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The Wheel album reaction is recorded. First time screen recording something longer than an hour on my phone, so, uh, gods, I hope it worked?
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draggianuniverse
1 month ago
Slides and backup audio I recorded on my phone are up. Video, with better quality audio, will be up once I get it compressed. Album reaction part will be coming tomorrow once I give my throat a break.
draggianuniverse
1 month ago
Also, uh, out of curiosity, how many of you actually watch / listen to my audio + video stuff? I can never tell if folks are actually reading my site updates vs. just liking them on the feed.
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draggianuniverse
1 month ago
Video is up on PeerTube and embedded from there until I can get it small enough for Catbox. It's still transcoding, so I don't know when it'll be ready to watch. PT tends to be slow with MKV output from OBS.
draggianuniverse
1 month ago
Video embed is up on the page. I had to compress the shit out of it so it fit on Catbox, so go to PeerTube if you want remotely decent quality.
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icandoanything
1 month ago
the 10 comment limit on here makes me pick and choose when 2 commrnt even if i like something
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draggianuniverse
1 month ago
OK, thanks for the input. And yeah, that makes sense. I get why the comment limit exists, but it's kind of annoying sometimes, esp. since I do "live" updates in comments and tend to be wordy.
Good news: OBS worked. Bad news: I ended up talking about I See Stars and how they're a microcosm for other scene history topics for an hour and 15 minutes straight, so I'm gonna give my throat a break and record the album reaction tomorrow. Webinar / first part will go up on /musicscene/podcast and PeerTube tonight.
hehe, slides time. I See Stars - The Wheel SAASP video is gonna probably be a webinar / reaction combo in two videos, like the one for the Bad Guy music video, because turns out I had a lot to say about I See Stars. Really proud of the thesis here; gets some shit I've thought about for a while written down. SAASP coming soon! https://draggianuniverse.neocities.org/musicscene/documents/iseestars_powerpoint.pdf
draggianuniverse
1 month ago
I'm probably going to do the song-reactions part on my phone, since NewPipe is faster to load and better at playlists than FreeTube. I will try to do the webinar on OBS, but I'm still not sure if it's healthy. I will be simultaneously recording audio on my phone, so if OBS glitches out, I'll upload the webinar audio and the slides separately. That way I don't have to break my flow to re-record.
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draggianuniverse
1 month ago
Realized I hadn't updated the thoughts archive in a while, but also haven't been posting on thoughts.page much (been doing boring RL stuff). I can't decide whether my karaoke adventures go under personal (edge cultivation, socialization, daily life) or music (either EtF/FIR or other depending on what I do that night), so they're going on both.
draggianuniverse
1 month ago
Nothing about the PM2024 reviews has notably changed. I just noticed it didn't have consistent parenthetical formatting and was using obsolete tags, so I fixed that.
Huh, so apparently, I See Stars is still active. They have released their first album since 2016. A SAASP reaction / review will be coming this weekend sometime. I might do it audio only since they don't seem to have music videos.
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finally got it onto peertube, after, like, 2 hours of uploading. I have no idea when it's gonna be done transcoding or how I'm going to get it to roughly a 10th of its size so it fits on Catbox to embed. (psst: anybody know a video hoster that allows larger files and HTML embedding? filegarden stops at 100 megs)
uber-compressed 480p version of album reaction is now embedded on site; if you want better quality, you will want to use PeerTube