Talk:1482: NowPlaying - Revision history

42.book.addict at 01:50, 15 November 2025

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172.71.178.136 at 01:54, 14 March 2023

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162.158.154.142 at 00:02, 14 March 2023

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141.101.98.96 at 19:16, 15 February 2015

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Chrisahn: Good catch!

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Good catch!

173.245.52.109: Nitpicking a commenter

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Nitpicking a commenter

Chrisahn: rationale for my changes

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rationale for my changes

108.162.219.149 at 09:01, 6 February 2015

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Taibhse at 08:18, 5 February 2015

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108.162.249.220 at 00:23, 5 February 2015

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 :Okay, so I've redone the second paragraph for facts, but haven't touched any of the other opinion bits. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.220|108.162.249.220]] 08:40, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
-Text may also be a reference to an old joke about a composer who writes, and copyrights, a composition consisting of a single note: middle C.  All other composers who later included middle C would thus be quoting his composition, entitling him to royalties; all composers who used any OTHER note would be simply transposing the original composition into another key, and would still owe the royalty..." {{unsigned ip|108.162.215.112}}
+Text may also be a reference to an old joke about a composer who writes, and copyrights, a composition consisting of a single note: middle C.  All other composers who later included middle C would thus be quoting his composition, entitling him to royalties; all composers who used any OTHER note would be simply transposing the original composition into another key, and would still owe the royalty..." {{unsigned ip|108.162.215.112|09:20, 4 February 2015 (UTC)}}
 I've changed the thing about Mike & Caitlin being concerned about music choice, as this is (as noted by other commentators) *much* less likely than their being concerned about having their news feeds spammed.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.135|141.101.98.135]] 09:25, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
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 Btw, I interpreted Mike's comment not as annoyance about the entry flooding but that he can "hear" the melody in his head (like Beethoven) and hears a wrong tune. And maybe it's a small special community (like in xkcd/1305, which would also fit to the timestamp issues they have) so he starts discussing that wrong tune. [[User:Renormalist|Renormalist]] ([[User talk:Renormalist|talk]]) 16:45, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
 I tried to correct the image, twice, and it still stays the same with the original error. I did this after adding the trivia section with the original image. Hope someone can correct this --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 17:48, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
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 Totally nerd sniped.. [http://www.musipedia.org/result.html?sourceid=melody-url&tx_mpsearch_pi1%5bsubmit_button%5d=Search&tx_mpsearch_pi1%5bpc%5d=lily+e%278+a%278+b%278+d%278+cis%278+b%278+a%278+a%278+e%278+a%278+&coll=m&categories=&L=&filtertext=&rvp=0 Musipedia] seems to think the closest melodic match is "Cream" by Eric Clapton...  Hard to get without seconds (so you can get some idea of the rhythm) [[User:BadPirate|BadPirate]] ([[User talk:BadPirate|talk]]) 20:32, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
-Surprising no one has mentioned the contrast with John Cage's "As Slow As Possible" now playing in the St Burchardi Church of Halberstadt, Germany.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_as_Possible  [[User:Taibhse|Taibhse]] ([[User talk:Taibhse|talk]]) 21:47, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
+Surprising no one has mentioned the contrast with John Cage's "As Slow As Possible" now playing in the St Burchardi Church of Halberstadt, Germany.  {{w|As Slow as Possible}}  [[User:Taibhse|Taibhse]] ([[User talk:Taibhse|talk]]) 21:47, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
 :I suspect the hypothetical service might have trouble with some John Cage works (http://youtu.be/zY7UK-6aaNA), as well as anything relying on nature or ambient sounds, or not conforming to the chromatic scale - untuned percussion instruments, or perhaps a didgeridoo or kazoo. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.220|108.162.249.220]] 00:23, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
 : Except that "As Slow As Possible" is all tonal, chromatic scale, instrument not even specified though usually organ.  The point being it is heard a single note (or chord) at a time, by design.  The current performance is planned to last hundreds of years, though it has often been performed in a matter of hours or days.  [[User:Taibhse|Taibhse]] ([[User talk:Taibhse|talk]]) 08:18, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

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−	The hashtag in the comic title means that I can’t type it in to the explain xkcd search bar</~~html>~~	+	The hashtag in the comic title means that I can’t type it in to the explain xkcd search bar {{unsigned ip\|162.158.154.142\|00:02, 14 March 2023}}
		+	:You can search for "NowPlaying" or "1482" and it'll be Ok. Not the first time that something Randall put in his published comic page that 'broke' the Wiki's attempt to stay faithful, not the last... But you got here, so all's well! [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.136\|172.71.178.136]] 01:54, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

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	"twelve key signatures" ... "notes like C flat are much less common than C". Since you say there are only 12 (major) key signatures and not 15 you must be counting B/Cb, F#/Gb, and C#/Db major as the same keys. But then you talk about the note Cb (diatonic in 2 keys) like it's a different note from B (diatonic in 7 keys). You can't have it both ways. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.109\|173.245.52.109]] 18:55, 14 February 2015 (UTC)		"twelve key signatures" ... "notes like C flat are much less common than C". Since you say there are only 12 (major) key signatures and not 15 you must be counting B/Cb, F#/Gb, and C#/Db major as the same keys. But then you talk about the note Cb (diatonic in 2 keys) like it's a different note from B (diatonic in 7 keys). You can't have it both ways. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.109\|173.245.52.109]] 18:55, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
	: Oops. You're right. Good catch. What do we do? Randall's bot probably distinguishes between C sharp / D flat. If we do that too, we'll have to distinguish between enharmonic keys. So how many keys (key signatures) are there? 15 is not enough either - it would exclude {{w\|G-sharp major}} and {{w\|F-flat major}}. It would be logically correct to say that there are infinitely many key signatures. ;-) I think useful answers could only be found empirically. Alas, I don't think any musicologist will bother to solve this riddle. Humanity will remain ignorant. [[User:Chrisahn\|Chrisahn]] ([[User talk:Chrisahn\|talk]]) 18:28, 15 February 2015 (UTC)		: Oops. You're right. Good catch. What do we do? Randall's bot probably distinguishes between C sharp / D flat. If we do that too, we'll have to distinguish between enharmonic keys. So how many keys (key signatures) are there? 15 is not enough either - it would exclude {{w\|G-sharp major}} and {{w\|F-flat major}}. It would be logically correct to say that there are infinitely many key signatures. ;-) I think useful answers could only be found empirically. Alas, I don't think any musicologist will bother to solve this riddle. Humanity will remain ignorant. [[User:Chrisahn\|Chrisahn]] ([[User talk:Chrisahn\|talk]]) 18:28, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
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	"twelve key signatures" ... "notes like C flat are much less common than C". Since you say there are only 12 (major) key signatures and not 15 you must be counting B/Cb, F#/Gb, and C#/Db major as the same keys. But then you talk about the note Cb (diatonic in 2 keys) like it's a different note from B (diatonic in 7 keys). You can't have it both ways. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.109\|173.245.52.109]] 18:55, 14 February 2015 (UTC)		"twelve key signatures" ... "notes like C flat are much less common than C". Since you say there are only 12 (major) key signatures and not 15 you must be counting B/Cb, F#/Gb, and C#/Db major as the same keys. But then you talk about the note Cb (diatonic in 2 keys) like it's a different note from B (diatonic in 7 keys). You can't have it both ways. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.109\|173.245.52.109]] 18:55, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
		+	: Oops. You're right. Good catch. What do we do? Randall's bot probably distinguishes between C sharp / D flat. If we do that too, we'll have to distinguish between enharmonic keys. So how many keys (key signatures) are there? 15 is not enough either - it would exclude {{w\|G-sharp major}} and {{w\|F-flat major}}. It would be logically correct to say that there are infinitely many key signatures. ;-) I think useful answers could only be found empirically. Alas, I don't think any musicologist will bother to solve this riddle. Humanity will remain ignorant. [[User:Chrisahn\|Chrisahn]] ([[User talk:Chrisahn\|talk]]) 18:28, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

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	I removed speculations about chords from the explantion - the reference to ''E major'' was a mistake that has been fixed. Also, not all notes appear in all songs, so the search for a note won't return all songs. Each {{w\|Key signature\|key signature}} only uses seven of the twelve notes, and each note appears only in seven of the twelve key signatures. Excursion: The question in which fraction of all songs a certain note appears might be interesting for musicologists, but also quite hard to even give an educated guess: Many songs contain a few notes that {{w\|Accidental (music)\|don't belong to their key}}, there are {{w\|Modulation (music)\|modulations}}, and last but not least, some key signatures are much more common than others - I would guess that in pop music, the upper right half of the {{w\|Circle of fifths\|circle of fifths}} (from F major to E major) accounts for at least 95% of all songs, which would mean that notes like C flat are much less common than C. [[User:Chrisahn\|Chrisahn]] ([[User talk:Chrisahn\|talk]]) 13:52, 7 February 2015 (UTC)		I removed speculations about chords from the explantion - the reference to ''E major'' was a mistake that has been fixed. Also, not all notes appear in all songs, so the search for a note won't return all songs. Each {{w\|Key signature\|key signature}} only uses seven of the twelve notes, and each note appears only in seven of the twelve key signatures. Excursion: The question in which fraction of all songs a certain note appears might be interesting for musicologists, but also quite hard to even give an educated guess: Many songs contain a few notes that {{w\|Accidental (music)\|don't belong to their key}}, there are {{w\|Modulation (music)\|modulations}}, and last but not least, some key signatures are much more common than others - I would guess that in pop music, the upper right half of the {{w\|Circle of fifths\|circle of fifths}} (from F major to E major) accounts for at least 95% of all songs, which would mean that notes like C flat are much less common than C. [[User:Chrisahn\|Chrisahn]] ([[User talk:Chrisahn\|talk]]) 13:52, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
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		+	"twelve key signatures" ... "notes like C flat are much less common than C". Since you say there are only 12 (major) key signatures and not 15 you must be counting B/Cb, F#/Gb, and C#/Db major as the same keys. But then you talk about the note Cb (diatonic in 2 keys) like it's a different note from B (diatonic in 7 keys). You can't have it both ways. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.109\|173.245.52.109]] 18:55, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

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	:I suspect the hypothetical service might have trouble with some John Cage works (http://youtu.be/zY7UK-6aaNA), as well as anything relying on nature or ambient sounds, or not conforming to the chromatic scale - untuned percussion instruments, or perhaps a didgeridoo or kazoo. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.220\|108.162.249.220]] 00:23, 5 February 2015 (UTC)		:I suspect the hypothetical service might have trouble with some John Cage works (http://youtu.be/zY7UK-6aaNA), as well as anything relying on nature or ambient sounds, or not conforming to the chromatic scale - untuned percussion instruments, or perhaps a didgeridoo or kazoo. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.220\|108.162.249.220]] 00:23, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
	: Except that "As Slow As Possible" is all tonal, chromatic scale, instrument not even specified though usually organ. The point being it is heard a single note (or chord) at a time, by design. The current performance is planned to last hundreds of years, though it has often been performed in a matter of hours or days. [[User:Taibhse\|Taibhse]] ([[User talk:Taibhse\|talk]]) 08:18, 5 February 2015 (UTC)		: Except that "As Slow As Possible" is all tonal, chromatic scale, instrument not even specified though usually organ. The point being it is heard a single note (or chord) at a time, by design. The current performance is planned to last hundreds of years, though it has often been performed in a matter of hours or days. [[User:Taibhse\|Taibhse]] ([[User talk:Taibhse\|talk]]) 08:18, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
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		+	I removed speculations about chords from the explantion - the reference to ''E major'' was a mistake that has been fixed. Also, not all notes appear in all songs, so the search for a note won't return all songs. Each {{w\|Key signature\|key signature}} only uses seven of the twelve notes, and each note appears only in seven of the twelve key signatures. Excursion: The question in which fraction of all songs a certain note appears might be interesting for musicologists, but also quite hard to even give an educated guess: Many songs contain a few notes that {{w\|Accidental (music)\|don't belong to their key}}, there are {{w\|Modulation (music)\|modulations}}, and last but not least, some key signatures are much more common than others - I would guess that in pop music, the upper right half of the {{w\|Circle of fifths\|circle of fifths}} (from F major to E major) accounts for at least 95% of all songs, which would mean that notes like C flat are much less common than C. [[User:Chrisahn\|Chrisahn]] ([[User talk:Chrisahn\|talk]]) 13:52, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

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 :Nope, not even close. Wrong notes, wrong key (although that doesn't matter as much, could be transposed). Though I thought it was the little bit at the end of "This Old Man", but the last 3 notes don't make sense, and when I try to play it, the first A doesn't quite work (also found sheet music, and that first A should be a B, confirmed). Oh well. - Mikowmer --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.218|108.162.249.218]] 11:26, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
 :Might it be the folk melody "Country Gardens"?  See the Wikipedia entry or look it up one of the many performances on Youtube (there's a charming performance with the Muppets Rowlf and Fozzie Bear) [[Special:Contributions/188.114.103.238|188.114.103.238]] 14:14, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
 E major, is a chord, not a note...[[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.169|108.162.249.169]] 06:36, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

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	Surprising no one has mentioned the contrast with John Cage's "As Slow As Possible" now playing in the St Burchardi Church of Halberstadt, Germany. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_as_Possible [[User:Taibhse\|Taibhse]] ([[User talk:Taibhse\|talk]]) 21:47, 4 February 2015 (UTC)		Surprising no one has mentioned the contrast with John Cage's "As Slow As Possible" now playing in the St Burchardi Church of Halberstadt, Germany. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_as_Possible [[User:Taibhse\|Taibhse]] ([[User talk:Taibhse\|talk]]) 21:47, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
	:I suspect the hypothetical service might have trouble with some John Cage works (http://youtu.be/zY7UK-6aaNA), as well as anything relying on nature or ambient sounds, or not conforming to the chromatic scale - untuned percussion instruments, or perhaps a didgeridoo or kazoo. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.220\|108.162.249.220]] 00:23, 5 February 2015 (UTC)		:I suspect the hypothetical service might have trouble with some John Cage works (http://youtu.be/zY7UK-6aaNA), as well as anything relying on nature or ambient sounds, or not conforming to the chromatic scale - untuned percussion instruments, or perhaps a didgeridoo or kazoo. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.220\|108.162.249.220]] 00:23, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
		+	: Except that "As Slow As Possible" is all tonal, chromatic scale, instrument not even specified though usually organ. The point being it is heard a single note (or chord) at a time, by design. The current performance is planned to last hundreds of years, though it has often been performed in a matter of hours or days. [[User:Taibhse\|Taibhse]] ([[User talk:Taibhse\|talk]]) 08:18, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

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	Surprising no one has mentioned the contrast with John Cage's "As Slow As Possible" now playing in the St Burchardi Church of Halberstadt, Germany. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_as_Possible [[User:Taibhse\|Taibhse]] ([[User talk:Taibhse\|talk]]) 21:47, 4 February 2015 (UTC)		Surprising no one has mentioned the contrast with John Cage's "As Slow As Possible" now playing in the St Burchardi Church of Halberstadt, Germany. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_as_Possible [[User:Taibhse\|Taibhse]] ([[User talk:Taibhse\|talk]]) 21:47, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
		+	:I suspect the hypothetical service might have trouble with some John Cage works (http://youtu.be/zY7UK-6aaNA), as well as anything relying on nature or ambient sounds, or not conforming to the chromatic scale - untuned percussion instruments, or perhaps a didgeridoo or kazoo. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.220\|108.162.249.220]] 00:23, 5 February 2015 (UTC)