Ah, the many eras of corporate music. Canyon.mid exemplifies the late 80s / early 90s aesthetic - gets me fired up to optimize my multimedia strategy. The current era is mostly inspiring 4 chord repetitions with muted guitar and piano, with B-roll of cinematic nature footage and racially diverse businesspeople shaking hands. Also jaunty ukulele riffs with dance claps and some kind of "oh oh ayy-oh" vocal hook. What c…
Now you're just showing off playing all the instruments. :-D :horns:
i like the wardrobe change between instruments. did he just get too tired to play the other 2 tracks on the same day, or did the mrs. need the honey-do list before he could get back to it, or just changed shirts to make it seem like it was so time consuming it required multiple days in the studio
Hehe. It's because I'm incapable of finishing a project in any reasonable timeframe. There might have been six months between takes for all I know.
I miss those good times when developers were given freedom to do things like these.
Except that it increases software complexity, possibly bugs as well as security vulnerabilities. I definitely don’t won’t this kind of “features” in software I use.
I miss the good times when security wasn't an important thing to always keep in mind because there weren't that many hackers and script kiddies.
I also did one a while back if anyone is interested. https://youtu.be/s_XYWwCu8vM
Man. I remember making little mids on a flip phone in the 2000s. When you're playing with the silly toots and beeps you imagine them so much bigger. These covers are how it sounds in your head when you're writing one.
That's honestly why I do them. To make the sound that 10 year old me actually heard when listening.
“Object Packager”! I’d spend hours trying to figure out what you could do with a utility sporting such a cool name & icon. Did anyone ever use it for its mysterious but intended purpose?
It wrapped media objects into compatible OLE 1.0 objects for insertion into OLE containers (example: office documents, presentations etc). It was a component of OLE before later versions and before OLE became ActiveX, and learned to embed stuff by themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Linking_and_Embedding#O...
It's weird to think how big a part of desktop computing this once was, and now there's no real expectation for it. Web content's also not particularly embeddable. I used to love KParts in KDE - I'd start the morning with Konqueror open with some tabs showing web pages, some tabs showing my Excel time sheet or the Word docs with specs for what I was working on, and it was just totally normal that all this stuff worked and composed together.
I think "computery" music (synthesized on the user's device from individual notes) reached its peak with tracker/keygen music: https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/ That was maybe the last moment before video games switched to recorded music, and chiptunes became a nostalgia genre.
Ah, the many eras of corporate music. Canyon.mid exemplifies the late 80s / early 90s aesthetic - gets me fired up to optimize my multimedia strategy. The current era is mostly inspiring 4 chord repetitions with muted guitar and piano, with B-roll of cinematic nature footage and racially diverse businesspeople shaking hands. Also jaunty ukulele riffs with dance claps and some kind of "oh oh ayy-oh" vocal hook. What c…
In answer to your closing rhetorical, I'd like the throw a curveball: Corporate Businesswave, the genre of truly creative artists riffing on soulless corporate jingle culture. Plenty of 80s/90s aesthetic to go around here. I personally love "Money Can Buy Happiness" and "Mark to Market" by New Century, "Pump and Dump" by Shadow and Mirrors, and "Insider Trading" by Michael Weber.
How am I only just learning that a a piece of music is only a song if it has vocals? Even the name makes that obvious.
Calling instrumental pieces "songs" does exist in real-life common usage even if it's not "technically" correct. After all, the ancestor post did just that. Depends how prescriptive you want to be.
A classical music lecture series I listened to [1] claimed this came about because that's what iTunes calls all tracks/pieces/songs. Seems plausible, but probably other MP3 players did the same thing too.
[1] Sorry, no link, don't remember what exactly it was.
I miss Windows 3.11 so much. It was so much more clean and intuitive than today Windows...
I thought that a while ago... So much so, that I wrote a Proof of Concept 'Program Manager' for Windows 10 that re-imagined my current Start Menu in a Windows 3.1 style.
Oh. My. God. The whole paradigm falls down when you've got so many folders full of apps. I don't know how to solve it.
It worked well back in the day though when most people only had a handful of apps (that we used to call 'software') installed.