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obscure_one's picture
Podcast: 

Guitar, all vocals, and lyrics by me.

I wave a flag for
your safe arrival
home
and I wake up everyone
with my screaming
thirst
and I can't find a way
to say all these
things I
think when I'm alone.

'Cause when I'm without you
I
can't find my own way
home
my back aches for your soft
form
and I can't let you go.

And as the space grows
I
want you here
I miss how you smell
miss how you feel
miss how you
breathe...
I grow so weary of
waiting another week
so I
wave a flag for your
safe arrival
here
with me...

obscure_one's picture

HELP!

Does anyone have a good wav to mp3 converter that will convert the entire thing? Because I keep finding ones that will only convert 60%... And I kind of need the whole song converted...

I think I may have found one, but now YWP is only uploading 60%, although when I go in to edit the podcast, it says the song is the length it should be for it to play the whole thing...

Does anyone know why this is happening and what I can do to fix it?

Geist's picture

First of all, how are you

First of all, how are you recording it?

Second, if you can, get Audacity, import the audio of your recording, and you can download an extra application (it has instructions on how to on the site) to convert it all into mp3.

obscure_one's picture

I just used the sound

I just used the sound recorder that's on my computer.

Audacity... Is it free?

Geist's picture

Yes. http://audacity.sourcefo

Yes.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

I use it for all my songs and podcasts.

obscure_one's picture

Okay. I have Audacity. I'm

Okay. I have Audacity.

I'm trying to figure out if the converter app will work...

(I'm so bad at technology... Thank you so much)

Geist's picture

No problem. There's just an

No problem.

There's just an extra file you need to download from the Audacity site in order to do mp3's, but it works.

obscure_one's picture

This mp3 thing has gotten me

This mp3 thing has gotten me very confused...

obscure_one's picture

It worked!! Thank you so

It worked!!

Thank you so much Geist!!

awsmpossum's picture

Beautiful. I love it.

Beautiful. I love it.

imagine's picture

This is incredibly

This is incredibly beautiful. I love your voice and how it mixes with the guitar part and the lyrics... fantastic.

One suggestion you might try is doing harmonies by recording over yourself. (You can do that in audacity.)

obscure_one's picture

Thanks. :) Yeah, I'll have

Thanks. :)

Yeah, I'll have to fool around with it... I'm not so great at singing in tune or anything, so I'll have to try some stuff.

Usagi's picture

This is lovely

This is lovely, Obscure.

qwertygirl890123's picture

This is amazing.

This is amazing. Beautiful...
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"When you live for the fight, for the blood, the relationships you form are tenuous and easily broken."
-Jasper Hale (who I like more than Edward...)

Geist's picture

Congratulations. I'm glad

Congratulations. I'm glad it worked, because the song is loverly.

obscure_one's picture

Thank you both. :)

Thank you all. :)

mixedmusic333's picture

:( I can't hear anything...

:(

I can't hear anything...

obscure_one's picture

I'll send it to you

I'll send it to you

mixedmusic333's picture

Never mind. I got it to

Never mind. I got it to work.

It's perfect. :) ♥

obscure_one's picture

Thanks :) ♥ Can you

Thanks :)

Can you get on gmail now?

mixedmusic333's picture

I am right now. :)

I am right now. :)

gradster1's picture

Oh, Gmail?

More people have Gmail?

I would like to chat. I'm [my username on YWP] at gmail dot com.

/gradster(1)/ - oh!

http://nmhwu.wordpress.com/

WannabePunk's picture

Sick guitar...I wish I could

Sick guitar...I wish I could come of with riffs that beautiful...
I can make really angry chord progressions though!
Anyway, that was really good. I'm a total sucker for songs that are just simple guitar and great vocals.
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State of the union address
reads "War Torn Country Still a Mess"
The words: power, death and distorted truth
are read between the lines of the red, white and blue.

obscure_one's picture

Thanks :) Do you write

Thanks :)

Do you write songs? You should podcast if you do!

Special's picture

yeah

ehmagosh, me too, i don't much like the guitar unless it's simple and sweet like that..
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"I've decided that as long as I was going to Hell,
I might as well do it thoroughly."
-Edward Cullen, Twilight

WannabePunk's picture

I do write songs...but most

I do write songs...but most of them are punk or rap-metal so it's kind of hard to record without a full band.
I'm working on some solo stuff though
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State of the union address
reads "War Torn Country Still a Mess"
The words: power, death and distorted truth
are read between the lines of the red, white and blue.

perspiciens's picture

i really like this song.

i really like this song. it's simple but powerful. nice work.

-pur·spikk·inns-

qwertygirl890123's picture

I think I know who you

I think I know who you are...
I think you go to CVU, and I think you have really short brown hair, and I think you wear purple glasses, and I think you play in the string orchestra, and I think you ride my bus.
(If I'm wrong, ignore this and think I'm weird)
_____________________________
"When you live for the fight, for the blood, the relationships you form are tenuous and easily broken."
-Jasper Hale (who I like more than Edward...)

mixedmusic333's picture

Hey! You might be right!

Hey! You might be right! I'll pass this along to Obscure if she doesn't see it...

qwertygirl890123's picture

thanks! _____________________

thanks!
_____________________________
"When you live for the fight, for the blood, the relationships you form are tenuous and easily broken."
-Jasper Hale (who I like more than Edward...)

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