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Argitoth
October 17th, 2009, 11:47 AM
Hey, is there any way to get the original uncompressed Dominions music?
Omnirizon
October 17th, 2009, 02:45 PM
1. travel to N. Europe
2. find Dram
3. force them to perform live for you
Argitoth
October 17th, 2009, 03:25 PM
Omnirizon, not the answer I was looking for, you are not being helpful.
Argitoth
October 17th, 2009, 04:30 PM
Clearly, the developers recieved the music from Dråm uncompressed / high fidelity and they compressed the hell out of it to keep file size down... on second thought those .al files are still as big an mp3, just doesn't sound as good as one.

Here's one of the Dominions III compositions from the Dråm website: http://www.draam.com/mp3/Draam_Hornlaat.mp3 (sounds much better than in game)
Foodstamp
October 17th, 2009, 04:54 PM
You could join www.last.fm and set Dram as your radio station. I have several of their tracks in my personal last.fm station.
WraithLord
October 17th, 2009, 05:12 PM
Both last.fm and Dram radio station are excellent ideas. Thank you!
Foodstamp
October 17th, 2009, 06:32 PM
Both last.fm and Dram radio station are excellent ideas. Thank you!

NP :). Feel free to add me as a friend after you make an account. That way I can share my station with you and vise versa. My username is jshores.
Gandalf Parker
October 17th, 2009, 08:02 PM
Im in as gp1628 but you probably dont want to add me.
I have a 95% eclectic rating from last.fm which mostly means that no matter who listens to my stations they will probably soon hit something they dont like :) even eclectics cant stand to list to other exclectics
Foodstamp
October 18th, 2009, 10:54 AM
Im in as gp1628 but you probably dont want to add me.
I have a 95% eclectic rating from last.fm which mostly means that no matter who listens to my stations they will probably soon hit something they dont like :) even eclectics cant stand to list to other exclectics

WOW you weren't kidding hehe. From Disturbed to Blues Image is quite a range. I found some songs to add to my library, but you are right, your station is too much of a roller coaster for me.

I get most of my tracks from people in my music "neighborhood". It's amazing how similar my taste is to some of those people because it's not exactly limited to one genre either.
Gandalf Parker
October 18th, 2009, 01:12 PM
Yep. Everything about my life tends to be "Jack of all Trades" and my iPod seems to reflect that also. Many countries, all genres, and music from great grandparents to grandkids range. I think Id have an even higher eclectic score except that the AI on last.fm has troubles recognizing types that cross genres. I have great loves of parody and cover music which confuses the scores.

I also tend to tick people off when they listen because I really like what I call WTF music. Songs that make you think you know what you are listening to then about halfway thru you say "WTF?"
Foodstamp
October 18th, 2009, 02:18 PM
Where do you view your eclectic score? I've never noticed that option.
Gandalf Parker
October 18th, 2009, 02:59 PM
It was one of those third party things. There are some great ones for reading your charts and working it in cool ways. I could dig it up if you want.
Foodstamp
October 18th, 2009, 03:05 PM
Sure thing if it is not too much trouble.
Gandalf Parker
October 18th, 2009, 03:33 PM
http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

He also has a script to create a "tag cloud" from your music which is pretty cool.
Foodstamp
October 18th, 2009, 03:51 PM
Pretty cool. I ended up with a 90/100 and a 483/1000.