@BruceCM Better not spam this thread with Don McLean anymore...
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But having said that, the older clip proves my point: clearer voice, and the timing is most certainly also better. Much more in line with what people would hear on the radio or on any other (recorded) medium.
I personally always dislike when artists tried to change or "liven up" a song. You have this version in your head, and if you're at a concert and want to sing or hum along, then it just doesn't match up, taking you out of the immersion. Hope that makes sense to you, seeing as it's obviously a rather personal sentiment.
It's probably not a conscious & deliberate change but yeah, I did wonder when I was listening to the new version .... What else does anyone want to talk about, then?
@ThanosReXXX I am super duper late to the Chit Chat party recently, haha. I arrive just in take for leftover bagels, it seems. I've only been able to carve out about an hour a day for gaming and internetting lately.
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@BruceCM In this particular case, I suspect it's simply his voice changing with age. He was very young when he first released it, so he also had a considerably higher voice then.
As for what else to talk about: this is the Chit-Chat thread, so just about any topic is possible...
(within the constraints of the site rules, obviously)
@HobbitGamer Bagels, you say? Well, as long as they are bagels with sweet toppings or innards/spreads in between, then I'm game.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@ThanosReXXX - I was annoyed by the conversation at that point since we were in our eighth hour of discussing whether Don McClean is a one or two hit wonder. I don’t like getting bogged down in nerdy conversation like that, especially since it stemmed from a passing analogy I made in a different conversation that I’m positive the majority of people would find acceptable.
@bimmy-lee Fair enough. Personally, I wouldn't let it annoy me that much, seeing as it's just a bit of innocent online chatter to pass the time, but to each their own, I guess. Didn't mean anything by it, though, and I hope you also didn't interpret it as such.
As mentioned, I'm just more of a literal person. Sometimes to my own and other people's benefit, and sometimes not. Comes with the territory, so after all these years, I'm used to it by now, but I guess it can come across as a bit too annoying or "in your face" sometimes. It is never intended as something negative or offensive, though. It's just how the cookie crumbles, in this weird head of mine...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@BruceCM Well, I suppose it all depends on taste. Was that on the BBC ranking list as well? If not, then it's not OFFICIALLY a song with bad lyrics. I don't give a rat's you-know-what about what any random YouTuber or Twitter influencer thinks of it...
On a side note: and I actually liked that song. I'm pretty sure I still have it somewhere, on one of those "best of" CD's...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
Well, it was on several lists but all for one line, which seems a bit unfair to me, too, @ThanosReXXX .... I like the song a lot, so I'm not particularly defending those claims It's had several remixes over the years, so it's been in the top 40 several different times, which is impressive, IMO & I know it was on several compilation CDs, too
SpaceX launch targeting 4:33 PM eastern US time (weather could scrub the mission though)
Nasa live stream. Unfortunately it's probably going to be cloudy, not the best show. But I'll still watch.
Below is a good clip of the rockets landing. After launch (if launch happens as scheduled) it's cool to watch the first stage rocket comeback and land, and the sonic booms catch up. It's cool & loud af.
@BruceCM Over here, we had a CD series called "Turn Up The Bass", but I don't know if that was an international thing or only a local one. They were good compilations, though.
@WoomyNNYes Ah, you beat me to it. I had to do some household chores, and was planning to come back and ask if anyone was going to watch the launch. I'm pretty hyped for it myself, and I hope that all is gonna go as good as it possibly can. Wouldn't want to see the first manned Space-X launch end up as a catastrophe.
And I also heard that it could still be canceled/delayed, due to the weather, so I guess we're gonna have to wait and see. But I hope it's a go for today, because it is of great importance, and not just for the US.
Not sure about those, specifically, @ThanosReXXX .... But it was in some pop & dance ones I saw around it's 1st release, then I noticed it in relatively recent compilations, too, so it certainly got around well
Funny thing is, that most of these album links also feature a YouTube video of the ENTIRE album on their "where to buy" page, so you could either listen to those or even download them for free, to listen to whenever you want.
That same site also offers free "YouTube to mp3" converters, so you could turn these free videos I mentioned into something that you could add to a playlist, or burn into a CD again, if you'd wish to do that...
@ThanosReXXX On Firefox, I use Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express add-on, by Dishita. I donated for premium, although some stuff is avialable without premium. You can get mp3 & mp4.
There use to be a better app, but it hasn't been updated since Jan 5, 2020 and no longer works.
Heh, it's been a long time since I had any CD player but those certainly seem similar, at least, to ones we did have here, @ThanosReXXX ..... I don't really listen to that much music, since games have their own & I'm playing those a lot, though I used to be familiar with downloading videos & making MP3s out of them when I had a player for those, though! I still have some add-ons for Firefox from those days, as well
@WoomyNNYes@BruceCM To be honest: browser add-ons for such purposes suck big time. Nowadays, as Woomy mentioned, you need to buy premium accounts to make full use of them. The desktop app I just linked to, allows you to download anything up til 4K for free, even if browser plugins don't, so I prefer to use a downloader that's standalone, and not tied to a browser, nor do I use these so-called online downloaders, where you can paste a YouTube or other video link.
Just give it a try, and you'll see.
Oh, and @BruceCM, you don't need an mp3 player anymore: we put mp3's on our smart phones nowadays...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
Yeah, I just don't have any music on my phone, since I so rarely listen to it, though .... Probably why I haven't needed to use video downloaders for a long time, to realise they weren't as good these days
@BruceCM It's probably due to the massive rise of them. I used to use the same one that @WoomyNNYes uses, and a couple of others, because each of them had their own advantages, but much like with everything that becomes too big for its own good, the quality and functionality of these kinds of add-ons rapidly declined, either having options locked behind premium subscriptions, or just being hampered by sites themselves, because nasty corporations like Google and such, don't really take too kindly to all kinds of individuals downloading all their videos for free...
At one point, YouTube adapted/implemented a new protocol, I believe since last year, where they separate audio and video streams for any videos of full HD quality and upwards, meaning that you either accept that you can only download 720p maximum, or you can't download them at all anymore with these apps, or only without sound, and then only to a maximum of 1080p.
And besides all that, you'd also have to do a separate download for the audio stream, and then combine the video and audio yourself. Now, in and of itself, that isn't all that hard, if you use another handy free tool that I use, called "XMedia Recode", but 4K Video downloader does all of that automatically, so why bother, right?
And as mentioned, that program will offer ANY and all download options available, so if you can stream/watch a YouTube video in 4K, then you can also download it in 4K with this program.
Here's some screenshots. Probably more for @WoomyNNYes than for you, but they serve their illustrative purpose:
And now I can almost already hear @WoomyNNYes say: "but that also has an activation option, meaning it also has a premium version". And while that is true, the ONLY difference between the free and paid version here is that you can't download ENTIRE playlists (and personally, I think "why would I even want to do that?" because you can just download the videos separately) at once, and you have the odd ad banner in the lower part of the screen while the app downloads and converts the separate audio and video streams, but they aren't annoying or intrusive ads.
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