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Good luck with your CD. I have listened to the sound clips and enjoyed them.

Chance would be a fine thing, jo77. What applet thingy are you referring to? The tunes seem to upload pretty quickly & play on Mediaplayer or WinAmp or whatever. They are compressed to the same size as n MP3 file. I'll go & check in case something strange has happened!

The 2 tunes on the CD are Farewell to Reason, as you all saw, & Dragonfly, which are wrapped around Sue's Birthday Waltz. They make a lovely set, I love them.

Our piccolo player lived in Wales for a year & went to some local sessions while he was there; he said there were some marvellous tunes but he can't remember what most of them were called - especially being in Welsh. He'd quite like to introduce some Welsh music into the band's repertoire but I've trawled about the web & there certainly seems to be a dearth of Welsh ABCs!

Sue

The sound bite of Sally Gardens on the web page is the reel - on the CD they play both, starting out with the air & then going into the reel.

I'll post the ABCs of Sragonfly & Farewell to Reason later, if Jeri doesn't mind.

Sue

Line Breaks <br> added.
-Joe Offer-

Thanks Jon, I'll print them out and have a go - and give them to Tim. He does have a little book somewhere with some Welsh tunes in, which Debbie has at the moment. Presumably they're traditional. Once I manage to get my hands on it, I'll post them to the Forum.

Sue

slainte

alison

The CD is wonderful! If you were here at Anna's party, you could listen to it. Debbie, the fiddler in Tam Lin has done some stunning things with my tunes and everything she plays on the CD.

Jon, great to see you here! I'm in the process of learning two of Jon's wonderful tunes. (Ain't the internet great?)

You didn't take it with you, did you???? (The CD, not the computer)

I'll expect thousands of orders now [BG]!!

I hope you're having a good time there, I thought you wouldn't be playing about on the computer, too busy singing & playing..... Debbie will be so pleased to hear your compliments, as long as she hasn't drowned at Copredy over the weekend. Weather is still dire here, I hope you were able to get out in the kayaks. I really envy you.

Who said the sound clips were breaking up? Have you tried saving to disc & then playing - I do this with everything now as I always get a jerky play in realtime, even with an ISDN connection.

Are Jon's tunes nice, Jeri? Anything we'd like for the next CD (giggle)? At the rate their bookings are going, we might be able to afford another one before too long!

Excuse the typing, again!

Sue

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-Joe Offer-

I love those kind of tunes and songs and they are GREAT with that lovely fiddle sound you´ve got!! Looking forward to get a cd from ya!!

ps. Here is a link to my band and some clips also..

Click here

qrs from Sweden...

How do you get the ABC to look right on this system? It looks fine when I paste it in.

For some reason, my computer uses QuickTime to play these - then, after a few minutes of waiting, instead of a tune, I get a picture of a piece of broken film....???

I have RealPlayer, which is supposed to play MP3 files.

Any suggestions from you computer whizzes????

campfire

I'm not real computer-literate but I know RealAudio is my default player - yet when I click on the tune titles I get the QuickTime logo while "waiting".

Do I need a different plug-in for these?

campfire

campfire

This is really weird; I've definitely got the files & links named right.

The clips were taken off the CD using Goldwave & saved as .wav files with MP3 extensions. They seem to play on WinAmp & Windows Media Player OK; they don't play at the right speed using Realplayer & RealJukebox doesn't find them as they are still .wav files. I also have Quicktime & Crescendo (as plugins in IE4) & I think unfortunately that no matter how you set up IE4, sooner or later Windows Media Player manages to reset itself as the default. I've never been able to play the Australian tunes on Mark Gregory's site (http://www.chepd.mq.edu.au/boomerang/songnet/). These say they're .mov files, & I always get an error (from Windows Media Player!) saying it can't open them, please check the pathname is correct.

I'll try saving them again as ordinary wav files & then converting to to MP2; if they play OK then with Realplayer etc, then I'll put them on the site as well so there's a choice. (br>

Thank you for the tunes Jon, I'll print them out. We try & get a good mix of 'real' traditional tunes, contemporary tunes written in traditional style, songs etc.

Barbara - have you been on the TamLin site before - or are you using some sort of proxy server or linking to a mirror site? It sounds as though you are somehow getting the old page - which had different sound clips on. Try refreshing the page or clearing out your cache.

Lonesome EJ - what a lovely compliment! instructions for getting the CD are on one of the other pages on the site (I think it's on the 'News' page). The cheapest way for you to do it is to send us an international money order or banker's draft, I think. Because we don't have a record label or distributor (the band made the CD primarily for local fans, & to send to folk clubs, festivals etc) we just have to send them out direct. I can email you direct with the address etc if you are a Mudcat member or let me have your email address.

Sue

How were the clips done - THEY play fine with Realplayer!!

Do you want a CD? See my answer to Lonesome EJ in the previous post, or perhaps we could do a swap for one of yours!

Sue

Sue

Our site is under construction that´s why we have no info about us yet... But there will be!!

And thanks for your tips with the cd!

Regards qrs

I assume you're 'part-time' musicians, like Tam Lin?

I've now uploaded proper .MP3 files to the site as well, so they should be playable using RealPlayer. The sound quality could be better, probably because I messed about resampling the wav files for the correct rate, & then converted them. The .MP3 files are a bit shorter, but I couldn't work out how to put them into a lower rate in Goldwave that would convert to MP3, so I had to use 44100. The wav files on the site are in a lower rate than that.

Please let me know, anyone, if you still can't play them.

Sue

campfire

What people could or couldn't hear them on originally depended on what facilities they had on their computer, & what their default players were. Ir may be that someone with an older version of Media player will have a problem with the .wav files as they are, if so & they post & let me know, I can always put them on as ordinary 16-bit signed versions.

Sue

Sue

Yes you´re right, we are a "part time band", and also we are from Sweden. We are five members in the band, and we all love trad folkmusic. We are quite new to this genre, but we hope to get better....

ps your clips works fine on my cpu SueH!! They are Lovely!!

Regards

Qrs

Sue

We hope it will be out in jan. 2000...

Before summer we recorded about 15 studiotracks, but we were not pleased with the result...

Hope it gets better cause it costs alot of money being in the studio!!

Qrs

Sue

If you send a check to him for $19.20, he'll notify Sue and she'll mail the CD.

I don't feel that comfortable putting the gentleman's address here for all the world to see, but I'll be happy to send it to anyone who's interested. You can email me.

Disclaimer: I'm not making any money off this. I am grateful to the band for recording my tunes, plus I've really enjoyed my copy of the CD, and think these guys deserve to be heard.

I can't understand why you're having a problem; what hardware/software have you got? You should be able to play the wav files with something like WinAmp, & the MP3s with pretty much anything which supports it, even Windows Media Player.

If you tell me your setup I can always convert it & email it to you - got to be as quick as keep trying to download it!

Sue

The file will open if you go to:
Start/Programs/Accessories/Multimedia/Windows Media Player, and then open the file, or -
Find a file called mplayer2.exe(possibly other versions of mplayer will work?) and double click on it.
Mine's located in C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\mplayer2.exe

For Mac users, you can download some programs so you can listen to sound files from http://mac.org/audio-video/ Maybe "SoundApp" does .wav files - I dunno.