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Re: Infinite Gangnam Style

#101

Post by jmitcheson »

denzil_correa wrote: post #72
Nitramp wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's just because Chrome throttles JS execution in background tabs to a crawl.

Thanks. Is there a fix?

Just drag the tab out to its own window. Then you can minimize it and Chrome doesn't consider it to be in the background.

Random aside: I just noticed that after you drag the Gangnam tab out to its own window, then you can open other tabs in that same window, and it doesn't put the Gangnam tab in the background anymore. But if you put the tab/window back in the original set of Chrome tabs, then it will.

Re: Infinite Gangnam Style

#102

Post by rasur »

napum wrote: post #58
mef wrote: post #8

This is really awesome. They cut the entire song into one-beat segments of sound and video, and then categorized each beat by similarity to other beats in the song, and then after each beat there's a random chance that, instead of playing the next beat, the playback will transition to a different but similar-sounding beat from elsewhere in the song. More info at the author's blogpost: http://musicmachinery.com/2012/1…

That makes me think of "Scrambled Hackz"[1] in a feedback loop. Very cool stuff but I'm not sure if he ever released the source to the program, sadly. [1] http://hackaday.com/2006/03/22/scrambled-hackz/

No he didn't.. I've been waiting and waiting, still no joy.

Re: Infinite Gangnam Style

#103

Post by Aissen »

pg wrote: post #33

I would be interested to see what happens when you do this to other types of music.

Just tried it on a music I liked, and wanted to create an "inifinite" version for some time: http://soundcloud.com/college/college-teenage-color (echonest track id: SOGUHNN12A8C13E7DD)

It doesn't work as well as in gangnam style.

I didn't take time to try to understand why. Either this is because echonest's analyzed mp3 isn't the same as mine. Or the function to compute distance between beats isn't generic enough.

Re: Infinite Gangnam Style

#104

Post by Aissen »

darkstalker wrote: post #68

No one else noticed that this doesn't work on Firefox? Sorry, this app needs advanced web audio. Your browser doesn't support it. Try the latest version of Chrome

Yup that's normal. They even explain why. That's normal for tech demos using bleeding edge APIs.

Re: Infinite Gangnam Style

#105

Post by jhdevos »

chimeracoder wrote: post #93
arn wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

99 red balloons was translated to english. My admittedly-unreliable-recollection is that's the one that received most radio play. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14IRDDnEPR4 Edit: I guess I'm wrong: per wikipedia: Having achieved widespread success in Europe and Japan, plans were made for the band to take the song international with an English version by Kevin McAlea, titled "99 Red Balloons". The English version is n…

I'm not surprised. The English lyrics are, frankly, a little awkward. Nena's accent could be seen as endearing, but at the same time, it sounds a tad stilted, and nowhere near as fluid as the original German. It's a dance tune, and once you know what the song is about, it's just much more fun to hear it in the language that sounds more polished and lets you tune out the words so you can, well, dance. At the end of th…

You are not the only one who does this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI

Re: Infinite Gangnam Style

#106

Post by RyanMcGreal »

arn wrote: post #63
kbutler wrote: post #59

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que sera sera. c'est la vie. There are lots of cultural memes in America that aren't in English. You can restrict to "recent pop culture", but even in straight music, 99 luftballoons was big 25 years ago. I'm sure there are many other examples.

99 red balloons was translated to english. My admittedly-unreliable-recollection is that's the one that received most radio play. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14IRDDnEPR4 Edit: I guess I'm wrong: per wikipedia: Having achieved widespread success in Europe and Japan, plans were made for the band to take the song international with an English version by Kevin McAlea, titled "99 Red Balloons". The English version is n…

I'm Canadian and I remember the English version getting more radio play than the German version. Learning now that the German version was more popular in the USA, I feel like a bit of a philistine. :)

Re: Infinite Gangnam Style

#108

Post by RyanMcGreal »

jhdevos wrote: post #105
chimeracoder wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not surprised. The English lyrics are, frankly, a little awkward. Nena's accent could be seen as endearing, but at the same time, it sounds a tad stilted, and nowhere near as fluid as the original German. It's a dance tune, and once you know what the song is about, it's just much more fun to hear it in the language that sounds more polished and lets you tune out the words so you can, well, dance. At the end of th…

You are not the only one who does this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI

Likewise, I'm sure we all recall Jimi Hendrix singing, "Excuse me while I kiss this guy."

Re: Infinite Gangnam Style

#109

Post by denzil_correa »

jmitcheson wrote: post #101
denzil_correa wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. Is there a fix?

Just drag the tab out to its own window. Then you can minimize it and Chrome doesn't consider it to be in the background. Random aside: I just noticed that after you drag the Gangnam tab out to its own window, then you can open other tabs in that same window, and it doesn't put the Gangnam tab in the background anymore. But if you put the tab/window back in the original set of Chrome tabs, then it will.

Man, this is more complicated than Google Wave!
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