So most every other karaoke forum i've been to, i've always gotten the feeling there was a group of folks that were chasing me off. It didn't matter if I was talking about autOKdj or my video streaming. I'm sorry, i'm not a bot, and I feel the need to share my experiences and talk about what I want to do for karaoke. Is that a crime?
At karaoke-forum.com I got attacked plenty of times, got called a "sleazy spamming salesman" by this one guy with such terrible spelling and punctuation I snapped. It was sort of a combo of the bad spelling and the number of times he had attacked me that made me blow my top.
It wasn't just the attacks that got to me either, a lot of these other forums say "Don't go there" when we start talking about PC based karaoke in general.
I sort of got the same treatment over at karaokeplayground.uk. Got into a fight with Sax and autOKdj was born. They were more than happy to let his croonies say "A new version of S&D's is out" but anytime I posted, I got swatted down.
Here though it's different. Steve Miller kind of made me look twice last week. He told me he believes I am the one to take on STLR and SC. That post was followed by a few other posters agreeing.
I've also seen REALLY SMART people taking a look at autOKdj from this forum. It blew my mind that were trying to run it under wine/linux. Where have these people been? I've only found a few people so far that like hacking together stuff for karaoke. I did desktop support for various companies for 10 years, so I have a really great appriciation for the time it takes to wrestle with odd OS's and getting them to play right.
All in all, my experience here so far has been good. Maybe this is where 2007 is going to happen for me.
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2007 I'm planning a counterattack against SC and STLR. The first thing we need to do is gain publicity for our side of the argument, I.E. PC based karaoke is *fair use* so long as there's no piracy involved.
2004 there was an article written about me in the New York Times. I'm still in touch with the author, and he's expressed interest in an article of this type.
I'd also like to start a peer review system. Please, anybody, come inspect my system, compare it to the CDG's I have on hand. I'll do the same for you, and we'll go from there. If we can get a group of people that run straight, it will be a powerful lobbying force.
I already know this is going to attract the attention of SC and STLR, but i'm also hoping it will attract the attention of the Electronic Freedom Foundation and possibly get a class action started for us.
A lot of the people i've talked to think what SC and STLR are trying to pull is BS. These people range from the AOL/Winamp team to some of the karaoke producers themselves. These people have been behind me because I do the right thing, and if you're doing the right thing i'm sure they'll be behind you too.
I'm also in real close proximity to Robin Gross, CDG fair use author. I'm thinking of paying her a visit, cash in hand to help work on a gameplan for this years legal issues.
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We're going to be releasing a lot of new technology in 2007. I'm nagging the hell out of my friends to give me a hand with this. We haven't named the product yet, but basically if you're using a winamp based hosting program, you can have a box sitting there automatically making video of your singers like this... There would be no need for an internet connection at the venue. Just bring the box in, plug in the camera, configure your wireless networking a bit and let it sit there and record. Later on when you get back to an internet connection, your magic video box will begin uploading video, all automatically edited per performance.
There's also going to be various enhancements to the autOKdj plugin, more online vendors, more enhancements to the frontend, hopefully the effects system will get added in there too. Still free and uncrippled quality stuff. As always, if you're a C++ dev we can always use a hand.
My writing hands are tired. Thanks for readin.
--toq
At karaoke-forum.com I got attacked plenty of times, got called a "sleazy spamming salesman" by this one guy with such terrible spelling and punctuation I snapped. It was sort of a combo of the bad spelling and the number of times he had attacked me that made me blow my top.
It wasn't just the attacks that got to me either, a lot of these other forums say "Don't go there" when we start talking about PC based karaoke in general.
I sort of got the same treatment over at karaokeplayground.uk. Got into a fight with Sax and autOKdj was born. They were more than happy to let his croonies say "A new version of S&D's is out" but anytime I posted, I got swatted down.
Here though it's different. Steve Miller kind of made me look twice last week. He told me he believes I am the one to take on STLR and SC. That post was followed by a few other posters agreeing.
I've also seen REALLY SMART people taking a look at autOKdj from this forum. It blew my mind that were trying to run it under wine/linux. Where have these people been? I've only found a few people so far that like hacking together stuff for karaoke. I did desktop support for various companies for 10 years, so I have a really great appriciation for the time it takes to wrestle with odd OS's and getting them to play right.
All in all, my experience here so far has been good. Maybe this is where 2007 is going to happen for me.
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2007 I'm planning a counterattack against SC and STLR. The first thing we need to do is gain publicity for our side of the argument, I.E. PC based karaoke is *fair use* so long as there's no piracy involved.
2004 there was an article written about me in the New York Times. I'm still in touch with the author, and he's expressed interest in an article of this type.
I'd also like to start a peer review system. Please, anybody, come inspect my system, compare it to the CDG's I have on hand. I'll do the same for you, and we'll go from there. If we can get a group of people that run straight, it will be a powerful lobbying force.
I already know this is going to attract the attention of SC and STLR, but i'm also hoping it will attract the attention of the Electronic Freedom Foundation and possibly get a class action started for us.
A lot of the people i've talked to think what SC and STLR are trying to pull is BS. These people range from the AOL/Winamp team to some of the karaoke producers themselves. These people have been behind me because I do the right thing, and if you're doing the right thing i'm sure they'll be behind you too.
I'm also in real close proximity to Robin Gross, CDG fair use author. I'm thinking of paying her a visit, cash in hand to help work on a gameplan for this years legal issues.
-----
We're going to be releasing a lot of new technology in 2007. I'm nagging the hell out of my friends to give me a hand with this. We haven't named the product yet, but basically if you're using a winamp based hosting program, you can have a box sitting there automatically making video of your singers like this... There would be no need for an internet connection at the venue. Just bring the box in, plug in the camera, configure your wireless networking a bit and let it sit there and record. Later on when you get back to an internet connection, your magic video box will begin uploading video, all automatically edited per performance.
There's also going to be various enhancements to the autOKdj plugin, more online vendors, more enhancements to the frontend, hopefully the effects system will get added in there too. Still free and uncrippled quality stuff. As always, if you're a C++ dev we can always use a hand.
My writing hands are tired. Thanks for readin.
--toq
