Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[Frindis]

holy cow, how many people can they put on that ship? It looks packed

No AI face either, Will Smith should take notice

 

[Zed Clampet]

No AI face either, Will Smith should take notice

To me, the weird thing about that controversy is that...

1) the original attack on him was that he couldn't be drawing that many people to his concerts, and that's why his team used AI.

2) But then they discovered that he really was drawing that many people and that the AI videos were created using real photos of the crowd.

3) So the complainers changed the complaint to simply repeat what had happened, that they had fed AI pictures of the crowd and created movies from that.

The fact that the complainers would so easily change their complaint based on new evidence suggests to me that they would have found something to complain about no matter what.

 

[Zed Clampet]

This is kind of funny to me. CoPilot is remembering our old conversations, but he's embellishing them in a way that makes me look like some sort of coding savant, which couldn't be farther from the truth. He thinks I've solved every problem I've asked him about, which includes most of the biggest problems AI currently has. I think I'm going to ask him to write a resume for me

Note: I want the resume for the humor, not to actually apply for jobs.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Last coconut post for awhile...Being vague because I don't want to say anything bad about someone if they aren't here to defend themselves, but I think this guy believes that I'm going to update his programs on Github. This is not true. If you are taking in vast sums of money each month in donations, I'm not fixing your crap for you. Granted, they are easy fixes. You just need to add a couple of lines to account for some updates to various things, but this is why people are donating to him, so I think he should be responsible for it.

 

[Frag Maniac]

@JCgames @dxchase On my bucket list

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAFnjTz-KrI

Do they not allow them to cosplay? I think it's the first time I've ever seen something that's literally larger in some ways than Comicon, but zero cosplay. No one dressed up as Klingons, or Vulcans, etc. Really strange, I mean if you didn't see the logos and the shirts here and there, you might not even know it has anything to do with Star Trek!

 

[JCgames]

holy cow, how many people can they put on that ship? It looks packed

i was thinking the same thing, yalk about nerdvanna. Its either heaven or someones hell,but i live it! lol

Id bet its a blast

 

[Charagma]

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Sorry, this is the only way I can get hold of you but really anyone can help if they can.

Bit of background first.

Being an FET (Further education Training) teacher, I pretty much fall under the same rules and laws the general teacher has. Several years ago students discovered MIDI files (Been there for ever but was somehow rediscovered) which resulted in many of the students gettig a Midi file, changing it a bit and then handing it in as their own work. Midi can unfortunately be directly used in most Scoring software so importing a MIDI file is very easy. Since it is music classes all of them has some form of Scoring software that can import MIDI's. Because of this the schools decided to have a MIDI folder so if a student hands in a song named ABCD, you can search for ABCD in the folder and compare it to what is available these come from various sources and also holds what students have handed in before. This however worked only for a while and students then started using GPT's etc. Resulting that we have a folder with 1000's of files in it consisting of MIDI, Guitar Pro, ".kar" and several other types of files. Each time we get the latest edition (I get mine from the school board) so that my folder can get updated. This system works great, and we are able to catch them when they pull stunts like this.

Today I got the new version of the files and once again was something like 180 000 various files. Many of them duplicate names but different when opened. Do you know of a MIDI Database program. Something similar to Calibre where you can scan a folder and it creates a database of the MIDI's as well as sort them like say Itunes does with music. I had a look at MIDIcat but not what I have in mind. Only other thing I can find is MIDI Vault but that is for inside a DAW. Just need to do the MIDI files, the rest I can then do manually.

Do you know of something like this? My Google searches came up with pretty much 0 and as you can imagine I am now sitting and manually sorted 180 000 files into A, B, C then need to add them to artist names etc.

Edit: Just checked it is 146557 files in 12071 folders and is 7.76GB in size

 

[Zed Clampet]

Sorry, this is the only way I can get hold of you but really anyone can help if they can.

Bit of background first.

Being an FET (Further education Training) teacher, I pretty much fall under the same rules and laws the general teacher has. Several years ago students discovered MIDI files (Been there for ever but was somehow rediscovered) which resulted in many of the students gettig a Midi file, changing it a bit and then handing it in as their own work. Midi can unfortunately be directly used in most Scoring software so importing a MIDI file is very easy. Since it is music classes all of them has some form of Scoring software that can import MIDI's. Because of this the schools decided to have a MIDI folder so if a student hands in a song named ABCD, you can search for ABCD in the folder and compare it to what is available these come from various sources and also holds what students have handed in before. This however worked only for a while and students then started using GPT's etc. Resulting that we have a folder with 1000's of files in it consisting of MIDI, Guitar Pro, ".kar" and several other types of files. Each time we get the latest edition (I get mine from the school board) so that my folder can get updated. This system works great, and we are able to catch them when they pull stunts like this.

Today I got the new version of the files and once again was something like 180 000 various files. Many of them duplicate names but different when opened. Do you know of a MIDI Database program. Something similar to Calibre where you can scan a folder and it creates a database of the MIDI's as well as sort them like say Itunes does with music. I had a look at MIDIcat but not what I have in mind. Only other thing I can find is MIDI Vault but that is for inside a DAW. Just need to do the MIDI files, the rest I can then do manually.

Do you know of something like this? My Google searches came up with pretty much 0 and as you can imagine I am now sitting and manually sorted 180 000 files into A, B, C then need to add them to artist names etc.

Edit: Just checked it is 146557 files in 12071 folders and is 7.76GB in size

Have you looked at Midiexplorer?

 

[Charagma]

Have you looked at Midiexplorer?

Downloaded, struggled a bit, but found the binary eventually. It is scanning the "Database" now. If I can just get the Database part working on it then 90% of my problems is fixed. LMAO.

Thank you will let you know once it scanned the files and placed them in a list for me. The Lahki (or something like that) database added an extra 190k midi file to my already huge collection but saw that they are much newer than what I have. Every bit extra helps so not complaining. Even if it does not work it added extra midi's which in itself is already a huge advantage.

Edit: It is nearly final exams (Yearend exams over here) time for the students, so we are starting with preventative measure ahead of time.

 

[Charagma]

LMAO, lack of knowledge struck again but figured it out. Eventually realised that I needed the original database to get everything to start up and it should be running in admin mode. Eventually got it right to start rebuilding the database. I am assuming due to the number of files it is not a 5-minute process.

I laugh at this because it happens often where the writer of something forgets that not everyone is of similar mindset. I for example will tell you "That to work in major scale you just need to count. 1 being your keynote (E.g C), skip 3, with 4 being your 2nd note and then skip another 2 with 8 being your top not (1,5,8). This will give you a perfect Major Triad (In this case C Major)." To me that makes complete sense but to someone else it is a different language. So, I do not blame the creator for the instructions because we all pretty much do it without realising it.

Will let it rebuild the Database for the night and have a look at it in the morning. The bit I did see of it, it is pretty much what I had in mind and more. Just hoping it moves files around as it runs through the files. If it does that the battle has been won.

Doubt I will ever get to your country (Unless it is work related, which is a tall order on its own) so will have a whiskey on your behalf to say thank you.

 

[Charagma]

LMAO, lack of knowledge struck again but figured it out. Eventually realised that I needed the original database to get everything to start up and it should be running in admin mode. Eventually got it right to start rebuilding the database. I am assuming due to the number of files it is not a 5-minute process.

I laugh at this because it happens often where the writer of something forgets that not everyone is of similar mindset. I for example will tell you "That to work in major scale you just need to count. 1 being your keynote (E.g C), skip 3, with 4 being your 2nd note and then skip another 2 with 8 being your top not (1,5,8). This will give you a perfect Major Triad (In this case C Major)." To me that makes complete sense but to someone else it is a different language. So, I do not blame the creator for the instructions because we all pretty much do it without realising it.

Will let it rebuild the Database for the night and have a look at it in the morning. The bit I did see of it, it is pretty much what I had in mind and more. Just hoping it moves files around as it runs through the files. If it does that the battle has been won.

Doubt I will ever get to your country (Unless it is work related, which is a tall order on its own) so will have a whiskey on your behalf to say thank you.

Was in a meeting this morning so only got round to checking it now. It seems to be scanning only 9k midi files, sort them and then gets stuck. anything I click then afterwards gives me a "stop" error. Force closing it and then re-opening it (since I cannot select or do anything after the "stop" error) bring me back to the unsorted list. Great little program, but I cannot get it to work properly. Possibly a user error.

I am going to try and find something that can scan and "rewrite" the meta data of the files. If I can get them all correctly named, then maybe it will be easier to sort on my end.

I am going to try MRA and see if it works on MIDI's and then work my way up on the database creation from there. Thinking it might eb a good idea to export the folder to a CSV file and then work my way up from there.

 

[Charagma]

Searched and found a thing called PSD style database written by Peter Wierzba. Inside this he has a Midi database/cataloguer. First few runs on a much smaller folder seems to be showing what I was looking for. I can type in E.g. a title and in the list it will show me everything related to that specific title. So, no need to even open the file. It has other functions as well like producer etc but doubt I will ever have the need of those. Saw that I am able to edit the Metadata on files as well as copy or move them to different folders and search for duplicates. Will keep playing with it but for now it is nusy scanning the main folder and sub folders to create he first master database. Lets hold thumbs

 

[Frindis]

Do they not allow them to cosplay? I think it's the first time I've ever seen something that's literally larger in some ways than Comicon, but zero cosplay. No one dressed up as Klingons, or Vulcans, etc. Really strange, I mean if you didn't see the logos and the shirts here and there, you might not even know it has anything to do with Star Trek!

I believe they do (could be at designated areas) because I have watched a couple of longer videos in the past taken by the attendees, and they had different outfits on looking like Data or Q. They also have different themed nights where you can dress up.

 

[Pifanjr]

I discovered today that my laptop has a dedicated CoPilot key that replaces the right Ctrl key and as far as I can find, there's no way to turn it back into a fully functional Ctrl key again. I don't use CoPilot and even if I did, I don't see why it would be so important that I'd need a dedicated key on my keyboard to open it. Especially not when it replaces a key I use rather frequently.

 

[Zloth]

Especially not when it replaces a key I use rather frequently.

I use the left a ton, but I don't think I ever use the right. (Or the right alt, for that matter.) What are you using it for?

 

[Frag Maniac]

I don't use CoPilot and even if I did, I don't see why it would be so important that I'd need a dedicated key on my keyboard to open it. Especially not when it replaces a key I use rather frequently.

Hopefully it won't accidentally fly you to a destination you don't want to go to. I hate Copilot and have that app disabled. My Bloody B840 keyboard has software that allows me to disable any key, but I haven't had to do such a thing with Copliot. At least it's On/Off switch understands that Off means Off.

 

[Charagma]

I discovered today that my laptop has a dedicated CoPilot key that replaces the right Ctrl key and as far as I can find, there's no way to turn it back into a fully functional Ctrl key again. I don't use CoPilot and even if I did, I don't see why it would be so important that I'd need a dedicated key on my keyboard to open it. Especially not when it replaces a key I use rather frequently.

This is all I could find on it. Sorry.

https://windowsforum.com/threads/how-to-disable-or-remap-the-windows-copilot-key-easily.351149/

 

[Pifanjr]

I use the left a ton, but I don't think I ever use the right. (Or the right alt, for that matter.) What are you using it for?

On a (small) laptop keyboard it's sometimes more comfortable to use the right control than the left one, for example when using Ctrl + Shift + Arrow keys to quickly select several words. On a regular keyboard I hardly ever use the right Ctrl button.

Hopefully it won't accidentally fly you to a destination you don't want to go to. I hate Copilot and have that app disabled. My Bloody B840 keyboard has software that allows me to disable any key, but I haven't had to do such a thing with Copliot. At least it's On/Off switch understands that Off means Off.

I have uninstalled CoPilot and set the CoPilot key to open the search inside the start menu instead.

This is all I could find on it. Sorry.

https://windowsforum.com/threads/how-to-disable-or-remap-the-windows-copilot-key-easily.351149/

I tried using PowerToy, but it doesn't work when using it together with the left Shift or the Alt keys. When you press the CoPilot key and then the left Shift, Windows acts like you're only holding the Ctrl, then when you release the left Shift, it acts like you're holding the Windows key instead.

I almost always use my laptop with a separate keyboard, so it's not a huge deal and I decided to just give up on it.

 

[BeardyHat]

Things just don't slow down, do they? Feel like I keep waiting for stuff to calm down and it just doesn't. Have I made this post before?

Went to that tournament on Saturday and got wrecked. Lost my first game 4 to 10 points, my next one I lost by 1 point and the last game I got too drunk to care. That said, did some analysis on Sunday and think I've realized what my problem was, but I'll spare y'all the details.

But then had a nice date with my wife Sunday, went to a thing on Monday and then just had to hide and not go to a neighborhood BBQ, because my introvert battery is more than drained. I just need to hide for awhile and see no people....maybe a month or two.

Unfortunately, gotta prep my van for another road trip. I want to doublecheck my brakes and make sure the rear drums are good, as well as maybe replace the front rotors and pads because I'm feeling vibes at high speeds.

I'd rather be sorting out my problems with my new (to me) 3d printer. But oh well.

 

[Zed Clampet]

I don't use CoPilot and even if I did, I don't see why it would be so important that I'd need a dedicated key on my keyboard to open it.

It's extremely important to Microsoft, so they have mandated that any laptop that wants to use the AI PC designation has to have the key. Why is it this important? Because AI is the new Google, or at least that's what they think. It no longer matters that Bing can't beat Google. Now the real battle is CoPilot vs Gemini. Google sees this as the battlefield, as well, and I agree. Five years from now, few people will be doing old-style searches. CoPilot is already miles ahead of a standard Google search unless you are just doing something very basic.

Was in a meeting this morning so only got round to checking it now. It seems to be scanning only 9k midi files, sort them and then gets stuck. anything I click then afterwards gives me a "stop" error. Force closing it and then re-opening it (since I cannot select or do anything after the "stop" error) bring me back to the unsorted list. Great little program, but I cannot get it to work properly. Possibly a user error.

I am going to try and find something that can scan and "rewrite" the meta data of the files. If I can get them all correctly named, then maybe it will be easier to sort on my end.

I am going to try MRA and see if it works on MIDI's and then work my way up on the database creation from there. Thinking it might eb a good idea to export the folder to a CSV file and then work my way up from there.

There might be a bad MIDI causing it to get stuck. Is it producing a log you can check? It could be a few other things, but this is my guess with as many files as you have. Can you divide them into smaller batches? Or maybe just move the first 10k files to another folder. It shouldn't be having this problem, and if there is a corrupt MIDI it's going to impact any program you use.

 

[Charagma]

There might be a bad MIDI causing it to get stuck. Is it producing a log you can check? It could be a few other things, but this is my guess with as many files as you have. Can you divide them into smaller batches? Or maybe just move the first 10k files to another folder. It shouldn't be having this problem, and if there is a corrupt MIDI it's going to impact any program you use.

Bad Midi very possible. Remember this is pretty much a dump of all the files "Who-ever" could get hold of for the update. I generally just delete the ones that refuse to open.

The smaller batches is an idea, but how would I then combine the multiple databases? Just of the top of my head, 180k divided by 28 (One folder for Numerics and one for unsorted) will gives me roughly around 7k per folder, so could split them into Alphabetics and create say A, B, C, D etc. Might work. I still have it on my system but moved the database workings up a bit due there not being enough hours in a day at the moment. Will have a crack at it again next week. The bit I played with the two different programs I am hoping Midi explorer works since it has functions in it that can help me greatly even at the development stage of music.

But, first need to recover from my spending spree and then put food on the table.

 

[Charagma]

LMAO so, about 2 weeks ago there was a little class competition, instigated by yours truely, to get the students to "Stop thinking inside the box" and tread deeper water. Try more risky chords and melodies etc. This is part of the Curriculum so was merely a motivational way to get them to join in. Classical students are usually the hardest because they tend to struggle to work inside another "Genre"

After a huge discussion it was decided (Majority vs me) that they will prove to me that they are already doing it. Apparently, they just do not share it with the teachers as we are too "orthodox" in our musical ways.

I accepted the challenge and them (7 students) created an amazing "out of the box" composition. I can go into details here but let's just say the Chords that was used was very risky and a very dangerous line to walk on especially in chord progression. (But that is from my "old orthodox" point of view)

Winners / Losers, Loser (Me) or losers (Them) will have to post one of their songs on Soundcloud.

I LOST!!!!!!! and they selected one of my newly created cover songs. Apparently, my other things are "a bit heavy and dark" and this is one of the few I have not given to an artist yet.

Right now, sucks to be me, but I have a whole class rooting for me to see if anyone would like it. Also, first time anything other than scoresheets gets posted anywhere on the internet so a bit scary as well.

 

[Zed Clampet]

LMAO so, about 2 weeks ago there was a little class competition, instigated by yours truely, to get the students to "Stop thinking inside the box" and tread deeper water. Try more risky chords and melodies etc. This is part of the Curriculum so was merely a motivational way to get them to join in. Classical students are usually the hardest because they tend to struggle to work inside another "Genre"

After a huge discussion it was decided (Majority vs me) that they will prove to me that they are already doing it. Apparently, they just do not share it with the teachers as we are too "orthodox" in our musical ways.

I accepted the challenge and them (7 students) created an amazing "out of the box" composition. I can go into details here but let's just say the Chords that was used was very risky and a very dangerous line to walk on especially in chord progression. (But that is from my "old orthodox" point of view)

Winners / Losers, Loser (Me) or losers (Them) will have to post one of their songs on Soundcloud.

I LOST!!!!!!! and they selected one of my newly created cover songs. Apparently, my other things are "a bit heavy and dark" and this is one of the few I have not given to an artist yet.

Right now, sucks to be me, but I have a whole class rooting for me to see if anyone would like it. Also, first time anything other than scoresheets gets posted anywhere on the internet so a bit scary as well.

When you get it posted, drop us a link if you don't mind.

 

[Charagma]

Already posted,

https://soundcloud.com/charagma%2Fi-swear

View: https://soundcloud.com/charagma/i-swear?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing&si=47e6211d0ad3450d9c594c75a4b7d670


Link looks "funny" but that is what it gives me when I ask for a link copy.

Actually, wish they picked something else, but I did not have much say in the matter.

Edit: This is directly from Musescore, has not been in any DAW yet. So basically, just notes played without any filters. I only run it through a DAW if someone wants it. So, it is pretty much a raw rendition of it.

 

[Charagma]

Already posted,

https://soundcloud.com/charagma%2Fi-swear

View: https://soundcloud.com/charagma/i-swear?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing&si=47e6211d0ad3450d9c594c75a4b7d670


Link looks "funny" but that is what it gives me when I ask for a link copy.

Actually, wish they picked something else, but I did not have much say in the matter.

Edit: This is directly from Musescore, has not been in any DAW yet. So basically, just notes played without any filters. I only run it through a DAW if someone wants it. So, it is pretty much a raw rendition of it.

Thanks Zed, kids are going to love it tomorrow seeing there is a like. I promised I will post it tonight and I try to keep to my word best I can especially when it comes to the kids.....(Lead by example kind of thing)