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you’re hearing it more and more
Spotify Premium ad: “Imagine playing music without interruptions! Infinite skipping! Replay the song you want! And even do it offline? No ads! Whatever songs you want! For a small monthly payme-” Me: *nods, turns off Spotify and turns on my MP3 player and does all the things they offer, but for free and with songs they don’t even have*
For those of you who might not know how to do any of this:
- To convert CD audio into mp3s, you just follow the steps here
- To play mp3 files, you download an mp3 player like Winamp here and away you go
- On mobile? There are plenty of free mp3 players for your phone available, too, so check them out
You don’t need to be tethered to an online streaming service for your music. Be free.
You can also rip audio files from youtube and find files all over the internet. It is far easier to come across great and lesser known music if you dont limit yourself to spotify.
Here’s a tutorial on how to get the music and playlists you like with unlimited listening/downloads. This is a free way to do it that I believe is a balance between cost, time, and pros & cons:
If you have the CDs, it will be easier to rip them. Most music managers include this feature and you will have all the track information loaded into the file. There are also pirate websites where you can download entire albums with their metadata attached, but there could be risks associated (I would worry more about viruses than lawsuits these days, though). Deciding a method for acquiring music is a balance of the required time, the alternative costs, and other pros/cons like supporting the artist or taking the risk of pirating sites.
1. Find the song on Youtube. YT has pretty much every song at this point, usually in comparable quality to what you would get on a streaming service.
This is great if you already listen to music on Youtube, but there might be a better method for going direct from Spotify, though this will work either way. The main downside to this method is that official music (and even lyric) videos sometimes have non-music portions so you might have to listen to the whole thing to be sure. SponsorBlock will highlight non-music sections for most artists, so if you have it installed you can tell at a glance if this is the case.
2. Download the audio from YT. There are many ways to download YT videos completely for free. It’s probably against the YT terms of service, but you’re not going to get sued.
I like y2mate for downloading YT videos (or their audio in mp3s) because it’s a simple, ad-free website. You just paste in the URL for the video you want to download. Sometimes it’s laggy and you have to come back later, but usually after a few moments the video loads, you select your download quality (the highest), and then save it. For easy file management, download everything in folders for the Artist, and then sub folders for the Album, and name the MP3 file the “song name”.mp3.
3. Upload to your music player/manager of choice. The file will currently be lacking metadata (Artist, Album, track number, etc) and will be added to the library as a song with its title set as the file name minus its .mp3 extension. Various music players/managers have different ways to add metadata (usually accessed by right-clicking the song) with varying ease.
iTunes is free and and logical if you have an iPhone, but limited in its capabilities. I do all my management/listening in MusicBee (free for Windows) because of its playlist and management features, as well as having a very customizable interface. You can set it to scan the folders you download music to so it will automatically load things into your library, or do so manually. Once loaded into MusicBee, you can batch edit an entire album’s metadata at once easily with Auto-Tagging. Auto-Tag can fetch the details from the internet and fill in artist, tracks, album artwork, etc and save that information to the mp3 file. You can edit this manually if needed too. Drag and drop the edited songs to any other player you may want to add them to so it can find the files.
4. Now you can use the player of your choice to listen endlessly, form playlists, etc. Some free music managers also have music discovery/recommendation features for expanding your collection.
MusicBee allows you to create playlists with folders, subfolders, and dynamic features. You can export these playlists for cross-platform play on other computers with MusicBee installed. I think the playlist features on MusicBee are better than what is on streaming services. You can create an auto-playlist of your recently-added music so you can easily find the ones that are new and might need need editing, adding to other playlists, etc. I have custom tags for music by LGBT artists, sapphic love songs, and more. I also drag-and-drop these playlists directly into iTunes so I have them on my phone too (you can do this to make a new playlist or just edit/add songs to a current one).
There are many music managers/players, including cross-platform ones with streaming, though they usually have fees for that feature. Because you aren’t streaming the music and rather storing it, you’ll need space on each device you want to play the music on, but memory is cheap these days.
You can buy a 2TB external harddrive for less than Spotify or Youtube Premium costs for six months, so having to store the songs isn’t much of a downside. Plus, the song will never “leave the service”, you can listen to it offline, etc.
I do encourage people to pay for art, especially from small, independent artists. You have to pay for art if you want to keep it alive, but there is debate over if streaming services are really “paying the artist”. Alternatives include buying and ripping CDs, purchasing merch or tour tickets (where artists make a lot of their money), etc to support them with something other than streaming views.
ID. a tweet from Don Hughes @/getfiscal dated Feb 18 21. it reads, “Started imagining paying for Spotify for the next thirty or so years and got a bit dizzy, cancelled a bunch of subscriptions, installed Linux on my computer and then pulled out my old CDs to rip. Going caveman.” End ID.
Seconding MusicBee! Also, you can use a library subscription to access Freegal, which allows (depending on your library system) up to five free downloads a week. Completely free, actually legal, yours to keep, no DRM or any crap like that.
For indie producers, always check if they have something like Bandcamp! Bandcamp lets you download as well, and has significantly higher royalties going to the actual artists (Spotify pays them… very little).
Jsyk, winamp rips cds natively. You can set whatever bitrate you like. Been doing *that* since last century.
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Applying for jobs is a hell designed specifically to torment autistic people. Here is a well-paying task which you know in your heart and soul if they just gave you a desk and left you alone and allowed you to do it you would sit there and be more focused and enthusiastic and excellent at it than anyone else in the building. However, before they allow you to perform the task, you must pass through 3-4 opaque social crucibles where you must wear uncomfortable clothes and make eye contact while everyone expects you to lie, but not too much (no one is ever clear exactly how much lying is expected, “over” honesty is however penalized). You are being judged almost entirely on how well you understand these very specific and unclear rules that no one has explained. None of this has anything to do with your ability to perform the desired task.
It is hell! I want to acknowledge that the original point of the post is NOT fixed by my providing solutions (the way jobs are filled makes no sense), but also I want to leave some notes for folks struggling with these unspoken rules.
Some brief notes on the correct kinds of “LYING”:
- Always use “I” expressions, instead of “we”:
- eg “I created a solution to a recurring problem by doing [x].”, even if it was really you and two others in a group
- If you LED the group (or did project-management), you can say, “I led a team to create a solution to a recurring problem by doing [x].”
- This is because employers like to know that YOU can do, and they also value team-leadership. If you say “we”, they may stop you and ask what You did specifically. You can avoid this by just saying “I”.
- Someone asks if you have experience in a program (like excel):
- If you feel confident using it: “Yes, I am very proficient.”
- If you have used it a few times, and could at least google what to do next: “Yes, I have good experience.”
- If you don’t have any experience: “I have used it before. I generally pick up programs very fast, and I’m a quick learner.”
- Mistakes (some interviewers may ask about a time you made a mistake, or a weakness of yours):
- Good answers are those with solutions.
- Bad answer examples: “Sometimes I don’t catch mistakes before sending things.” OR “I don’t like working with other people”
- Good answer examples: “I had a problem catching typos, so I implemented steps that force me to check my work.” OR “I prefer to do things on my own so I know it’s done right, but I’m working on trusting my teammates to take on pieces as well.”
- Someone asks if you’ve ever led a team / managed a project:
- Try to say YES to this question (even if it is a lie)
- If you have, say yes, and say how many people were on the team.
- If you haven’t, but you played a large role in a group of people, say yes, and talk about your primary role on the team.
- If you haven’t, but you worked solo on something that needed input from other people, say yes, and say what the project was about.
Additional:
- Misc Rules
- You can ask people to repeat interview questions
- You can write down interview questions while they’re asking (write the basics of the question down for yourself, like the top things you have to answer). People will wait for you to finish writing, you don’t have to answer Immediately.
- Try to keep your answer to questions somewhere between 30 seconds to 1 minute and 30 seconds. You don’t have to time it, but if you find that your answers are taking 3 minutes, you might lose interest.
- Have a list of projects / bragging points to talk about in advance
- Try to make sure they at least answer the core question asked, don’t just bring up a completely unrelated topic
- Example: if you are really excited to talk about a program you wrote, and someone asks about balancing projects, you can say you are good at AUTOMATION, and an example is this program you wrote
- “Do you have any questions for us?” (A question asked at the end of most interviews.)
- “What has been your favorite part of working at [company]?”
- “What’s been your favorite project to work on?”
- People like talking about themselves
- Thank you emails
- Some employers care if you send them a thank you “letter” (email). Sometime by the end of the day (you can do it right after the interview if you think you’ll forget), send a thank you email like this (you can look up other templates, or ask a friend for help):
- Subject Line: Thank You
- “Hi [interviewer name], It was great speaking with you. Hearing more about the role, as well as what you said about [their answer to a question you asked them] has made me even more excited for this opportunity. Thank you for your time today, [Your Name]
Good luck!!
Im gonna need this in 2 years!
Honestly the “applying and interviewing for a job” is harder and more stressful than actually doing the job 999% of the time for me. I hate it so much.
I just want to know what Tomoe Tsurugi's deal is
So Tomoe tells Ladybug that she doesn't have the mouse miraculous, we know that Ms. Tsurugi is in league with Gabriel so its entirely possible that she was lying... BUT
It immediately cuts to her talking to Gabriel on their new technology, the "allegiance" ring, which apparently serves as a sort of Siri. Is the implication that Gabe is going to use those rings to transfer the miraculous powers?
I have no idea how Miraculous Ladybug would reason that, but it seems like the best explanation given that Gabriel is obviously doing this for nefarious reasons and could market this to the general public.
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Dropping a brick on the post below
hee hee
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Goats crossing over a sea-arch on a tiny island in Roaring Water Bay, South-West Ireland. Image: Beth Cradick
Found by @a-softer-side
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Sorry if it’s a little cramped- had to make this all fit in ten photos. Hope you guys like it….. and again…. sorry Andrew
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The window visual did me in I’m wheezing
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NO
I haven’t seen this in years and yet it is burned into my memory forever.
This is on the short list of Eternal Reblog because it’s fucking legendary.
Oh man it’s been awhile since I last saw this post XD
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fuck google docs so fucking much
i've just lost hundreds of docs and pdfs and i'm beyond pissed right now
they're all permanently gone
actually they're not holy shit
okay so, gonna tell ya'll something awesome rn
google drive is a mess sometimes with its storage things and if you're unlucky it might delete some of your files and you won't realise until it's well past the point where they won't be in 'trash' anymore and you're fucked
all is not lost however!
if you're on drive via browser, hit the little ? in a circle next to the settings cog and select "help"
search for "file recovery"
it'll show you the ways to try and recover your files on pc, android, and mac etc
these don't matter
you need to scroll down to the bottom and just hit the "contact us"
you'll be logged out automatically
log back in
click the little box to give google permission to attempt to restore your files for that account
click "submit"
give them some time to work but it's an automatic process
i've got most of my files back in less than 10 minutes
all is not lost! rejoice!
I'm gonna reblog this again bc wow but was it helpful to learn!
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jim henson, frank oz & don sahlin showing off how to make various characters with a “whatnot/anything” muppet, 1969
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Some baby cousins + dogs paintings. 🫐🌱
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Making 秋梨膏/Autumn Pear Paste according to olden methods.
English added by me :)
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Todays bird is: an unnamed baby owl from my brothers work at a bird rehab
This bird looks like it was designed by Brian Froud
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We all like to get mad at Disney for whitewashing live action versions of characters, but putting all the blame on Disney distracts from the much larger problem that is ethnic erasure in comics and media and general.
I say "ethnic erasure" and not "white-washing" because the issue goes deeper than that, and effects racially white but ethnic minority characters just as badly.
Kitty Pryde/Sprite/Shadowcat
Look at her classic design. Hair so curly it didn't fit in her headpiece. Star of David necklace present with every outfit.
Look at her now. Kitty has always been white, but she was still a victim of ethnic erasure.
A couple more examples of characters who aren't PoC but have suffered this phenomenon.
Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler
Ann-Marie Darkholme/Rogue
Koriand'r/Starfire
Starfire's original design was based off of famous black runway models of the era like Naomi Campbell. She had wide round features and huge glamourous afro hair that added at least a foot to her height.
Now? Lighter skin, pin straight hair, thinner and slimmer features.
Ryand'r/Wildfire
Suffered the same effects as his sister. Drained my man of his melanin.
Look at this tragedy. A moment of silence.
Talia Al Ghul
She's Southeast Asian and Arabic, right? All of us know this.
This woman isn't though. This woman thinks black pepper is too spicy.
Roberto De Costa/Sunspot
Look at this black king. Bronze god. Brown skinned perfection.
Yes, this is meant to be the same man. Yes, I feel the same way about it. Lost his melanin in a double homicide. Stole it all. Not a melanocyte left to be found in my brother's body. A moment of silence.
Monica Rambeau/Photon/Spectrum/Captain Marvel
Look at this dark skinned curly haired beauty!
Yeah they lightened her skin but they also did ....whatever that is that they did to her hair. Tragic.
I kept the worst two for last though. Look at these!
Wanda Maximoff/The Scarlet Witch
Here she is! Our Jewish Romani queen! We love her. We stan her! She survived the Holocaust AND the Baltic Cleansing!! She overcame anti-indigenous racism her entire life and became a powerful superhero honoring her Roma roots!
.....Wait a minute? Who is this??? I don't know this white lady. This is not the woman who overcame multiple genocides. This is the woman who'll harass the manager over a salad.
And truly the worst for last:
America Chavez
Our inter-dimensional afro-latina/afronegro queen! We love her! We bow before her! Truly a goddess among men.
I have no words for this one. I got no tongue in cheek jokes. I just..... This is literally intended to be the same woman??? Wow.
Wanda is the daughter of Holocaust survivors.
Magda:
Magneto:
Classically down with curly hair and then:
Also Magnetos other daughter Polaris/Lorena Dane (a Jewish woman with bipolar disorder):
It's a HUGE problem in how the family is presented.
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The creature ever
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Batman: Widening Gyre (2009) #1
my favorite responses
thanks
posting this panel was a mistake on my part
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Kate MccGwire, Secrete (mixed media with magpie feathers)
