KVR Audio

Mo Verdigast · Post by **Mo Verdigast** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 3:15 am

EarthTones wrote:Hey Mo!
The ID3 tag shows up on the original when played in Winamp or Windows Media Player, but once uploaded it's no longer there???

I tag my the files using SX when exporting the audio mixdown, but I've also tried editing the tags using Winamp to see if that would make a difference. - it didn't

I did have this happen before, and I decided it was a problem with the way the player read back the file once it had been posted. There's a link here that makes me think that the ID3 tag is flakey: http://www.id3.org/faq.html and I'm not sure how much the various encoders do with this. I think I was having problems with files encoded in Sound Forge, but I've been encoding the tags in Sonar and everything seems to be working now.

For that reason, I hope the contest police are forgiving if some tags don't always show up. I also know some players don't display all tags, and you might want to track down a tag editor that just edits tags. I wish I could be more helpful, but all I can say is that the same thing happened to me. But the answer turned out to be that once I tried to download from another machine, the tags came back.

Mo Verdigast · Post by **Mo Verdigast** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 3:45 am

You™ wrote:Question: Besides me, is there anyone who still downloads the contest entry songs locally or do they stream them from Radio Markleford?

Does anyone have strong feelings one way or the other about streaming songs vs. downloading them?

I'm just asking...

I download them all locally so I can go back and forth and listen to them all. When I find one I like, I push it to the top of the list and then keep shuffling the top ones until I have ten ones I like in the order I like 'em. Unfortunately I always seem to like more than ten so I also have some honorable mentions.

Mo Verdigast · Post by **Mo Verdigast** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 3:52 am

vishals wrote:
Wopelka wrote:
vishalshetye wrote:is the 2min limit very strict!
or 10-20 sec + would do.
very strict.

even one second will DQ your entry.
so if my track is 2:20 i've to cut 20 sec anyhow but how?

I feel your pain! Twice now I did a track and I was looking at the measures instead of the seconds in my sequencer and I wound up with a three-minute song that I had to cut down. In once case, where I had a lot of short clips, I just cut out clips here and there and then smoothed over the transitions. In another long track that didn't have any easy cuts in the middle, I just faded out a bit early!

Cheeso · Post by **Cheeso** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:08 am

knockman wrote: cheeso - forgive my british delusions, but on listening to this, in my head i instantly saw grainy black and white footage of industrial towns in northern england enjoying less than prosperous times. i guess that's far removed from alhambra ca (not to mention the songs title). just goes to show how 'complete' and effective this piece is. whenever music sets my head projecting and reeling away i know i'm onto something good. cheers

Gear! Cheers, mate. I'm a card-carrying Anglophile, so maybe here in Sunny Southern California I secretly wish for grey cold days in Northern England!

Ixox · Post by **Ixox** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 7:58 am

Wopelka wrote:I Ixox's entry, too (although i find the scratches a bit annoying).

Thanks....

I wrote and mixed this track on my laptop with very old bad headphones.
I'm back from hollydays now, and i checked yesterday night with my usual AKG K240 and i find the sound too much vinylized (specialy the end) !
Didn't notice that with the other headphones....

Wopelka wrote:the whole track is made as to simulate an old recording. right? but if it was such an old recording, it couldn't have been made in...
stereo...

Funny you wrote that...
I took a old 78 record" preset. One of the modifications i made after much hesitation was switching on the stereo....

AndreasE · Post by **AndreasE** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:02 am

Wopelka wrote: ich bin ein stuttgarter

You, too?

AndreasE · Post by **AndreasE** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:04 am

Haghi wrote:Andreas E – Sweet summer rain
The piano sits nicely in the middle and the strings surround it. Great! I wish I could do that… Song itself isn’t that great tho

Thanks, Haghi.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 11:15 am

Freeztar wrote: aMUSED - Couldn't follow the vocals because I was tripping out on the music . I'd pull the vocals up and make them pronounced. The music should be subservient to the lyrics in this case (in my opinion). I think that alone would make this a more enjoyable listen. Kudos for the strangeness.

Thanks. I agree about needing the vocals to take centre stage and that was my intention - I thought I had been able to keep them reasonably clear most of the time - until the last few bars anyway where it gets a bit mad.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 11:17 am

knockman wrote: aMUSEd - i came to this at just the right time. i recently picked up a cd of futurism and dada, mostly spoken word, but also including some luigi russolo noise machine music (if only it were a dvd!) anyway this is the first time i've heard anselm hollo, it's true he has a marvelous delivery. thanks for the introduction.

Glad you found it interesting and timely. Thanks for the comments.

mr.me · Post by **mr.me** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 1:05 pm

Ixox: I wish I made films...cause I could use this in a short film about an excentric man with out a home...it would be great, this would be the opening piece.

Nice feel to it.

garret · Post by **garret** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 2:05 pm

Mo Verdigast wrote:
You™ wrote:Question: Besides me, is there anyone who still downloads the contest entry songs locally or do they stream them from Radio Markleford?

Does anyone have strong feelings one way or the other about streaming songs vs. downloading them?

I'm just asking...
I download them all locally so I can go back and forth and listen to them all.

This seems like a good time to repost my kvr contest automatic download utility...

Just put this exe on your hard drive somewhere and double click on it... it will download Markleford's latest playlist, and use the links to mirror every track in the contest into a subdirectory on your hard drive. It will report any tracks that it couldn't download... and you can run the utility as many times as you want and it will keep trying to fill in the missing pieces.

It's pc-only, since I don't have a mac. But if can get perl and the LWP module up a running, you can use the perl source code version.

Cheers,
-Garret

Wopelka · Post by **Wopelka** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 2:12 pm

you've probably noticed that peppy197's track is not a direct link (and, at least for me, the link on the pages didn't work properly).

peppy197 sent me his track and i'm going to upload it on my website as soon as possible (in about 4/5 hours from now), so that everybody will be in a position to download it directly.

stay tuned... especially Markleford, in case everybody would use the very nice garret's little utility.

cheers

windchillFactor · Post by **windchillFactor** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 3:51 pm

garret wrote: This seems like a good time to repost my kvr contest automatic download utility...

Just put this exe on your hard drive somewhere and double click on it...

Careful, tho, it has a worm that forces your PC to only download happy pop tunes...

Wopelka · Post by **Wopelka** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:33 pm

AndreasE wrote:
Wopelka wrote: ich bin ein stuttgarter
You, too?

ich meine es à la JFK, you know
shall we see you there the 11th?

AndreasE · Post by **AndreasE** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:57 pm

garret wrote:This seems like a good time to repost my kvr contest automatic download utility...
Just put this exe on your hard drive somewhere and double click on it...

I only get a missing PERL58.DLL error when starting the exe.

august contest - GOSSIP