I do hear what you're saying, Joey, but I'm more worried about the collateral damage.  If Discover takes off I wonder how it will affect the people who make their living writing music for videos and advertisements and the like.  If you can scrape all kinds of high-quality, royalty free music for fr...

I don't know about you bro, but I'd call the police if someone stole my $200 guitar, or my wallet that had $20 in it. If you're fine with people making $200 here and there from something you wrote, while you make nothing, upload it to Discover. I'm not cool with that, nor with taking what someone c...

Really - it's hard to imagine how this sharing could possibly work if users did not grant these rights to other users. As difficult as it can be to properly authorize samples nowadays, how complex would it be to try and figure out and pay royalties on a song if you happened to blend together 6 or 7 ...

The title label on the RE is crooked; this is obviously a deliberately "lo-fi" aesthetic. As such, the design might be just how the developer wants it...

...when I say things like this, I rarely get a convincing justification for such beliefs delivered in reply; what I am more likely to get is things like "but no, your belief!" OK, if you're going to get all epistemological on my ass, --Technically, the other guy's ass-- how come you didn't respond ...

I submit that of the beliefs held by non-PH employees, many, if not most, are not. And that is a belief or a justified belief? I believe it to be justified. 1) Non-employees are not in a position to know crucial facts about the motives and reasonings behind any decision by PH. 2) The logic shown in...

...The difference being, if a soap or house doesn't have something you want it to have, like a fragrance or a garage, you don't spend long hours demanding the makers put these things in because they're "industry standard".... I just bought a cheap house for retirement and while I wish what you're s...

But there are other legitimate concerns facing the Reason user, like the future of the product lines and their cost.  It is a completely legitimate exercise to compare Reason/Refills with Logic/AUs, or Cubase/VSTs.  People compare price and value in every other purchase, from soap to houses. The di...

The skeptical stance is a very possible and valueable onset for philosophical and scientifical research, wherease being suspicious is rather not. But which was the PUF? One of the things that has been baffling me about a lot of this is: what's the end game? What do Reason users stand to gain by con...

That is actually pretty nice! Didn't like the stress test you had in you signature at some point, I had to think for a moment to remember what that was. At one point I had a SoundCloud playlist in my sig on the PUF that was just a collection of various tracks ranging from pop to pure noise weirdnes...

I ask because every year or so it seems like I bring up the RPM Challenge , which was a sort of annual "music-making month" before the Props even had their first one. Think of it as a NaNoWriMo for music: In the month of February, create 10 songs or 35 minutes of original music. As detailed in my o...

Much of my work is experimental in nature, ranging from audio collage to noise to, I guess, environmental and abstract works. Some of my stuff might be considered ambient, depending on how you define that. A recent example: http://soundcloud.com/platzangst/sets/impenetrable My BandCamp page has othe...

As for qualifying for FAWM, I don't think it's meant in such a competitive sense. I thought the idea was to challenge yourself, I could be wrong on this though. I personally have no interest in trying to win the thing (not to mention lack of time), I just want to get focused for a bit. No, I unders...

I see there is another site/initiative with pretty much exactly the same goal. Might be worth checking out if there is a preference amongst those in here as to which site to go to, or if either offers any distinct advantage. Since the FAWM site seems to be in low-info mode, perhaps you could fill i...

This is possibly set visible to admin only in forum settings. Just a suggestion. I know phpbb has so many settings that it really becomes confusing. Apparently Jubilee can see it in Safari/OSX, so it's probably something related to browser/OS configurations. If it was an admin-only thing, that woul...

I'm also using FireFox on Windows. I have seen the HTML/WYSIWYG button on other forums (the PUF has it), but it's not showing up for me here, even after disabling my script-blockers and other protections.

and then look to the right side of the formatting bar at the top of the text window here, you will see the HTML button. Actually, I don't. The furthest buttons right are Code, Quote, emoticons, and SpellCheck. I see no HTML editor. I've been checking my anti-script plug-ins to see if I have somethi...

Well, let's see if it does:

[bandcamp width=100% height=120 album=690459318 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 tracklist=false artwork=small]

That's me pasting in the BandCamp Wordpress code/tag. If it works, great, if not, there's something I'm missing about making it work.

SoundCloud is great and all, but right now I have two full albums and some assorted single tracks on my free SC account, and it's pretty much full. Meaning, if I have new music to share I'm faced with deleting stuff to make room or start shelling out money for an upgrade. By contrast, BandCamp offer...

Well, I posted this once over on the soon-to-be-closed PUF, but that was shortly before the announcement/implosion, and on reflection it might have been better served in the Music forum instead of Advanced Users, where it was probably OT. As far as I'm aware it got little to no attention. So if ever...

The first music I made that I shared with anyone was in college, in a class called Electronic Studio I.

This would have been around 1986.