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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: KingSparta on May 27, 2003, 04:14:18 pm
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I Am Setting Here Playing Music Back In The 70's Tonight and it would be nice to play just the first 30 seconds of a song.
Is Any Way To Do This?
I think it may be something for\like Party mode
My Wife Tells Me I'm Just A Love Machine
'Love Machine' Charted At 01 In 1975
Listening to: 'Love Machine' from 'Recorded Live At Studio 54' by 'Miracles' on Media Center 9.0
Artist: MIRACLES
Scoring over 40 hits on the R&B Top 40 charts, the Miracles started out as the
Five Chimes in the mid-'50s while the members were still in high school. The
Detroit vocal group consisted of William "Smokey" Robinson, Warren "Pete"
Moore, Clarence "Humble" Dawson, Donald Wicker, and James "Rat" Grice. Not too
long after the group formed, Wicker and Grice left and were replaced by
cousins Emerson "Sonny" Rogers and Bobby Rogers, who both sang tenor, and
baritonist Ronnie White was in Dawson's place. The vocal quintet then changed
its name to the Matadors and in 1956 Claudette Rogers joined the band after
her brother Sonny was drafted. The Matadors auditioned for Jackie Wilson's
manager, Nat Tarnopol, in 1956. Although Tarnopol wasn't interested, finding
the group too similar to the Platters, one of Wilson's songwriters, Berry
Gordy, Jr., was and he soon began producing the band, who now went by the name
the Miracles. Gordy produced their first single, "Get a Job," which was issued
by the New York label End Records in 1958.After one more release on this
label, the Miracles recorded their first song for Gordy's new Motown/Tamla ...
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MC doesn't appear to have a sample mode. I guess weforgot about asking for that feature. How did we miss that one? They gave just about everything else though.
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I agree. This would be a very useful feature especially with the length of play time controlled by user ( not fixed at 30 seconds).
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I'd also like not only an audio sample mode as described here, but also a Video preview mode which would allow you to preview at 2x, 3x, or other speeds so as to preview the start of a video file for title, etc.