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Re: Xbox UI Portfolio Site

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Post by jagged-chisel »

johanvts wrote: post #8

Is there any chance the music section is legal? I would love to be able to put songs on my own pages, but I assumed it would be a legal issue? Is there a way to license songs at a reasonable price.

There's definitely a chance. Start with something like this: https://pixabay.com/music/

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Post by johanvts »

jagged-chisel wrote: post #21
johanvts wrote: post #8

Is there any chance the music section is legal? I would love to be able to put songs on my own pages, but I assumed it would be a legal issue? Is there a way to license songs at a reasonable price.

There's definitely a chance. Start with something like this: https://pixabay.com/music/

Thanks, but that’s royalty free music which is not an issue.

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Post by jagged-chisel »

johanvts wrote: post #22
jagged-chisel wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's definitely a chance. Start with something like this: https://pixabay.com/music/

Thanks, but that’s royalty free music which is not an issue.

Your original question sounded like you were unaware of how licensing music works. Royalty-free is a good place to start. If you want anything else, you can still do it legally, you just have to license the music for your use case. Various artists (and labels) provide various licensing terms. If you know someone, they might let you do it free.

If you're specific question was meant to be "did this person license this music legally for his site?" - yes, there's a chance he did. There's a chance he didn't. You'd have to ask him. Even if he did, that doesn't give anyone else rights to use those songs on their site.

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Post by Triphibian »

kilpikaarna wrote: post #14

Anyone know what the music visualizer is? It's certainly not the real one[0], but looks a lot like the Winamp AVS/MilkDrop stuff. My Inspect Element -fu was however insufficient for getting a closer look. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_(music_visualization)

Didn't Jeff Minter do the Xbox visualizer?

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Post by xattt »

jagged-chisel wrote: post #20
ucyo wrote: post #18

Fun fact: On the lower right corner there is the Xbox logo emitting waves to an imaginary surface below. The pattern is a watermark for the serial number of the device to be identified in case of leaked footage. Only during development of Xbox.

And what does the pattern on this site decode to? Maybe some nifty easter egg?

It can probably be decoded with some Dungeons and Dragons-level incantation of ffmpeg.

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Post by khat »

johanvts wrote: post #8

Is there any chance the music section is legal? I would love to be able to put songs on my own pages, but I assumed it would be a legal issue? Is there a way to license songs at a reasonable price.

If he has the license then yea it's legal. Chances are if he's posted it publicly he has the rights. Also for a low level personal website that's not going to get a lot of traffic and only hosting 3 songs they probably gave him a license for free.

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Post by nozzlegear »

lloeki wrote: post #15
hereonout2 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Others getting nostalgia over the Xbox 360 reminds me how old I am!

Now for an additional kickback: nostalgia induced here is about the NXE, but it famously displaced the original Blades dashboard.

I loved the Blades dashboard. Something about idly pressing the shoulder buttons to flip through the blades while talking to my friend with that goofy wireless "Xbox communicator" on my ear.

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Post by MisterTea »

xattt wrote: post #26
jagged-chisel wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And what does the pattern on this site decode to? Maybe some nifty easter egg?

It can probably be decoded with some Dungeons and Dragons-level incantation of ffmpeg.

It just looks like a bar code that is probably easily extracted with some machine vision.
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