Description at the start.

[Afflicting]

This would have been sent in a PM to EMG just explaining my problem, but I thought I might post it up here for him to see and others to discuss.

Before each of EMG's files that I've listened to, there's a rather long explanation of what they're going to do. From eleven seconds to thirty, which is long enough to just kill me.
I'll usually pair his triggers with Blink's induction, and that causal and happy voice he uses to explain what's going to happen drags me out.

I was wondering, EMG. We've all been to the site to download the files, we know what happens. Could you not have the explanation?

[ShadowSabre]

You can just download Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net) and cut out the introduction, if you don't like it. It's not too hard a program to figure out....

[dharden]

There's also mp3DirectCut, from http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html . The advantage to using it is that it can edit an mp3 without having to decompress and recompress it.

[EMG]

The explanation is so that if anyone wants to "surprise" someone with a file they aren't expecting they have to go to the effort of modifying one of my files or playing other games. I consider it a kind of public service announcement so the end user gets what they expect and knows what to expect. I'm afraid you'll have to either skip that part or edit it with virtually any sound editor.

This would have been sent in a PM to EMG just explaining my problem, but I thought I might post it up here for him to see and others to discuss.

Before each of EMG's files that I've listened to, there's a rather long explanation of what they're going to do. From eleven seconds to thirty, which is long enough to just kill me.
I'll usually pair his triggers with Blink's induction, and that causal and happy voice he uses to explain what's going to happen drags me out.

I was wondering, EMG. We've all been to the site to download the files, we know what happens. Could you not have the explanation?

[hellion0]

If anything, I find the announcement thing helpful to kill time so I can be in a suitable physical position to go into trance by the time the induction actually begins.

[BobbyS]

Agreed; all files need something non-induction at the start to help the person settle down a bit. After all, as there is no real hypnotist to chat with, you won't have established rapport and entered a natural relaxed position already.

That said though, I had always wondered what the point of a description of the file you already downloaded was. Guess now I know.

[Henrique]

The explanation is so that if anyone wants to "surprise" someone with a file they aren't expecting they have to go to the effort of modifying one of my files or playing other games. (...)

Being really evil, you could always switch the inical explanation from one file to another, thus creating a "surprise" file.

[BobbyS]

It's one thing to have a file with intentionally unknown effects (e.g. the Trick/Treat files), it's quite another to mislead people as to what the file does. I'm sure if EMG did that he'd lose a massive proportion of visitors to the site, if not the vast majority.

[EMG]

Well, I'd certainly leave ;) Still, yes, the site has a certain integrity and I try hard to maintain that. Still, it wouldn't preclude files like trick/treat that had no intro and do something odd/surprising but I try to keep those surprises from being TOO shocking.

It's one thing to have a file with intentionally unknown effects (e.g. the Trick/Treat files), it's quite another to mislead people as to what the file does. I'm sure if EMG did that he'd lose a massive proportion of visitors to the site, if not the vast majority.