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mixtape 064b [Sun, 11-Jan-2009 9:05 PM]
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Please enjoy jwz mixtape 064b!

That's right, I said 064b! I built and approximation of mixtape 064 out of Youtube videos, like I did for mixtape 047. Some entries on 064b have been replaced by other tracks by the same band, and a few are missing, because I couldn't find any videos...

Update, 19-Sep-2009: Youtube seems to have broken something. If the embedded player doesn't work, try this link.

Also, I have some Youtube hate:

  • Dear Warner Music Group, please die in a fire.

  • Dear nearly-every-record-label, why do you post all your videos with "embedding disabled"? All that does is make it so that I cannot include your videos in a playlist, and thus cannot promote your artists for you. It also doesn't really work, since I just have to go three pages deep in the search results to find someone else who posted a crappy television rip of it. Instead of your almost-as-crappy rip of it.

  • Dear teenagers who post still-frame video as a way of sharing the audio: knock that shit off! There are real videos of all of these songs, and you're just cluttering up the damned search results.

  • Dear Youtube: add some god damned options to your search engine, so I can search for only videos that are embeddable, and/or only videos that are high quality. (Bonus points if there's a checkbox for "videos that contain video"! Omit the ones where the frame rate is less than 1 FPS.)

    A checkbox for "leave out the ones where 80% of the audio is clipping" would be cool, too.

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[User Picture]From: [info]ammutbite
Mon, 12-Jan-2009 5:40 AM (UTC)

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I am glad to 100% share in every one of your youtube hate sentiments, along with this extra one.
The 10 min cut off mark is arbitrary and idiotic, considering that some music video lasts longer than 10 minutes as made by artists like TG, Neubauten, Plasmatics, etc.
[User Picture]From: [info]lafinjack
Mon, 12-Jan-2009 6:54 AM (UTC)

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The ten minute limit has been gone for a while, and even before then certain types of accounts could go longer.
[User Picture]From: [info]ammutbite
Mon, 12-Jan-2009 9:40 AM (UTC)

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hmmm, well, now I feel silly.
maybe I should relent on my youtube hate enough to log into my account.

Edited at 2009-01-12 09:40 am (UTC)
From: [info]edge_walker
Tue, 13-Jan-2009 4:50 PM (UTC)

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That’s exactly why they put it in place – to keep the MPAA off their backs by preventing people from uploading full-length movies without considerable pain.

[User Picture]From: [info]ammutbite
Tue, 13-Jan-2009 8:16 PM (UTC)

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Thanks for writing.
While I find your approval of "appeasement" of MPAA/RIAA amusing, uploading "fill-length movies" has no relevance in this case.
Since the comment you replied to refers to preserving the integrity of musical works, the word "exactly" is summarily inappropriate.
From: [info]edge_walker
Tue, 13-Jan-2009 10:23 PM (UTC)

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The fault is in your interpretation, not my phrasing, but I don’t care to argue it either way anyway, much less in [info]jwz’s comments.

[User Picture]From: [info]unwoman
Mon, 12-Jan-2009 5:58 AM (UTC)

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Some are probably much worse than others, but fyi youtube normalizes badly so that even when the original audio track has 0 clipping, the one on youtube will. I guess they figure it's not loud enough unless it's distorting.
[User Picture]From: [info]morbid_curious
Mon, 12-Jan-2009 6:22 AM (UTC)

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I've heard of artists adding extra blank space to the end of some of their YouTube videos so that they won't normalise as badly. But then, people shouldn't have to do shit like that in the first place.
[User Picture]From: [info]unwoman
Mon, 12-Jan-2009 6:25 AM (UTC)

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[info]maxmin does that and it's not for audio normalization, it's for video compression, because I guess it looks at average bitrate or something.
[User Picture]From: [info]morbid_curious
Mon, 12-Jan-2009 6:34 AM (UTC)

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That's just the video? Curses, I'd hoped it was both.
[User Picture]From: [info]marapfhile
Mon, 12-Jan-2009 6:40 AM (UTC)

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someone should do a "hot or not?" knockoff called "nine inch nails or static?",
[User Picture]From: [info]captain_swing
Mon, 12-Jan-2009 3:04 PM (UTC)

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ROFLMAO. That cracked me up :D
From: [info]ywwg
Mon, 12-Jan-2009 4:46 PM (UTC)

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I think people tried adding a high-pitched full-volume squeal to their audio tracks to prevent normalization. Youtube sees the waveform as loud and doesn't try to raise the volume any more, and then their high-pass filter removes it anyway.
[User Picture]From: [info]unwoman
Mon, 12-Jan-2009 5:01 PM (UTC)

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Hey now! Good idea, I will definitely try that next time.
[User Picture]From: [info]jwz
Tue, 13-Jan-2009 1:04 AM (UTC)

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There's "crappy compression", and then there's "I recorded this concert with a cell phone, so it sounds like the mic was actually inside a didgeridoo."
[User Picture]From: [info]unwoman
Tue, 13-Jan-2009 1:07 AM (UTC)

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Unfortunately, I know exactly the sound you mean.
[User Picture]From: [info]mdl
Mon, 12-Jan-2009 8:44 AM (UTC)

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I'd rather people just not use YouTube for sharing music, because it sounds like shit. Seems strange that they haven't made the audio decent quality now that they're supporting much better video...
[User Picture]From: [info]fatcaterpillar
Mon, 12-Jan-2009 11:58 AM (UTC)

Damn kids!

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Get off my lawn!
[User Picture]From: [info]jwz
Mon, 12-Jan-2009 12:03 PM (UTC)

Re: Damn kids!

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I am happy with them being on my lawn. I just wish they were able to land a move every now and then.
[User Picture]From: [info]neonfushiastarr
Mon, 12-Jan-2009 6:53 PM (UTC)

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What.. You're not into every video you search for being dubbed over some crappy anime footage?

What the hell is wrong with you?!
[User Picture]From: [info]kaishaku
Tue, 13-Jan-2009 12:35 AM (UTC)

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How about 'instructional' movies that contain 20 seconds of video and 100 seconds of "Here's an animation of me typing, character by character, exactly what the video's description says..."
[User Picture]From: [info]strspn
Tue, 13-Jan-2009 12:46 AM (UTC)

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Minipop is fantastic, M83 is fantastic, Jem is truly an amazing Suzanne Vega / Natalie Merchant hybrid, there's no "Full screen" or "Playlist on Youtube" buttons that I can find. The best I can do is this url.

I continue to be amazed and enriched by your search for new music and will continue to watch and listen.
[User Picture]From: [info]jwz
Tue, 13-Jan-2009 12:48 AM (UTC)

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Hmm, I see a "full screen" button second from the right...
[User Picture]From: [info]jwz
Tue, 13-Jan-2009 12:59 AM (UTC)

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You tried a lot harder than you needed to.

Click on the icon to the right of "Play" to bring up the "coverview" thingy in-window. Scroll to video. Select. Double-click in the main window to go to that video's individual page.
[User Picture]From: [info]inoah
Tue, 13-Jan-2009 1:03 AM (UTC)

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Good to know for future reference, but I wanted to watch them offline anyway.
[User Picture]From: [info]ellettra
Tue, 13-Jan-2009 2:01 AM (UTC)

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hello hello! a dear friend, [info]crackmonkey sent me your way, with the promise of mixtapes. and wow, good stuff. thanks for your great work compiling and letting us stream them!
[User Picture]From: [info]squirrelonlj
Wed, 14-Jan-2009 2:29 PM (UTC)

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