#34221 on the hitlist

[gothwalk]

Originally published at Now Is A Long Time Too. You can comment here or there.

… whoever worked out the code for embedding sound on webpages. If I ever meet them, I have every intention of slapping them.

Comments

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Funny you should post this right now. I have just listened to the track that plays on the Glade Festival gallery page (Homeworld, by Protoculture), like, ten times, and am now obsessed with it and failing to find it on amazon.

It's here, and I think you'd like it a lot. Kind of Deep-Foresty ambient trance, or something.

Generally, though, you are absolutely right.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

That is indeed an excellent track. I'd still prefer to start it myself than have it start, though.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/597742/Refractions/Product.html

"Temporarily out of stock", but that's better than not there at all, right? :)

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Your web-fu is strong. I'd found out the name of the album, but not any online shop that actually knew about it.

I suspect I might have to resort to the hippie techno cafe/record shop in Camden.

You're right, though - no matter how good the music is, it's probably still going to sound terrible when mixed with whatever you've got playing yourself.

[graylion.livejournal.com]

you're being way too nice

[rockpaperaxe.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they invented it for the better of mankind. It's a shame that it has been abused.
Slapping them would be like blaming Alfred Nobel for every death caused by dynamite

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

with nettles, I hope.

That's one disadvantage of tabs - I've opened four tabs, which one's playing the damn music!

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

This one might have it. It doesn't specifically say it doesn't anyway, though I don't knwo what would happen if you actually tried to order.

Speaking of sounding terrible when mixed, I loaded up a page the other day that had two pieces of music and both of them started playing together. Sounded awful. Seems like somebody didn't even look at their own page once.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Hey, synchronicity! I've just been trying to make that site work... it doesn't, though. The shopping cart keeps refreshing to empty.

There are so many terrible websites in the world!

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

Boo!

I can't understand websites that break in the part that gives them money.

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

I have a simple way of dealing with that. I long ago told Opera to disable sound in web pages. I have a checkbox on my toolbar that lets me turn it back on if I actually want it on a given web page. I almost never want it.