Search options (Page 111 of 150)

Yup, used to HATE realplayer... but now, it loads fast (faster than windows media player, itunes, and even Quicktime)... you can drag and drop your own video or sound clips into it and they'll play right away... no long wait to load.  That's on top of the free downloading of vids.

Sorry to have hijacked your thread Zurf!! 

So VERY TRUE!

Thanks Phill!  I'm trying not to bombard Chordie with all that stuff, it's all that's been on my mind lately.  Love truly is eternal.

I agree with you on the whole instinctive thing.  When ever I can't understand why some people do what they do, I try to throw it to the instincts and compare us to animals.  It usually makes sense.  But, sense doesn't mean sensible in our civilized world.  Again, very good song!  Let us know if you re-record at any time.  I don't think it needs to be personally, but then I feel everything I've done should be re-recorded too... so I get the feeling!  LOL!

Ok, I did a little research on this guys!  Apparently Warner Chappell, a major record label, has been fighting with YouTube for a while.  Pretty much, if THEY find it then they are going to tell YouTube to take it down.  Fact of the matter is, while YOU are not making a red cent off of your cover, the record company feels that YouTube IS and therefore YouTube needs to pay them royalties.  Since YouTube isn't interested in doing that, they are simply taking covers down... deleting accounts... etc..

An Excerpt from the Wiki on Warner Music Group regarding YouTube:
"WMG was the first major media company to form a strategic relationship with YouTube, effectively embracing a business model around user-generated content. The arrangement with YouTube required that royalties be paid based on the number of views that videos featuring music from WMG artists received. However in December 2008, negotiations between the two companies broke down, and as a result, clips on YouTube featuring WMG music recordings have had their audio removed or blocked completely and replaced with a message indicating copyright infringement."

Soooo pretty much that means people doing covers too.  Warner is going nutty trying to make sure they get their fair share of the pie.  I suppose in a way I can't blame them... the fact that they made the deal with YouTube and then it all went south gives them the right to consider it "copyright infringement" and shut things down.  Will YouTube go to battle in court over this?  Why would they?  They don't really care about you or I, they just want to keep their money too!  I suppose you could put a disclaimer about "fair use" and for "educational purposes only" in your description... but I doubt that will change anything once Warner Music Group finds your video.  MAYBE you could get away with it if you were doing a tutorial on HOW to play the song and not JUST playing it.  This STINKS!

I don't know what this means as far as "where" you can put your covers online "legally" now.  I imagine even sites like soundclick will eventually have problems with covers as well.  And how long do you think it will take until the other major labels follow suit?  It seems that in order to legally play any cover you need to have a manager... even if you're not making any money off it.  Unless, I suppose you decided to pay for a website that you made and feature your covers on that said website and have absolutely ZERO advertising on that website so that there was NO possibility of ever making a dime to help pay for that website (and then there are no royalties to give the labels).  UGH!  Stinky stinky stink!

I assume she's standing at the pulpit?  Hard to see her with that darn door right behind her.  I enjoy watching the sincerity on ones face while they sing   BUT that aside, it sounded AWESOME!  Great job playing too DM!!!

You are very welcome Gabby!  I completely followed your confusion which is why I thought I'd explain.  I've been there and done that in "assuming" too... my 14 year old does it way too often and gets the ole "lecture" my dad always gave!  Chordie is great, I think it ranks right up there with true handmade buttered buttermilk biscuits!  I do get the impression that you should have gotten an email from them right away though.  So, check your spam folder just in case your email company flagged it and threw it in there for you, and then shoot jamplay an email if you still haven't gotten anything today.  I'd hate to hear that you missed out on a couple days worth of that 7 day access pass due to an oversight.

BTW - WELCOME to Chordie's forums!  Take a look around here, there's tons of people just ready and willing to help out, answer questions, or welcome your knowledge (plus, in the chat section a while back I had a recipe up there for those biscuits we're talking about and one of our ladies from Ireland had a delish brown bread recipe up there!!)  Happy strumming!!

Gabby, I don't think they mean that you have to donate before you get an email... they are talking about two different websites.  Donating at Justinguitar because he's awesome and the free code was provided by him... and then getting the freebie from Jamplay to try it out.  I can't give you any advice about not getting the email though as I'm not a part of JamPlay (nor is Chordie, it's just highly suggested as a good site by the admin here and many of the members).  So... I suggest you do what they say and contact them at support@jamplay.com or go to their site and call the phone number they say is there.  GOOD LUCK! 

I'm curious about JamPlay too... although I don't know that I have enough time to dedicate to lessons right now.  Let us know how you make out!

I too really want to hear this!  I love songs about "crazy" there's so many of them, and like drinking songs, we can always use another crazy song! 

I haven't had too many freezing or loading problems.  Usually I'm looking up three different videos at the same time though, so I just pause two and let them load while viewing another.  The newest version of realplayer is AWESOME!  I never liked it before, but I've been using it a LOT lately!

Thanks Bswyers!  Those folks do come here occasionally, probably more often than the general membership thinks (because the mods are usually right on top of things) and us Mods throughly enjoy getting rid of their junk!  In fact, I just did that first thing this morning before any posts (you didn't really want to know where to get your degree online and get scammed out of that guitar money you're saving did you?).  BUT like Roger said, it is the attitude and behavior of the Members that really make our job such a pleasure (a job with no pay other than the reward of knowing we're keeping Chordie the place that you want to start a post to say how great it is!).  So, THANK YOU TO ALL THE MEMBERS that make Chordie such an awesome place to visit and help out with! 

I can't say anything more than T-Rex has!  Very well put so I will simply second it all!

Glad to hear things are working out Phill!  If it makes you feel any better, the month of August is very emotionally taxing on me remembering the loss of our daughter... my poor husband, who I often forget does have feelings too, has to bear the brunt of my horrible mood swings as I try to fight through so many different emotions about it.  An unexpected loving hug goes a long way when the words won't come out

SwankyHank, it sounds like you're scanning from printed pages?  If that's the case, when you print go into your printers settings and choose to print in all black and white (after hitting print on the website you should get a box pop up for your printer and there's usually a button called "properties" to hit, then adjust printer settings specific to your printer) - that way the chord symbol will be in black and your scan should come out better. 

WEIRD!  I access Chordie from my cell phone and can view everything just fine, songbooks all in place. 

Hmmm... I looked into some stuff in your profile.  You do have this checked, "Save username and password between visits."  BUT, it looks like your ip address changes regularly.  I wonder if this is muffing something up.  Does that even work for you, or do you have to enter your username and password every time you come to chordie on the computer you usually use?  So, suggestion one, uncheck that and save.  Log out.  Log in on the laptop.

Next... did you ever make another username that was similar to this one?  Is it possible that you logged in on the other name?  Of course, if you posted this while on the laptop, then that question is out... but if you didn't, it makes me wonder if just maybe you were actually logged in under the wrong account?  I hate to even suggest it, because I feel like you probably already made sure you were logged in properly as you said you logged in "using my usual information" ... but hey... just to be sure ... try again with the laptop, check to see if your songbooks are there, and then come to the forum and update us on this thread.  I've accidentally been logged in under my son's username before and not realized it!  I've even posted under his username... then had to go back and delete it and repost as me.  It's a pain in the tush when he doesn't log out when he's done!