Thanks o2dazone... I have GrooveSalad in my bookmarks but don't go there much anymore. I see di.fm has an ambient channel and it sounds great so far.
di.fm, mostly the electro/tech house channels
...and Jazz (Talented as hell, but is it so much to ask that they play in time?)
I usually listen to my personal collection, but I do listen to a lot of Sirius/XM when I am on the road (Chill, usually). Although, I have been indulging in quite a bit of Pandora now that I have a Palm Pre. Both Sirius and Pandora help augment the personal collection by exposing me to new music.
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Seems to me that most of the good jazz musicians I have seen/listened to have some of the best senses of time and rhythm of anybody I've ever run across, musician or no!
(Guess what I like to listen to? ;) )
-- Nathan
It just seems like when I do watch/listen to some, some members always seem to be playing a different song, albeit at the same tempo. I suppose that would have been a better phrase. It just doesn't sit well with me. One of the few, but I guess there has to be something.
Have you ever learned any Jazz theory?
What I've noticed is that with jazz it isn't just about listening, but knowing what you're listening to. There is a lot of stuff that isn't necessarily just pleasing to the ears, but is often a joke in a way(quote a phrase from someone on a song form years ago or something like that) and the thing is people who don't know exactly what it is that they're quoting don't get it and then just kinda get confused in a way. Also, there are certain styles of playing that don't adhere to the normal 'rules' of music and therefore don't sound good unless you know about that specific style.
I guess my best analogy would be like an inside joke. If you're on the outside, you just think they're being stupid.
BTW I totally understand what you mean, before I took a bunch of jazz classes in high school, I thought they were all just crazy =)
It's really just an acquired taste.
Oh, I understand it to a point, I just don't "dig" it. I suppose it's the way I'm wired. Thankfully, with a fairly far-ranging taste in music, I have plenty to fall back on.
Just a thought while we are on the subject of Music, what Media Player do you use?
I can highly recommend moc (http://moc.daper.net/) if you're looking for a stable text mode player for browsing carefully sorted folders (in contrast to tag-based categorization). Supports many formats, has a very short gap between tracks and spawns a background daemon later invocations of mocp re-attach to. Very nice. I used mp3blaster before but it had too many bugs.
hmmm.... maybe something that can replace Winamp or Audacious (Which replaced XMMS)?
Moc is text mode though.
Music is background for me. I care not a jot what it looks like, as long as I can cue up a playlist if I choose to get "fancy" (I usually dump a folder onto a player, and switch focus back to what I was doing).
Moc can do that. Just wanted to stress the point because the one you mentioned are all graphical.
My music player of choice is the exception to a lot of my personal rules and preference for software... iTunes...amarok has a great interface lol. Ok so it has way too much stuff going on, but it's not a programming abomination like iTunes is lol.
Rhythmbox is an acceptable substitute for Linux though. Heard lots of good things about Amarok, but it's user interface single handedly represents all that is wrong with Linux =P
I use audacious because I've never bothered to compile XMMS since ubuntu dropped it from their repositories. (I have a ton of awesome xmms themes lol).
My music player of choice is the exception to a lot of my personal rules and preference for software... iTunes...One thing I really like about Amarok is the "stop playing after track" option. I had always wanted that, so I've been using Amarok ever since.
Rhythmbox is an acceptable substitute for Linux though. Heard lots of good things about Amarok, but it's user interface single handedly represents all that is wrong with Linux =P
Moc is text mode though.
Good: a thread about music that I can bump (and necro) to which I wasn't the last poster.
And why do I do this? I have found on YouTube something for those here who like Baroque:
What does this look like?Show Image(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=12995&stc=1&d=1287075420)
After one music player started to annoy me (xmms?) I spent ages hunting around looking for one that suited my folder-based collection of music. I eventually gave moc a go; tweakable enough for my liking, and I don't miss the graphical side of things at all. In fact whilst playing it's usually minimised.
Wow. Necro in more ways than one.Yes; not only is it a reply to a really old thread, but the videos are of really old music, played on really old instruments (i.e. the Moog Synthesizer), and feature in the video portion really old fashions.
Clavia's line is loved by musicians for the great organ emulation.That turns out to be from Nord Keyboards, a company I had not even heard of. The Nord Wave sounds very interesting, offering the flexibility of a virtual analog synthesizer along with the use of a wide library of samples.