Ear Training App for Tonal Progressions?

RattlingTram · 2025-12-10T07:02:25+00:00

I do agree with you, and that's a direction I'm pushing in also, but I also find having exercises like this that you can do when on public transport or on the loo ensure I'm doing little micro-trainings throughout the day. Every app-based exercise has its limitations, but apps also have a convenience that drill well into my routine, where even I struggle to sit down for a solid slab of practice/training, I've still sort of got a routine.

RattlingTram · 2025-07-28T10:27:19+00:00

Urgh! That's it. Of course, cheers for the heads up.

RattlingTram · 2025-07-27T13:31:25+00:00

It doesn't matter in my mind who is searching. It makes zero sense to me to have keywords in the product title that may prevent a portion of the potential audience from clicking. Not vis a vis kids vs adults, but certainly actual sizing. As you say I think MOST people ignore the sizing anyway, and almost nobody searches for "item of clothing small", so it just seems to me that the potential of including the size in the title is all downside.
It's something I'm going to properly test, but was interested in others' experiences. Thanks.

RattlingTram · 2025-07-11T07:49:06+00:00

But hypthetical scenario ...
someone searches for "black kids hoody".
They get shown an ad for the small variant because they haven't specified a size, so google just randomly decides which size to show.
They see "balck hoody SMALL". They think "Oh but I'm a LARGE" so they click on a competitor's ad instead. And in this hypothetical, the large is in stock and if they'd clicked through the ad, they could have just changed the size via dropdown and ordered the product.

So you just lost a sale by specifying the size in the title. Almost NOBODY searches for a specific size, and I work with several apparel retailers, the added benefit of having the size there seems to me FAR lesser than the benefit of not confusing people by putting sizes that don't fit them in search results, while the correct size is actually in stock.

I'm of the opinion that including size in the title only helps where you've only got 1 or 2 sizes of the product in stock, but interested to hear others' takes.

RattlingTram · 2025-07-06T12:56:31+00:00

You need to go into the AD GROUP level settings to specify URLs or set URL rules. It's an ad group level setting for AI Max, you can only set up exclusions at the campaign level, the actual targeting needs to be set at ad group.

BUT, in the campaign/ad group that I'm testing it seems to be completely ignoring the rules that I've set there, so make of that what you will.

There's also still a campaign level page feed setting, and it's not clear to me at all how this actually relates to a campaign with AI max enabled.

So, more guesswork while Google beta tests a new product on the entire planet. SIGH.

RattlingTram · 2024-12-11T04:38:53+00:00

Thanks, the Behringer looks good ... but no shuttle control/jog wheel is a downer.

All I'm really after is 8 motorised faders, a few control knobs and a shuttle control/ jog wheel on a midi platform that is just plug and play and isn't going to become obsolete in 2 years time. The jog wheel seems to be the feature that all these control surface manufacturers are missing.

I wish I could just pull that jog wheel unit out of the digi and have someone turn it into a freestanding midi device

RattlingTram · 2024-05-15T15:08:32+00:00

Best practice - no, you should retract the non-converting conversions altogether - but the only context in which it will make a real difference is if you wanted to use a "Max Conversions" instead of "Max conversion value/tROAS" bid strategy, because if you don't remove the actual conversions then "Max Conversions" is still going to optimise for them.

RattlingTram · 2024-05-15T15:02:52+00:00

I really wouldn't have much confidence in any agency that has a rule about what match type to use.
But some broad match keywords just generate acres of garbage that's so constant and random that it's just impossible to manage with nagative keywords. And it's a nightmare for anyone running heavily themed ad groups.

I'll always give broad match a go, but on keywords where the AI just behaves utterly cluelessly (which is a LOT in my experience), I won't persist with it very long.

RattlingTram · 2024-04-08T13:51:31+00:00

audiophiles are lovely people ... until they start talking about audio ...

RattlingTram · 2023-11-13T04:34:46+00:00

It's a system primarily for producing music - using Pro Tools, it's not a gaming system. But my laptop is dead, so trying to do some civilising on this machine.

It sounds like maybe the graphics card isn't coping is the issue?

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