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How can I tell what quality/bitrate the audio stream is on a YouTube video I'm watching?
Main question as per title!
Also interested in whether it's always the same format of audio (compression technique etc.) or if it depends on the audio stream in the uploaded video? Also, does the quality depend on what resolution I'm watching the…
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Has technology improvement caused film music to change?
When watching older films (by older, I mean before 1970), I always notice the lack of strings in the soundtracks, and when there are strings, they never play quietly. For example, in Mary Poppins, the music is mostly brass and percussion, with…
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Why do artists not release backing tracks, instrumentals, and acapellas in their singles?
Currently, artists just release singles with 1 track - the song.
For example, Ariana Grande's single "Focus" has 1 track:
Focus
But wouldn't it be better to release additional tracks as well, like the backing track, instrumental, and…
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Main difference between Soul/Funk/R&B
Why every time I search for albums on Funk or Soul, for example in music apple, most of the albums that are supposed to be funk as labeled as soul/R&B?? What makes these three genres different? Why do they try to put them all together?
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Who are those famous looking people in the video of Pink Floyd's brain damage?
While i am able to recognize some of them but most of them are unknown to me.
Did Pink Floyd mocked those politicians and generals? Like in the line.
The lunatic is on the grass.
P.S. I am referring to the video that was played by them during…
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What is the difference between Cool Jazz and Bebop?
As I understand, Cool Jazz is a post Bebop style of Jazz. What makes Cool Jazz different than Bebop? Also, What are some albums that you can recommend on cool Jazz besides Miles' Birth of the cool?
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Who voiced the racist cop on NWA's 'F*ck tha Police'?
In the original song there is the mock trial of a racist cop
"That's a lie. That's a Goddamn lie!"
etc at about 4:53.
I don't think that these lines are recorded by any of the NWA members (Ice Cube, MC Ren, and then Eazy-E) and it sounds too…
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What is Meaning of "Aerials" by System of a Down song and music video?
This is one of my favorite songs. I listened to this thousand times, watched video several times but still cannot get the connection.
What is the background story of this song?
How the Music Video connect with the song?
I know these are famous…
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What exactly is slam death metal?
What exactly is it, what is the differences between say deathcore and slam death, what are the main differences, does it have more than one sound? All the slam i have heard sounds like devourment.
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How to find "recommended" playlists in Spotify?
I'm a big Spotify fan. I use it almost constantly at work.
But one thing Spotify is not good at: music discovery. Despite all this newfangled tracking of my music listening habits, I still overwhelmingly rely on recommendations from friends,…
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Do you need original artist's consent to cover their songs live?
This is a general question. I will use an example only to make it clearer.
Let's consider this Anathema's concert - they played covers of Oh! Darling and Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2.
Did they have to obtain consent of The Beatles and Pink…
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Where is this "overused" piece of ending originated from?
Here it is:
Here's an example video, jump straight to the end (at 11:07).
It is literally heard everywhere, mostly used as an improvisation, e.g. to add a fun and humorous twist in any piece of music. Because of being used everywhere, I have no…
Yudhi G.
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Who is the artist of a song?
When a song has performer A, composer B, and lyricist C, who is the artist of this song?
Is this decided by rules not based on the creative process, e.g., by producers? Or is the artist the party that had the "idea" for the song (and, so to say,…
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Legal way to pay for an MP3 that best supports the artist?
Been recently buying MP3s from various artists. I quite like MP3s over streaming as its at least a physical file that I have for my purchase.
However, it seems as the world has moved to streaming, it's harder to find an official MP3 purchase for…
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Studies about stereotypes' accuracy of different genre listeners
We all have in mind when we think of a typical metal listener a person wearing black clothes, long haired, with big black boots and etc. For almost each genre, there exist stereotypes of the typical listener.
So I asked myself two questions:
Has…
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