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Questions about where to find resources on topic?
Is this question on topic?
https://video.stackexchange.com/questions/2191/where-can-i-download-midi-files-of-videogame-music
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How do I create a community wiki?
How do you create community wikis? I've seen some and I have an idea for one, but I don't know how to create one.
EDIT: The reason I am asking is because I've seen several questions, not only on this ...
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Flag Answer button not enabled properly on dialog
When you select 'other' without entering anything into the text box and then click 'not an answer', the Flag Answer button is not enabled.
Clicking 'not an answer' again properly enables the button.
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Retags should be allowed through the Edit feature
I'm not yet used to the convenient retag functionality, so when I went to add a tag to a question via an edit I got this message:
Oops! Your edit couldn't be submitted because:
You have the privilege ...
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YouTube and SoundCloud embedding is now enabled
It is now possible to embed YouTube and SoundCloud content in posts here.
Embedding Video or Audio
Upload the content you want to embed to YouTube (for video/audio) or SoundCloud (audio only).
When ...
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Civility with tags
Is there a civil way to say "I know you just changed this tag, but please consider this other way", or is it just understood that tags in a beta site will be kind of fluid sometimes until a particular ...
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Removing obsolete comments
Now that this is avp, can we have some effort to remove obsolete "this is off-topic" comments on migrated questions?
I worry that this site will seem even more unwelcoming than SEs sometimes do if ...
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Are performance questions on-topic?
I'm referring to questions like How to make an actor cry.
The audio equivalent would be "How do I get a vocalist to have that voice-cracking sad sound?", which would be off-topic here and on-topic at ...
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Tag Suggestions
I think it would be nice to have more (and more specific) tags for a/v effects:
video-effects
audio-effects
digital-effects
... and some tags about filming:
camera-rigs
camera-angles
Thanks!
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Are lighting questions on topic?
I am a software developer and have had stackoverflow as a favourite since the start. I am also involvde in lighting productions (live, theater, disco, architectural, ...) and would love to have a ...
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Have an OS toggle on new posts
When talking about video editing, Premiere Pro is a cross platform editing platform (just to name one off the top of my head).
It would be nice to have a toggle or a menu option to say if its ...
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Re-opening all video related questions on combined AVP site
With the combined Alien vs Predator, er, I mean Audio-Video Production SE now active, I think it's important to re-open all questions related to video that were closed as off-topic previously. I asked ...
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Embedded video player
Because we are dealing with Film and Video questions, I think it would be a good idea to add an embeddable video player so we can show test videos (for lenses) or asking how an effect on a video was ...
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Video & Film Production?
Is this Audio-Video Production site separate from the Video & Film Production proposal still under commitment phase? I got an e-mail about this site for having committed to Video & Film ...
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Tag Synonym Request
Can we create a tag synonym for synth and synthesizer please?
[I don't have enough rep to propose directly.]
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Are ""how-do-I-make-this-sound" questions on-topic here?
I frequently find myself wondering how a particular sound is produced. Frequently, these are synthesized or sampled sounds that I hear in some recording and enjoy, but sometimes it's a particular ...
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Linking to my own blog
In my most recent reply I linked to my own blog, as it provided a many hundred word expansion on area of the question I was answering on audio.stackexchange.com.
The linked blog post was not written ...
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Home stereo speakers
I have a pair of stereo speakers, one of which has a rattle in it. I've had the speakers for many years, and would like to fix the problem if possible. Unfortunately, these aren't studio or PA gear.
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Audio Equipment in FAQ permissible list
Hi,
I was wondering if 'audio equipments' are deliberately excluded from permissible topics list in the audio.stackexchange.com FAQ page, as I have not found any implicit or explicit references to ...
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Is questions about playback on topic?
Is questions about playback, playback tools / equipment on topic?
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Proposal to Seed the Site with Useful Questions and Answers
It appears that our StackExchange overlords are getting panicky about the slow start this beta has experienced. The received wisdom seems to be that the scope is too narrow. If only this site were ...
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Proposal to give this site more time to populate
Joel and Jeff think this site needs an expansion in scope to survive as discussed in:
Is the scope of this site too narrow?
They have proposed that merging it with Video and Film Production would ...
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Proposal to add video to this site
We think this site needs an expansion in scope to survive, as previously discussed in
Is the scope of this site too narrow?
How would you feel about merging with
Video and Film Production
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Can i ask a question about publishing produced music?
Hi,
Once the music is produced, well we usually want to do something with it. This is very broad, I know. Questions about copyright, lots of legal forms, branding, promotion, sites to advertise on, ...
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Merging with other proposals for musicians?
This question is a duplicate of this question on guitars.SE, and of course completely on topic on both sites. In my opinion, that is an example of how these micro sites for musicians are a mistake.
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Are equipment repair questions on-topic?
I noticed this question had 2 off-topic close votes.
In my mind this is a fairly significant part of an audio engineer's duties. If you look at other communities like the rec.audio.pro group there ...
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Is the scope of this site too narrow?
We've had a few questions about audio processing that have felt perhaps slightly tangential to Audio Recording and Production to me, such as the topics about how to recognize notes, keys, tempo etc. ...
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StackAudio Twitter Feed
The Stack Exchange folks have created an automated Twitter feed for every Stack Exchange site. The one for this site is StackAudio. Details are in this blog post.
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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Potential convention sponsorship opportunities
The Stack Exchange team is open to the possibility of sponsoring conventions as a way of promoting a Stack Exchange site (see A Recipe to Promote your Site). I'd like to compose a list of possible ...
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List of questions to be migrated to here once we get out of beta.
Although it's very rare than we can mass migrate questions, there are some relevant questions lying around on other stack exchanges...
Questions that fit less on the original site and more on our ...
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Can we have a [signal-processing] tag?
This question was originally posted on StackOverflow, where it was suggested it belongs on audio.SE. I don't see a [signal-processing] tag on audio.SE, and this is definitely a signal processing ...
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No vote recorded, but still "locked in" without edit to answer
The answer at http://audio.stackexchange.com/questions/332/rule-of-thumb-for-the-level-of-pre-show-music-in-a-theatre/334#334 wouldn't let me vote on it yesterday; it said my vote was locked in unless ...
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Site promotion - list of audio-related blogs
I'm borrowing this idea from the folks over at meta.cooking.se. Let's build a list of Audio Recording and Production blogs that we can contact about this site. The goal is two-fold: hopefully the ...
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Import/merge with socialsounddesign.com?
http://socialsounddesign.com is another audio recording and production SO-engine-driven site, and it's been around much longer. It already has a large user base and a lot of questions and answers. ...
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Are DJing questions allowed? (live mixing)
to help with ... mixing and mastering (from the faq)
In general there's 2 different kinds of mixing, preparing a recorded track and mixing songs together for a live performance at a club or other ...
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Tagging for recommendations
There's already been some discussion on whether recommendation questions should be allowed. I don't think a conclusion has been reached, but there seems to be tentative support for these questions as ...
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Tagging for remote/location recording
We need to decide how to tag question related to recording on-location. Some call this remote recording, others call it location recording. We have a few options:
remote - if we use this tag for ...
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Embedded audio player
Our site is related to audio, yet we have no facility for playing audio here. Coders can insert code, photographers can insert photos, but we just link to audio files.
It seems that it would be easy ...
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Embedding/Linking to audio
Hey guys,
Do you think we need a policy on links to external audio files? Obviously as we're dealing with production we're going to end up with people asking things like "Why does my mix sound flat?"/...
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Drop normalizing, compression, and stick with dynamics processing?
Should we add a tag for dynamics processing, and drop the normalizing and compression (except for audio codecs)?
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Why was this question about mixer features closed?
http://audio.stackexchange.com/questions/126/for-live-recording-what-features-should-a-mixing-console-have-closed
The OP is asking about features necessary for live recording. I don't think this is ...
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Live audio production as well?
Reading the definition of the site, it seems very focused. I'd like to propose that we allow questions regarding live sound as well. While it doesn't have to be the focus of the site, I'd hate to ...
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Video editing and production questions
I would assume by the name of this site that video editing questions are off-topic, but I couldn't find anything discussed in the comments or sample questions of the proposal on Area 51. Whether they'...
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Argumentative/subjective guidelines
So, this question:
http://audio.stackexchange.com/questions/105/what-is-the-best-setup-under-10k-closed
Was closed as argumentative/subjective.
Isn't this the exact type of question we want here? ...
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What do you think about shopping recommendations?
Example questions:
All Around Workhorse Studio Microphones
Digital Effects Unit
Technology moves so rapidly that the best shopping recommendations will be utterly obsolete within a year! What’s the ...
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What do you think about localized questions?
Example Question: Digital Effects Unit
Other sites tend to disallow too localized questions as in the long end they could result in outdated information and they would thus clutter the site, the ...
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How do we promote our site?
One of The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta.
This is rapidly becoming a hot issue across the entire network: how to promote your site and how to reach out to the experts and pundits in your ...
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What should our logo and site design look like?
One of The 7 Essential Questions of Every Beta.
This one is pretty straightforward. Solicit contributions, throw out ideas, post preliminary (or finished) designs, and be supportive and respectful of ...
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Genre-specific tags?
Would it be appropriate to create tags for (broad) genres? For example, mixing heavy metal is much different than mixing folk music... instances like that. I think it'd be useful.