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DiscoZombie
Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
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Edit: But only 6 Thursday songs? Wow, real hit and miss <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
Pandora seems to load faster and have a MUCH better interface.
But Deezer lets you pick exactly what songs to listen to.
/me goes to poke around
Edit: rofl they even have the YTMND compilation albums. How the heck can this exist?
It's not even on your computer. You listen to it via their thing.
Yuck, not quite. The songs I could find were crappily compressed, and most I couldn't find.
Well nowt's stopping you just recording what your computer's hearing.
Most stream rippers record what is streaming to your computer, so if the traffic was encrypted at one end and the player they use unencrypts it in memory, trying to rip the stream nets you mostly random 1's and 0's. What you're saying is possible(even though it would degrade the quality even more), but that's not how the technology currently works. As I said before I don't want to actually rip it or a way around it, I'm just wondering if this station is using it since it seems odd to start an internet radio station with these capabilities while the legislation is shifting so much.
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Nothing to do with legislation, they entered a contractual agreement.
Also:Off topic:I don´t get the audience who go to see American stand up comedians. The comedian can be excellent, but I never understood the cheering, and clapping on some occasions. A lot of the time they are not clapping from the jokes. I just saw Dane cooks "vicious cicle" show on youtube, and the audience sounded like they were at a football match. It is strange how some things are different in that way <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" /> (Please don't help me derailing this thread, I didn't want to start a new one)
Also:Off topic:I don´t get the audience who go to see American stand up comedians. The comedian can be excellent, but I never understood the cheering, and clapping on some occasions. A lot of the time they are not clapping from the jokes. I just saw Dane cooks "vicious cicle" show on youtube, and the audience sounded like they were at a football match. It is strange how some things are different in that way <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" /> (Please don't help me derailing this thread, I didn't want to start a new one)<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Stupid people + lots of people = lots of stupid. You get this in all crowds, not just those at stand up comedies.
Also:Off topic:I don´t get the audience who go to see American stand up comedians. The comedian can be excellent, but I never understood the cheering, and clapping on some occasions. A lot of the time they are not clapping from the jokes. I just saw Dane cooks "vicious cicle" show on youtube, and the audience sounded like they were at a football match. It is strange how some things are different in that way <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" /> (Please don't help me derailing this thread, I didn't want to start a new one)<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
what are people like when they watch a comedian in Europe? wait til the end of the show to laugh? =p people do act different for different comedy shows in the US too. if a comedian is trying to get you to agree with something he says, he may expect you to clap to voice your approval... but most of the time you just laugh if it's funny. Dane Cook is really popular though, especially with the young folks, who sometimes just like the sound of their own cheering.
let's not call it a derail - let's call it a distant tangent. =p
Also:Off topic:I don´t get the audience who go to see American stand up comedians. The comedian can be excellent, but I never understood the cheering, and clapping on some occasions. A lot of the time they are not clapping from the jokes. I just saw Dane cooks "vicious cicle" show on youtube, and the audience sounded like they were at a football match. It is strange how some things are different in that way <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" /> (Please don't help me derailing this thread, I didn't want to start a new one)<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
It depends on the atmosphere of the show. I've been to a fair few comedy shows and each has been different. Some have been fairly modest, despite being hilarious, but it's just laughing and clapping throughout the show, it's just appreciation of the comedian.
As for cheering, it all depends on the show. A local comedian down here who's the compere for a comedy club (Komedia) has the right kind of material to insite heckling, cheering, shouting, all sorts. As he's the warm up, it's all based on getting the audience warmed up, laughing at others and laughing at themselves. It's a well known rule not to sit at the front of comedy shows (at comedy clubs at least) if you don't want some, admittedly funny, abuse. Often the cheering can be for a particulaly scathing joke or the punter actually coming back with a good retort (it does happen from time to time).
On the other hand, with a number of american shows i've seen, most audiences are pretty respectful (to a degree, depending on the comedian), but sometimes it's just a case of having an audience full of people who aren't used to comedy shows or comedy clubs. There's a good number of comedians who would absolutely rip into any disrespectful or rowdy audience, often enough to make them shut up. You get them everywhere, but mostly for mainstream comedians like Dane Cook (i use comedian in the loosest sense of the word), if you go to an actual comedy club or comedy festival, you'll usually find the atmosphere a lot better.
Once you've been to a few comedy shows, you get a feel for the atmosphere and what it's like. Laughing, clapping, that's all fine, as long as it's not interrupting the act, you have a good time, you see a good show and everyone's fine. Unfortunately, it's the guys who don't tend to go to comedy shows or clubs who tend to be the worst behaved. If they were disrupting the show in any comedy club i've been to they'd be kicked right out on the first offense.
tl;dr version: If it's not ruining the act, it doesn't matter, just chill out.
Well it didn't degrade the quality much at all really, it just recorded what my computer was outputting. Job done, if only done at 1x speed.
I <i>think</i> an example could be, (from the Dane cook show, because I just watched it) how he starts a new joke session with "Don't cheat" you know, like a headline or title or whatever. When he says don't cheat;... (not a joke) the audience cheers, claps and shouts "you rooock!" those things. Things that I would expect to see when the punchline hits.
Maybe I am just imagining it. I think I might be.
Also: Deezer.com, what a internet website, eh guys?
I <i>think</i> an example could be, (from the Dane cook show, because I just watched it) how he starts a new joke session with "Don't cheat" you know, like a headline or title or whatever. When he says don't cheat;... (not a joke) the audience cheers, claps and shouts "you rooock!" those things. Things that I would expect to see when the punchline hits.
Maybe I am just imagining it. I think I might be.
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For comedians like Dane Cook, it's like seeing a band play live. Take that "Don't cheat" as a song title. There's a lot of comedians who come up with completely fresh material every single tour, and over the course of each tour the material will evolve anyway. For mainstream hacks like Dane Cook, there's new material and a "greatest hits." Infact, it's exactly the same as seeing a band play on a tour for a new album. They're cheering because they know the jokes and know what to expect, it's horribly boring and a sign of a terrible comedian. He's a terrible example of comedy.
That paints the picture pretty well, the band song metaphor. I remember thinking about it long ago, but didn't investigate it further.
It is just not something you see much of here. With a new show/tour, everything must be new material.
That is not saying it does not happen and of cause danish stand up comedians use the same material if they are touring.