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Question: Did Chamath Palihapitiya actually have an impact at Winamp or did he just come in at the end?
Asked by Noah (135.180.32.x) on September 15 2025, 2:03am
Reply on September 15 2025, 2:39am (edited at September 15 2025, 2:40am):
    If he had an impact it was not a positive one.

    IIRC he joined the bizdev side well after we were acquired by AOL. and I'd blame him for driving it into the ground via making shitty deals and preventing us from doing things we wanted to do (though whether it was a significant impact or it was other people who were ultimately responsible for that, could be debated, and also my memory of it could be wrong, was a long time ago).
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Question: on my birthday MS will finish supporting Win 10... pondering the jump to Linux. What's the easiest way for an old (c64 - Amiga 2000 - Win 95 - 10) git like myself?
Asked by Ian the The (193.5.233.x) on September 14 2025, 6:40pm
Reply on September 14 2025, 6:49pm:
    Ubuntu is a pretty easy way to get started I think, but it will definitely be a period of adaptation for you
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Question: Will you keep writing code? And until when?
Asked by yooo (218.59.37.x) on September 14 2025, 5:24am
Reply on September 14 2025, 5:20pm:
    sure, until I can't?
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Question: i used the reaper demo to make music to go with a vocals zip a female radio artist sent, she wants it to play everywhere but i'm having trouble getting messages back from anyone. what happens now?
Asked by sohmmm (73.181.182.x) on September 14 2025, 12:33am
Reply on September 14 2025, 5:20pm:
    shrug I guess if it gets played a lot then you'd want to send a letter demanding credit/royalties/etc?
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Question: Interesting.... When should I expect you to contact me about...reparations? I m running out of time real fast....
Asked by Brk_ (90.167.94.x) on September 12 2025, 9:08am
Reply on September 12 2025, 1:25pm:
    the check is in the mail lol
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Question: I read here that you record at 48khz 24-bit. I prefer 44.1khz 16-bit simply because the resulting files are smaller, but I'm wondering why you prefer higher sample rate and bit depth. Cheers
Asked by justout (31.37.8.x) on September 12 2025, 8:39am
Reply on September 12 2025, 1:26pm (edited at September 12 2025, 1:28pm):
    I record at 48khz and about 21-bit wavpack, which compresses pretty well (the low few bits of 24-bit are usually noisy enough that they don't compress). The nice thing about going more than 16 bits is you don't have to worry about making sure your preamp gain is just-right, you can always boost it later if it's a bit low without having the 16-bit noise floor come in to play.

    The slightly higher samplerate is handy in theory (but in practice doesn't matter to me), you can run filters up close to 20khz without them getting too squashed.
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Question: Which artist is your favourite recent music discovery?
Asked by SpoiledHobo (78.51.241.x) on September 11 2025, 5:00pm
Reply on September 12 2025, 12:34am:
    GOAT, maybe?
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Question: You say "Vampire", I say "no, it s strigoi"...how about now? Rolf
Asked by Brk_ (90.167.94.x) on September 11 2025, 4:49pm
Reply on September 12 2025, 12:34am:
    I say "Not Vampires"
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Question: do you need the users of reaper to politically allign with you as well or that doesn't matter?
Asked by Rano (103.182.107.x) on September 11 2025, 2:52pm
Reply on September 11 2025, 3:54pm:
    obviously I have no control over that, but I'd hope that people would be kind and decent to other people, even those who have beliefs and values different than their own.
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Question: How many dead or lingering branches does the REAPER repo have? Do you sometimes see one of those old branches and think “hah, this could be doable now!” ?
Asked by humanboi (104.28.98.x) on September 11 2025, 7:50am
Reply on September 11 2025, 3:57pm:
     % git branch -r|grep -E '(wip_|hold_)'|wc -l
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    some probably should get deleted. here's one I picked purely at random, wip_tcp_right, the latest commit being from schwa in 2023:
    
support lane buttons on the left when tcp is on the right. not worth it!
    sometimes they do get brought back to life, most recently the sample-editing stuff.
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Question: Hmm so heartbreaking your answer.. from all tech ppl... Happy bday to me, I guess..it s not like I have much choices, as re@p3r ppl delete my SMS too..fr0m @ll p30pl3.. I w0nt m3ss@g3 u @nim0r3..s0rri 2 b0th3r y@..by3... :"+(
Asked by Brk_ (90.167.95.x) on September 10 2025, 2:28pm
Reply on September 10 2025, 11:36pm:
    the signal to noise ratio in your posts is basically zero - you don't have any actionable requests, it reads like spam. think about it. you have to actually ask for something.
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Question: have you listened to "him"?
Asked by not justin (2.147.58.x) on September 10 2025, 2:06pm
Reply on September 10 2025, 11:36pm:
    not sure who you speak of?
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Question: Is accepting checks and money orders to your PO BOX worth the hassle in 2025? Doesn't everyone have a credit card or paypal these days?
Asked by Will (99.100.219.x) on September 9 2025, 10:14pm
Reply on September 10 2025, 2:00am:
    It's a very small percentage but those who use it appreciate it, afaict
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Question: have you done any multi-day fasts before? apparently autophagy promotion is good?
Asked by rilkean (193.32.249.x) on September 9 2025, 5:00pm
Reply on September 10 2025, 2:01am:
    Not really, but I unintentionally fasted for about 5 hours on the last 15 miles of a 100k trail race and that was a little rough.
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Question: Hi, have you seen my previous messages? I sent you several...
Asked by Brk_ (90.167.95.x) on September 9 2025, 9:15am
Reply on September 9 2025, 12:41pm:
    Yes but they are not appropriate questions for this site.
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Question: In JSFX, when using slidershow to hide or show sliders, why is it that if the plugin is opened for the first time with some sliders hidden, the plugin window gets slightly shortened at the bottom? Then, when those sliders are made visible again, the window fails to automatically regain its full original size specified at the @gfx, requiring the plugin to be closed and reopened to restore the specified @gfx size. Is the initial window size being calculated based on that reduced number of visible sliders?
Asked by JSFX @gfx (154.161.247.x) on September 7 2025, 8:30pm
Reply on September 8 2025, 1:06am:
    probably, yeah
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Question: Do you like open source?
Asked by doom (218.59.37.x) on September 7 2025, 5:27am
Reply on September 8 2025, 1:06am:
    yeah it's a good thing for a lot of software
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Question: On the REAPER forums, do you browse the JSFX forum to see what people are creating?
Asked by Forums (102.176.65.x) on September 7 2025, 12:53am
Reply on September 8 2025, 1:06am:
    sometimes yeah
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Question: What's your plan to shatter the tech oligolopoly? I hate the internet being all memers-only-clubs now.
Asked by sunblister (217.253.96.x) on September 5 2025, 10:55pm
Reply on September 6 2025, 2:52pm:
    fuck if I know, but agree
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Question: Hi Justin, I'm trying to put an extension hook in my c++ in the windows Media Explorer [...]
Asked by Anthony (92.54.248.x) on September 5 2025, 1:54pm
Reply on September 6 2025, 2:52pm:
    email me instead thx
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