Fork our new album on Github
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Git is quite useless for binary data in the general case. I mean, did you use Git to manage your audio during production? If not, why use Github -- a service built around Git and collaboration? Based on the commit history it looks like you just threw a repo together so you could host it on Github.
edit: As an aside, as an artistic statement on why autotune is terrible, I was thinking it would be interesting if someone would show the world what classic songs, ruined by autotune, would sound like.
I'm sure if everyone agreed on a DAW suite, something like this would be rather easy to implement.
Yeah, but not for Git. If you tried that with Git you'd basically have a nice wrapper around tarballing your work directory every morning.
git branch newleadsinger
git commit -m "added new main vocal track"
git commit -m "trying new drum track"
git commit -m "guitar track moved up a key"
git commit -m "more cowbell"
git commit -m "less cowbell"
git commit -m "deleted cowbell track"
git commit -m "added echo to vocal track"
Also the main reason I used github is the ease of forking, and strong community behind it.
Binary files a/song and b/song differSince some of you actually seem to be into the idea of Github'ing music (ericb, baddox, asarazan, xpaulbettsx, mrspeaker, zcid, JoachimShipper, johnny22, beaumartinez...), it'd be neat if any of you want to help me package and open source the code base!
This sort of abuse (along with using DropBox as a CDN) needs to be stopped. It isn't a new cool way of doing things; it is draining the wallets of services we know and love.
Image diffs make sense, though, because a lot of projects have images (Web sites, resources for UIs, and so on). Audio is probably present in far fewer projects, so I'd expend much less development on it.
/me is ignorant of such things
It would be really cool to open your music software and be able to listen to the artist's newest iteration of a song (like while it's being written or polished during studio time). You could follow the entire evolution of an album from birth to release. Or you could browse the various remixes and changes that others create. It would be a world wide jam that could extend for weeks or months that anyone could enjoy as either an audience member or a participant.
The idea is interesting―imagine, as an artist, publishing a song and then having people fork and remix it―but unfortunately, git (and hence GitHub) don't understand binary music files.