was one of the first 'non commercial' tracks I put on my 32MB MP3 Player. I had to struggle with a 486/33 until 1999 because poor. I made music on Fast Tracker II back then and when I went to my friend's place and he showed me Rebirth I was blown away. It was a really cool piece of software and the fact that it was built to mimic the hardware synths was more interesting than if it was just a normal sequencer based software.
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I hadn't heard of that movie before you linked the clip... sounds like the critics hated it, but drat if the cast isn't impressive.
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lobsterminator posted:I had to struggle with a 486/33 until 1999 because poor. I made music on Fast Tracker II back then and when I went to my friend's place and he showed me Rebirth I was blown away. It was a really cool piece of software and the fact that it was built to mimic the hardware synths was more interesting than if it was just a normal sequencer based software. Rebirth was discontinued and Propellerheads made it 100% free, so time to relive your youth!
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Humphreys posted:Rebirth was discontinued and Propellerheads made it 100% free, so time to relive your youth! Shame the download site got nuked and now it redirects to reason homepage, archive seems to have saved the isos if you want to spin up a vm and try it out.
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I try to make an Amiga ProTracker chip tune every xmas. I still haven't figured out this year's song, but here are some of my previous ones. If/when I get a new tune done I will share it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S52WYY2EB6E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMFNofivseM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BcCJwzRumk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs7BEGz4tg4
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lobsterminator posted:I try to make an Amiga ProTracker chip tune every xmas. I still haven't figured out this year's song, but here are some of my previous ones. If/when I get a new tune done I will share it.
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