Where is that music coming from?

May 28th, 2009

It’s 2009: Interruption marketing is over.
Websites with auto-playing music need to KNOCK IT OFF.

Your music is awesome, and it’s great that you want me to hear it. I want to hear it. But please, invite me to turn it on. Invite me to download it to my computer and integrate it into MY media player.

I found an artist who is sharing his music for free. Awesome.

But the more I listened I thought, “Wow, the production is really top notch. The drums are a bit messy… and I’m getting sick of this delay on the vocals…. Wow, pretty repetitive effect…. Ugh! Same effect on the verse AND chorus. Quit it with the delay!”

Then I realized that I had opened two tabs, and it was playing on both.

Ironically enough, when I listened to just one version of the song, the drums sounded a little blasé, but significantly less messy.

That perfectly describes my hyper-active auditory attention span (meaning: I like my beats busy).

I won’t speak for the vfx, but I love this song “Double Pump” by Girl Talk (et al).

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2 Responses to “Where is that music coming from?”

  1. joan wrote:
    May 29th, 2009 at 11:20 am

    YES! nothing worse than auto-playing frigging music on websites. i made sure we didn’t do that with ours…acceptable if it’s myspace, though, methinks, cuz the ‘pause’ button is always nice and clear. too many sites hide their mute button. ugh.

    just catching up on your blogs after the tour. i shall now continue reading. weeeee.

  2. Joel wrote:
    June 1st, 2009 at 8:01 am

    Hi Joan! I was thinking more about this, (while hiking through the wilderness) and I’d agree with you: myspace is exempt from this rant. I would consider myspace to be more of a “web page” than a “web site.” (I’m not a huge fan of the myspace blog, or anything that navigates away from the “page” idea. I’m a WordPress snob. Ha!)

    Among other kinds of snobbery, je suppose.

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