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Hearme NOW!!!!

01 May 00 - 08:40 PM (#221131)
Subject: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Mbo

Hey folks! We're in Hearme right now! C'mon on over and have some singing fun!!

--Mbo


01 May 00 - 08:42 PM (#221134)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: katlaughing

Just click here


01 May 00 - 08:43 PM (#221135)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Mbo

DAng fergot the link AGAIN! Here it is! HEARME!!!

--Mbo


01 May 00 - 08:55 PM (#221143)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Mark Clark

Seeing as how it's May Day, let's all grab our little red songbooks and meet out on the HearMe picket line for some serious labor action.

      - Mark


01 May 00 - 09:00 PM (#221145)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: wysiwyg

I dunnoi about labor, but we have had a slide geetar and a blooz banjo already!!!!


01 May 00 - 09:28 PM (#221169)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Mary in Kentucky

Ha ha...I got Mbo to sing Bridget O'Malley and Dave (TAM) to sing The Leaving of Liverpool. I'll probably request those two again sometime!


01 May 00 - 10:48 PM (#221212)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Mark Clark

Well, I sang:

Banks of Marble
Song Of My Hands
Which Side Are You On

up until the bosses heard it and shut down HearMe. At least I was suddenly disconnected and couldn't get back in. I try back in a few minutes.

      - Mark


01 May 00 - 10:59 PM (#221224)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Bill D

dang it...don't say "now"...I've been fooled too many times...give the date and approximate time...


01 May 00 - 11:08 PM (#221227)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: wysiwyg

Now!!! Right now!!!


01 May 00 - 11:26 PM (#221233)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: KT

I'm so jealous! I KNEW I shouldn't have gotten a MAC!!


02 May 00 - 12:30 AM (#221265)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Mark Clark

I got reconnected and sang:

The Preacher And The Slave
Greenback Dollar (I don't want your millions mister)
Wobbly Doxology

      - Mark


02 May 00 - 12:46 AM (#221271)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: alison

Still going.. we could do with some West Coasters... the East Coasters have just wimped out to go to bed.. got 2 Aussies and a KIWI now.....

slainte

alison


02 May 00 - 12:46 AM (#221272)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Mbo

Oh man! Loads of fun tonight! If these continuously keep getting better & better, I can't image what it'll be like in a few months! I sang, and played:

Any Old Time of The Day (Burt Bacharach tune) On guitar
Wonky slide guitar goofin's
Old Slew Foot
Bridget O' Malley
What's The Use of Wings?
Trip to Jerusalem
The Garden Gnome Blues (my entry for Song Challenge! #25)
Black Is The Colour of My True Love's Hair
The Scythe Song--by Dougie MacLean
Lorena
Lift The Wings (for my love ;)--by Bill Whelan from Riverdance
All My Life--by America
Sho Heen--by Kate Rusby


--Mbo


02 May 00 - 12:53 AM (#221275)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: katlaughing

Something is wrong with it, tonight. I cannot get it to even try to go to HearMe, from here, not with either of our links posted, which I know work, nor with my bookmarked link, which I know is correct, too. Tried refresh etc. Very strange!


02 May 00 - 01:38 AM (#221301)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Joe Offer

We're still there, but dwindling. Anytbody wanna join us?
-Joe Offer-


02 May 00 - 01:40 AM (#221302)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Billy the Bus

C'mon in there's plenty of room Three of us here - Spider Tom, Joe Offer, and Billy the Bus - Alison should be back soon


02 May 00 - 02:19 AM (#221312)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: alison

still going.. got some more people too....

slainte

alison


02 May 00 - 02:23 AM (#221313)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Billy the Bus

Seven here now - come join us 0 Sam


02 May 00 - 03:07 AM (#221320)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: alison

After finding my lost kiddie.. SpiderTom and I sang

the whale
star of the county down
she moved through the fair
turn the page
early morning rain

slainte

alison


02 May 00 - 04:33 AM (#221343)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Joe Offer

Well, I have to say it was a bit disCONCERTing at the end. Three women who claimed to have no microphones, and me. Well, they were very nice about it. Wonder if my sweetie will be jealous....
Probably not - she has to get up for work at 5:30 AM.
G'nite, sweetheart, well it's time to go.
-Joe Offer-


02 May 00 - 04:37 AM (#221346)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Crowhugger

Hey, Joe,

I have 2 mikes like I said, but elec wizard is sound asleep, won't be up for an hour and a half now. I wouldn't false-claim suches 'n' stuff. BTW signing off waas a good way to get out of singing Northwest Passage! *grin*

CH.


02 May 00 - 04:47 AM (#221349)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Joe Offer

Nope. I don't sing "Northwest Passage." I'm not sure Stan Rogers should have sung it, either. It's a bit beyond his range.
Oh, and in defense of those without microphones, I have to say that I did not venture into HearMe until I got a new computer with a build-in microphone. I know how to do the tech stuff, but sometimes I get lazy.
-Joe Offer, just overcoming problems programming his VCR-
Now, how do I get the VCR and the DVD to play on the same TV? Acronyms, anyone?


02 May 00 - 05:18 AM (#221357)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Crowhugger

Well, maybe it's out of my range too, can you imagine it higher than tenor? [chuckle or groan] Doesn't stop me singing it in the car.

CH.


02 May 00 - 05:29 AM (#221361)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Bugsy

had a good time today on hearme. Had a bit of a Frog in my Throut.

My "small contribution"

Love Song - Leslie Duncan.

Are You Working - Old Music Hall Song.

Cheers

Bugsy


02 May 00 - 06:03 AM (#221370)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Billy the Bus

G'day,

Got back from bowls early (8pm) - we didn't play 'cos no-one's credit or fuel card would open the "swipe-lock" thingie in the poncy new hall. I am NOT going to explain the difference between "indoor bowls" in NZ, and the game of skittles you Yanks Play.

Anyway, I bludged a mike, went to the Pub for "moral support" got home, and went straight to the only decent Folk Coffee Bar I know, and sang,,,

Over the Hills & Far Away - further over they screamed
Sammys Bar - Barred for life they screamed
Amazing Grace - A-musing Race, those Kiwi, they whispered in puzzlement???

Finally, just like gggrandpaw, Samson (y'know the one tied up with Delicious, who got slewn by the Arse-bone of a Jew) - I brought the house down, by rendering (by which I do mean tearing apart) my heart-rending rendition of Haieremai.

The needle soared into the RED (just like my cheque/check/joke book has done since I bin haunting Mudcat). All the sheilas/bints/tarts/chooks/wahine were swooning in the aisles. They'd finally captured their oldest HearMe Virgin - well, in all honesty I'm only a "born-again" virgin, I did have nookie a decade back (I think).

PS - "I had a dream the other night...."

Anyway, all BS aside - I think (been a fink all me life) I've got the tecknerlogical thingamebobs together enough to go (in the words of Molly Malone) - "Alive, alive Ohhhh" termorrer night.

Schist - (despite not having had my rocks off in years, I do remember my geological terminology).

It'll be about 6pm NZST - 6am GMT(UST?) and a smidgeon's whisker of "somewhere about then EST". Hope I don't have to pay GST.

If any of you MCers understand the words wot Sam hath writ - spread the word - and the word is LEGS.

Trust all goes well in the next 18 hours,and none of us wake up dead.

CWS


02 May 00 - 07:42 AM (#221384)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Spider Tom

Had a good time once again even got to sing or back the marvelous Alison, True I am a lucky man.
Billy The Bus I am glad to hear you are ready and micked looking forward to the reality of it all, hope to catch you soon.


02 May 00 - 08:57 AM (#221406)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: kendall

I still cant get in.


02 May 00 - 09:10 AM (#221411)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Jon Freeman

Joe, when you talk VCR, DVD,etc, throw in TLA - seems to get people puzzled - Three Letter Abbreviation.

Jon


02 May 00 - 09:29 AM (#221417)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Crowhugger

Billy the Bus, do you truly talk like that? Choir tonight and an appt. in the a.m. so I'll probably miss you. My elec wizard didn't have time to set up [e-literati call it 'plug in'] the mike before work today... maƱana?

CH.


02 May 00 - 09:52 AM (#221426)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Marymac90

Do you have to have a PC to get into Hearme? I want to replace my ancient Mac, and I was thinking of an iMac. Will that not do?

Marymac


02 May 00 - 10:04 AM (#221432)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: GUEST,Mbo_at_ECU

yes, MAy, you have to have PC to use Hearme. They haven't created a Mac compliant version yet. We're hoping for one VERY VERY soon!!!

--Mbo


02 May 00 - 10:10 AM (#221438)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Jon Freeman

I'm afraid not Marymac. Hearme keep promising a Mac version but they have not come up with the goods yet.

I don't know what the answer to this is. Hearme works very well for our purposes and is probably as good as anything available but the lack of Mac software does annoy me.

If anybody knows of somthing that does work as well as Hearme and supports both PC and Mac platforms, please let me know as I hate the current situation and I am begining to doubt that Hearme have any real intentions in making the setup less exclusive.

Jon


02 May 00 - 02:22 PM (#221570)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Mark Clark

Jon, I assume you are familiar with Paltalk but they don't seem to support the Mac either. Out of curiosity, how would you compare the quality of HearMe and Paltalk?

      - Mark


02 May 00 - 02:35 PM (#221575)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: MMario

HearMe seems to have begun their Mac Support with "Roger Wilco" - which seems to be similair to the HearMe chat, but tied into games...hopefully we will be seeing something for Macs soon.


02 May 00 - 03:09 PM (#221594)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Clinton Hammond2

Has anyopne tried a program called TalkFree or TalkFreely??? Someone suggested thsi to me...

I'll see if I can find a link soon....

{~`


02 May 00 - 05:20 PM (#221663)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Jon Freeman

I had not come across Pal Talk and therfore can not comment on the quality. As Mark has commented, they only offer Windows versions so, especially in the light of what MMario has reported, I think we are better of sticking with Hearme and hoping that they do get their act together soon.

I also noticed that the minimum specs are different and PalTalk asks for a P166 comared to a P100 and a V90 modem. I know that Jeri, who has a V90 modem can only get a 28K connection because of phone lines and that it seems to be fine for hearme.

Another drawback is PalTalk seems to require adding email addresses and maintaining a list of contacts whereas with Hearme, it is a simple matter of visiting a web page.

Thanks Mark and sorry to sound negative - this is just my assessment and I hope it is a reasonable one.

Jon


02 May 00 - 05:25 PM (#221671)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: MMario

Jon, has anyone thanked you recently for the research and thought you have put into this? If not, and even if so, THANK YOU!


02 May 00 - 05:41 PM (#221680)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Joe Offer

Jon has made all sorts of contributions to our little community here, and it's sure nice to have him around. He's also made a significant contribution to the Mudcat FAQ, and a number of other things. Thanks a lot, Jon.
-Joe Offer-


02 May 00 - 05:56 PM (#221691)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Jon Freeman

Thanks Mmario and Joe! With Hearme, it should be remembered that we started to use it as a result of JAB and Max's efforts - I just "muscled in" a little later.

From my side, I love it. I still can't fully get to grips with what we have here and a couple of years ago, I would never have imagined that I would be part of an international song circle!

Jon


02 May 00 - 06:05 PM (#221704)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Mary in Kentucky

My thanks also, Jon. And a note for other folks trying to do the audio configuration thing...I wasted about 30 minutes before I figured out that you have to download the voice presence thing when you are doing the configuration. This may be as clear as mud, but if you're in Hearme and are trying to do the audio configuration, you'll see.

Mary


02 May 00 - 06:14 PM (#221710)
Subject: RE: Hearme NOW!!!!
From: Sorcha

Just an aside, here-- AOL now has a voice capability with their new Instant Messenger. Mbo and I tried it out and it generally sucked, tho Kate seems to have good luck with it. We never did find out if when on "full duplex" (meaning both sides can talk at the SAME time), more that 2 people could be accomodated. Sound quality was not as good as HearMe.