A screencasted Lala tour recorded 23 hours before closing
It's been possible for the past few years to record in video format a person's computer activity within their web browser when special recording software is running. While the user's actions are documented, they can narrate their actions through their computer's microphone in synchrony with their actions. This kind of video production is called screencasting.
At 3 minutes to midnight, right before the clock clicked into May 31st, I screencasted a tour of Lala as I tried to describe and document how a Lala member used the site to find new music to listen to and to locate other expert listeners to follow. The video lasts for 37 minutes, is 115 Mb in size at a reduced screen resolution, and is recorded as a QuickTime movie.
If you expand the video to fullscreen from its native 1/4 size, the text onscreen is just legible, or legible with eye strain. I was hoping to hang on to the original 890Mb screencast but I messed up and blew that away accidentally as I was trying to find space on my disk drives today. (I was trying to find room for my last album downloads purchased from Lala.)
I do think that was too large to be tolerably posted anyway. This video is a useful document to have in hand as we lobby Mog and other music sites to improve social interaction facilities for their users.
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Comments (7)
If you have a fan club can I join? If you don't can I start one?
i would join too!!
David...thank you for posting. Hoping the tech. support of MOG will take a listen from your video explanation of all that Lala.
Well done my friend...
Chris, make sure you log into and vote on feedback.mog.com in favor of the suggestions that Mog have "User-To-User Private Song/Album Recommendations" and "Feed me Listens from my "trusted Moggers".
I think it's also important to vote in favor of the suggestion to "Collapse/expand repeated actions in feed". That's on the second page of suggestions but has only received 6 votes in favor (I used three of my votes for it). That's important to have because if MOG does permit us to see other members listens in our feeds, it will become totally unwieldy if they leave the current feed design unchanged. That ability to expand and collapse user's actions in the feed made Lala's feed pages work.
BC and Grace, I've never had a fan club before (blush). You can visit the Song Discussions on SongTrellis, which would be a natural place to hang out if you want to figure out how music is composed and improvised, and how it does its magic on people, my big interests.
I want to try to make a series of screencasts which would show a neophyte (a person with intelligent ears), how to compose their own music using tools available on the web, and also using desktop software. Feedback when I do those, I'd appreciate.
Very well done, congrats. May I suggest you send this video directly to support. This way they will know what we are all talking about with certain features. you can send it to support@MOG.com make sure you give them a short synopsis.
Nice Dave- saw some stuff I never used and didn't know I could!!
Dave, this was a wonderful public service, man thank you so much.