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Remove a tag synonym I suggest, that is still pending approval
About 2 years ago, I proposed a tag synonym for recorder and alto-recorder.
I was new to Tag Synonyms, and accidentally got the proposal the wrong way around. But unfortunately, pending synonyms can'...
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New tag for rests
There are a significant number of questions (80+) that are primarily about rests:
These are about the: rhythm, notation, engraving, history, etc. of rests, or about getting them to work with ...
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General Moderation Strike!
For those who are unaware — as of Monday the 5th of June 2023 — there is a Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange network general moderation strike.
For details, please see this Meta post:
Moderation Strike: ...
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Is it a bad idea, when closing an invalid question, to also answer in a comment?
We had a small rash today of first-time users posting easy-close questions—"recommend me a theory book," "recommend me a signal processor," and "what's this musical quote.&...
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Partimento does not exist on this site?
That's what the box told me when I went looking for a Partimento tag. To me, the new scholarship around partimento is the most interesting things to appear in "classical" music since........
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Can someone find deleted questions/answers on my account? [duplicate]
I recall asking a question on this forum about why a particular chord progression in a star wars song sounded so good and I thought I had received answers on it.
But after inspecting my account I can'...
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Why was this a "trivial edit" when I was trying to make the title more explicit?
https://music.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/70806
And what can I do instead? What constitutes a "trivial edit"?
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What just happened to the "tritone" tag?
A newish user (mathlander) created a new tag: tritone.
They started adding it to questions across the site: 13 in total.
Being a low rep user, these retag edits had to be approved by several other ...
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Add a "Fux" tag?
I did a quick search for "fux is:question" and got 39 results. We get Fux-related questions often enough that I wonder if we should either:
Add a fux tag, or
Add fux as a synonym for ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Discussion of content generated by machine learning, AKA "AI"
Many Stacks have been discussing ML-generated content on their Stacks in their Meta sites. After reviewing those discussions, I became very curious and wanted to look at the potential impact of ML-...
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Why does Music.SE say I retracted a close vote when I did not?
I voted to close this question: In terms of sound, what are the advantages of a steel or nylon string?
It is now open, but it doesn't seem to have been reopened(?)
I did not retract my close vote for ...
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Is my comment valid / did I do the right thing?
Why do we have same chord but different name?
The question has an error in it (Cdim and Cm7b5 aren't actually the same chord!), but all the answers address the question with the error.
I tried to edit ...
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Why is "Learning to Patch Synthesizers" locked?
Why is Learning to Patch Synthesizers locked? Is it because the question is too vague? It has a lot of useful info in the answers that I don't know you'd find anywhere else.
I'm asking because one of ...
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How can we refine the "basic analysis" close reason?
Here's a great example of a question that generated several thoughtful and interesting answers in which advanced members of the community disagreed:
How does one differentiate a song in Dorian vs. a ...
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Tag proposal: [ancient-greece]
Periodically we get questions related to the music of ancient Greece, which had a unique musical culture in both practice and theory. The study of music in ancient Greece is an academic specialty and ...
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Is it just me, or is adding pictures to a reply broken?
Is it just me, or is adding pictures to a reply broken?
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Request for change of wording: "song" should be "piece"
In a few instances, the site's system text uses the term "song" when it really means "piece".
The term "song" technically implies there is at least some component of the ...
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my question is closed with an invalid(?) reason
I asked [this question][1] yesterday. The question is closed as it's claimed to be 'opinion-based'. Plus, history tag becomes useless.
There is not a biased or subjective opinion in this question. Do ...
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Merge [church-music] and [hymnody] tags into new [sacred-music] tag
The question Notes not adding up to time signature, with weird white oval note turned out to be related to a piece of Punjabi Christian sacred music.
In looking to add an appropriate tag to the ...
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Are "name that song" questions appropriate here?
Are "name that song" questions appropriate here on music.stackexchange.com?
For instance, if users have already asked on all the other forums, Reddit, etc.
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Should there be a tag for questions about Scheme?
There are over 400 questions with tag lilypond on SE: MP&T, these are about the music programming language LilyPond.
However, at least 20 of theses questions* are really about Scheme.
Scheme is ...
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Looking for users interested in committing to the chat room(s)
UPDATE: New trial-run room added, "Name that Tune"
To address:
Identifying the song stuck in your head.
Getting repertoire suggestions.
Identifying the song stuck in someone else's head.
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Legal question prohibition vs. copyright questions and the [copyright] tag: Close them all and remove the tag [duplicate]
There is currently a contradiction between prohibition of legal questions and the existence (and usage) of the copyrights tag.
The legal questions prohibition is long established. For example
On our ...
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The Copyrights tag
There are a dozen or so questions with the copyrights tag, many currently pending closure.
Legal issues are off-topic on SE: Music Practice & Theory (see: Are questions on copyright on topic?).
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I asked 1 question in total, it has 4 upvotes, 3 answers, 0 flags. How can I have a history of asking low quality questions?
Day 4: Dom kindly provided some background information as he/she stated in the comments. The moderation still claims that both accounts are mine, but I've had only 1 account. On top of that, depending ...
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Is "homework" a close reason?
I've heard several comments lately saying that we don't allow questions asking us to "do your homework for you," and I wanted to check since I'm not aware of it as an official position. Note,...
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New tag for repeats
I've created a new tag (and suggested the tag wiki), I'm sure it will be useful: repeats
There are probably a few hundred old questions that ought to have this tag. But, I'm not sure what the best ...
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Do we have a canonical post for "Music doesn't have to be in a key" and/or "As long as it sounds good ..."?
The question Non Diatonic Harmonization?, at core, comes down to the same "you can do anything if you like the sound", "rules are only guidelines", "music doesn't have to be ...
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Please undelete my answer
I wrote an answer to this question: Software to sync with tempo in violin
It was deleted. There were two comments:
This looks like a product advertisement. The main claim (that one should not use a ...
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RIP Dave Smith, inventor of the Prophet 5 synth
Dave Smith (1950-2022) was a musician and engineer who founded Sequential Circuits (a major synth manufacturer) and invented the Prophet 5 synthesizer.
The Prophet 5 was a significant milestone in ...
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New tag for Buy/Purchase/Shop?
We have enough questions asking about how to buy various products, I wonder if a tag would be helpful in categorizing and finding them.
As someone who uses tag searches, it would be helpful to me. Say ...
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Request for LilyPond Syntax Highlighting
On the Music Practice and Theory Stack Exchange main site there are over 400 Questions with the lilypond tag. These are based on the music programming language LilyPond, with most such questions and ...
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Can opinion based questions be valuable?
At this moment the question How can I stop playing notes and start playing music? has already 14 answers, yet the highest voted one has only two upvotes, 3 questions have 1 upvote, remaining 10 have ...
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To what degree are music business questions off topic?
Our Help Center indicates that "business" questions are off-topic for MP&T:
Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange is for musicians, students, and enthusiasts. If you have a ...
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What are the primary rationales for banning "recommendation" questions (to help decide when something should be CVed and when it shouldn't)
I was looking at this question, "Are there any keyboards that can let you do pitch-bend by directly manipulating the key," which has attracted several close votes as a "recommendation ...
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Can I please create a canonical grouping question?
I have some resource material from ABRSM, Trinity Guildhall and UNISA than can answer all the grouping questions that are a recurring theme here.
I can ask and answer my own question and create a ...
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Trying to leave SE Music, if I can
I scheduled my SE Music account for deletion a couple of days ago. At first there was a banner at the top of my profile page that said "This account is scheduled to be deleted 24 hours from now.&...
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Is the second Open Mic Nite open in the Auditorium?
Is the Open Mic Nite happening right now? Again?
(note to dup script: this is a different one than the last question)
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If we have an Auditorium, should we have Concerts?
I recently became aware that we have at least 2 regular chatrooms. The Practice Room for general music p&p chitchat. And The Auditorium for performance critique.
Now, I think this is great in its ...
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Hey, where'd our "belongs on musicfans" close-reason go?
I went to vote to close a question just now as being better suited for musicfans.stackexchange. When I clicked on "A community-specific reason" and "belongs on another site," the ...
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Single question posts with answers duplicating each other
I frequently run into questions which have multiple answer posts, two or more of which are saying the same thing. Sometimes this is valuable. Each post might contain a nugget that another doesn't, or ...
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Please reactivate chat room The Auditorium
The Auditorium was created to allow for feedback on user's compositions and performances but closed due to inactivity. A new question has been posted on the main site which is perfect for that chat ...
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Please delete two chat rooms created by accident
This below links are to chat rooms I mistakenly created. They were intended for the MusicFans chat site. Not sure how they ended up in the MP&T chat. (And would be happy to know!)
https://chat....
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Vote to reject edit show up in approved list
In the Suggested Edits page of the Moderator tools, I noticed that my name appeared in the "approved by" list for an edit I voted to reject. (See image below.)
This seems like a bug, either ...
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Updating close reasons to fit the new format
As another year of Music SE comes to a close, it brings an opportunity for us as a site to reflect and make the site better. One way we can do this is through a newish global SE improvement. The close ...
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Incorrectly closed question?
A question entitled "What makes a song a Christmas song?" was closed as opinion-based.
Apart from lyrics, what features have been common to Christmas music in different traditions and eras ...
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What to do if a bounty attracted no activity?
I posted a question and got several up-votes but neither comments nor answers. I offered a 100 pt. bounty, and still nothing. I don't really care about losing the points but I really AM hoping for ...
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