Even if you've never used the YouTube Music app or shiny new desktop site before, chances are your profile is already chock-full of recommendations. YouTube Music shares a library and a history with the main YouTube app, and so that means that every video that's been searched for or watched with your account is being used to calculate what music you'd like to listen to. Unfortunately, not everything in our YouTube history is something we want affecting our recommendations or Your Mixtape — especially those Disney songs your niece demanded to sing along to while you were babysitting, or that viral video that you've been sent too many times to count. Here's how to clear out the clutter and improve your YouTube Music offerings. Build a library, don't wait for one to appear Yes, Google has said that Play Music will eventually migrate to YouTube Music, but if you're waiting for your library to magically appear, you're going to be waiting a while. A long while. Instead, start adding … [Read more...] about How to improve your YouTube Music recommendations
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The IndieBeat: Composer 2 Mello’s notes for starting a game-music career
Some of the most memorable game music have come from the indie scene — think the haunting resolve of Lena Raine‘s soundtrack for Celeste, Darren Korb‘s rousing guitars and driving beats in games like Pyre and Transistor, or Jim Guthrie‘s transcendental tunes in titles like Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP. But when music producer and sound designer Matthew “2 Mello” Hopkins ran a poll late last month, the majority of people said that they think composers get paid shockingly low amounts for their creative work. Out of the 2,800 folks who voted, 41 percent estimated $1,000 to $5,000 for two years of work and hundreds of hours of revisions. A close second, 38 percent, guessed $10,00 to $15,000. Hopkins was surprised by how low people went with their estimations, but he says that the voters were pretty much on point. For about 30 minutes of soundtrack with two years of occasional revisions and additional work, he would earn about $6,000. … [Read more...] about The IndieBeat: Composer 2 Mello’s notes for starting a game-music career
Dreams PS4 world-premiere hands-on: Finally, a good 3D take on LittleBigPlanet
SANTA MONICA, California—Ten years ago, the LittleBigPlanet game series did the seemingly unthinkable for console players: it opened up the "mod and make your own games" experience that had previously been the domain of PC gaming. Its cute simplicity enabled a new audience to create (and share, via an online browser) their own 2D platform and adventure games, complete with higher-level concepts like if-then clauses, proximity triggers, and per-object logic. In 2015, LBP's creators at Media Molecule announced something even more ambitious: Dreams, a game that would do the same thing for the 3D-gaming world. Use controllers like a paintbrush, toggle through coding-command menus, and create your own 3D worlds, the Media Molecule devs promised. But thanks to a number of unclear media-event teases, we've gathered more questions than answers. Would Dreams really require those old, barely used PlayStation Move wands, as originally hinted during its 2015 announcement? How exactly would … [Read more...] about Dreams PS4 world-premiere hands-on: Finally, a good 3D take on LittleBigPlanet
YouTube Music and Premium: Everything you need to know about Google’s new streaming subscriptions
YouTube’s long-rumored subscription music-streaming service is now official: last night, the company announced the all-new YouTube Music, a service comprising of original audio songs and albums provided by artists and labels, artist radio channels, remixes, covers, personalized playlists, and — of course — videos. It’s worth noting here that the Google-owned video behemoth has offered a service called YouTube Music in a handful of markets for a few years already, but that was a slight different proposition. The existing YouTube Music, which is only available in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and South Korea, is a free ad-supported app that offers access to millions of audio- and video-based music. You can also make it ad-free and unlock a bunch of features via a $10/month YouTube Red subscription, such as offline access and the ability to listen to music in the background when the YouTube app is minimized. The new YouTube Music largely follows that … [Read more...] about YouTube Music and Premium: Everything you need to know about Google’s new streaming subscriptions
Windows Movie Maker is back: how to use Windows 10’s hidden video editor
Windows Movie Maker was a simple, free video editor that was last updated in 2012 and officially discontinued last year. Windows 8 and 10 launched without a video editing app, but following the Fall Creator's Update, there's now one included in the Microsoft Photos app – if you know where to look.in May 2017, Microsoft announced Story Remix – a new video editor that would be included with the Fall Creator's Update. Instead of just making simple home movies, Story Remix would allow users to combine video clips and photos with virtual 3D objects created in Remix 3D.However, when the Windows 10 Fall Creator's Update rolled around, Story Remix had turned into a less ambitious tool much more like the late Windows Movie Maker. It lets users organize media in a timeline, apply special effects and transitions, set the whole thing to music and add 3D animations (but not objects). Rather than releasing it on its own as originally intended, Microsoft chose to add it to the existing … [Read more...] about Windows Movie Maker is back: how to use Windows 10’s hidden video editor