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"Wow, it's ALREADY *INSERT LATE TIME HERE* a.k.a-Can spend all day AND night on it."

Story of my life...

I'm so in love with their new look and I couldn't be any more excited about their new single. Though WHEN ARE THEY RELEASING THEIR FIRST ALBUM???  

GAK's leg wear looks like they had already spent all their monnies budgeted for their outfits and then GAK decided to just slap on some trash bags.

Joku FB chatti voisi joo olla helpoin tapa pitää yhteyttä ennen/jälkeen keikan. 

Welcome to Monochrome-Heaven, fellow Finn! If you have any questions about how the forum works, don't be afraid to PM the staff members with a blue/red name! 

32 minutes ago, orange~ said:

Heei! hienoa saada lisää suomalaisia tänne! ^^

 

Ilmeisesti jonkinlainen miitti olisi tulossa vähintääkin keikan jälkeen(?)

Juu ilmeisesti olisi jotain miitin tynkää tulossa  

Ei Gazettea kestä selvin päin, joten varmaan alottelen ennen keikkaa, ja keikan olen anniskelualueella.  Viimeksi kun olin Miyavia katsomassa Circuksessa, niin siellä oli ainakin hemmetin hyvin järjestetty anniskelualue, sieltä näki tosi hyvin lavalle!

Mun kavereista on tulossa @kasupaa ja yksi kaveri pikkusiskoineen, kumpikaan ei ole MH:ssa.

Ja koska toi on perjantai, niin totta kai sen jälkeen voi lähteä johonkin \m/ @orange~, olet uusi täällä jne mutta siis totta kai olet enemmän kuin tervetullut liittymään seuraamme! 

On 24.5.2016 at 9:42 PM, orange~ said:

Kannatti näköjään löytää MH:n suomi topic, sen verran korkee laatusta juttua :'D

tää koko ketju on ainut syy käydä MH:ssa, sitä voi sitten selailla vaan näitä paskapostailuja päivästä toiseen

ASIASTA KUKKARUUKKUUN, kukaan tulossa gazetteen? @allisapp @Carmelzors @Slsr @Koike @Disposable @orange~ etc ketä teitä suomijuntteja nyt olikaan

Satuin saamaan kaksi lippua 70€, 35€ viitsinkin maksaa gazetten näkemisestä. 55€ on kyllä niin helvetin suolanen hinta, että sitä en olisi kyllä tollasesta paskabändistä maksanut.

Tässä vielä vanha ja erittäin hyvä suomimeemi.

http://imgur.com/YUztjYK

OMG GUYS I'm laughing and crying at the same time <3

Thank you everyone who congratulated me today, seriously the best part of my birthday was logging in to MH and seeing all you wonderful people congratulating me. I've never felt so loved before, especially since it was by people who live all around the globe.

Thank you:

@eiheartx @nostalgia @hiroki @yakihiko @emmny @freesia @beni @Zeus @Biopanda @Tokage @WhirlingBlack @The Reverend @Peace Heavy mk II @colorfuljinsei @Yuuko @『Hotcakes Butt MK II』 @YuyoDrift @The MAD Stallion

@kyoselflove @Seimeisen  @leafwork @Jigsaw9 @Carmelzors @237Q @VaL @Jiyun @CAT5 @doombox (and Mi'ihen because I refuse to type his new ridiculous username here AND all the other people I forgot because dammit i got so many birthday wishes i couldn't count them all)

Oh and especially @Jiyun who is recording a cover song for my birthday <3 <3

I'm so glad to be part of this community. I have gained so many amazing friends from here who I will hopefully be friends with for the rest of my life. 

It's now 8PM and even though I spent most of my bday working at the office, I'm now drinking sparkling wine, eating strawberries and listening to amazing host kei while writing this message to all of you MH members. I love you all to death but remember to behave or I'll personally ram the banhammer sideways in your ass <3

OMG A NEW LOOK MY BRAIN CAN'T HANDLE THIS

11 types? Is this some kind of record?

I can't remember if I've introduced my little babby Tesla who just turned 2 years old. omfg i can't believe my little puppy is all grown up now

He's a stubborn little french bulldog and weighs an impressive 17kg

He's a handsome and muscular little dude, who spends most of his days chilling on our bed.

Tesla loves car rides too!

In his own opinion, he's the baddest dude in the neighborhood, but in reality he's the biggest momma's boy ever...

DOUBLE POST because I still can't believe there aren't more vapers here in Monochrome-Heaven!

I've been a true Sigelei fangirl for a while, and I have extended my Sigelei collection with FUCHAI 200W. It's a really nice little device and super comfortable to use.

BUT recently I've been mainly using my newest purchase, Cuboid 150W. Damn the screen looks fine, because it's hidden below a bigger plastic screen.

Obligatory handcheck with Cuboid 150W:

7 hours ago, Tokage said:

MY HAIR IS MORE RAD THAN ME.................................................................................

pls never cut or dye your hair, it looks amazing!

I can't wait for this release!! Less than a week now <3

I got new glasses last week! My first brand glasses by Tommy Hilfiger haha. I love these so much, they are so huge compared to the ones I previously used! I wasn't even supposed to buy myself new glasses, but the shop had a sale and everything was -50% off...

Yes, it is!

I don't use any physical Apple produts but I do have iTunes installed on my PC for the sole reason of buying that occasional digital VK release I absolutely need, but can't afford to buy a physical copy at the moment. 

I know I'm being just paranoid but now I feel so insecure by having even iTunes installed on my computer even though it's pretty clear that by only having iTunes this can't happen. Fortunately I already have two online back ups of my music library (CrashPlan + Google Play Music), but now I'm sure I'll buy an additional external hard drive and perhaps set up an off-site back up at my parents' place with CrashPlan. 

But even though I barely use any Apple products, I'm fucking furious about this. Just the thought of someone touching my FLAC collection, encoding them to AAC and deleting the original local files makes me wanna kill people. Multiple people. In very violent and unique ways.

EDIT: ALSO PEOPLE, BACK UP YOUR SHIT AND HAVE THREE UP-TO-DATE BACK UPS AT ALL TIMES.

Original blog post here:

https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/

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“The software is functioning as intended,” said Amber.
“Wait,” I asked, “so it’s supposed to delete my personal files from my internal hard drive without asking my permission?”
“Yes,” she replied.

 

I had just explained to Amber that 122 GB of music files were missing from my laptop. I’d already visited the online forum, I said, and they were no help. Although several people had described problems similar to mine, they were all dismissed by condescending “gurus” who simply said that we had mislocated our files (I had the free drive space to prove that wasn’t the case) or that we must have accidentally deleted the files ourselves (we hadn’t). Amber explained that I should blow off these dismissive “solutions” offered online because Apple employees don’t officially use the forums—evidently, that honor is reserved for lost, frustrated people like me, and (at least in this case) know-it-alls who would rather believe we were incompetent, or lying, than face the ugly truth that Apple has vastly overstepped its boundaries.

 

What Amber explained was exactly what I’d feared: through the Apple Music subscription, which I had, Apple now deletes files from its users’ computers. When I signed up for Apple Music, iTunes evaluated my massive collection of Mp3s and WAV files, scanned Apple’s database for what it considered matches, then removed the original files from my internal hard drive. REMOVED them. Deleted. If Apple Music saw a file it didn’t recognize—which came up often, since I’m a freelance composer and have many music files that I created myself—it would then download it to Apple’s database, delete it from my hard drive, and serve it back to me when I wanted to listen, just like it would with my other music files it had deleted.

This led to four immediate problems:

 

1. If Apple serves me my music, that means that when I don’t have wifi access, I can’t listen to it. When I say “my music,” I don’t just mean the music that, over twenty years (since before iTunes existed), I painstakingly imported from thousands of CDs and saved to my computer’s internal hard drive. I also mean original music that I recorded and saved to my computer. Apple and wifi access now decide if I can hear it, and where, and when.

 

2. What Apple considers a “match” often isn’t. That rare, early version of Fountains of Wayne’s “I’ll Do The Driving,” labeled as such? Still had its same label, but was instead replaced by the later-released, more widely available version of the song. The piano demo of “Sister Jack” that I downloaded directly from Spoon’s website ten years ago? Replaced with the alternate, more common demo version of the song. What this means, then, is that Apple is engineering a future in which rare, or varying, mixes and versions of songs won’t exist unless Apple decides they do. Said alternate versions will be replaced by the most mainstream version, despite their original, at-one-time correct, titles, labels, and file contents.

 

3. Although I could click the little cloud icon next to each song title and “get it back” from Apple, their servers aren’t fast enough to make it an easy task. It would take around thirty hours to get my music back. And even then…

 

4. Should I choose to reclaim my songs via download, the files I would get back would not necessarily be the same as my original files. As a freelance composer, I save WAV files of my own compositions rather than Mp3s. WAV files have about ten times the number of samples, so they just sound better. Since Apple Music does not support WAV files, as they stole my compositions and stored them in their servers, they also converted them to Mp3s or AACs. So not only do I need to keep paying Apple Music just to access my own files, but I have to hear an inferior version of each recording instead of the one I created.

Of course, there are more issues than this. Apple has faced widespread complaints regarding Apple Music displaying incorrect album art, mangling file information, and Apple “geniuses” being ill-informed on the subject, thus unable to offer working solutions.

If you’re wondering why Apple hasn’t been sued yet, it’s because the iTunes Terms of Use vaguely warn of this issue, then later indemnify Apple and preclude any litigation from users who’ve been boned:

“iCloud Music Library is turned on automatically when you set up your Apple Music Subscription…When your Apple Music Subscription term ends, you will lose access to any songs stored in your iCloud Music Library.

 

…YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE APPLE MUSIC SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.THE APPLE MUSIC SERVICE AND ALL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES DELIVERED TO YOU THROUGH THE APPLE MUSIC SERVICE ARE (EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY STATED BY APPLE) PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” FOR YOUR USE, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.

 

…IN NO CASE SHALL APPLE, ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AFFILIATES, AGENTS, CONTRACTORS, OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE APPLE MUSIC SERVICE OR FOR ANY OTHER CLAIM RELATED IN ANY WAY TO YOUR USE OF THE APPLE MUSIC SERVICE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN ANY CONTENT OR APPLE MUSIC PRODUCTS, OR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND INCURRED AS A RESULT OF THE USE OF ANY CONTENT OR APPLE MUSIC PRODUCTSPOSTED, TRANSMITTED, OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE VIA THE APPLE MUSIC SERVICE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THEIR POSSIBILITY.”

 

I recovered my original music files only by using a backup I made weeks earlier. Many people don’t back up as often as they should, though, so this isn’t always an option. Amber relayed to me that she’s had to suffer through many calls from people who cancelled their Apple Music subscription after the free, three-month trial, only to discover that all of their own music files had been deleted and there was no way to get them back.

 

So my files were temporarily restored; but the only way to prevent this from happening over and over, according to Amber, was to cancel my subscription to Apple Music (which she herself doesn’t use due to the above-listed reasons) and to make sure my iCloud settings did not include storing any music backups.
 

For about ten years, I’ve been warning people, “hang onto your media. One day, you won’t buy a movie. You’ll buy the right to watch a movie, and that movie will be served to you. If the companies serving the movie don’t want you to see it, or they want to change something, they will have the power to do so. They can alter history, and they can make you keep paying for things that you formerly could have bought. Information will be a utility rather than a possession. Even information that you yourself have created will require unending, recurring payments just to access.”

 

When giving the above warning, however, even in my most Orwellian paranoia I never could have dreamed that the content holders, like Apple, would also reach into your computer and take away what you already owned. If Taxi Driver is on Netflix, Netflix doesn’t come to your house and steal your Taxi Driver DVD. But that’s where we’re headed. When it comes to music, Apple is already there.

 

Audacious. Egregious. Crazy. These are just some of the adjectives I used in my conversation with Amber.  She actually asked me how I wanted to move forward, putting the onus of a solution back on me. I understand why, too: she’s just as powerless as I am. I would love for Apple to face public backlash and financial ramifications for having taken advantage of its customers in such a brazen and unethical way, but Apple seems beyond reproach at this point. It took three representatives before I could even speak to someone who comprehended what I was saying, and even when she admitted to Apple’s shady practice, she was able to offer no solution besides “don’t use the product.” When our data is finally a full-blown utility, however, “just don’t use the product” will cease to be an option. Apple will be in control, bringing their 1984 commercial full circle into a tragic, oppressive irony.

TL;DR: Apple Music might upload your local music files to their servers, encode them to AAC 256 kbps and remove the local copies.

I think I can barely name 10 non visual j-rock bands...

I used to have my music collection separated into East and West folders, but since then I've completely ditched my West folder because I so rarely listen to anything other than visual kei.

I usually organize my collection first by artist, and then by album. I try to keep my folder names in romaji only, so that I can write file paths without too much hassle. My syntax looks pretty much like this:

F:\Musiikki\Purple stone\[2014.11.26] Amazuppai mango (Limited edition)

I use Foobar2000, so I usually fix the tags and add album arts right after downloading something. JAM, the skin I'm using, just looks so ugly without album arts but absolutely fabulous with them.

I must've spent thousands of hours organizing my music collection... And still it isn't finished XD But at least most of the stuff I regularly listen to is super neat!

69 was a really solid release, so I'm definitely excited about this!

Lycaon...

I also added the option "Maybe" to the poll  

I created a thread for it years ago here, but people weren't that into it then, haha  But when it comes to adding a whole new section to the forum, I'm not sure what I think about that.  A sub category in the Entertainment section might be suitable for this purpose, though.

1 minute ago, Biopanda said:

Whoops! I never even thought to check the OBI :'D I just assume that if it's there, then there was no funny business going on lol

Yeah, apparently you can never know! It might have bothered me a bit if the release was something I actually cared about but as it is, I hate this single XD