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Question: Tabs or spaces?
Asked by Don Hopkins (83.51.153.x) on July 23 2023, 11:20am
Reply on July 23 2023, 12:45pm:

Doesn't matter as long as it's consistent! Comment...

Question: The new movie "Blackberry" about the story of RIM/Blackberry has a scene at 50m20s in 2003 where they show winamp ☺️ Thought you might get a kick out of knowing your work was shown ☺️
Asked by Will (23.125.224.x) on July 22 2023, 2:43pm
Reply on July 23 2023, 12:46pm:

ah nice is the movie any good? 1 Comment...

Question: Hey Justin, I wonder what is the max number of parameter Reaper can access from a plugin? 1000? More? Maybe it depends of the plugin format?
Asked by Infrabass (69.80.234.x) on July 21 2023, 6:17am
Reply on July 21 2023, 1:28pm:

For things other than JSFX there's no real limit. Comment...

Question: how to use WDL/circbuf.h for multi-channel non-interleaved audio?
Asked by ruchira (123.231.108.x) on July 21 2023, 2:31am
Reply on July 21 2023, 1:29pm:

You'd probably want to use one per channel if you want non-interleaved. For interleaved, you might want to use WDL_DelayLine which handles a lot of cases (e.g. if changing channel counts, reinterleaves, etc). Comment...

Question: hey jf- could you take mark zuckerberg in a friendly arm wrestle??... how about elon m.?? :)
Asked by 2023 (86.179.190.x) on July 20 2023, 4:29pm
Reply on July 20 2023, 9:54pm (edited at July 20 2023, 10:29pm):

I have no idea, haven't arm-wrestled in many years... but I'd give myself good odds on running a 5k or any distance over a mile and under 100k 1 Comment...

Question: Reaper will be very complete in reaper 7. Apart from an Ableton live style window, almost nothing is missing. Isn't the construction of the Reaper castle soon finished :)?
Asked by Zmaster (90.118.252.x) on July 19 2023, 7:21pm
Reply on July 20 2023, 2:41pm:

software is never complete! 1 Comment...

Question: mr frankel, music.1014.org is a source of great inspiration to me. what’s your hosting setup there? S3 or something? it’s all very responsive and sensible
Asked by willow (115.64.95.x) on July 19 2023, 7:57am
Reply on July 19 2023, 1:49pm (edited at July 19 2023, 2:01pm):

the media is on a NAS and nfs mounted read-only on the linux VM that serves the files via apache. Then there are a number of different ways to access that media via the web, and some javascript that does the playering on my various pages (and WHUMP which is the main music.1014.org interface)... 1 Comment...

Question: Have you seen this yet? techcrunch.com/2023/07/18/plexs-wi...
Asked by Robare (104.28.39.x) on July 18 2023, 5:53pm
Reply on July 19 2023, 1:49pm:

ah I hadn't, thanks! Comment...

Question: Just wanted to say a big thank you to you Justin. I'm a seventy-four year old Reaper user. I use Reaper both for composing and for testing new sample libraries for one of the leading developers. I really appreciate all the tools Reaper provides.
Asked by Andrew Hyner (112.211.51.x) on July 17 2023, 2:01am
Reply on July 17 2023, 3:21pm:

Thanks for the kind words! Comment...

Question: hey jf- how many trackings you having on music page now?? it must be hundreds, if not thousands ? that is some collection..time spent..dedications... g1!
Asked by 2023 (86.179.190.x) on July 16 2023, 10:16pm
Reply on July 17 2023, 12:28am (edited at July 17 2023, 12:29am):

lots of content! from more than 20 years... :) Comment...

Question: How does Reaper encode the TXXX in ID3? It looks like there's 7 bytes between TXXX and the actual content, what do they contain?
Asked by Mespotine (46.114.202.x) on July 16 2023, 7:44pm
Reply on July 16 2023, 9:00pm:

The ID3v2 frame header is 10 bytes total -- 4 bytes (TXXX), 4 bytes size, 2 bytes flags. Then, since it's a text field, there's a byte for text encoding, then the data. 3 Comments...

Question: Any recommendation on US cities to live ?
Asked by 23456787654321414141 (177.191.6.x) on July 16 2023, 3:36pm
Reply on July 16 2023, 9:01pm:

I've only lived in the most expensive, but NYC has a lot to love! Unless you don't like the hot in the summer and the cold in the winter... I lived in the Phoenix area for a bit and I don't like car culture anymore. Comment...

Question: The other day bumped into a message in a skins.txt file inside a ReNovator zip achive from '98, it goes as follows: "These are some example skins for Winamp 1.8. We should get a good skin page up on www.winamp.com/skins.html soon, but until then, here's some food. unzip to WinampDirSkins. You can modify files in SkinsBase to create your own skins. Viscolor.txt sets the colors for the vis window. Yay. The rest of the skins are borrowed from various Winamp hacks...ri.bat renames the images if you extract them from a hack using Renovator. -Justin". Does this look like your message?
Asked by Name (207.244.71.x) on July 15 2023, 7:34pm
Reply on July 16 2023, 9:02pm:

Sounds familiar yeah! Totally something I would write. 1 Comment...

Question: Why haven't you put a "cursor: pointer/default" to "play" and "queue" buttons on music.1014.org??
Asked by Milijan (91.148.91.x) on July 15 2023, 5:24pm
Reply on July 16 2023, 9:02pm:

Seems like a good idea... Comment...

Question: are you jew?? :)
Asked by sebastian salamon (190.217.142.x) on July 13 2023, 7:46pm
Reply on July 14 2023, 5:24pm (edited at July 14 2023, 5:36pm):

genetically > 50% but mentally < 1% 4 Comments...

Question: What to expect from the future?
Asked by awwwe (186.210.94.x) on July 13 2023, 2:26pm
Reply on July 14 2023, 5:24pm:

The same, but different Comment...

Question: Is this the one of the best videos ever shot? youtube.com/watch?v=cTDK5Bluh5A
Asked by Andre S (177.141.171.x) on July 13 2023, 4:30am
Reply on July 14 2023, 5:25pm:

Hmm why do you ask? 1 Comment...

Question: Apart from REAPER, which software you think you can't live without (basically, very important for you)?
Asked by Abhi (106.201.151.x) on July 12 2023, 4:38pm
Reply on July 14 2023, 5:26pm:

vi, git... Comment...

Question: Hey Justin, I started using Winamp since 1997, is there a place for downloading those early versions of Winamp? might be interesting for getting some memories far away before..
Asked by Dave (169.145.207.x) on July 12 2023, 2:22am
Reply on July 12 2023, 11:05am:

Not sure anymore... Comment...

Question: Thinking about the Quick Fun Puzzle from zeof, how about check the sum of the elements, IMO it would disclosure the information of which element is duplicated. right? (to make it a question)
Asked by Dave (117.38.4.x) on July 12 2023, 2:05am
Reply on July 12 2023, 11:02am:

With only a single duplicate that would work, but it can have any number of duplicates so that's a no go. The solutions seem to be related to the solution to