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just brew it! wrote:

For the Bach fans here, I just stumbled upon this site: http://www.blockmrecords.org/bach/index.htm

Free (legal) downloads of all of Bach's organ music, courtesy of the University of Michigan School of Music.

thegleek wrote:

For the $30 investment, these 6 CD's (out of 56 if yer crazy hard-core!) are some of the best classical music selections i have ever heard in my life:

http://www.dg-111.com/en_GB/albums/six-cd-box-set

It has woken me up to some opera-style music i thought i would never be into... massive stuff here peeps!

just brew it! wrote:

Seriously doubt I'd ever get into opera though. The closest I get is probably the choral parts of Beethoven's 9th, and possibly some of the oddball avant-garde-Euro-jazz stuff I listen to on occasion.

just brew it! wrote:

...rectifying that oversight now while I crank out some C code.

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// FUNCTION:  CSTLString::CopyString
//      static void CopyString(PCTSTR p_szSource, PTSTR p_szDest, int p_nMaxChars=0);
//      static void CopyString(PCOSTR p_szSource, POSTR p_szDest, int p_nMaxChars=0);
//      static void CopyString(PCSTR p_szSource, PWSTR p_szDest, int p_nMaxChars=0);
//      static void CopyString(PCWSTR p_szSource, PSTR p_szDest, int p_nMaxChars=0);
//
// DESCRIPTION:
//      These 3 overloads simplify copying one C-style string into another.
//
// PARAMETERS: 
//      p_szSource - the string to be copied FROM.  May be either an MBCS string (char) or
//                a wide string (wchar_t)
//      p_szDest - the string to be copied TO.  Also may be either MBCS or wide
//      p_nMaxChars - the maximum number of characters to be copied into p_szDest.  Note
//                 that this is expressed in whatever a "character" means to p_szDest.
//                 If p_szDest is a wchar_t type string than this will be the maximum
//                 number of wchar_ts that my be copied.  The p_szDest string must be
//                 large enought to hold least p_nMaxChars+1 characters.
//
// RETURN VALUE: none
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

void CSTLString::CopyString(PCTSTR p_szSource, PTSTR p_szDest, int p_nMaxChars)
{
   int nSrcLen = ( p_szSource == NULL ? 0 : lstrlen(p_szSource) );
   int nChars = ( p_nMaxChars > 0 ? min(p_nMaxChars,nSrcLen) : nSrcLen );
   memcpy(p_szDest, p_szSource, nChars * sizeof(TCHAR));
   p_szDest[nChars] = '\0';
}

void CSTLString::CopyString(PCOSTR p_szSource, POSTR p_szDest, int p_nMaxChars)
{
#ifdef _UNICODE
   int nSrcLen = ( p_szSource == NULL ? 0 : strlen(p_szSource) );
#else
   int nSrcLen = ( p_szSource == NULL ? 0 : wcslen(p_szSource) );
#endif
   int nChars = ( p_nMaxChars > 0 ? min(p_nMaxChars,nSrcLen) : nSrcLen );
   memcpy(p_szDest, p_szSource, nChars * sizeof(TOTHER));
   p_szDest[nChars] = '\0';
}

void CSTLString::CopyString(PCSTR p_szSource, PWSTR p_szDest, int p_nMaxChars)
{
   USES_CONVERSION;
   PCWSTR szConverted = (A2W(p_szSource));
   int nSrcLen = ( szConverted == NULL ? 0 : wcslen(szConverted) );
   int nChars = ( p_nMaxChars > 0 ? min(p_nMaxChars,nSrcLen) : nSrcLen );
   memcpy(p_szDest, szConverted, nChars * sizeof(wchar_t));
   p_szDest[nChars] = '\0';
}

void CSTLString::CopyString(PCWSTR p_szSource, PSTR p_szDest, int p_nMaxChars)
{
   USES_CONVERSION;
   PCSTR szConverted = (W2A(p_szSource));
   int nSrcLen = ( szConverted == NULL ? 0 : strlen(szConverted) );
   int nChars = ( p_nMaxChars > 0 ? min(p_nMaxChars,nSrcLen) : nSrcLen );
   memcpy(p_szDest, szConverted, nChars);
   p_szDest[nChars] = '\0';
}

just brew it! wrote:

Yeah, those are excerpts from various famous operas.

I think we might've had a thread about female singers (in general, not opera) a long while back. The turn this thread has taken prompted me to put on the first October Project album... Mary Fahl FTW. Been too long since I listened to this CD in its entirety. Sure, it's "just" pop; but very well-crafted pop it is... and ohh... that voice!

grantmeaname wrote:

just brew it! wrote:

Yeah, those are excerpts from various famous operas.

I think we might've had a thread about female singers (in general, not opera) a long while back. The turn this thread has taken prompted me to put on the first October Project album... Mary Fahl FTW. Been too long since I listened to this CD in its entirety. Sure, it's "just" pop; but very well-crafted pop it is... and ohh... that voice!

That's awesome! They're two of the many, many bands I got from my dad that I never new anyone else, ever, had heard of.

jaHer wrote:

"Hang Him Higher" by :wumpscut:

Any electro-industrial / other electronic genres fans here? haha.

AMD Damo wrote:

http://waxdotcom.bandcamp.com/track/two-wheels

just brew it! wrote:

For the Bach fans here, I just stumbled upon this site: http://www.blockmrecords.org/bach/index.htm

Free (legal) downloads of all of Bach's organ music, courtesy of the University of Michigan School of Music.

thegleek wrote:

OMG - are u effin kidding me?

Just to give you a small 'snippet' of the music I am a fan of:

:wumpscut:, noisex, vnv nation, combichrist, covenant, apoptygma berzerk, rotersand, pop will eat itself, ohGr, skinny puppy, front 242, frontline assembly, eisenfunk, haujobb, and one, god module, aesthetic perfection, wolfsheim, hocico, accessory, suicide commando, solitary experiments, die form, mesh, de/vision, das ich, kmfdm, mind.in.a.box, peter murphy, bauhaus, joy division, project pitchfork, seabound, the strand, S.I.T.D., this morn' omina, assemblage 23, battery, crystal castles, diorama, electric six, fad gadget, hanzel und gretyl, icon of coil, killing joke, laibach, ministry, nin, marilyn manson, neuroticfish, nitzer ebb, out out, pigface, rammstein, x-marks the pedwalk, velvet acid christ, and about another 1,000+ more!

jaHer wrote:

Very nice, very nice indeed. I tend to be a bit pickier and selective, but I mostly listen to :wumpscut:, IAMX, Oomph!, Combichrist, Noisuf-X, Skinny Puppy, Suicide Commando, De/Vision, KMFDM, Seabound, Neurotichfish, Zweifelhaft, Hackmesser, and Xp8. Used to listen to a lot of Rammstein and Laibach, but not so much anymore. I tend now towards the electronic side, industrial / darkwave / ebm.

thegleek wrote:

Also... I can NOT find any discography on these 2 artists you listed:
Zweifelhaft. The only thing I found was a remix on Diezel Xzaust's song, "Death Certificate" in 2011.
Hackmesser. Nothing. No remixes, no singles, no albums. Was this perhaps spelled incorrectly?

just brew it! wrote:

Grabbed a copy of Mary Fahl's (former lead singer of October Project) "From The Dark Side Of The Moon" yesterday as an Amazon MP3 download and I'm on my third listen now. It's a track-by-track cover of the classic Pink Floyd album. My opinion of recorded (studio) covers tends to be "don't bother unless you've got a new twist to put on the original," and Fahl succeeds. It's quirky, and at times darker/creepier than the Floyd version. Fahl's powerful voice is (as expected) the centerpiece; some parts which were played on guitar or keyboards on the original are even replaced with wordless vocals.

Recommended!