SwingDJs

two for the list:

may 13th: maxine sullivan (voc; homestead, pa)
april 29: toots thielemans (harmonica; brussels, belgium)

movin' on up! awesome. of course...it would have to be on a thursday i don't make it up to the city. i have an a cappella version (talisman on "after silence"). amazon carries the cd, but no sound clips. if you ever make it down to swing central or steppin' out you can have a listen, naomi...

*shrug* that's not uncommon. marketing and sales (or more often, finance) will be on your back to release before such-and-such date -- in this case probably steve jobs' nano, madonna, phone announcement. you'll ship a nearly-ready version, and then patch it in a maintenance release as soon as you ca...

don't mean to revive an old thread, but for archive completeness:

swingtalk.com has a poll going right now on familiar vs. new music. "50/50" and "mostly songs i haven't danced to before" are in the lead with 6/12 and 5/12 votes, respectively.

We've been laptop friendly since day one. How can you be "laptop-unfriendly?" All you need is a patch cord (RCA plugs to mini-stereo plug) that plugs into the laptop. Same connection as a CD player or mixer. I asked myself that too... then I went to DJ at the Sac Exchange last year... and...

i've used mplayer to do it (there are linux, os x, and windows versions). you end up with a wav file. you can use your favourite encoder after that if wav ain't your thang. googlifying 'extracting audio from dvd' yields quite a few pages that describe the process, so i won't bother going into more d...

And good dancers cut in when the current couple starts sucking. i think roy meant birthday jams, not, er, shine jams. that said, i don't think the song structure makes much of a difference. around here, people cut in whenever they feel like it, which is often before four 8-counts have expired. if y...

if the signal makes it to the camera's screen, you should be able to record. i don't have a sony handycam, so i can't help you much, but check the obvious: . do you have a tape in the camera? . is the safety tab on the tape set to "record" (not "save")? try to shoot a little foot...

1) what inputs does your camera have? 2) what outputs does your vcr have? the rest is left as an excercise for the reader. in other words: we can't help if you don't tell us more. the obvious thing to do is to connect your vcr and camera by rca video cables. your vcr will almost certainly have rca o...

ahhhhhhh! thank you for posting that, jesse.

a friend had told me about the album, and i couldn't for the life of me remember the label name. better now.

yeah, that's a good point... i don't really know what to say to that except "i wouldn't know a good error checking algorithm if it bit me in the arse". just picking the slowest codec doesn't seem like a good option (it may just be slow because it uses a poor algorithm). i'm not sure how to...

has anyone played with apple lossless at all? casual experimentation suggests that files are about twice the size of a 192k vbr mp3 and about a quarter of a wav. the web gives different numbers in differen places. i haven't measured very carefully, so i may very well off. at this ratio, i'm willing ...

depending on how desperate you are to do this, there are extravagantly hacky ways you can try. caveat: i have not tried either of them. sharing physical volumes in this way is dangerous and may lead to filesystem corruption. best to set the volume to read-only before proceeding. also, you will have ...

Charleston Charlie wrote: I probably spend in the neighbourhood of $40 a week on cds

ah -- it appears i do not buy enough cd's. i should fix this.


obontopic: i'm a software engineer.

i don't think i've posted in this thread yet (and i'm bored), so here goes: "now you have jazz", louis armstrong, "mack the knife" "ol' man mose", ella fitzgerald, "jukebox ella: the complete verve singles, volume 1" "all the cats join in", benny goo...