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This is mostly a test of whether or not I, on my lonesome, in all of my uber ignorance of html, can correctly add a streaming song I modified and uploaded from my own computer and then set up here.
One of my favorite authors is John Ringo, military adventure and sci-fi, and he turned me on to this song by Heather Alexander, as well as my other current fave band, the Cruxshadows.
Whether you like the song or not (I’m Scots Irish, btw, so be warned.. bagpipes incoming), please let me kow whether it WORKED for you, if the streaming was smooth, if it autoplayed or not (It damn well better NOT autoplay), etc.
Thank you, my friends. I’m so excited!
Last edit… Should be final version. About 4.4 mb. After many trials and frustrations, I think I have figured out how to export my mp3 files into a smaller size for faster streaming, and have them still work. So this sounds good and downloads fast for me, please give me your feedback off of how clean this sonds and whether you experience any problems.
Thank you, and now I’m going to go stagger into a corner and sob for a while.
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October 4th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
Yep, Chipmunks. Kind of appealing in a strange sort of way.
October 5th, 2007 at 3:21 am
Sounds fine from here. And much more appealing to me than about 99% of the tracks people choose to grace their WOW videos with.
Do you ever listen to _Great Big Sea_ ? You might like them. They do some covers, but also Newfoundland folk — definite Scotch/Irish influence there — and their own music.
October 5th, 2007 at 3:49 am
Thanks Mosshoof, I’m very glad that it’s working for tohers too… I was pretty confident be testing on multiple rgs here that it finally works… after 5 versions of the song. Core problem I was having was I was using Audacity wrong when converting mp3 bitrates. live and learn.
I aint ever heard of Great Big Sea… but I always like to be pointed in new directions. I’ll try to find some of their music on itunes and youtube in the morning.
laters!
October 5th, 2007 at 7:38 am
It works for me. John Ringo, eh? I like him too. Have you read anything by Eric Flint, David Weber or David Drake?
If you haven’t read any of Drake’s stories about Hammer’s Slammers, I wholeheartedly recommend you check it out.
October 5th, 2007 at 10:36 am
It worked for me, but the streaming was choppy. It might be due to my work place filtering. Don’t they know I need to have access to this sort of thing?????
Dax
October 5th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Uh, forget the last comment. It works just fine. The internet gurus must have come to their senses….
Dax
October 5th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Just found your site BBB (probably from a Priestly one I frequent) and wanted to second the “Great Big Sea”. (Thier first album to me, is much more entertaining, but that’s just personal preference)
I can’t hear your song from work due to blasted firewalls, but I can see the widget to play it. So I have no doubts it’ll work from home.
October 5th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Works for me also…no auto play. Like the music will have to find some more of it somewhere.
October 5th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
sounded great to me, did not autoplay, purposefully and dutifully began to play music when i pressed the play button, even as I sit in my vehicle in the middle of a parking lot in the pouring rain on a wireless internet connection.
October 5th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
<3 Bagpipes!!!
Nice, I like it.
October 5th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Worked fine for me! Fast buffer and sound was fine.
-Shurlitimpul
October 6th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Excellent - both da technicals and da song.
October 7th, 2007 at 3:55 am
Whoa. I listened to this, and I’m rather blown away. I fell in love immediately! Awesome!
October 9th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
I’m still waiting for the followup report on what you thought of Great Big Sea.
The track that got me interested originally was this one: http://youtube.com/watch?v=6AvkyHCU7XU
(though I saw a version set to clips from Doctor Who — the one I linked is their video.)
They have sound clips on the official band website at http://www.greatbigsea.com/themusic/default.aspx
October 9th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Thank you to veryone for your feedback on this, I really appreciate it. I’m thinking of adding a little ’song of the week’ thing on Fridays just for laughs, but I honestly don’t know if it’s legal for me to take a song that I purchased, and present it here, even if it’s in a streaming form that can’t be saved or burnt to CD or whatever. I would think so from the whole youtube stuff, and after all if someone hears something they like they might go buy it from itunes, but you never know what the whackos at the record labels are thinking these days.
@Mosshoof… I DID go to the Great Big Sea website, and I DID listen to the first song they had available to listen to, and I liked it.
However, having just returned from vacation, I don’t have the money to buy an album off itunes just yet. But I will.
Any recommendations for a good album for a new Great Big Sea listener to try would be appreciated.
October 9th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
And @ The Alien
I do like David Weber and David Drake, quite a bit. Both their fantasy and sci fi settings. I used to think that I liked David Weber the better of the two, but lately I’ve been appreciating the intricate technical mastery and research of Drake.
Of the three, I’d have to say I find John Ringo the most enjoyable to read. He has a raunchiness and brutality to his war fiction that, as a former Marine, I appreciate wholeheartily. It may seem crude at times, and I may wince often while reading thinking about what civilians reading it must think, but that was what the real life FELT like. It wasn’t pretty and sentimental, and you didn’t sit around a campfire sharing your inner feelings about why you were doing what you did. And some people were crude bastards, and others were out for themselves, and you were doing a hard job surrounded by brutality and doing your best to do the right thing and the honorable thing and in the end all you could do was the best you could and hope that was enough. And it certainly wasn’t heroic, and it wasn’t majestic, it was just another day getting what had to be done done.
Sometimes it’s refreshing to read something written that isn’t buried under a 5 inch thick veneer of polish, but has that hard crude edge to it that reminds you of what it was really like…. even when you didn’t like it. There’s something to be said about capturing the feel of the thing with integrity rather than protraying the dream of the thing with romance.
And that there is my feelings on the difference between David Weber and John Ringo’s war series. Romanticized war versus crude war… but both certainly have some of the other’s style too. At least, a little.
And that was a whole bunch of crap that no one in this blog cares to read anyway. Boy, do I ramble on and on…. good thing it’s easy to /ignore on a blog, huh?
October 11th, 2007 at 1:02 am
I got “Rant and Roar” first, which has both cover songs and traditional music; and followed it up with “The Hard and The Easy” which is all interpretations of traditonal music. I’m pretty happy with both albums.