Bespin 8,483 Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 Deleted post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovygoth666 670 Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 How do you embed audio files so they look like this - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,370 Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 4 hours ago, Groovygoth666 said: How do you embed audio files so they look like this - I think, if you insert an audio file like mp3 to your post, they get automatically displayed like this. Groovygoth666 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,369 Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 Yep Groovygoth666 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovygoth666 670 Posted December 24, 2023 Share Posted December 24, 2023 19 hours ago, GerateWohl said: I think, if you insert an audio file like mp3 to your post, they get automatically displayed like this. Thanks, just tried it and it worked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 1,832 Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 Hello all. One fellow teacher from the primary school I'm working, is searching for some music to put as background in an Aesop's fable (the Dove and the Ant), for a kid's radio show. She likes this one, and asked me if I have any other suggestion. Do you have anything in mind from film music? I can't think of something right now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thx99 1,740 Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 9 minutes ago, filmmusic said: Do you have anything in mind from film music? I can't think of something right now... Might be a bit too active… filmmusic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,508 Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 Also, "Wedding Music" from LADYHAWKE, and "Rid Over Skog" from RONJA RÖVERDOTTER. filmmusic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,370 Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 On 10/02/2024 at 7:46 PM, filmmusic said: Do you have anything in mind from film music? I can't think of something right now... filmmusic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,914 Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 Those of you who know a lot about AI audio restoration, or state of the art dialog fixing, can this audio be repaired? Is it recoverable? Sound 1.mp3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,286 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 Is FSM down for everyone else at the moment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,508 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 Yes, seems to happen at least once or twice a week, and it has done so for a couple of years now. The whole "Service is unavailable" error message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,369 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 Thor's exactly right, this happens on a regular basis and has for many years now. About twice a week sounds about right, it could be even more than that Tom Guernsey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 1,832 Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 I have a quick question to non-US residents that buy from ebay: Besides the price of the product and the shipping, ebay adds a VAT to my purchase, increasing the total sum of money I'm paying. Does that mean that I won't pay customs? What is that VAT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,200 Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 VAT is value added tax. It applies to consumer goods and varies from country to county. Typically, if you import stuff into the EU, you have to pay VAT *and* customs (the VAT threshold used to around €20 in Austria before they changed it a couple of years ago, while the customs threshold was somewhere above €200, so usually we'd only have to pay VAT). If eBay handles the VAT but not any customs fees (if any apply), then you'll still have to pay the customs fees, but not the VAT. By the way, VAT is also the reason why consumer electronics always seem to be so much cheaper in the US and in the EU, because EU list prices usually include the VAT (commonly 20% on electronics and stuff), while US prices don't, because in the US varies from state to state. When you walk into a US grocery store to buy a coke, the price on the label usually doesn't include the VAT, and you have to pay more than is printed on the label. filmmusic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,508 Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 On 26/02/2024 at 12:39 PM, Tom Guernsey said: Is FSM down for everyone else at the moment? Appears FSM is down again, but this time a new error message than the usual "Service is unavailable". Same for anyone else? Geez, Lukas is really having problems over there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 1,832 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Is anyone having issues logging in facebook? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,353 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Just now, filmmusic said: Is anyone having issues logging in facebook? Facebook, messenger, and Instagram are experiencing outages at the moment. filmmusic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,286 Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 Am I right in thinking that there is a re-recording of Lee Holdridge's score to Splash as well as a release of the original tracks? I've been looking at buying it but there seem to be two versions at BSX, but I can't work out if one is just an expanded version of the other. Original Tracks: https://buysoundtrax.myshopify.com/products/lee-holdridge-splash-original-soundtrack-recording Re-recording(?): https://buysoundtrax.myshopify.com/products/splash-music-from-the-motion-picture-by-lee-holdridge-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stark 316 Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 14 hours ago, Tom Guernsey said: Am I right in thinking that there is a re-recording of Lee Holdridge's score to Splash as well as a release of the original tracks? I've been looking at buying it but there seem to be two versions at BSX, but I can't work out if one is just an expanded version of the other. Original Tracks: https://buysoundtrax.myshopify.com/products/lee-holdridge-splash-original-soundtrack-recording Re-recording(?): https://buysoundtrax.myshopify.com/products/splash-music-from-the-motion-picture-by-lee-holdridge-1 Per the descriptions, the former is the (expanded?) release and the latter is a rerecording by Holdridge himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,286 Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 7 hours ago, Stark said: Per the descriptions, the former is the (expanded?) release and the latter is a rerecording by Holdridge himself. Thank you. I clearly didn’t read carefully enough! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,349 Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 iPhone: If you view your albums in the music library, does anyone know what artists are listed next to the titles? Artist, or album artist, or both? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,286 Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 1 hour ago, bollemanneke said: iPhone: If you view your albums in the music library, does anyone know what artists are listed next to the titles? Artist, or album artist, or both? It only shows the artist alongside the track if it’s different to the album artist. If the entire album is the same artist or album artist it only appears under the album name and artwork. See screen shot. Does that help? bollemanneke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,369 Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 On 24/03/2024 at 7:37 AM, Tom Guernsey said: See screen shot. Does that help? He literally can't see it. He's blind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,286 Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 26 minutes ago, Jay said: He literally can't see it. He's blind. Appreciate that, hence I also described it as best I could, but thought a screen shot would be helpful for anyone else with a similar question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,369 Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 Indeed it is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,349 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 I just got Presumed Innocent on DVD. Is it normal there's only a 2 channel audio track? Was no surround sound version released? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 1,832 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 12 minutes ago, bollemanneke said: I just got Presumed Innocent on DVD. Is it normal there's only a 2 channel audio track? Was no surround sound version released? No. The Blu-ray has also a stereo track. Quote Sound mix Dolby Stereo https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100404/technical/?ref_=tt_spec_sm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,349 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 That's just plain weird. How did it work in theatres then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,536 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 1 hour ago, bollemanneke said: That's just plain weird. How did it work in theatres then? PRESUMED INNOCENT was shown in Dolby Pro Logic (aka Dolby Surround) or, possibly, Dolby SR, which was a 4.0 system (three front channels, and a mono rear channel). bollemanneke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,349 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Huh, same seems to be happening with Groundhog Day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,200 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 15 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said: PRESUMED INNOCENT was shown in Dolby Pro Logic (aka Dolby Surround) or, possibly, Dolby SR, which was a 4.0 system (three front channels, and a mono rear channel). I don't know about cinema setups. But the home consumer version of "Dolby Surround Pro Logic" is actually a 2.0 format, because the additional channels are not discrete. Instead, they're encoded into the stereo signal: When decoding (i.e. during playback), anything that's exactly phase identical between the left and right channel is removed from those and instead sent to the centre channel. Anything that's exactly phase inverted between both channels is sent to the rears (there are usually two of them, but they're mono, and from what I remember their frequency range is limited as well). This also means that the "surround" part of the whole system was very limited. It wasn't directional surround, it was just able to play ambient sounds in the back of the listener. Nothing like spaceships zooming from behind your rear left to your front right. A nice side effect is that a regular stereo recording can also make use of the centre channel as long as it contains mono components. E.g. if you have a film mix where the music and sfx track is stereo, but the dialogue is mono (i.e. phase identical between both channels), you automatically get a free centre channel for the dialogue. And apparently (from what I remember reading), real life acoustics also have the effect of making ambient sounds more or less phase inverted between the left and right channels, effectively sending them to the rears). On home video media, this means that a "Dolby Surround" track is effectively just a stereo track. To allow the receiver to automatically activate Dolby Surround encoding, there's a flag on the audio track that tells it whether or not it's a DS track. Unfortunately, many receivers don't allow you to manually override that flag - if a track has the flag, it is played in surround mode, if it doesn't, it isn't. I find that extremely annoying in the case of mono films that are encoded as a stereo track, without the DS flag (which seems to be the norm for some reason). A receiver would send a 1.0 track to the centre channel, but a 2.0 track without the DS flag will be sent to the left and right channels and leave the centre unused. Jurassic Shark and Naïve Old Fart 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,369 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 2 hours ago, bollemanneke said: That's just plain weird. How did it work in theatres then? It was the early 90s. Studios weren't paying for every drama film to get a surround mix back then. bollemanneke and Naïve Old Fart 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,536 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 40 minutes ago, Jay said: It was the early 90s. Studios weren't paying for every drama film to get a surround mix back then. Sadly, true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 1,832 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 39 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said: Sadly, true Stereo is just fine too. Why everything must be surround? Especially in drama films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,349 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Because it can. Because it always sounds better if the music has a little more room to breathe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 1,832 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 7 minutes ago, bollemanneke said: Because it can. Because it always sounds better if the music has a little more room to breathe. Well, surround is not always a good thing. I have watched old films that have been ruined by boxy sound in the 5.1 mixes (or even missing elements), which sound perfectly fine in stereo (or even mono). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,349 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 I don't doubt it. But once you CAN do it it surround, properly, you should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,286 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 18 minutes ago, bollemanneke said: I don't doubt it. But once you CAN do it it surround, properly, you should. Agreed but I have to admit that even just playing stereo recordings though a surround sound setup gives a bit of depth to the sound field even if it’s not a true 3D space. bollemanneke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,694 Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 I'm not sure a drama with a pretty low key chamber-esque score is going to massively benefit from proper surround sound. A DVD my brother has from the BBC from the late 00s has a sequence with a lot of effects, dialogue and some music, but if you separate the 5.1 channels you find that all of the sfx and vocals are mixed entirely in the centre, leaving the music almost entirely isolated in the sides, and the rears just have vague echoes. At that point a TV budget evidently didn't allow for the sorts of mixes you get now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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