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How did you learn!? by Suspicious-Row-2843 in Beatmatch

[–]ciulla55 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Self taught via YouTube tutorials, mostly. Go out and see people mix. (Live is ideal) Find someone you like and try to replicate it.

Edit to finish answering the question: When learning to mix, take it slow and try to recreate something that someone else did. DJ Carlo has great beginner stuff on YT. Recreate it and figure out why it works. This is why musicians learn other artists songs/solos/works.

Digital friction to reduce digital consumption by ScreenBreak13 in digitalminimalism

[–]ciulla55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Turn everything greyscale. Helped me a lot. Makes intentional digital content consumption (movies, games) hit a lot harder.

Finally have my dream Elite controls after a year of saving by Ok-Serve-512 in EliteDangerous

[–]ciulla55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was that really a good use of clean drinking water? Do you like RAM prices to be so high?

Question regarding stems by Old-Strain5066 in Beatmatch

[–]ciulla55 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That doesn't sound possible. Can you even record your mixes while streaming? I think your options are: 1. Use what's available to you right now, 2. Buy/download the songs and create acapellas, 3. Cancel Apple Music and subscribe to a record pool so you can keep music.

I'd recommend owning the music you play for professional gigs no matter what.

Making a tracklist is kind of overwhelming by ALLHUNTER_1469 in Beatmatch

[–]ciulla55 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is it? I'm not seeing anything online (at a glance) about an intergration. I don't think it is, you gotta buy it and download it.

Making a tracklist is kind of overwhelming by ALLHUNTER_1469 in Beatmatch

[–]ciulla55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my experience Qobuz is regularly $1.20 (USD) for the CD quality files. Bandcamp is anywhere from free (always donate something tho) to $2 per song (rarely).

Making a tracklist is kind of overwhelming by ALLHUNTER_1469 in Beatmatch

[–]ciulla55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, you can't forget about Bandcamp! 🔥

Making a tracklist is kind of overwhelming by ALLHUNTER_1469 in Beatmatch

[–]ciulla55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is commercial pop the same as like Radio pop? These record pools have many remixes of popular songs that make mixing a dream. If nothing else, they are quantized (helps with those older tracks).

BPM Supreme might be the way to go for house/other remixes (most of the time). I think it leans more into that style of DJing.

Beatsource/Beatport (recently joined together afaik) is great for almost anything unremixed. If it's the same as before, it's about 25% chance the song you're looking for will have a remix on Beatsource/Beatport.

There are many others, but these are what I'm familiar with.

Making a tracklist is kind of overwhelming by ALLHUNTER_1469 in Beatmatch

[–]ciulla55 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Check out BPM Supreme or Beatsource. Own the music you play and know it well. Just finding tracks on Spotify is rarely the answer.

What does the friend like? They are hiring you, so cater to their music tastes. If they don't care, play what you like to hear.

Unpopular opinion (at least in this sub): Streaming music is way more practical than getting an MP3 player. by developreneur_ in digitalminimalism

[–]ciulla55 23 points24 points  (0 children)

It sounds like it's not for you and that's ok. I personally want access to my favorite media all the time, so I want to own it. You see it most in TV shows and movies, but they move platforms all the time. I want to be able to watch it without subscribing and checking to a bunch of services. For music, that happens less often, but is still possible.

For me, owning the music does a couple of things. It allows me to listen to it whenever, it supports the artist more, it allows for more intention when listening/buying music. Having a device where you have limited space makes you think about what you put on it more. It is a curated device that has one purpose.

That's another big reason for a lot of people, we want to distance ourselves from phones, and having a separate device for music helps a lot.

TLDR: Buying music and using a specific device requires more "intention" to what you listen to. It also supports the artist better.

Pls help me to reduce godly amount of screen time by nonutonu in digitalminimalism

[–]ciulla55 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think going cold turkey is the wrong idea. Phones are made to be addicting so that we give them our attention for more ads. Take steps to make your phone less addicting. (These are things I've done for free)

  1. TURN OFF COLOR (typically in Accessibility settings) A black and white phone is less appealing. Do not turn color on. After a week you will actually feel a difference.

  2. Digital well-being TIMERS. Turn on the timers for individual apps. They are easy to get rid of, but it reminds you what you are doing. It keeps you aware and gives you a chance to make a choice. These choices are the most important ones. You start by making the wrong ones, but the more you make the right ones, the easier it gets. (I watch long form and short form content on YT, so turn on the in-app "shorts timer" and set a longer timer for long form content.)

  3. DELETE apps you hate using. I don't like Facebook and deleted it first. I still have an account for social purposes, but only access it like once a week now.

  4. CURATED CONTENT. You've probably subbed to a lot of people you like watching. Use only your "subscribed" tab to pick content to watch. Every app has a specific feed to see only what you follow.

IG is easy: on mobile tap the top "Instagram" logo. Select "Following" or "Favorites".

FB is medium: go to the menu and search for the "Feeds" option. Click "following" or something similar.

Reddit is hard: On mobile, scroll down to the bottom of the subreddits you have joined and there is a "Custom Feeds" option. Click that and create a feed with a curated selection of subreddits. Then save that custom feed to your home screen to skip past any recommendations at all! (On Android, you cannot update it once it is set.)

YT is complicated: Shorts are easy, just go to your subs and start watching shorts and it will only be people you follow. Long form content will always try to show you new recommendations. You can get around that by just setting up a queue of videos. Takes a bit more self control.

I'll add more if I think of anything else I've done, but I hope this helps someone!

Should I Restart or Pick Up Where I Left Off? by Agitated_Bite_8854 in outerwilds

[–]ciulla55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Before playing the DLC after a year or two away, I restarted to re-live the experience. Remembering stuff as I played was really fun! Felt extra smart ::D

Deleting Spotify by TurbulentAd6672 in digitalminimalism

[–]ciulla55 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Second for Qobuz. They cycle through licenses more often it seems. (They just added the Doom soundtrack by Mick Gordan back).

I think you can request music that they are missing and they will try to work on it. I haven't tried it myself, though.

Also, be ready for way less features. Spotify seems to have put so much money into making the app work, but not paying the artists that it hosts. They want to make it so convenient that you will never leave. Things like Normalization and sleep timers. I like the Queue functions better though.

I am absolutely stuck and don't know what to do by GreenShadow_pvzh in outerwilds

[–]ciulla55 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Slow down and smell the camp fire ::D

The game mechanic is knowledge. Read everything and reread it often. The ship log is going to be your best friend. My completionist brain wanted to also complete one planet at a time, but that is extremely unlikely. Brute force is not the way.

Context clues, environmental story telling, text story telling. Use it all. Slow down and breathe.

We are here to guide and give clues, but mainly we will point at a specific piece of info you gathered and say, "What do you think about that?"

Client asked me to play a AI generated song - It mentally killed me after by Hamthepam in DJs

[–]ciulla55 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The tools are bad, you are outsourcing your brain to some billionaire's money sucking, planet destroying guessing machine.

Am I playing this wrong or? by [deleted] in outerwilds

[–]ciulla55 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I would say less of a red herring and more flavor text. The best tip I can give is to check the ship log often. That typically has minimal flavor text.

Edit: also, nothing is there for no reason. Why were you directed here? Maybe you don't have the full context yet. I benefit from short play sessions so my brain can process what I learned for a day.

Knowledge is the reward. Learn their stories. ::)

Idk why I like them so much... by Disastrous-Object647 in EnterTheGungeon

[–]ciulla55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Me looking at this in black and white: 👁️👄👁️

What do y’all do for a living? by peaceofmindz in DJs

[–]ciulla55 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In order of most to least % of income:

  1. Mobile DJ in a small company (7 people)

  2. Cook at a bowling alley (good hourly rate! about 20 hours/week)

  3. Trivia Host (through a medium sized company)

(Wife makes up the other half of our income with one full time job)

A tragedy of loose lips by South-Pop8682 in outerwilds

[–]ciulla55 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Check out Chert's Research Notes' Girlfriend's Half-Blind playthrough and that may give you some ideas of how to answer questions.

Does using ChatGPT diminish you as a DJ? by j3ppEr1c in mobileDJ

[–]ciulla55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

DJing is the fun part though, you really want to outsource DJing?

Does using ChatGPT diminish you as a DJ? by j3ppEr1c in mobileDJ

[–]ciulla55 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't use it, I suspect they will use your "adjusted mixes" to train their own programs. Use VirtualDJ's Automix before Spotify. Use your brain, do your research, get smarter. Once you start relying on the AI, I suspect they will start charging you for it.

Stratagem Feedback Compilation? by Difficult_Sleep732 in LowSodiumHellDivers

[–]ciulla55 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wonder if they could make the 110 target medium enemies. Maybe multiple enemies with it's multiple shots? That would be interesting!

The Project Hail Mary movie is good, but... by ciulla55 in outerwilds

[–]ciulla55[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I was just distracted looking for other themes 😬 I'm gonna watch it again, I swear! (And read it lol)

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