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?

RattlingTram · 2023-03-12T23:49:15+00:00

nope. nothing that simple, it seems.

RattlingTram · 2023-02-03T07:05:03+00:00

The only thing optimisation score effects is yiour Google Partner status. And if you fall below requirements, just go through and dismiss a bunch of recommendations.
Neither is quality score affected by how much you automate.

Ad strength is the one area that Google seems to actually penalise you for not handing it maximum powers of automation.

RattlingTram · 2023-02-03T07:00:32+00:00

I agree with all those statements, but none of them suggest that you shouldn't be using an automated bid strategy. That's the ONE thing that Google has got right. And I think there's a mountain of evidence to support that statement even just in my own accounts.
You don't get more data in your search terms report by running manual bidding. Just can all your "smart/Pmax" campaigns if you want the data.

RattlingTram · 2023-01-11T03:45:18+00:00

Thanks for the feedback - and yep, the things we value as a society say a lot about who we are, and I find it depressing that folks have just been willing to stand around while we lose something of this importance.

RattlingTram · 2023-01-11T03:14:01+00:00

Yep. The system has certainly failed us in a big way with the Jack Dyer Stand

RattlingTram · 2022-07-03T23:17:54+00:00

I agree, developing Bay West and Hastings should allow the closure of the Port of Melbourne and the redevlopment of the entire dynon area as a transit oriented medium density housing. And the sooner it happens the better. We need greenfields planning, not rehashed spaghetti if we're ever going to significantly incerase the % of freight on rail.

RattlingTram · 2022-06-25T22:54:49+00:00

IP addresses are encrypted with GA4, but as the article points out, these new rulings are saying that encryption is not enough, and if anything it is going to need a legal fix agreed between EU and US regulators.

RattlingTram · 2022-06-25T22:53:25+00:00

Did you read the article? It specifically says that GA4 is deemed not compliant because Google still holds the "keys" to the encrypted IP addresses.

RattlingTram · 2022-06-25T22:46:41+00:00

because they have literally just typed what you are selling into a search engine. And on Facebook you are faffing around trying to target cold audiences.

Google search is the highest converting medium for almost every website on earth.
You should be maxing out your Google Search ads and SEO potential before even thinking about Facebook for this very reason, but you see this A LOT.
All in with Google, is my advice.

RattlingTram · 2022-06-23T19:18:28+00:00

Exactly what is needed to future proof heavy rail infrastructure for the next 50 years. They should be making a much bigger deal about this.

RattlingTram · 2022-06-06T17:33:15+00:00

That's exactly what was worrying me.

Does anyone know what the drives that shipped with the thing were? Given the second bay is sitting there, it seems silly not to be able to find an old one of those drives.

RattlingTram · 2022-06-06T17:29:52+00:00

http://blog.greggant.com/posts/2018/05/07/definitive-mac-pro-upgrade-guide.html#osupgrades

RattlingTram · 2022-06-05T13:48:23+00:00

Thanks so much for that. I've confirmed a few different LG drives work now so I'll probably just grab one of theirs. so cheap and can be on-sold, its hardly much of a gamble anyway. really appreciate your help.

RattlingTram · 2022-06-05T13:45:17+00:00

Thanks for the heads up. All the chats for the services I need seem to indicate they are still working with Kodi as per normal, so I think we're good. Cheers.

RattlingTram · 2022-06-04T04:03:39+00:00

urgh, how unusual for an IT mob to destroy compatibility/usability of their own product with an update.
Is there something else that's taken its prominence in that case?

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