Tracks vs Tracker - What's the difference?
tracks | tracker |
Railroad tracks; the rails on which trains run.
(track)
One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.
(computing) A type of computer software for composing music by aligning samples on parallel timelines.
* 2004 , "dilvie", new.scene.org'' (on newsgroup ''alt.music.mods )
* 2008 , Karen Collins, Game sound
(computing) A musician who writes music in a tracker.
* 1999 , "Adrian Dunn", Re: Using a scanned picture in your demo'' (on newsgroup ''comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos )
(computing) A computer program that monitors something.
# (file sharing) Server software that coordinates peers in the BitTorrent protocol.
(finance) A tracker mortgage.
As nouns the difference between tracks and tracker
is that tracks is (track) while tracker is one who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.As a verb tracks
is (track).tracks
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* in one's tracks * make tracks * wrong side of the tracksVerb
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(en noun)- Trackers have broken out of the demoscene, are are(SIC) now in use by thousands of professional musicians. It's not uncommon to hear about people using trackers on DJ forums, and electronic music production communities
- Although there were a few game companies outside the Amiga scene that used a tracker format (Epic Mega-Games, for instance), the majority used the better-supported MIDI.
- You can always find musicians. There are more trackers than coders, pixelers, organizers, couriers, and designers combined.