Random Thoughts Thread

[AppleQueso]

You know the NES has a DPCM channel... I wonder how heavily you'd have to compress a song to get it to fit on say, a standard 32kb NES cart.

I have no idea how much compression, but Color Caves is an album on a NES cart:
http://la-game-space.myshopify.com/products/colorcaves

Those are chiptunes though. Different sort of thing.

[Luke]

Hell, Columbus thought he was in India.

West Indies.

Potato Potato.


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Today my parents reminded me that as a child I held sermons for my action figures where I would wear a bath robe and use a dictionary as the Bible as apparently their Bible wasn't as big as the one at our church.

Ritz and Capri-Sun communion? You bet your ass.

[fastbilly1]

You know the NES has a DPCM channel... I wonder how heavily you'd have to compress a song to get it to fit on say, a standard 32kb NES cart.

I have no idea how much compression, but Color Caves is an album on a NES cart:
http://la-game-space.myshopify.com/products/colorcaves

Those are chiptunes though. Different sort of thing.

Fair enough, its still pretty cool. We could probably do the math on it. At 8kbps you run about a second per kb. So, in rough ballparking, you could probably get about a 20 second clip in there.

[BoringSupreez]

Today my parents reminded me that as a child I held sermons for my action figures where I would wear a bath robe and use a dictionary as the Bible as apparently their Bible wasn't as big as the one at our church.

Ritz and Capri-Sun communion? You bet your ass.

I can remember doing church for my cat when I was 6. It was a five-minute service, since that was about as long as either I or the cat could stay interested.

[Hobie-wan]

We should have Vikings' Day instead of Columbus Day. They were the first Europeans to America. Hell, Columbus thought he was in India.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day

[Erik_Twice]

I hate that Oatmeal strip. History doesn't lend itself to a nice/evil divide.

[Forlorn Drifter]

Fair enough, its still pretty cool. We could probably do the math on it. At 8kbps you run about a second per kb. So, in rough ballparking, you could probably get about a 20 second clip in there.

That's enough time for a grindcore clip...

Also, what is "good" for first week album sales, outside of pop stars and other generally high selling styles? 5,000?

[AppleQueso]

Also, what is "good" for first week album sales, outside of pop stars and other generally high selling styles? 5,000?

Depends on audience, goals, budget, etc etc etc.

[Forlorn Drifter]

Also, what is "good" for first week album sales, outside of pop stars and other generally high selling styles? 5,000?

Depends on audience, goals, budget, etc etc etc.

Hmm. I was just wondering, a non-signed Country band I know of locally released a CD that sold about 2,500 the first week, and they were freaking out. They thought it was great. On the other hand, I know of a metal band who broke up because they couldn't get their first release to sell 5,000 in two weeks.

[Hobie-wan]

Hmm. I was just wondering, a non-signed Country band I know of locally released a CD that sold about 2,500 the first week, and they were freaking out. They thought it was great. On the other hand, I know of a metal band who broke up because they couldn't get their first release to sell 5,000 in two weeks.

That's the difference. A local band that isn't on a label at all or on a small local indie label, that's huge sales. For some big record company that probably spent more on 4 hours of recording studio time than the local band did recording the album and getting 3000 CDs pressed, 5000 sales is not going to make them happy.