"Oh man, I wish I could buy an underclocked HD 2900 XT with as much VRAM as a GTX 680"
After all, Who wouldn't?
Luckily, FireGL v8650 is here to save us. Quite a good-looking card with its wireframe silkscreen on the blower and the red accents along the heatsink frame.
First card to pack 2GB of memory, and AFAIK still holds the record (and probably always will) for the highest number of individual VRAM chips on one 3D accelerator die.
Not through clever trickery nor through ingenuity - no, they just stuffed thirty-two GDDR4 chips onto the same 512-bit memory bus as the HD 2900 XT. This makes the card perform notably worse than the HD 2900XT it shares a die with because each chip is only granted 16 bits of bandwidth, versus where the HD2900XT's 16 chips each get 32 bits of bus width.
Just listened to "the promise" by original artist, When in Rome, and the slower cover by Sturgill Simpson, and it is a great example of how a slower, more soulful performance can improve a aong.
Original music, but slowed, and chopped slightly.
Whoever (multiple people) upload these videos really seem to enjoy the music, and put quite a bit of work into re-imagining the music, so I am definitely not the only one who likes to slow down music. I should contact all of those uploaders and tell them that vlc can allow custom speeds on their music, with no timestretch effect. They would probably be very interested in my ideas for the feature.
The only one I can name from memory is DJ crystal clear, but it looks like there are a bunch, I could even help upload lots of great songs at a couple different speeds each.
A 20 to 25% speed reduction on the original would be nice, and I like both versions. It just seems 80s music like this (not most of it) is locked into this weird formula, that maybe record producers or managers pushed. It just seems such an un-natural style that isn't replicated in any other decade of music and I find it very strange. Maybe it was all the powder.
There's a lot of great music from the 80s from hip hop, rock n roll, thrash metal, country, and blues. But when it comes to this strange "pop" category, it has this identifiable sound to it, and most of that 80s pop music sounds nearly identical, as if everyone was (probably) copying everyone else). Must have been something in the food or the water.
It's like there was a time-crunch to put out crappy music and make a mill, than to slow down and have a true soulful performance on the song, and to me, that's not an artist, it's a money grab. Great lyrics in the song, and if it were written just ten years before or after, would have sounded a lot better.
So if you haven't tried slowing down your music, download VLC, and go into audio or advanced settings, and clear the timestretch box.
I have several changes and feature additions for playback speed
Show and rename timestretch on slider, with a button for more info.
Dragging slider should move to next nearby percent, not wait 10+ % points to move
Range is excessive, limit to a default of 60 to 110% and allow custom
Arrows change by 5% far too much, allow 0.1% changes, which is the same as 100 to 200%
New feature save speed for current song / speed presets
Each song has a speed preset, ordered from fastest to slowesr, so if you find multiple speeds that sound gpod for a song, quickly switch between them.
Customize or add a saved speed per song, so you can have a playlist with the speeds of all songs to match the bpm of the first song.
Orange linea for all 1 5 and 10% points. Makes it obvious how much to move to get to a specific speed.
Hopefully at least some of these changes get added