Please enjoy jwz mixtape 064b! That's right, I said 064b! I built and approximation of mixtape 064 out of Youtube videos, like I did for mixtape 047. Some entries on 064b have been replaced by other tracks by the same band, and a few are missing, because I couldn't find any videos...
Update, 19-Sep-2009: Youtube seems to have broken something. If the embedded player doesn't work, try this link.
Also, I have some Youtube hate:
Dear Warner Music Group, please die in a fire.
Dear nearly-every-record-label, why do you post all your videos with "embedding disabled"? All that does is make it so that I cannot include your videos in a playlist, and thus cannot promote your artists for you. It also doesn't really work, since I just have to go three pages deep in the search results to find someone else who posted a crappy television rip of it. Instead of your almost-as-crappy rip of it.
Dear teenagers who post still-frame video as a way of sharing the audio: knock that shit off! There are real videos of all of these songs, and you're just cluttering up the damned search results.
Dear Youtube: add some god damned options to your search engine, so I can search for only videos that are embeddable, and/or only videos that are high quality. (Bonus points if there's a checkbox for "videos that contain video"! Omit the ones where the frame rate is less than 1 FPS.)
A checkbox for "leave out the ones where 80% of the audio is clipping" would be cool, too.
I am glad to 100% share in every one of your youtube hate sentiments, along with this extra one.
The 10 min cut off mark is arbitrary and idiotic, considering that some music video lasts longer than 10 minutes as made by artists like TG, Neubauten, Plasmatics, etc.
The ten minute limit has been gone for a while, and even before then certain types of accounts could go longer.
hmmm, well, now I feel silly.
maybe I should relent on my youtube hate enough to log into my account.
That’s exactly why they put it in place – to keep the MPAA off their backs by preventing people from uploading full-length movies without considerable pain.
Thanks for writing.
While I find your approval of "appeasement" of MPAA/RIAA amusing, uploading "fill-length movies" has no relevance in this case.
Since the comment you replied to refers to preserving the integrity of musical works, the word "exactly" is summarily inappropriate.
The fault is in your interpretation, not my phrasing, but I don’t care to argue it either way anyway, much less in jwz’s comments.
Some are probably much worse than others, but fyi youtube normalizes badly so that even when the original audio track has 0 clipping, the one on youtube will. I guess they figure it's not loud enough unless it's distorting.
I've heard of artists adding extra blank space to the end of some of their YouTube videos so that they won't normalise as badly. But then, people shouldn't have to do shit like that in the first place.
maxmin does that and it's not for audio normalization, it's for video compression, because I guess it looks at average bitrate or something.
That's just the video? Curses, I'd hoped it was both.
someone should do a "hot or not?" knockoff called "nine inch nails or static?",
ROFLMAO. That cracked me up :D
I think people tried adding a high-pitched full-volume squeal to their audio tracks to prevent normalization. Youtube sees the waveform as loud and doesn't try to raise the volume any more, and then their high-pass filter removes it anyway.
Hey now! Good idea, I will definitely try that next time.
There's "crappy compression", and then there's "I recorded this concert with a cell phone, so it sounds like the mic was actually inside a didgeridoo."
Unfortunately, I know exactly the sound you mean.
I'd rather people just not use YouTube for sharing music, because it sounds like shit. Seems strange that they haven't made the audio decent quality now that they're supporting much better video...
Get off my lawn!
I am happy with them being on my lawn. I just wish they were able to land a move every now and then.
What.. You're not into every video you search for being dubbed over some crappy anime footage?
What the hell is wrong with you?!
How about 'instructional' movies that contain 20 seconds of video and 100 seconds of "Here's an animation of me typing, character by character, exactly what the video's description says..."
Minipop is fantastic, M83 is fantastic, Jem is truly an amazing Suzanne Vega / Natalie Merchant hybrid, there's no "Full screen" or "Playlist on Youtube" buttons that I can find. The best I can do is this url.
I continue to be amazed and enriched by your search for new music and will continue to watch and listen.
Hmm, I see a "full screen" button second from the right...
For those of you wanting to pick and choose or otherwise go back to specific videos, here's a reverse engineered list of the youtube links, with titles.
01 - Lykke Li - I'm Good, I'm Gone
02 - The Ting Things - Great DJ
03 - Robots In Disguise - The Sex Has Made Me Stupid
04 - Brazilian Girls - On Late Night With David Letterman
05 - The Kills - U R A Fever
06 - Minipop - Like I Do
07 - M83 - Graveyard Girl
08 - Jem - It's Amazing
09 - Ladyhawke - Dusk Till Dawn
10 - Tricky - Council Estate
11 - New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream
12 - The Presets - My People
13 - Ladytron - Ghosts
14 - Kerli - Walking On Air
15 - Stars - Take Me To The Riot
16 - Shiny Toy Guns - Ricochet
17 - Los Campesinos! - My Year In Lists
18 - Love Is All - Ageing Had Never Been His Friend
19 - Santogold - Lights Out
20 - Fujiya & Miyagi - Ankle Injuries
21 - Brassy - Work It Out
22 - The Oohlas - octopus
23 - Be Your Own Pet - Becky
24 - Blood Red Shoes - Its Getting Boring By The Sea
25 - I Heart Hiroshima - Punks
26 - The Death Set - Negative Thinking
27 - The Duke Spirit - Lassoo
28 - Portishead - Machine Gun
29 - Amanda Palmer - Leeds United
30 - LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
31 - Duchess Says - In Serial
32 - The Dollyrots - Because I'm Awesome
33 - The Ettes - I Get Mine
34 - Plastic Operator - Folder
You tried a lot harder than you needed to.
Click on the icon to the right of "Play" to bring up the "coverview" thingy in-window. Scroll to video. Select. Double-click in the main window to go to that video's individual page.
Good to know for future reference, but I wanted to watch them offline anyway.
hello hello! a dear friend, crackmonkey sent me your way, with the promise of mixtapes. and wow, good stuff. thanks for your great work compiling and letting us stream them!
And yet more YouTube hate for you.