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Kim Dotcom – The RAID

Roy Schestowitz — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:28:20 +0000

VERY NOW and then we’re reminded of the fact that politicians, government, police etc. are driven by corporate interests because money — to them — always comes before principles. Here is how they deal with competition.

Sonic Music Resurrected on YouTube

Roy Schestowitz — Sun, 13 May 2012 06:52:01 +0000

Megaman 2 on Piano

Roy Schestowitz — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 11:37:16 +0000

Gladys Knight & The Pips – You And Me Against The World

Roy Schestowitz — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:57:02 +0000

UNDAY brings an old favourite.

“You and Me Against the World” is a song written by Kenny Ascher and Paul Williams, recorded by Helen Reddy for her 1974 album Love Song for Jeffrey.” –Wikipedia

Sunlight by Kevin Lettau

Roy Schestowitz — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:28:26 +0000

NE NICE things about vacations is that they leave visions and sights in one’s mind. From the special suite at the 20^th floor (facing the sea) my girlfriend and I carry last weekend’s memories with this song.

Michael Jackson – What Goes Around Comes Around

Roy Schestowitz — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:41:09 +0000

Singing 10 Years Ago

Roy Schestowitz — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:37:10 +0000

WING to Valentine’s Day I recently found myself singing again, just like I did about 10 years ago when I was 19 or even 20 (I uploaded some stuff that I amateurely recorded on my PC). Much of it is stuff that Sinatra, my favourite singer, had sung.

Best Version of Touch Me In The Morning

Roy Schestowitz — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:49:12 +0000

NE of my favourite songs as of late is actually one that I knew well as a kid (but never quite paid attention to its lyrics). The composition of this piece would be hard to reproduce (many vocals and orchestra) and this particular version is a lot better than the many alternative ones.

How to Play Audio (Sub)Segments Repeatedly

Roy Schestowitz — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:47:54 +0000

esterday I dumped visual media players — a decision that I stand up for at least for now — instead using more flexible scripts to play just particular parts of songs/tracks that I enjoy, even repeatedly. I use mplayer and bash to do the heavy lifting. This is handy when good segments, e.g. one part of a long concert, need to be isolated. Segments like these are usually to be found in very large files, which can be found either by name:

find -type f | grep PATTERN

To isolate large tracks (by file size), use something like:

find . -type f -size +{10000}k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $8 ": " $5 }'

$ find . -type f -size +50000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $8 ": " $5 }'

The self-explanatory shell script to write would look something like

mplayer /media/disk-8/Music/volO/AugMix.mp3  -ss 0:20:0 &
sleep 600
killall mplayer
mplayer /media/disk-8/Music/volJ/concert.ogg -ss 0:35:0 &
sleep 200
killall mplayer

Enjoy.

Internet Archive

Roy Schestowitz — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:32:08 +0000

One of my favourite sites these days is the Internet Archive, which contains a vast amount of video (films too) which is free to use and to share. Here is one example, “RetroVision Theater Presents The Frank Sinatra Show”