Intros Quiz Update

[bohemiancoast]

You can still do the Easier Intros Quiz here, and with ten entries I think I now believe that Everyone Will Know At Least One of These Songs (go on coth, prove me wrong!). So far we have five songs that every entrant has known, and no entries that nobody has known (though there's one that only one person has got, for all that it was a Huge Hit). I'll keep it up till Sunday or so.

Points scored so far (along with Answers To Correspondents as appropriate)

nuttyxander 40. Very good. But you've got one wrong, and it's one that nearly everyone else got right. And I liked your answer to the extra credit question, because it's one of the ones I didn't know in one of the other intros quizzes.
captainblue 39
ang_grrr 38. Still hanging your head in your hands?
swisstone 37
drplokta 35.5, and you need to trust CDDB a little less and condemn a little more. Shouldn't even have given you a half point really; it's a shocker.
andrewducker 35.5
suaveswede 31.5
flooks 31.5
the_maenad 30
akirlu 30
dmw 29
baldanders 28
madcatwoman 28
the_gardener 28. No, number 18 is not "definitely by the Human League", and number 12 is not "Whoops Upside Your Head".
pdcawley 25
snowking 21. I was slightly worried that nobody on the right side of 30 would be able to do this quiz, but nuttyxander seems to have done rather well.
miramon, who did to be fair only do the quiz relucantly, 10.5

Comments

[damienw]

Didn't I do this?

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

So you did! You were on the spreadsheet. 29 points! I will amend the list (which I have to do anyway cos we've had loads more entries).

[damienw]

1 I know but I don't, 7 I have no idea, 8 I've heard, 13 I'm sure I know, 14 no idea, could now make a shrewd guess at 15, 17 I knew the artist but got the wrong track (I know what it is now) and I will be very interested to know what you left out.

Somewhere I may or ought to have a whole album of covers of 11. Will forward: well worth an hour of one's time.

Now I want to do one of these: what do you use to edit down to clips?

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

you can score extra points by emailing me or IMing me with the ones you now know (though not if the way you found out was to ask someone who got it right!). I have the entire album of covers of 11, one of which was a very big hit in its own right in the UK, and in fact was one of the possibles for the intros quiz entirely comprised of Very Dodgy Novelty Records that I was thinking about.

We started off using Audacity, which is free -- but Audio Hijack Pro is much better (and a critical app for lots of other reasons; I own it anyway). Workflow in AHP

1. Set AHP to record iTunes (1 minute at the beginning)
2. Find track you want (however long)
3. Play track till you've got the intro (a few seconds)
4. Use Audacity to trim if necessary and save as Track ##.mp3 (however long)
5. tags will be blank anyway. (no time)

Workflow in Audacity:

1. Find the track you want (however long)
2. Import track into Audacity (several minutes if it's a Prog Rock special)
3. Trim in Audacity (harder with a full-length track)
4. Edit id tags (a minute maybe)

There are probably other workflows that work.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

You absolutely must know #1. Surely it will be a forehead slapping moment when all is revealed. I would actually think you're a bit young to know #13; it's more recent than #1, but it hasn't had nearly the same saturation coverage. But perhaps things are different yet again, in Oz.