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## Poll (informal) - audio test file?

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### Poll (informal) - audio test file?

by fsmithred » Sat Feb 23, 2013 8:48 pm

I'm thinking of changing the audio test file that's included with refracta. For all the betas so far, it's been Memphis Minnie's My Washwoman's Gone. I downloaded a few others, and I'd like to know if anyone has a preference. They're located here - http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/audio_test/
and before anyone reading this gets their panties in a bunch, they are all in the public domain, so there are no copyright issues. Got them from archive.org which has an awesome collection of old recordings. They also have new recordings, but I haven't spent much time checking those out.
Edit: Today, my pref is Mona, but that may change tomorrow and again the day after that. Your input is requested.

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### Re: Poll (informal) - audio test file?

by nadir » Sat Feb 23, 2013 10:01 pm

I think they are all good.
If i had to choose i would pick Memphis Minnie.
They look small. Why not take all of them ?
I searched for something after you mentioned archive.org:
http://archive.org/details/MilesDavis-AllBlues
or this:
http://archive.org/details/MilesDavis-Tutu
Though if you got 40 MB free:
http://archive.org/details/MonumentsInRuinEpisode154
(******* brew was the very first time i came to think if i might be from mars -originally).
But don't get me wrong: all of the above are fine (and, like said, i would add all of them).
So i herd u liek mudkip?

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### Re: Poll (informal) - audio test file?

by golinux » Sat Feb 23, 2013 10:11 pm

I never understood why there's an audio test file. Not my kind of music if I ever wanted to listen to some. Just something else to delete. FWIW I only play music when I'm creating an audio track for my exercise videos . . . Strange comment from someone with a masters degree in music who spent 40 years in a practice room perfecting an art . . . life is strange . . .
May the FORK be with you!

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### Re: Poll (informal) - audio test file?

by meandean » Sat Feb 23, 2013 11:13 pm

http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/969435/hard-times

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### Re: Poll (informal) - audio test file?

by fsmithred » Sun Feb 24, 2013 12:59 am

The audio test file is there so you can see if your sound card works with the software. It's much easier to do that if the file is already on the live CD. Some of the features in refracta are there because I needed them in the past when testing other live distros or when attempting to do rescue/repair.

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### Re: Poll (informal) - audio test file?

by dzz » Sun Feb 24, 2013 5:05 am

I was going to say Memphis Minnie..
but I'm unashamedly biased.. Grapelli plays on Daphne.

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### Re: Poll (informal) - audio test file?

by nadir » Sun Feb 24, 2013 7:34 am

"not my kind of music"
is an option when it comes to Django Reinhardt.
Similar one can't say: "i don't like Picasso" or "i don't like Bach".
---- ---- ---- ----

> Perhaps his most lasting influence on jazz was the introduction of solos based on melodic improvisation, at a time when guitarists generally played chorded solos. His inimitable improvisations,

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/top ... -Reinhardt
And:

> Reinhardt is often regarded as one of the greatest guitar players of all time and is the first important European jazz musician who made major contributions to the development of the idiom. .... Reinhardt invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique (sometimes called 'hot' jazz guitar) ... Reinhardt's most popular compositions have become jazz standards,

If you are to be found in the "real book", the jazz standards, you are beyond being liked or not being liked. You have set a standard on which the generation_s_ to follow build.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Reinhard
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### Re: Poll (informal) - audio test file?

by golinux » Sun Feb 24, 2013 5:00 pm

Yeah . . . Historical significance is one thing. Auditory interest is another. Neither needs to be defended as they are in their own separate (and valid) realms.
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