To celebrate having my empeg back on line, I'm releasing the Club Mix 2003 (formerly the Millenium 3 mix) and introducing a new mix, Beyond Lightspeed. They can both be found at my http://paulway.d0gz.net site.

As always, let me know what you think of them!

Have fun,

Paul

Cool. One question though... I downloaded the Millenium 3 mix already, is the Club Mix 3 any different? The file sizes and running times look different but you say they're the same mix?

Perfect - Love your mixes. Downloading right now!

\\Kaare

Thanks! D/L'd last night and got to listen to a little sprecht - sounds good. I need a good session to take the whole thing. Can't wait.

-Zeke

Thank you for both of those tracks! They helped me get through flying back to Houston from Seattle.

Hi,

"Beyond Lightspeed" rocks solid!!

Tada,
Kaare

Well, not hugely. Club Mix 2003 is really almost all of Millenium Three but the ending is tightened up a bit. I considered M3 a work in progress, but really the bulk of it was in place and I was looking at it to see whether it was to be another Infinity Mix and double in size. The problem was that I couldn't find any good transition from the pieces at the end of M3 into the pieces that I wanted to play next, so I stopped it there and put them in a new mix called Beyond Lightspeed.

Beyond Lightspeed itself I'm still not 100% sure of; I feel it starts hard and fast but sort of softens off toward the end. Any opinions?

Have fun,

Paul

Haha, I can barely keep up with your mixes. I just discovered 14 through 16 a month ago, have only listened to 14, and now there's 17! Excelent! You put my "one mix per year" to shame.

Oh, and:
> This is one lightyear per second, or 31,557,600 times light speed to be precise.

Seems like the use of two units of time is redundant. Wouldn't it simplify to:
about 9,454,254,955,488 km/second
about 34,035,317,839,756,800 km per hour
about 21,148,566,016,188,547 miles per hour

WOW that'd be fast.

Now, there are greater units of the meter (kilometer, etc), but are there greater units of the mile (megamile? = 1million miles?). Ah, they just measure stuff in light years at that point. Or, rather, light years per second!

You're a bit off actually. It's roughly 9.4605284 × 10^12 km/s

Or, rather, light years per second!

Well, actually, if you think about it, one light-second is about 186,000 miles, or just under 300,000 kilometres, which is a convenient unit for measuring millions of kilometres. One million miles is about 5.3 light seconds. For instance, light takes three seconds to get to the moon, and 4:19 to get from the sun to the earth. Much easier to say than approximately 92 million miles...

And think on this - at one LYPS you'd cover the entire solar system, from the one edge of Pluto's orbit to the other, in about six milliseconds. Blink and you'd miss it entirely. To journey to the nearest star would take a bit over four seconds - just enough for you to take a gulp of the beverage of your choice. And yet it would take over a day - about 26 hours - to get from one side of the galaxy to the other. Just getting from here to the hub of the Milky Way would take you about eight hours twenty minutes.

And it would take you over a month to get to the nearest big galaxy, Andromeda.

Big distances, eh? I love science.

Have fun,

Paul

Ah, they just measure stuff in light years at that point. Or, rather, light years per second!

Once you get into distances like that, you can start using stuff like the parsec (3.26~ light-years) and the astronomical unit or AU (0.0000158 light-years)....

Wow. I just realized that the speed limit here in Colorado is, on average, 5.917e-7 AU / hour.

I wonder if I could get a new speedo / odometer in AU rather than Miles? Would beat the hell out of "furlongs per fortnight".

Not to mention the (perceptual) increase in fuel economy.

And yet it would take over a day - about 26 hours - to get from one side of the galaxy to the other.

Thus making empegs a critical accessory on FTL starships...

"Picking playlists ain't like dusting crops, boy. Without careful tag management, you could end up right in the middle of a Britney Spears album, or bounce too close to a Ricky Martin tune, and that'd kill your mood real quick, wouldn't it?"

"Picking playlists ain't like dusting crops, boy. Without careful tag management, you could end up right in the middle of a Britney Spears album, or bounce too close to a Ricky Martin tune, and that'd kill your mood real quick, wouldn't it?"

\me generating strange looking cow-orkers by laughing my a** off....

cheers, Thomas

Aaarrhghghgh!

I was listening to a CD I burnt of the mix, and found that there's an admirable simulation of a train going over a level crossing between Rah - Wave and Quench - Dreams 2001. Sure enough, it was also in the MP3. Now I thought I had nailed that crossover down completely, but it seems this was one of MixMeister's times to play tricks on me. I should have checked it again, but...

The good news is that I've correct this blunder and am uploading a new mix to Synergy's server now.

Right. Now, download and press play again...

Paul