<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div>It seems to me that YouTube ought to be adding audio track controls to music videos -- so that people listening to those videos could mix the audio</div><div>tracks to their liking. I would pay YouTube a monthly fee to use such a feature.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div> A few months ago, someone told me they liked my song, "Open Source is Yours and Mine," but would prefer to hear it without the violin track.</div><div>(I like the violin track, myself. It was sent to me by a computer/musician buddy of mine in England.)</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div> So if YouTube were to introduce such a feature, people could choose their own mix of the guitar/vocals track and violin track, perhaps toning down the</div><div>violin track to 20 percent (or vice versa). </div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div> Thankfully, I preserved the guitar/vocals track over here.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/selectedtweets/music-sample-flac">https://sites.google.com/site/selectedtweets/music-sample-flac</a><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div> And the video with the mixed in violin track can be found here.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UYGA6ek_nA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UYGA6ek_nA</a><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div> And now if I could only learn to sing on key. Maybe autotune needs to be in my life.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div> phil</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__SIG_POST__">-- <br></div><div>--<br>Phil Shapiro, pshapiro@his.com<br>http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html<br>http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro<br>http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html<br><br>"Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates<br>"Learning happens thru gentleness."<br><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options." David Suzuki</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div></div></div></body></html>