Dirty Compilation 2008: "Evidence of Autumn"

[holden]

Dear all,

We're pleased to announce that this year's compilation of original productions by some of the talented musicians on the darktrain dirty forums, "Evidence of Autumn" is now online:

http://www.darksounds.org/2008/

13 tracks by 10 forum members. 71:15 of eclectic electro goodness.

Check out the individual artist's tracks and info,
or download the Zip file of all 13 tracks plus CD cover art:
http://www.darksounds.org/2008/music...ceofautumn.zip

Thanks again to Maus for getting everything settled online.

Hope everyone enjoys this late autumn/early Christmas gift!

Cheers,
Holden

[Camiel]

wOOt! I will download this and discuss it here tonight!

[King of Snake]

thanks Holden & Maus for making it all happen! Thanks to all the artists for making da tunes!
Will listen tonight and comment later.

[Sean]

Thanks everyone for getting this together. Just in time too - I get on a plane to Romania in a few hours, so now I have some new music to listen to on the flight! Yee-haw!

[Professor]

wow, some of these tunes are long...

[Lx_Nen]

Looks like you've got the same problem as me, huge quantities of silence at the end of most of the tracks in the zip. Also, a few of the ID3 tags have a slightly different album title, which means my mp3 player isn't grouping them correctly.

[holden]

Yeah, something's not right with the DL for me...
i sent Maus the tracks as they were (all playable, tagged and with reasonable tracklengths). i think Maus re-encoded everything as VBR 192 kbs, which at least Windows Media Player doesn't like for me. Tracks 1-7 aren't recognized.



i thought i'd tagged everything consistently, although Viddy's "Trance de Muerte megagmix" might have remnants from his original tag, as this was from his soundtrack album.

Any particular issues with the tags other than the long silences that i can relay to Maus?
Thanks,
Holden

[viddy]

My track appears to be 44:16 of silence....

[holden]

Yeah, dunno what's up. Maus is aware of it, so we'll get it sorted.
i think something happened in the re-encoding (tracks were of various bitrates and played fine - but perhaps the VBR encoding mesed 'em up?)

Sorry, folks - guess we got to wait a bit longer!

[maus]

OKAY!

sorry about all the errors, everyone. i relied on the switch app converting things without a problem, which clearly was a mistake. to be fair, it was inevitable that SOMETHING would be wacky when trying to pull off the whole site in a day!

i converted to 192 VBR for both space and consistency's sake - our zip file now checks in at 107 MB including front and back artwork, but all the files have checked out (at least on my system - if others could confirm, that'd be groovy.)

i also scaled down the artwork and embedded it in the individual mp3 files, so it'll show up in the player of your choice now.

LX Nen's info has been updated, as well as his link, and i also put the artwork up on the music page.

okay now i have to go do real work.

rock on,
c