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Still one of my favorite ironically painful memories was calling up the Neumann rep about 30 years ago and being told that they only sold to legitimate studios. (But I also expected electret condensers to keel over at 20 years.)

The filing uses the magical word cloud so I certainly don't disagree. Totally speculating here, but I would guess it would include content libraries like NI, software as a service pricing models and support for hardware / software combos that compete even more directly with PT. That and T-shirts and Merch and an Instagram channel. I should probably dial back on the evening espresso.

If we take a linguistic approach to the name, a Spark is probably not a fully formed product. But what the hell, let's check the USPTO: https://uspto.report/TM/97264459 "Mark For: UAD SPARK™ trademark registration is intended to cover the categories of downloadable computer software; downloadable audio and music computer software; downloadable cloud-based software; downloadable cloud-based software for audio recording; downloadable computer software for processing digital music files; downloadable computer software for manipulating digital audio information for use in audio media applications; downloadable computer software and firmware for downloading and organizing music files; downloadable computer software for creating and editing music and sounds; downloadable software to control and improve audio equipment sound quality; downloadable computer software for controlling the operation of audio and video devices."

I was washing dishes and I remembered this bit of prior art from 2004. "Soundtrack - Be a professional musician. Or just sound like one."

Ha! I like to think that they consume "content" - music is just one of the colors or part of the furniture... As I thought about it during the day, I think that we all remember the Sonic Foundry / Sony idea of Loops as a harmless element of production bed utility. I don't know if this is that much different in spirit. It could be thought of as an update for music supervision as a service for low value targets.

It looks like the thing closest to commercializing is tech for custom production music beds for ads, podcasts, etc.. They spent some time in the Abbey Road Incubator as well. https://www.abbeyroad.com/the-incubator Some linkage:

Thanks, that's a good thought. I think I have it settled now. The end screw on the tuning button is doing more work than I understood. I have them all backed off to a light finger tight, still that winds the sleeve into the nylon washer. Any irregular sleeves can be rotated into a snug fit.

Thank you! Screws. The screws that hold on the knobs were in fact looser than they needed to be. That's about 85% of the issue. So, the changing season probably set this off. I will check lubrication next time I change the strings.

hi, I am searching for your guidance and wisdom here. I have an inexpensive Chinese-made Classical guitar. It is kind of pretty, it is very light and it rings for days. That resonance aggravates a noise from the tuning machines. It is a rattle that turns to a buzz from the decorative sleeves. I am attaching a photo. The space is constrained. What do you think would work to silence this? Thanks!

There's a "pro" version aimed at film sound with control of parameters. https://www.waves.com/plugins/clarity-vx-pro#introducing-clarity-vx-pro-noise-reduction-voice The real-time aspect is different from anything else that I can think of.

so, a few thoughts: 1) Been a long time since Apple did a presentation aimed at creatives. 2) A focus on creatives that have somebody else picking up the tab. (Like special displays that work under bright lights.) 3) Energy use was highlighted. Product toxicity was discussed differently. 4) Women developers acknowledged. (And product managers.) 5) Was anything plugged into a Thunderbolt port other than charging that MacBook? It's a desktop machine. They are selling the idea of power rather than the reality of untidiness tethered by expensive cables.

Yep. Or one where people could stay 23 days. Which actually does return to the original premise of the thread. People who study communal living animals track behaviors. Some of those behaviors fall in the category of predatory threat assessment and the ways that the community shares understanding of the threat. We also organize systems based on threat but we assess our community differently. We don't always identify as a community or recognize a shared threat.

Doesn't look like any hospital in North America. I found it odd too. I did a Google reverse image search. One of the propagators attributes it to a hospital in Iran. (stage direction: hospital functionary stops at the door, nods head slightly forward, pauses, does not enter the room. footsteps continue softly down the hall.)

Just to clean this up. I found some ad copy for that Sony library. "The sound effects are all original, royalty-free WAV files, allowing them to be used freely for any project that you are working on. " So they are clear. At the time (2013) they were charging real money for these - $470. Amazon still sells it as a downloadable for that price. But the CD sets can be found in some of the usual places at a reasonable price.

I think that you will have an easier time finding things once you have loaded the 53 CDs into your own library. The Beeb did mount this site a few years back: https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/ I think that you still have to clear the samples from the CDs if you made anything that you wanted to release. That may be indicated on the CD liner. I don't remember if that is the case with the Sony library that Craig has.

My trouble with the Logitech mice starts with intermittence and eventual failure. And since I am the last person to throw something out they sit in boxes mutely taunting me. Little bastards. I am still wired mostly with Logitech Trackman Marble Trackball Mouse. Because of a vision problem I can follow the wired mice more successfully.

Context matters on this. Neil Young had polio. Fortunately, that context is out of the current awareness of many who are skeptical of vaccines. Personally I have a clear childhood recollection of mass Sabin clinics and older siblings of classmates who had aluminum braces and crutches.

This is a good list! Right now the Mac has parity or better for multi-track platforms especially considering those interface mfrs supporting Thunderbolt. For video and mono / stereo editing I still have reasons to prefer Windows (and Linux) tools.

It could just be routine oversights or it could be an introduction to the new retail environment. It used to be that large retailers would update pricing in an overnight process. The merchandising crew would show up anywhere from 4AM to 7AM and print tags that might end up on shelves noting ongoing sale pricing or changes and newly "clearanced" products. The entrance that Amazon made as their primary competition changed everything in retail. Amazon experimented with "dynamic" pricing meaning that your price could change based on the time of the day, or order flow, or next delivery, or how you got to your order link. Or, or, and infinitely more ors. This was all in realtime without need of an overnight process or a carbon-based life form updating shelf pricing. Further Amazon's AWS (and other competitors) made this available to all retailers. So, the marketplace is reshaped. Some states may have rules about enforcing store labels and pricing but the "pro-business" lobbies fight those rules, so it depends on where you live. Further the fact that many of us walk around with phone apps informing our pricing expectations and equally informing retailers about our proximity changes the fundamental relationship between buyers and sellers. In Target's hometown of MPLS a local TV station documented Target playing a very aggressive location-based pricing game in 2019: https://www.kare11.com/article/money/consumer/the-target-app-price-switch-what-you-need-to-know/89-9ef4106a-895d-4522-8a00-c15cff0a0514 HuffPo updated the story this year: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/target-tracking-location-changing-prices_l_603fd12bc5b6ff75ac410a38 I had this happen with Staples earlier this year when I checked stock on an item and drove 5 miles to the local store where the price was different. I screenshot the price and they honored it. Often I will check the price with the phone app UPC / scan widget in the Search bar to see whether pricing agrees in store. Honestly, this year I have ordered more online because of the annoyances of aggressive retail gamesmanship.

My controversial opinion is that if you have the room to keep an old machine alive, Snow Leopard is the OS that you want on it. That's my dividing line. A lot of stuff stopped there. (An inexpensive Profire was on my local Craigslist this year and I thought seriously about it.)

Would the basis be that the store was trafficking in stolen goods? No, I was just thinking that it would be the same copyright infringement. Both eBay and the consignment shop might expect to earn a commission on sales, so they would be participants. The "stolen" thing is trickier. Publishers and copyright holders are quick to use words like "stolen" and "theft". Infringement, though, is "generally" civil. https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-infringement.html

Nobody was well served by the judgment. And why isn't ebay named in the action? If it was sold in a consignment store I am sure that the store would be named.

The Guardian had a little more detail on the process of this. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/dec/17/eric-clapton-wins-legal-case-against-woman-selling-bootleg-live-cd-for-845 So, instead of responding to the takedown she did engage with them. I have no idea what German law is but like any broke defendant they probably did not file an appearance and the court probably just pursued the award of damages to the party that showed up. They do quote Clapton's management so it was intended to "send a message." It's in the way that you use it.

IIRC, it started in Europe? hmmm... dunno, "right to be forgotten" RTBF started there. I started sending emails to my state rep around 2017. It was news to him at that time and I got a couple of serious responses from his office.

Apple's change in policy didn't happen in a vacuum, there has been a public policy movement to address "right to repair" (that's the legislative lobbying name for the various efforts to change laws and address the ways that government agencies have protected these questionable claims for intellectual property protections). Part of it has been driven by the people trying to fix phones, tablets and computing hardware and part of it has been driven by people trying to fix high tech farm equipment. https://www.repair.org/legislation https://uspirg.org/blogs/blog/usp/half-us-states-looking-give-americans-right-repair It's a necessary thing. If you can't open it, you don't own it.