MUDCAT CD VI: Flowing Like Gold!

Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD VI: Flowing Like Gold!
From: Amos
Date: 02 Jul 02 - 05:52 PM

Hi guys!!

Geeeze -- I cannot BELIEVE it has been two weeks since I posted on this thread. The current situationis as follows:

1. I have received (as you can tell from above) scores of wonderful songs on tapes, CDs, email, and MD disk.

2. I am slowly assembling them into a large collection of MP3s choosing one or two songs from each submitter. I have a list of all the materials submitted almost completed and when i have completed the list I will publish it.

3. My rate of progress slowed dramatically in mid-June because my discretionary time got sharply clipped with a collision with the real world or two -- see the post of 6-16 above.

4. When I have all the candidate songs selected and have the "Selection Committe"'s concensus on them I will then take steps to produce the three or more disks this will entail. See the back-stream of this and its antecedent threads for discussions of options.

5. I am still waiting for a few cuts from people who were working on them -- don't pretend you don't know who you are!! :>) .

6. The sequence of steps is pretty much as outlined at the top of this thread and the top of the previous three on this topic but the schedule may have to slip a bit. I'll let you know as soon as I have my spare time back again, and this project is my top priority once the work stuff is cleared away.

Feel free to PM or e-mail me if you have any questions about it!

And let me add that there are some real humdingers in the material you have sent in and I am really impressed with all the great musicmaking in Mudcat land. Thanks again for all the energy you've shown on this project!! I am sorry for the delays but I will get it back to speed as soon as I can.

Talk to you soon,

Amos

Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD VI: Flowing Like Gold!
From: GUEST,IanB as guest
Date: 03 Jul 02 - 05:31 AM

'Sorry for delays' says Amos. Good heavens, man, you seem to be doing a wonderful job. You'll go down in legend and song for this one.

- Ian

Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD VI: Flowing Like Gold!
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 03 Jul 02 - 08:44 AM

Amos, just curious about why you are putting everything into MP3 format. I have a copy of all my CD tracks in MP3, and notice the occasional hiccup in the sound there as well as in WAV format, when converted from CDA. Will the final CD be in MP3? Posting this here instead of email because I think it would be of general interest. (Sorry if this has already been answered previously).

Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD VI: Flowing Like Gold!
From: Amos
Date: 03 Jul 02 - 11:39 AM

Barbara:

Two reasons, really -- size and convenience. I was seeking to limit the number of CDs I would have to produce in order to represent all submitters. Also, originally we were thinking of using MP3.COM for the logistics, but I think we have a better approach now.

The final CD will be in CD audio format. The program I use converts automatically.

I am open to suggestions concerning the tradeoffs between quality and number of files. Perhaps the source of the difficulty is my obsessive democraticity? :>)

A

Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD VI: Flowing Like Gold!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 03 Jul 02 - 02:32 PM

Amos, yes, great job. You are 100% more organized than I can get these days. Really a big job you've taken on.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD VI: Flowing Like Gold!
From: MMario
Date: 03 Jul 02 - 02:33 PM

he's about 2000% more organized then I get at the best of times. I am in awe of what he is doing.

Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD VI: Flowing Like Gold!
From: hesperis
Date: 03 Jul 02 - 02:54 PM

mp3 format - means he doesn't have to take up his HDD with full wav or cda files.

mp3 format - means he can accept songs from people over the internet, meaning some of us without tapes or cds (yet!) can still send in something.

Now, to convert to cda, still means a full-length CD, where if you burned a CD full of mp3's we could get a LOT more songs for the money. But... not everyone can play mp3 CDs, and very few car stereos will play them. You need either a computer or one of those newfangled mp3-CD players.

Skips - if you are getting skips when you convert to mp3 or wav:
1. Make sure you have a clean CD and a clean CD drive. Dust and grease will cause skips.
2. Use a slower CD speed setting, like 8x or even 4x or 2x - sometimes if the computer reads it too fast, it'll cause skips. That read setting will be somewhere in your program. 3. If those don't work, use CDex to extract/convert the file. CDex is one of the best audio extracting (CD-ripper) software programs out there, and is very easy to use. Oh, and it's free!

Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD VI: Flowing Like Gold!
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 03 Jul 02 - 04:15 PM

Hesperis, my skips could be because I went from CDA to WAV and then from WAV to MP3, even though I used 4x speed.

One reason for the question about mp3 was because I could have sent files in that format had I known, thus eliminating one step for Amos. I thought people were sending in whatever format they could, and then it would all end up on a CD in CDA. No problem, whichever way it ends up. Amos has taken on a big job, and I'm looking forward to hearing the results, looking forward to hearing some of the people who are only interesting names at this point.

Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD VI: Flowing Like Gold!
From: hesperis
Date: 03 Jul 02 - 06:38 PM

Hmmm, that shouldn't do it.

If the wav skips, it's likely a problem with the CD-ripping itself. If the wav doesn't skip but the mp3 does, then it's either the convertor you're using, or the overall volume of the wav is too high, and you're getting "clipping", which is a little different than a skip.

Or... it could be the mp3 player, even. I notice that when I access the internet with my current player, it sometimes really slows down on playing the file. Try playing the file without any other programs running.

Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD VI: Flowing Like Gold!
From: MMario
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 02:30 PM

mixonic now also offers CD's online...

Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD VI: Flowing Like Gold!
From: Amos
Date: 28 Jul 02 - 07:44 PM

Don't miss the next chapter of this stirring mellerdrammer, which can be found in Section 7, over here!

A