Comments on: bad first song

bad first song

cortex — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:43:39 -0800

This my hello world for my new macbook, recorded in GarageBand using the internal mic. It is short and terrible.

By: The corpse in the library

The corpse in the library — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:00:48 -0800

Dude -- you'd better hope your boss doesn't find out what you're doing with the office equipment.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:43:50 -0800

Steve Jobs is gonna totally jump on this for the next MacBook ad campaign.

That is, as soon as his ears stop hurting.

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:03:11 -0800

I can't tell you how pleased I am that GarageBand has a built in "megaphone" filter. Here's hoping the next release will add "obnoxious screaming" to the palette.

By: davejay

davejay — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:14:37 -0800

A++ EXACTLY AS DESCRIBED WOULD LISTEN AGAIN

incidentally, you can have some good results with that internal microphone in a pinch (even if you have a cold), or by plugging a good pair of headphones into the microphone jack...

By: danb

danb — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:47:33 -0800

You're just posting this to see if I can come up with a comment, aren't you? I should never have started this project.

Hmm. Well, you used one of my favorite chords -- the iv, or minor subdominant. And you put it in the IV-iv-I progression, a la "In My Life." So, you know, that's something.

By: edlundart

edlundart — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:50:42 -0800

Cortex, even when you're just foolin' around, you can't help but show that you have an ear for melody. For this, I hate you.

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:21:09 -0800

"Cortex, even when you're just foolin' around, you can't help but show that you have an ear for melody. For this, I hate you."
posted by edlundart at 3:50 PM on July 10

Seconded.

By: jchgf

jchgf — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:02:01 -0800

How accurate is the playcount at the top of this page (and other pages as well)? As I type this, it's got 1 count and seven comments.

I suppose downloads and auditions in playlists are not tallied in these play counts, is this correct?

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:54:26 -0800

If I remember right, the hacky way we ended up calculating "plays" via the flash player involved counting the number of times a song creaked past the minute mark -- shorter stints being shrug-and-give-up type stuff.

No idea how playback from playlists aside from this or the front page are calculated.

But since this song is super short, it never crosses that threshold. I think the 1 play must be from someone hitting the direct download link instead of playing it in flash.

By: ORthey

ORthey — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:10:46 -0800

I listened twice! And liked it both times.

By: edlundart

edlundart — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:56:21 -0800

It's a little known fact that the play counter is programmed to freeze and never go up when people are playing the track too many times, like with all of edlundart's songs.

By: Corduroy

Corduroy — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:21:05 -0800

Hahah, the megaphone effect. This made me laugh.

By: micayetoca

micayetoca — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:16:20 -0800

It's a little known fact that the play counter is programmed to freeze and never go up when people are playing the track too many times, like with all of edlundart's songs.
posted by edlundart

Oh, sorry, edlundart, I've been downloading your songs and listening to them millions of times in iTunes, in order to avoid overloading the server here. Also, I didn't think anyone ever paid any attention to that counter thing

(no one else from cortex, of course, who is the only one that gets thousands of plays, damn him!)

By: snsranch

snsranch — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:42:51 -0800

I'm kinda disappointed. This could have sucked A LOT more. Maybe next time!