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I am happy to report that a little project I have been working on is acheiving its first goals in the form of a new website for Catter entertainment and listening pleasure.

The site is Songs from the Mudcat Songbook and a prototype of it is available for your viewing. It presents MP3 recordings of songs that have been written by Mudcatters and placed in Áine's Mudcat Songbook. So far, these are about a dozen recordings of songs I had sent in for Song Challenges, but the Site is open to any recording of any Songbook song by any Catter. About six of these were played on Mudcat Radio long ago.

The home page can be found here:

Songs from the Mudcat Songbook

The songs are listed on the Song List page (surprisingly enough). The list of titles on the left has corresponding links to the threads the songs came from (if any) on the right.

So if you ever wondered what "Incandescent Pickle II", or "The Gentleman's Club" sounded like, now you can find out!

Caveats:

1. Although I have speeded it up by normalizing all the graphics to lower resolution, the initial pages still load somewhat slowly, depending on your bandwidth. Using a Cable Modem at home, about 4 seconds. From work, on Windows, about 45-120 seconds.

2. Only those song titles which are bolded on the Song List page have recordings yet. But all of the links to the original threads should work.

3. The recordings suck, some of them.

Plans

Phase II of this project is to make new recordings for the ones that are poor quality, and add recordings for those not yet made.

Phase III is to receive recordings from any other Mudcatters who have recorded their Songbook songs for inclusion on the web site.

These two phases will run concurrently. Send 'em in any time. Send me a PM if you need an addy. MP3s can be emailed, also.

The site is in Beta trials, so drop by and offer advice on how to improve it.

Enjoy,

Amos

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