The Grateful Thread

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by JRM, Apr 11, 2014.

  1. bzfgt

    bzfgt The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler

    Here is a completely naive question, if someone gives me a technical answer there's a 100% chance I won't understand it.

    Why can't lossless files be majorly compressed, if you used a code that had a zillion characters? So, if there were one character for virtually any piece of information. Common sense suggests the shorter the language the larger the file and vice versa. Computers however can compute really fast and well, so couldn't a music player be programmed to understand a really, really long code and a lossless mp3-type file be made?
     
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  2. bzfgt

    bzfgt The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler

    I don't know if "character" is a recognizable term in this context. The idea is that encoding music could be done in a small amount of space if the available units of code were really, really numerous.
     
  3. bzfgt

    bzfgt The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler

    EDIT: oops wrong post
     
  4. bzfgt

    bzfgt The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler

    Dare I say it--in Soviet Russia, Eyes downloads you!
     
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  5. hagcel

    hagcel Forum Resident

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    I’ve notice a few posts referencing palindromes. How does this related to the dead? Evidently I’m unfamiliar with this...
     
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  6. notesofachord

    notesofachord Riding down the river in an old canoe

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  7. bzfgt

    bzfgt The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler

    PITB-UJB-Morning Dew-UJB-PITB. Like a palindrome, if every song were a letter.
     
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  8. bzfgt

    bzfgt The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler

    That too, technically, but in this context it refers to setlist.
     
  9. notesofachord

    notesofachord Riding down the river in an old canoe

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    Playing in the Band>Uncle John's Band>Morning Dew<dnaB s'nhoJ elcnU<danB eht ni gniyalP
     
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  10. bzfgt

    bzfgt The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler

    Bump! Sorry, the page turned over and I am dying to get an answer. I know there are a lot of people on this forum who can answer this elsewhere, but I'm afraid to ask because I'm not sure if I can make this question understood due to my technical ignorance. I see this as a "safe space," as the S1Ws say.
     
  11. hagcel

    hagcel Forum Resident

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    Thanks guys. That makes sense. Was that mostly a 73 thing?
     
  12. MikeP5877

    MikeP5877 V/VIII/MCMLXXVII

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    Also called a "sandwich".
     
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  13. warewolf95

    warewolf95 Forum Resident

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    What's the proper pronunciation?
     
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  14. hagcel

    hagcel Forum Resident

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    Ox-O-Mox-A is how I say it but more of a ah sound before the Ox
     
  15. libertycaps

    libertycaps Forum Resident

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    "Ox-Oh-Mox-Oh-Aaaaah"
    That's how i say it anyways....
     
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  16. libertycaps

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    Btw, tomorrow i will officially own all 24 retails Dave's!! Woot.
    ("Pics or it didn't happen!!" Amirite? Lols.)
     
  17. hagcel

    hagcel Forum Resident

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    I like the way you say it libertycaps. I’ll have to try to remind myself to say it that way from now now....

    Like Ox-O-Mox-Owa?
     
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  18. notesofachord

    notesofachord Riding down the river in an old canoe

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    Braggart!!

    ...oh wait, I did mention on this thread about scoring the E72 trunk earlier this year...

    Um, nevermind.

    :winkgrin:
     
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  19. notesofachord

    notesofachord Riding down the river in an old canoe

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    Awks-a-mox-OH-uh

    is my preferred 'nunciation.
     
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  20. Archtop

    Archtop Soft Dead Crimson Cow

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    Well, the well-known palindrome in question would be a club sandwich of sorts, with the 7 jam in UJB serving as the bacon. A better example of a sandwich is the Playin'--> Scarlet--> Playin' from 8/6/74. More properly, that's a Scarlet sandwich on Playin' bread.*


    *This is not an intentional variant on a cool water sandwich and a Sunday go-to-meetin' bun, but could be construed as such if one is of that sort of mind.
     
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  21. libertycaps

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    "Oh-Wa" Sure. Like in the viddy. Lols.
     
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  22. bzfgt

    bzfgt The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler

    That's what I always said. There's a video someone linked to on here a few months ago where Mickey Hart, I think, gives the pronunciation, but I've already forgotten how it's supposed to go...it might be the way we say it, it might not be.
     
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  23. bzfgt

    bzfgt The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler

    I think I emphasize "Mox". Again, I can't remember if this is correct or not, though.
     
  24. Archtop

    Archtop Soft Dead Crimson Cow

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    I've always said "that album with What's Become of the Baby on it." There's literally no room for misinterpretation there.
     
  25. wavethatflag

    wavethatflag God is love, but get it in writing.

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    I like the Grateful Dead.
    Mickey has said it's ox-oh-mox-oh-ah, I believe. I saw him say it in an interview.
    My friend Seth has said it's a-o-oxa-moxa, but that's probably wrong.
    My favorite pronunciation is one I heard on a Dead-related customer service line, where the announcer, in a great announcer voice, pronounced it a-zoma-zoa. That's my favorite pronunciation, as pronouncing the x as a z makes saying it easier.
     
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