Posts by Steve Barnes
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Hard News: Friday Music: Go Home DJ, in reply to Russell Brown,
But I was sure I used to be able to set iTunes to automix from track to track and I’m damned if I can see how to do that now.
Sorry Russ, I misunderstood your point, I thought Auto Fade when it seems you were referring to Auto Mix.
I did find This
"iTunes can create playlists—called Genius playlists—from songs in your library that go great together. You can also have iTunes play a Genius Mix—a selection of related songs from your library that play continually like a commercial-free radio station."
Hope that is what you were looking for.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Go Home DJ, in reply to TracyMac,
There’s even a lock mode so you can cue everything up and no-one can get into it without the password. :-)
Yes and very handy it is when you have a certain drunken female guest who insists on changing every tune within the first minute because she wants to play you one of your own tunes but cant remember which one and all the other guests start looking embarrassed and start calling cabs and sneaking the rather nice bottle of scotch they bought with them back in the handbag whilst surreptitiously slipping on their coats and making excuses about having to get up for work tomorrow. Surely they cant all be Vicars?.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Go Home DJ, in reply to Russell Brown,
But I was sure I used to be able to set iTunes to automix from track to track and I’m damned if I can see how to do that now
Setting up Crossfading
On the iTunes main screen, click the Edit menu tab and choose Preferences. Click on the Playback tab to see the option for crossfading. Now, put a check in the box next to the Crossfade Songs option. You can use the sliderbar to adjust the number of seconds that crossfading should occur between songs; the default is 6 seconds. When done, click the OK button to exit the preferences menu.
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The setup I went for in the end, after trying several DJ apps and progs, is Media monkey backed up with Unified remote for Andriod. That way I can control the player from anywhere in the house over wireless, volume, next track etc. With the paid version ($5) it will load your playlist info onto the phone so you can choose any track from the playlist at any point and it auto fades from track to track. With a little practice you can do a reasonable impression of an average DJ mixin' it up large annat.
I am not sure if there is an iPood version but I thought use Apple guys let Steve Jobs choose your music for you.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Angus Robertson,
Mostly its a intuitive response
I think the term is knee jerk.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Farmer Green,
“Yes. I don’t think it helps to see them as a hippy cliche.”
The comments , from one or two posters, seemed to be fixed on that idea.
I am often astounded to hear the vehement hatred , from the resentful Right, for anybody with the slightest regard for the environment or for policies that lead toward a sustainable future. Heaven forbid, that may cost them some of their "Hard Earned Money™". It is as if they resent their own children and their children's children gaining anything without having to do the hard work themselves.
Money is a means to an end not, as some would have it, an end that justifies the meanness.
has anyone been out walking barefoot on the grass in the early morning?
This thought would not occur to those that consider money or wealth to be far superior to nature.
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Ars Technica is running a story along the same lines with more emphasis on the security of whisleblowers.
. Balkanleaks provides instructions in Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian, and English, and the submission website is only available on its Tor-enabled server.
“Tor is known and people trust Tor,” he added.
On its face, what Balkanleaks has done should be easily duplicated anywhere. “It’s not hard,” Tchobanov said. “Who says it’s hard?” Balkanleaks set up a website, required leakers to use Tor, explained how and why to use Tor in local languages, and then received and published leaked documents.
Another point raised in the story is eerily similar to some of the goings on in our own power industry methinks...
. It underscored suspicions that the country’s prime minister, Boyko Borisov, had ties to organized crime.
The biggest reveal was that Borisov was floated in the mid-1990s as a possible informant against his alleged and widely assumed contacts in the world of Bulgarian organized crime. On February 21—just 18 days after the Balkanleaks release—Borisov resigned in the face of widespread corruption allegations and rising energy prices.
Nah, could never happen here, eh?.
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Hard News: The Next Act, in reply to Islander,
– all best to you 3 S’s!
Chur.
Been a bit busy for the last few months....
See Here
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Hard News: What did you do yesterday?, in reply to Gabor Toth,
coming out of the lift this morning at work and for a fraction of a second I thought it was Monday…
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Well, what did I do yesterday, hmmmm.
Got up around lunchtime, had a light lunch and dyed my hair purple as a protest against (insert current gripe here)
Well, it was Waitangi day.
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