User talk:Shieber

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August 2009
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary.  freshacconci  talk talk  14:42, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

S/PDIF and jitter
I think that the discussion on jitter falls outside of the scope of the Harware Specifications section of the S/PDIF article. I covered jitter very tersely under Limitations, and I kept it brief explicitly to avoid arguments with people who don't want to see jitter discussion in the S/PDIF page. The information is available through the links to jitter and bit slip.

It is worth mentioning that TOSLINK generally suffers more interference, which can affect the audio quality, but perhaps the elaboration could be moved to the TOSLINK page itself. The risk, otherwise, is that the whole section will be deleted outright by somebody arguing that it's too far off topic. --ToobMug (talk) 09:10, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

I moved the discussion as suggested but thought also that more needed to be said under limitations. There's this popular notion that digital is digital and a bit is a bit and therefore distortion just doesn't happen with digital audio -- but especially with PCM audio, every such transmission/transcription adds distortion.


 * Yes, but be careful how you say that. A lot of transfer operations will attenuate the old noise by more than they add their own noise such that the result is cleaner.  There is a specific problem with S/PDIF, though, that it's an especially good source of noise and requires more attention than has traditionally been given to cleaning up the resulting audio. --ToobMug (talk) 07:29, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

August 2010
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Levon Helm / Elton John
Hello, my feeling is that if the speculation is not properly cited, then it doesn't merit inclusion. Just attributing to Rolling Stone is not citing btw. If you need help citing sources, please see Referencing for beginners. Thanks. --CutOffTies (talk) 20:43, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Bob Dylan
Hi Shieber, I reverted some of your changes to the Legacy section of the Bob Dylan article, because they did not contribute to Dylan's Legacy. The fact that Dylan formed rock'n'roll bands in high school, and then switched to folk music when he attended the University of Minnesota is not exactly part of his Legacy. The Legacy section is trying to pinpoint what Dylan did to folk music that was influential, and why Dylan became even more influential when he combined his folk music innovations  with a rock band backing. To describe Joni Mitchell's comment on Dylan as "a fit of inexplicable pique" is not consistent with WP:NPOV core policy. Thanks & best wishes Mick gold (talk) 10:36, 25 July 2011 (UTC)


 * The text that he initially was doing folk music is incorrect. I was correcting that mistake. The mistake could not contirubte to his legacy. His roots in rock and roll were key to his development and some of his most infuential work including "Bringing It All Back Home" and "Highway 61 Revisited" and surely contributed to his career and his legacy as much as his singing like Woody by the time he got to New York.
 * Re Mitchell, it has elsewhere been described in the media as an "unprovoked assault" (http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/apr/23/bob-dylan-joni-mitchell).


 * Hi Shieber, it is possible we won't agree on this, but I would argue that Dylan's legacy stemmed from the impact of his songs - initially in a folk context, eg Blowin' In The Wind, later in a rock context, eg Like a Rolling Stone. The fact that he formed rock'n'roll bands in high school in Hibbing, and performed with Bobby Vee, did not leave a legacy. The legacy had to wait for his hit records from CBS, and the impact they made on popular culture.
 * On Joni Mitchell, it is OK for a Guardian journalist to describe Mitchell's comments as "cranky" because that is his personal view. But WP embraces a core policy of Neutral Point of View which states: "Articles mustn't take sides, but should explain the sides, fairly and without bias." We have to be neutral about the allegation that Dylan is a plagiarist. We just report what Mitchell said without comment.
 * In your last Dylan edit, you wrote: "corrected error about Guthrie being Dylan's initial style in Folk music. He played folk music several years before adopting Woody's style." I would be interested to know what you base this on.
 * The most detailed chronology I have of Dylan's life is A Life In Stolen Moments, by Clinton Heylin (1996). The first evidence we have of Dylan's interest in folk music is Summer 1959, when he starts to perform with his friend Bill Marinac. The first recording we have of Dylan as a folk musician is Bonnie Beecher's tape of September 1960, when Dylan performs four songs in a Woody Guthrie talkin' blues style. This suggests that Dylan is imitating Guthrie about a year after he takes up folk music. Perhaps you have some evidence I am not aware of? best wishes Mick gold (talk) 18:48, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

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