Mudcat CD

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Mar 03 - 12:26 AM

Genie,

On the first of several links you posted, on violet you need to close your underline html (at the end of "Teasin')--it's underlined throughout the document after that.

3. Love Is Teasin'
(trad.- arr. Alice Flynn)

The printable version looks excellent. I couldn't open the "small print" one.

Looks good--and like a lot of work!

SRS

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: Genie
Date: 03 Mar 03 - 12:24 AM

Naw, Night Owl, it's a bad link. DK what went wrong. Let's try it again:

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=55152#875541?threadid=55152

Genie

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: Night Owl
Date: 03 Mar 03 - 12:04 AM

Genie Having trouble here with the link for the "smaller print liner notes". The other links you posted work ok, but I get "page cannot be found" for the third link. Just a problem with my computor??

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: Genie
Date: 02 Mar 03 - 11:50 PM

Ron, here is an example of liner notes (as much as I've been able to collect to date) from the Violet CD.   http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=55152#855768
And here is a nearly complete set for Strawberry:  http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=55131#855439

And here http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=55152#875541is the smaller-print version of the Violet CD liner notes, formatted to fit into the CD case (width-wise) if you print them directly from the thread and fold or cut them to fit (length-wise).

(If you try to copy and paste, you will lose the formatting, I think.)

The song notes that were submitted for Violet after I posted those "printable" liner notes are here: http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=55152#885269

As I've said in a couple of the Perma Threads, I'll post complete notes, in proper sequence and in the small print for each CD as soon as we get notes for all the songs on the CD.  Trying to insert the missing pieces one at a time within the HTML jungle is really tedious.

The good news is that we're really close to being complete on a couple of the Perma Threads.  If you know any of the folks who haven't submitted important parts of their liner notes (e.g., who's playing what instrument, who wrote the song and when, or what the lyrics are), please feel free to light a fire under them.

Genie

PS, I could email them to folks as a Word document, I guess, but the best way I know to make sure the formatting stays the same is to print them directly from the thread.

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 02 Mar 03 - 09:03 PM

Isn't it easier to just make it as a word doc?

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 02 Mar 03 - 07:51 PM

I hate PDF - you can't search it, at least I can't. I'd much sooner it's put on the Cat in Html.

It's easy enough to print it out, or move it to word and use whatever sort of format anyone wants.

But the basic thing is, whatever is most convenient for Genie.

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: Amos
Date: 02 Mar 03 - 07:37 PM

How it works essentially is it puts the postscript output that most printdriver produce into aviewable form using a reader. (Acrobat reader). So most good WPrs will be able to save to PDF directly and if they can't you can print to file in Postscript and Adobe Acrobat will generate a PDF from the .ps files.


A

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Mar 03 - 12:04 PM

It wasn't a true Word file, perhaps some sort of Word reader. I'm not a fan of Word if something else is available. The distiller program for making PDF files is also available in Adobe Pagemaker. Has anyone used that little free program? How does it work? (I could use something like that! I don't have the $$ for Adobe Pagemaker).

SRS

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: Amos
Date: 02 Mar 03 - 11:57 AM

Genie's at her folks' house here in SD and I'll be seeing her at the Park hoot at noon today, along with bold Naemanson who is driving all the way from Point Hueneme! Yeehaw! So I'll mention this thread to her.


A

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: Amos
Date: 02 Mar 03 - 11:55 AM

Word prints to PDF in most versions anyway. They can be displayed in HTML surely. Treewind couuld probably tell you, Tweed, exactly how to add the link that downloads the file in PDF to the client's disk.

A

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: treewind
Date: 02 Mar 03 - 11:52 AM

Creating PDF's in Windows is as easy as printing with the free PDF995 utility which installs itself as a Windows printer.

I vote for PDF and HTML, and not Word, which certainly won't display on my browser!

Anahata

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: Tweed
Date: 02 Mar 03 - 11:31 AM

I kin do that Amos. I iz still willin' and a staunch supporter ov this enterprize. I'd have to put it up there in standard html format though, at least til I figger out how to do PDF, but that ain't no big deal. Whar's our Genie? We haz one last wish fer her to grant ;~)
Yerz,
Tweed

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: Amos
Date: 02 Mar 03 - 11:19 AM

The material is still being gathered inthose threads, ron and they are all we have in the way of real line notes just now. Once the final information is complete there should be no problem laying them out in a PDF file for each CD. We could even impose on weed to post them on his web site perhaps if he was willin;?

A

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Mar 03 - 11:16 AM

Oops. Looks like it's cut and paste until someone comes up with the definitive thread. I should'a looked closer first.

I noticed at the thread for the North Texas Irish Festival that they had a link to their schedule in Word format. It appeared on the browser page without opening a Word window, and when you printed it, it came out by default in the landscape format. Though it takes more work to prepare a document to load and print in a special way, it should be possible to prepare these liner notes to come out with small fonts the size of the CD cases.

SRS

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: Tweed
Date: 02 Mar 03 - 10:38 AM

Dere Mr. Olaska,
I think it's still a work in progress and perhaps not all the singers have contributed liners for all the songs yet. I expect Genie may be waiting to get all completed before arranging them into a final order.
Yerz,
Tweed

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 02 Mar 03 - 10:33 AM

Maybe I'm not explaining myself correctly or I am missing the thread you are pointing to. I went to the perma threads and found a series of disjointed messages that are not liner notes by any stretch of the imagination. Each thread (for each CD) has a number of messages, out of sequence and in no real uniform style.

I am looking for a printable text - in some sort of order. Something that I can print out in a readable form. I see in one of the threads that Genie was planning to do this. Any word?

Ron

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Mar 03 - 01:00 AM

I've had the Mudcat CD's playing all afternoon. It's nice with a 5-CD changer, to put all of them in and put it on random play. They blow me away, how great these performances are! And what a lot of work it was to produce such excellent disks. My hat is off to all of you!

I haven't printed out the liner notes, but if you look at the perma thread at the top of this thread, Ron, you should find them. Five of them, one for each CD.

SRS

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 02 Mar 03 - 12:41 AM

Joe,

Unless I'm missing something, I checked the threads above and could not find "liner notes".   Sure, I found several threads with the name "liner notes" in the topic, but the threads revealed a series of unconnected replies that vary in style and content.

I hope I am just overlooking it. Is there any ONE file that contains ACTUAL liner notes for this magnificent series?

Ron

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: Tweed
Date: 01 Mar 03 - 10:26 PM

Whooopeee is right Mz.Sorchy, and if any of you've forgotten where and how to order these things then go

**HERE**

Christmas is gone but there's a vernal equinox or something coming up soon, so get those orders in.

Yerz,
Tweed

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: Sorcha
Date: 01 Mar 03 - 05:39 PM

Whooppeee!

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: Amos
Date: 01 Mar 03 - 03:28 PM

Wow!! I just heard from some local friends who have never been on the 'Cat that they ordered theirs and they arrived yesterday.   This is wonderful!


A

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Mar 03 - 02:46 AM

Hi, Ron - for liner notes, check the crosslinks up at the top of this thread.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 01 Mar 03 - 12:45 AM

Where are the liner notes???

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: Genie
Date: 28 Feb 03 - 09:15 PM

And don't forget to print out the liner notes, with lyrics, to go with your CDs!

Genie

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: michaelr
Date: 28 Feb 03 - 08:33 PM

Thanks, Harper! We appreciate your purchase which helps keep this forum on the air.

So why don't you join? Membership is free, and has its privileges.

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Feb 03 - 05:56 PM

Absolutely. I'll never tire of them and there isn't one I'd want to give up. Not only are they astonishingly good but Amos did a wonderful job with the order in which he presents them. I particularly remember Hesperis's 'Skylark', which creates a mood you wouldn't believe- then there is a pause, and then comes a perfect next cut.

Subject: RE: Mudcat CD
From: DMcG
Date: 28 Feb 03 - 05:47 PM

I've just played Orchid for the first time (having received them all yesterday).


They are simply astonishing. If anyone is in doubt whether to buy these or the latest CD from your favourite "name" - there's no choice. Get these. You won't regret it.

Subject: Mudcat CD
From: GUEST,Harper
Date: 28 Feb 03 - 05:41 PM

I've been intending to order one of the Mudcat Blue Plate Special CDs. A couple of weeks ago I decided it was time to do it. Then I realized there were 5 of them to choose between. I looked at the lists of tunes/songs on each. Seemed that each one had several that I wouldn't want to miss. Actually the price was better, ordering all five, so I went for it. Just received them yesterday. I've been playing them all day.    I couldn't be more impressed. Such variety! Such talent! Such a bargain. If you haven't ordered yours, Order them all!!