Notification about “External YouTube Video Link Dropping”

[AdamG]

I very much appreciate this new policy and will take great joy in linking it to appropriate posts.

Perhaps an example description would be useful. I can try to create one if you like.


Many thanks.

Please do. We will take all the help we can get. This is after all as close to a Community run operation that I have ever been a member. Amir does the magic tricks and keeps the lights on and the servers running. All while keeping our home Commercial free and no Overlords forcing their profit driven directives upon us. We are (As in the Membership) in charge of what we do and don’t do. We take our direction from the voices of the Majority. I think we go above and beyond in terms of transparency and open to suggestions and criticism. Offering a helping hand to do the grunt work to present a draft Introduction description is a generous offer. We accept.

Thank you for your kind offer Sir.

 

[danadam]

If you can't get it in your region and you have overdone security then that's on you.

Security, maybe. But how is region thing on me/others?

FWIW I much prefer this 1, 2:
,
or this

over this:

 

[Doodski]

Security, maybe. But how is region thing on me/others?

FWIW I much prefer this 1, 2:
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or this ;-)
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over this:
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Two of those images are not relevant to the topic and the other 2 are region specific. I too am blocked from some stuff but I don't expect people to post the information. I have posted information but it's a drag.

 

[DWPress]

Thanks for the initiative on this @AdamG. I for one, try to avoid the Google universe as much as possible, we all pick our battles....

 

[antcollinet]

Please do. We will take all the help we can get. This is after all as close to a Community run operation that I have ever been a member. Amir does the magic tricks and keeps the lights on and the servers running. All while keeping our home Commercial free and no Overlords forcing their profit driven directives upon us. We are (As in the Membership) in charge of what we do and don’t do. We take our direction from the voices of the Majority. I think we go above and beyond in terms of transparency and open to suggestions and criticism. Offering a helping hand to do the grunt work to present a draft Introduction description is a generous offer. We accept.

Thank you for your kind offer Sir.

OK - here goes. Feel free to copy paste into the OP, or put anywhere else you like.....

*****EDIT*****
Suggested sections:

• Single line overall message of the video
• Short paragraph, more detailed description and highlights
• A few sentences about why the person posting is posting it. What they think of it, what point they are trying to make or open a discussion about by posting it. Highlighted sections with time stamps.

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An excellent video explaining the basics of how digital audio works, in particular, busting the myth that it is has "stair steps"

Monty uses all analogue test equipment together with a low end DAC to show how even this DAC perfectly reconstructs sound waves, perfectly smoothly. He shows how bit depth (resolution) only impacts the audio in terms of quantisation noise - rather then increasingly jagged steps - even going down to 8 bit audio to show this. He also demonstrates how dither and noise shaping used during sampling (or resampling) can dramatically reduce the audibility (and objectionability) of this noise.

Particularly fascinating for those like me who have a weak grasp of the maths of the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem are two particular demos

First - is the demo (at 5:35) of a perfectly reconstructed 20kHz sine wave with 44.1kHz sample rate - even thought there is only just over 1 sample per half cycle.

Second - (at about 20:50) is the demo that time resolution is not limited to sample rate. The edges of a square wave can be placed on a sample, on the next sample - OR - anywhere in between. No time resolution problems (at least not at the sample rate level)

This is a must watch for anyone who can't mathematically prove the sampling theorem backwards, but nevertheless wants to gain a near intuitive understanding of just how well it works.

 

[Multicore]

OK - here goes. Feel free to copy paste into the OP, or put anywhere else you like.....

*****EDIT*****
Suggested sections:

• Single line overall message of the video
• Short paragraph, more detailed description and highlights
• A few sentences about why the person posting is posting it. What they think of it, what point they are trying to make or open a discussion about by posting it. Highlighted sections with time stamps.

***************


An excellent video explaining the basics of how digital audio works, in particular, busting the myth that it is has "stair steps"

Monty uses all analogue test equipment together with a low end DAC to show how even this DAC perfectly reconstructs sound waves, perfectly smoothly. He shows how bit depth (resolution) only impacts the audio in terms of quantisation noise - rather then increasingly jagged steps - even going down to 8 bit audio to show this. He also demonstrates how dither and noise shaping used during sampling (or resampling) can dramatically reduce the audibility (and objectionability) of this noise.

Particularly fascinating for those like me who have a weak grasp of the maths of the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem are two particular demos

First - is the demo (at 5:35) of a perfectly reconstructed 20kHz sine wave with 44.1kHz sample rate - even thought there is only just over 1 sample per half cycle.

Second - (at about 20:50) is the demo that time resolution is not limited to sample rate. The edges of a square wave can be placed on a sample, on the next sample - OR - anywhere in between. No time resolution problems (at least not at the sample rate level)

This is a must watch for anyone who can't mathematically prove the sampling theorem backwards, but nevertheless wants to gain a near intuitive understanding of just how well it works.

Nice choice. That's gotta be a house fave.

 

[antcollinet]

Nice choice. That's gotta be a house fave.

It's certainly my fave. The more people I can get to watch it, the better.

 

[Robin L]

Firstly it’s not starting a new thread. It’s contributing to an ongoing Music Video recommendation thread. You already know what the video is. It’s a music video that needs no introduction or explanation. Let’s not make this overly complicated. We are discussing Talking Heads videos. We are talking about videos to external “Influencers and Reviewers and Creators (other than music) that are making money off of views. We are not here on a Member supported commercial free Site to drive views to these sites without good and understandable reasons.

If you personally feel that the author has not introduced the video adequately to meet your requirements. Don’t view the video. Music Video link drops are self explanatory.

The problem might come up if there is only an alert that says "This video is not available in your area" so that we might not be able to find out what was posted.

 

[Doodski]

The problem might come up if there is only an alert that says "This video is not available in your area" so that we might not be able to find out what was posted.

If not available in your area then it is what it is. I tried posting names and songs for hundreds of posts and it's a pain in the butt.

 

[Robin L]

If not available in your area then it is what it is. I tried posting names and songs for hundreds of posts and it's a pain in the butt.

If one is taking the effort to post hundreds of songs, then the least they can do is to name the song and performer. That takes about as much effort as posting the song in the first place.

 

[Multicore]

It's certainly my fave. The more people I can get to watch it, the better.

Band-limited. That's the key word. Band-limited.

 

[JSmith]

This isn't about music videos... can't give a TLDR summary of music.

We are strongly discouraging random YouTube and similar “Video links” being posted without some detailed type of description as to what you want to highlight, or what you think is important to our community. Another words, what in the video do you want to discuss/dissect/analyze. Also, provide a reasonable TLDR summary and if appropriate the Timestamp in the Video that you wish to highlight.

Thanks for finally formalising this.

Even better would be if it were possible to specify video size. Especially for pure music videos it's a bit silly they're huge. I'm not sure this forum allows that though.

That can be done... but unsure if @amirm wants to alter the embedded YT video display size at all.


JSmith

 

[amirm]

That can be done... but unsure if @amirm wants to alter the embedded YT video display size at all.

I have actually modified it. I have changed it so it spans the full window. Otherwise it is hard coded to be a small/fixed size. The smaller size also forces lower data rate at times.

 

[AdamG]

It's certainly my fave. The more people I can get to watch it, the better.

Have copy and pasted your Guide as presented without edit to the first post. Thank you very much for accomplishing that. Your guidance is perfect and should help people better understand what we are looking for. Much appreciated.

 

[kemmler3D]

I think this is a good policy.

My request, which may run afoul of copyright, but I'll ask it anyway:

Would be nice to have the transcripts of videos handy so we don't need to actually watch the video. Especially when it comes to the type of video we end up debunking here. I'm not sure it's kosher to paste those here, but maybe an excerpt or link to the whole transcript would be good.

Not something I would propose as a requirement, but it's a nice to have for those of us who don't want to sit through a whole XX:XX-long video just to point out so-and-so doesn't understand voltage vs. current or whatever.

 

[amirm]

Would be nice to have the transcripts of videos handy so we don't need to actually watch the video.

The transcript would be pages and pages so not very practical as far as posting in in a forum. In many cases it would have to be AI generated as well since the original video doesn't have it.

 

[AdamG]

Security, maybe. But how is region thing on me/others?

FWIW I much prefer this 1, 2:
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or this
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over this:
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While I don’t profess to be an expert in any of this. I suspect that the platform the video is linked from (YouTube and similar) have bought redistribution music rights licensing. The licensing rights may be limited to certain Countries and not a World Wide license. You see a not available video because the distributor (YouTube) is not allowed to distribute to your country. It’s just my best guess. Unless someone who knows more chimes in….

 

[kemmler3D]

The transcript would be pages and pages so not very practical as far as posting in in a forum. In many cases it would have to be AI generated as well since the original video doesn't have it.

Yes, but the transcript could go behind the spoiler tag, and FWIW I find the Youtube AI-generated transcripts to be adequate for the purposes of commentary. Either way I'm just looking for someone to save me from watching long-ass Youtube videos that take 15 minutes to get to their 30-second kernel of a point.

 

[Robin L]

This isn't about music videos... can't give a TLDR summary of music.

No, but we can say who and what so that those who can't access the video posted can find the music by other means.

 

[danadam]

While I don’t profess to be an expert in any of this. I suspect that the platform the video is linked from (YouTube and similar) have bought redistribution music rights licensing. The licensing rights may be limited to certain Countries and not a World Wide license. You see a not available video because the distributor (YouTube) is not allowed to distribute to your country. It’s just my best guess. Unless someone who knows more chimes in….

My point was rather that with some description I can always try to find it somewhere else. The exact reason why it is unavailable on youtube isn't that important. It doesn't make much difference to me if it is unavailable because of copyright or because the uploader removed it or because the uploader's account was removed.