seasonal music
Dec. 4th, 2018 12:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kengrI finally got around to checking for this year's Garritan Community Christmas album Sunday. Got it download and gave a quick listen. Then I moved it to the appropriate slot in the holdiday music directory.
This year I'm trying something different. I've imported the "Christmas" subdirectory into Media Monkey, and I'm trying to build a playlist from it.
The raw import data shows why I rarely noticed the "list" (mostly manual switching between directories) repeating itself. Individual songs that occurred in more than one album, yes. The list as a whole no,
Why? Try this on for size: over 1700 song, with a combined play time of more than 90 hours! That's over 12 gig of files.
I don't mind the list being that long. In fact being that long is handy for avoiding getting boring. :-)
My portable bluetooth beakers will play music (MP3 and WAV files only, so not all of the above will play on them) directly off a microSD card. So when I get things weeded out and arranged a bit, I can copy things to the card, and then just stick it in the speaker. Instant background music for the holiday season. And easy to store the rest of the time.
It's a bonus that the speaker remembers where it was when you paused it and resumes.
But some weeding is *definitely* needed. I'm only 50 songs in and I've heard the "nine inch noels" parody twice.
This year I'm trying something different. I've imported the "Christmas" subdirectory into Media Monkey, and I'm trying to build a playlist from it.
The raw import data shows why I rarely noticed the "list" (mostly manual switching between directories) repeating itself. Individual songs that occurred in more than one album, yes. The list as a whole no,
Why? Try this on for size: over 1700 song, with a combined play time of more than 90 hours! That's over 12 gig of files.
I don't mind the list being that long. In fact being that long is handy for avoiding getting boring. :-)
My portable bluetooth beakers will play music (MP3 and WAV files only, so not all of the above will play on them) directly off a microSD card. So when I get things weeded out and arranged a bit, I can copy things to the card, and then just stick it in the speaker. Instant background music for the holiday season. And easy to store the rest of the time.
It's a bonus that the speaker remembers where it was when you paused it and resumes.
But some weeding is *definitely* needed. I'm only 50 songs in and I've heard the "nine inch noels" parody twice.
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Date: 2018-12-04 10:25 pm (UTC)We love seasonal music (All of us here do) and we've not heard of this.
(Also, Nine Inch Noels? Not heard of that one.)
-Fallon~
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Date: 2018-12-05 01:19 am (UTC)Garritan is a company takes creates instrument libraries for music synthesizers and the like. "Friends of Garritan" is a community of users of these libraries.
Starting in 2004 they have created a Christmas album made with the software every year. So this is the 15th year.
"Nine Inch Noels" is s a parody Christmas song. Well, actually it's the words to Nine Inch Nails songs sung to the tune of Christmas songs.
I didn't include it because some of the lyrics are a bit much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrPnwLjZbHs