I’m sorry that we have this tiny idiot for PM, merrily joining up for the power with the racist nationalist party with a recent nazi history.

I sometimes think he is an actual blind idealist of market liberalism first and an opportunistic capitalist second, as opposed to most of these people that are in it for the money and model ideology after.

Now that is what I call a sticky situation

You’re not wrong in any way but I would just like to clarify in the most friendly way that the use of spectrum in audio context is frequencies and not amplitude. Compressing the frequency spectrum is not really desired unless for in very particular applications like specialized lossy audio compression, which in turn is even more confusing the terminology because now compression is about reducing the data rate in a controlled degradation. Anyway, the proper terminology would be that the audio is dynamically compressed to a smaller range.

Because of normalisation. The more you experience anything, the less spectacular it becomes.

Teenage kicks in particular needs something that is amped up from what was before. Hence evolution of music and culture has always been driven by youth and keeps pushing the limits of what is doable and eventually what is normal.

This trick used to be €200.

But you can have it now for €20.

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I can make up a compound word in Swedish for you. Osannolikhetsförlägenhet. Osannolik means improbable. Förlägenhet here means an embarrassing situation. So the word would mean something along improbability-embarrassment-situation.

That is some Temu garbage body double. Not that the original was any better.

My dude, you have no idea how much of contemporary popular music of any genres that use lots of drum machines and synths and samplers are built with ready made loops. Even top hits from demon producers contain sounds from sample libraries and midi libraries and tools to create them. Electronic dance music, hip hop, pop songs… All of them.

It is inevitable that eventually these samples and loops will be generated by AI. There have been plenty of tools for generating compositions of drums, chords, leads, bass lines and so on for a very long time. Before AI there were tools to do it algorithmically and mathematically. Before computers composers did it by hand by lifting bits and pieces from others, repeating patterns with variations, flipping sequences, imposing arbitrary rules on themselves while composing and so on. In the 1950s there was a sort of culmination with the modernistic movement of Serialism that attempted to liberate composition from all musical parameters into pure algorithmic pieces. Check out Messiaen and Boulez. It sounds pretty much what you’d imagine pure algorithmic music to sound like but it was a milestone for that time and era.

The thing is that while use of technology can be abused by the greedy and the lazy and the untalented to make unoriginal slop, there will also always always always be creative people that use whatever they get their hands on to make stuff that is unique remarkable in ways that the technology itself could never achieve by itself.

This is someone with a fetish to be gross and get attention for it. Just block them and move on. No need to feed their kink.

Nobody cares about your history when you are spamming click baits for your videos. Raging about it not being appreciated makes you no favours either, princess.

It is used where it is applicable. For regular web pages it is overkill that only complicates everything with no gain at all.

Click bait marketing of some shitty YouTube channel.

I make a fast (or faux) pesto while pasta is cooking.

1. Press garlic in a mug, add basil, fresh ground pepper and salt. Crush on pine nuts if I have any.
2. Cover with olive oil and give it a little stir.
3. Grate parmesan cheese and mix it in.
4. Some more parmesan cheese.
5. And don’t forget the parmesan cheese.

Drain pasta, mix in pesto, enjoy. Can also be fancied up with your mentioned fancies or some olives or marinated peppers or artichokes.

And they still had to pony up for the fee

I think Qobuz feels much more premium than the two others. And at least for me, Qobuz Connect works like what I was missing from Sp_tify Connect when using Tidal.

I made the same journey. Used Tidal 1-2 years but never felt quite comfortable with it. The one that shall not be mentioned have got a lot in the UI right.

I’m still quite new to Qobuz but I like it much better. Their recommendations are much better, the search is much better, more info about fringe artists and sometimes albums too. Some bands/artists with the same name have confused albums but it’s expected and okay I think.

Over all I’d say that Tidal is a great streaming service but Qobuz has music nerd appeal that reminds me of walking into my favourite record stores and chatting about new releases and recommendations from somebody that actually cares.

Getting back to you question, I see room for improvement but I’m much more comfy with Qobuz than I ever was with Tidal.

That is me putting it in embellished words of amusement instead of saying that the software ran numbers through the dongle if it was present so that the logic on the dongle would correct it but if it was not present it would allow the run and save except the altered numbers would have a unnoticeably tiny miscalculation that would accumulate over the numerous edits and saves during the project duration.

Because I assumed that people would put it together themselves. Which apparently most people did. But some people still need everything spelled out for them. Ironically those that credit themselves more intelligent than everybody else.

Welp, I heard the story back in the mid nineties from someone that worked in an architect office. One save or a few without a dongle makes basically no difference but systematic license abuse will make you have to spend man hours to redraw the entire thing before delivering it to the customer. Considering how absolutely hysterical some corporate anti piracy measures were at the time I would not say it is not unbelievable, this being very early internet era and all.

I recall some other corporate oriented software that would after some time only print blank pages without explanation if it detected a crack, there were a few console games that would corrupt your entire memory card with all your saves from everything, and music software and VSTs that would spread a cracked warez version to “the scene” that would have a trojan do other nasty things to your computer as a pre-emptive revenge.

But you do you and have all the smarts. Who knows, I’m probably AI too.

But what does that mean?