Mudcatters on MP3.com

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Musicman
Date: 18 Jan 01 - 11:44 PM

mee too now.....

Click here

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Alice
Date: 18 Jan 01 - 11:52 PM

Cool, Paul. I just saw that page and thought it may be a "Mudcatter" when I saw Folk Legacy name. I was looking in the Celtic genre at the new songs uploaded today, and yours were the newest. I'll add you to the station. (a little hint, the yellow type font is hard to read). See the Kitty of Coleraine thread - they finally approved the song to my page.

Alice

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Alice
Date: 20 Jan 01 - 01:42 PM

Musicman and Clansfolk added, also the song TAM GLEN.

CLICK HERE

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Giac
Date: 20 Jan 01 - 02:23 PM

Great job, Alice. I love your illustrations as well a your voice. I've resisted MP3 to this point, but I see now that I'm already hooked.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Alice
Date: 20 Jan 01 - 02:54 PM

Just want to say Good Job! to Clansfolk, too. At age 18, you are well on your way to developing a nice traditional band. Let me know when you have more files recorded. Don't be shy about the home-made sound, all I have is a cheap mic connected to the computer in my living room - when I record I have to deal with barking dogs, ringing phones, and the sound of the furnace starting up!

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Willie-O
Date: 21 Jan 01 - 11:08 AM

Alice, before you start recording, you're supposed to turn off the furnace. Then you sing till you're done or your toes turn blue, then you turn the furnace on again...

I went through this very rigorous procedure with the recording of "The long walk home" and a couple of other tunes on my site--We were using fancy digital equipment in the producer's house, in January, and it was just part of the routine to get clean tracks. Course that guy was a fanatic. Because the previous commercial recording he'd made there, in summer, windows had been open, and the recording was released complete with traffic noises.

Ditto for the phone, as for the dog, well I've been there. Another time recording at my house, my old dog was being exceedingly mellow and relaxed as we were recording in an upstairs bedroom; in the middle of the song he quietly ambled upstairs, walked into the room and contentedly flopped down; quietly except for the extremely loud clattering of claws on the plywood floor. We too collapsed but in uncontrolled laughter. Wish we'd saved that take.

Stay warm,
Willie-O

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Alice
Date: 21 Jan 01 - 11:23 AM

LOL! Bill, my dog was jingling dog tags and clicking toenails across the hardwood floor yesterday when I started recording. He was sleeping very contentedly until I turned on the mic. I've learned to unplug the phone. Actually, the refrigerator and furnace hum doesn't seem to be detected by my microphone - or else my speakers are so bad I just can't hear the background noise!

By the way, my newest project on mp3 last night was to create a storytelling page. I'm doing children's stories I have written (mostly for toddlers) and re-telling old folk tales, with a little singing included in the stories.

You can have more than one site, just signing up as a new artist each time with a different "band name". For those of you who do comedy, poetry, stories, etc., look under the genre called Spoken Voice. You can create mp3's of your own work and read/recite work that is public domain.

Alice

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: hesperis
Date: 23 Jan 01 - 09:33 PM

Refresh.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Musicman
Date: 23 Jan 01 - 10:01 PM

Great Job Alice...

thanks....

musicman

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: harpgirl
Date: 23 Jan 01 - 10:36 PM

Alice! I am amazed and thankful for your brilliance. I just realized I can record myself with Real Jukebox. Does this mean I can upload my recordings to MP3???Is that what you are doing? Thank you again...harpgrrrrl

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: SeanM
Date: 23 Jan 01 - 11:18 PM

HG... Yep, you should be able to... I've never played with Juke, but I'll guarantee that if you aren't already going into MP3, that there are a ton of free or share programs that will easily convert them for you.

M

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: harpgirl
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 12:09 AM

Sean...I think I am getting it and I may be able to get something up on mp3.com in a day or so. I am so excited! Thanks for this thread Alice!

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Alice
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 10:38 AM

I think I am going to have to make a Mudcatter station II because I have over twenty files on this first station. I'll let you know when it is added and give you the URL to hear more collected music from Mudcat members.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: JedMarum
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 10:45 AM

I am in the midst of signing up with MP3.com right now.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Alice
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 02:20 PM

My mp3 page of storytelling and children's songs is now online, with two stories that have some singing mixed in. The kids songs are still in process, but here is Hunchback Donal and Monday, Tuesday and Old May Night and the Crow.

Alice

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: English Jon
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 09:17 AM

If anyone's interested,

www.mp3.com/whorticulture

(one of my various bands)

Hope you like it.

Jon

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Willie-O
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 09:44 AM

Jon, I'm afraid to go there!

Harpgirl, my experience with using RealJuke to make MP3's for mp3.com was not successful -- it encodes them at the wrong bitrate for MP3.com which does not accept them. (they need to be set at 128 / 44 mhz / stereo.) They are working mp3's but not usable by mp3.com/ Maybe you can change those settings, I just used another mp3 encoding program that uses the mp3.com requirement settings as the default. (I use bladeenc, elegantly simple it is.)

Alice, you are definitely hooked on this aren't you? Good work you're doing too.

W-O

p.s. now I have a different dog, going to have to train her all over again in home recording protocol. woof.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Alice
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 10:41 AM

Jon, ... whorticulture, eh? Like W-O, I'm afraid to go there! I'll check it out and let you know when it is added to the station. Yes, this mp3 stuff is getting addictive, but since I can't use HearMe, PalTalk, etc., it really is my only way to reach everyone here with singing.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: SeanM
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 03:25 PM

English Jon's link

M

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: hesperis
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:30 PM

I use CDex. BladeEnc wouldn't work for me, and I never figured out why, just deleted the thing. I've heard some good things about it, so try it anyway.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: English Jon
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 10:08 AM

There's nothing to scary about Whorticulture. It's just a silly name. My cousin's fault, really. He thought it was funny. If you prefer, you can get the songs via :

www.hemlockmusic.co.uk/

Although that still re-directs you to

www.whorticulture.com

hope I haven't upset anyone. It didn't occur to me.

Best wishes, Jon

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 12:17 PM

are there any 'cats at angrycoffee.com ?

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Alice
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 12:40 PM

Hi, Jon, yes I went to the whorticulture mp3 page yesterday and will add you to the station as soon as I have the time to do so. Thanks for the link.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: GUEST,Muzishun
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 10:14 PM

I haven't been around for awhile - but I hope folks don't mind if I join this Mp3 thread and mention that songs from my CD Waters Wide are now available on MP3 and at Celticways.com. Waters Wide is a collection of contemporary settings of traditional ballads and some original material. Folks seem to like my rendition of "If I Was a Blackbird" and if you like the King Authur legends, please check out "Guinevere's Lament". I would appreciate your comments and suggestions. Thanks! Sandra Parker

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Alice
Date: 27 Jan 01 - 02:06 PM

I've added a second station. It will take a few hours for the URL to be active. I'll post a link when I know it is available.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Alice
Date: 27 Jan 01 - 03:35 PM

Here is Mudcat Music II http://stations.mp3s.com/stations/150/mudcat_music_ii.html Jed, let me know when your page is available.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: hesperis
Date: 27 Jan 01 - 09:03 PM

Hello! Great job, Alice!

Just to let you all know, I've recently added the next two tracks of Springrise to my page.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Alice
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 09:07 PM

Here is an mp3 page of someone who is not (yet) a Mudcat member, but his music is so good, I can't help but post it to this thread for everyone's enjoyment.David Kilpatrick
Another singer and musician I've found at mp3 and really enjoy is Jodee James, singing in Welsh and English. Check out "Titrwm Tatrwm" on this station.CLICK HERE

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Alice
Date: 10 Feb 01 - 01:10 AM

Just added to my page, WEXFORD MUMMERS SONG.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Alice
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 03:58 PM

Another Mudcat member added to the Mudcat II station: Khaetidawne Quirk and a live performance of Drunken Sailor. The final verse will surprise you. Check it out - Mudcat Music II

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: hesperis
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 08:59 PM

Hey, Alice! And other mudcatters! I finally persuaded Jande to put up her stuff, check it out:

Seanna Rowe

Two songs are up, and one of them is available for download. Circus is more folky, and has a spoken word section, and Goddess In Me is just gorgeous!

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Alice
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 10:54 AM

I'll be updating the Mudcat stations with links to some threads. Are there any more members of Mudcat (not guests) on mp3 that I can add to Mudcat Music II?

Alice

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Deni
Date: 22 Apr 01 - 03:39 AM

I spent a couple of happy hours recently downlading free music thanks to this thread. Great stuff everyone.

good luck

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: hesperis
Date: 22 Apr 01 - 10:37 AM

I changed the url for my page, it is now www.mp3.com/chagall

I am getting increasingly frustrated with mp3.com's lack of good customer service and caring, and I would recommend other bands who are starting out in the digital music world to put their music up at iuma, or musicbuilder. Maybe put up a couple of tracks on mp3.com, so that you can be featured on stations, but don't make it your main focus. They introduced a "Premium Artist Service" or PAS, where if you want to get paid per play by them, you have to first pay them $20 per month. They are still listing the "amount earned" right on the page of non-PAS artists, even though those artists are NOT earning anything from them. It is extremely misleading.

I will gradually be moving my stuff elsewhere, after a succesion of responses to my letters that were full of propaganda, and did not even answer my questions or concerns...

Good Luck!

~*hesperis*~

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Alice
Date: 22 Apr 01 - 11:33 AM

There is an easy to use stats engine created by Allan Handelman that mp3.com artists can go to for checking downloads, complete plays and partial plays. It is easier than logging into the artist admin area at mp3.com. You can check stats using the band ID number on your calendar URL. stats engine page

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: GUEST,willie-o
Date: 22 Apr 01 - 12:19 PM

hespy is dead on. I don't bother to correspond with mp3.com since I have no taste for reading propaganda.

That said, I still have my mp3 page up. and have been adding some stuff from my archives. Mostly old 4-track recordings I made with my friend Becca in the late 80's, we're going to make them available as a CD soon. "Do You Love An Apple", "Lovely On THe Water" and some Archie Fisher and instrumentals.

That's the latest...

W-O

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: GUEST,Jeremy Stuart
Date: 24 Apr 01 - 12:51 AM

Visit my site for Traditional Folk and British Ballads

http://www.mp3.com/jeremystuart

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Deni
Date: 24 Apr 01 - 05:53 AM

Hesperis or other oracle. Is there anything to stop artists from putting the same tracks on different sites, do you know?

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: hesperis
Date: 24 Apr 01 - 10:06 AM

As long as the other artist is owned by the same admin, there is no problem putting your tracks up on different artist pages.

But if you work with someone else to produce a song, and both want to put it up on both artists' pages, then you would have to write to [e-mail] before even uploading the track, and be prepared to fax written permission to them. Also, be prepared for them to lose the info... so keep it handy to resend it.

That's as far as I know.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: hesperis
Date: 24 Apr 01 - 10:12 AM

Sheesh!

I forgot to take the opportunity to put a link in to the thread about mudcatters' music on other mp3 sites!

So, here it is.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Deni
Date: 25 Apr 01 - 05:12 AM

Thanks Hesperis. Appreciate the help.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Willie-O
Date: 02 May 01 - 11:46 AM

when in doubt, refresh

w-o

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: QRS
Date: 02 May 01 - 07:25 PM

...and here is a link to our band called "The Banshee"

We play Irish trad. music and we are from Sweden.

The Banshee

Regards

QRS

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: English Jon
Date: 03 May 01 - 05:54 AM

Just bunged up a page on mp3.com

only one track on it so far:

www.mp3.com/jonloomes

if anyone's interested.

Cheers,

English Jon

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Alice
Date: 04 May 01 - 12:29 AM

The Mudcat Music II station is updated with "Jacky Tar" by English Jon and "Dunmore Lasses" by The Banshee. It may take a few minutes (hours?) before Jon's track shows up. Good stuff.
Alice

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Willie-O
Date: 07 May 01 - 05:12 PM

dad-i've never ever heard of that apple song. you are commanded to play it the next time we're both home at the same time. (like that's ever gonna happen...aiysh) also, you've failed to mention that the very very best piece on your entire site is "anna grace", possibly tied with "spring on the mississippi". you silly goon.

-emily-o

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: GUEST,the real willie-o
Date: 07 May 01 - 09:29 PM

well. I don't sing that apple song, em, becca does.

as for the other, i regret the oversight.

w-o

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Alice
Date: 08 May 01 - 04:04 PM

I think Anna Grace was the first track I ever listened to of yours, Bill. I think it was back when a thread was started on it. Good song.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Justa Picker
Date: 08 May 01 - 04:19 PM

Well I'm not on MP3.com, but I set up a site today and added a few MP3s to it, of some recent solo recordings. It can be accessed here.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters on MP3.com
From: Deni
Date: 13 May 01 - 04:46 AM

Hello all, I've just set up a page on mp3.com amid unrest and unease wiv der management. I hope I've done the right thing, but if not, hopefully not too much harm done. I was going to say, they're only songs, but that's not true. They may be only songs to some people but they're all the world to us!!!

The band name is Mad Rush and we've got songs there about Anne Boleyn (not the one with her head underneath her arm - shame)a rousing chorus song, Soldiers of Britain, and a couple of trad tracks, a new spine-tingling arrangement of the Trees They Do Grow High and the beautiful and haunting Peninsular War song, Lisbon.

Hope some of you have time for a listen.

Cheers Deni