Talk:Amarok (Mike Oldfield album)

Parts
"It is next to impossible to isolate any one section of Amarok without it seeming out of place... though Oldfield has played excerpts from time to time."

An apparent contradiction there... Lee M 01:47, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

It is. Mike's played excerpts of it during concerts and on entertainment shows, but it always seems out of place when he starts (just launches into it) and they usually end it by fading it out because there's almost nowhere to stop "correctly". The Elements single-disc excerpt starts at Africa and fades out about two minutes later, for example, and it just doesn't sound right. User:Inky


 * &mdash; To be fair, it IS perfectly possible to excerpt an Incantations-length track from it, precisely starting like the Elements excerpt at 44:47, but up to the end of the album, for a precisely 15:15 track – that's the tryout excerpt I make people listen to, and no one felt it not right ;-) &larr;#6 talk 01:41, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Banners
I have made some changes to the body text that, I hope, improve NPOV of the article. I'haven't removed the banners yet as I've not gone through all of the text. While I've added an extra citation to reflect some of the writing in the lead para, I don't believe there are still enough there. I haven't managed to add any more. For that reason, I've left the banners in place as I believe that, while improved slightly, the article can still be moved further. Illuminatusds ; talk 18:11, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Adding direct access chapters to an iTunes ALAC-encoded M4A file
On a Mac, in Terminal.app use the command below in the folder containing the iTunes M4A file containing an ALAC-encoded copy of Amarok to convert the existing M4A into one with chapters. Then import the output file "outfile.m4a" into iTunes. The file ALBUM.meta it a text file containing the chapter metadata shown underneath this command, which needs to be placed in the same folder as the input M4A file. This metadata has been derived from the movement times shown on the main Wikipedia page.

When the file is played an additional Chapters menu will appear, providing direct access to the individual movements.

The same command may also work on Windows but has not been tried.

For ffmpeg go to http://www.ffmpeg.org.

ffmpeg -i 01\ Amarok.m4a -i ALBUM.meta -map 0:0 -map_metadata 1 -c:a:0 copy -vn outfile.m4a

ALBUM.meta contents:

;FFMETADATA1 major_brand=M4V minor_version=0 artist=Mike Oldfield album_artist=Mike Oldfield album=Amarok genre=Rock compilation=0 gapless_playback=0 [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=0 END=15200 title=Fast Riff Intro [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=15200 END=34600 title=Intro [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=34600 END=37800 title=Climax I – 12 Strings [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=37800 END=44000 title=Soft Bodhran [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=44000 END=51500 title=Rachmaninov I [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=51500 END=56900 title=Soft Bodhran 2 [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=56900 END=59600 title=Rachmaninov II [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=59600 END=64200 title=Roses [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=64200 END=76500 title=Reprise I – Intro [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=76500 END=79600 title=Scot [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=79600 END=90000 title=Didlybom [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=90000 END=95600 title=Mad Bit [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=95600 END=97100 title=Run In [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=97100 END=108000 title=Hoover [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=108000 END=119700 title=Fast Riff [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=119700 END=131700 title=Lion [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=131700 END=142200 title=Fast Waltz [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=142200 END=147300 title=Stop [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=147300 END=148600 title=Mad Bit 2 [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=148600 END=150600 title=Fast Waltz 2 [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=150600 END=156700 title=Mandolin [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=156700 END=158300 title=Intermission [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=158300 END=176700 title=Boat [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=176700 END=192700 title=Intro Reprise 2 [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=192700 END=199300 title=Big Roses [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=199300 END=206400 title=Green Green [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=206400 END=216400 title=Slow Waltz [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=216400 END=222500 title=Lion Reprise [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=222500 END=226700 title=Mandolin Reprise [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=226700 END=239000 title=TV am / Hoover / Scot [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=239000 END=254200 title=Fast Riff Reprise [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=254200 END=261200 title=Boat Reprise [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=261200 END=265200 title=12 Rep / Intro Waltz [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=265200 END=268600 title=Green Reprise [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=268600 END=288100 title=Africa I: Far Build [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=288100 END=292600 title=Africa I: Far Dip [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=292600 END=297200 title=Africa I: Pre Climax [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=297200 END=302400 title=Africa I: 12 Climax [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=302400 END=306000 title=Africa I: Climax I [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=306000 END=307700 title=Africa II: Bridge [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=307700 END=309400 title=Africa II: Riff [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=309400 END=311200 title=Africa II: Boats [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=311200 END=313000 title=Africa II: Bridge II [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=313000 END=326300 title=Africa II: Climax II [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/100 START=326300 END=360220 title=Africa III: Baker — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.159.73.165 (talk) 19:05, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

meaning
amarok was the name of a dog in a novel.