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12 June 2005

Metachat Mix Swap: Less than 24 hours to go. Please upload your mixes by 7 pm UTC tomorrow. See more details here.

post by: dodgygeezer at: 15:23 | 55 comments

should we post our track listings here, so people will know if they want to download? or keep it a surprise?

posted by amberglow 12 June | 15:28

there will be a new thread tomorrow, you can post them there.

posted by dodgygeezer 12 June | 15:32

posted by amberglow 12 June | 15:54

I think surprise is best. I may end up downloading things I might not have and be pleasantly surprised.

posted by arse_hat 12 June | 16:22

people don't have to show their track listings if they don't want to. you could post a track listing, a short summary, a mood or nothing at all.

posted by dodgygeezer 12 June | 16:30

i would rather keep it a surprise, it's more fun that way. this isn't a pick-and-choose kind of thing, right?

posted by puke & cry 12 June | 16:37

Are spoken word thingys ok? Excerpts from radio programs is what I am thinking.

posted by mlis 12 June | 16:46

Did I mention I'm absurdly excited about downloading all this stuff? It's such an embarassment of riches.

mlis-I'm fine with spoken word, but I'm no one's authority.

posted by omiewise 12 June | 16:50

p&c - it's only a pick & choose thing in so far as people don't have to download your mix. you can maintain the surprise by describing your mix in non specific terms. i dunno, something like "my mix sounds like johnny cash kicking the shit out of miles davis" is better than nothing but if you don't want to describe your mix then you don't have to.

mlis - intriguing. i'm sure no one will complain about spoken word, i know i'm very interested.

posted by dodgygeezer 12 June | 17:02

actually dodgy, i would like to describe my mix as exactly that. it's not, but i'd like to anyway. so as for downloading, it seems we'll be able to download everyone/anyones mix, eh? because if i can, i'll get them all. and hoard them. it's kind my thing.

posted by puke & cry 12 June | 17:28

because if i can, i'll get them all. and hoard them. it's kind my thing.

fill your boots!

posted by dodgygeezer 12 June | 17:34

sweet

posted by puke & cry 12 June | 17:35

i would describe my mix as deranged...a little sad, a little happy, but mostly deranged...that said, i think it will make you smile despite yourself. ;p

posted by Schyler523 12 June | 17:46

16 minutes to upload a 102 MB file -- and I'm on a T1 line -- is that normal?

posted by matteo 12 June | 17:58

My mix sounds like the Ruins kicking the shit out of Orthrelm while Daniel Denis, Christian Vander, and Guigou Chenevier look on and cheer.

(matteo--it took me an hour, and I'm on cable.)

posted by kenko 12 June | 17:59

matteo - your mix has been received.

posted by dodgygeezer 12 June | 18:00

cool, thanks!

posted by matteo 12 June | 18:14

at this point I have a Jrun syndrome

posted by matteo 12 June | 18:14

102 mb? dang, mines only 52. whats up with that?

posted by puke & cry 12 June | 18:47

1/2 the songs? a lower bitrate?

posted by amberglow 12 June | 18:50

mine is 82 MBs or so...

btw, I think that using Azureus as the BT client and creating mixes as decentralized torrents would work to reduce dodgygeezer's bandwidth costs...

posted by Schyler523 12 June | 19:39

i was able to get Schyler's but am not sure i'm seeding it...am i?

i still can't create one for mine tho :

posted by amberglow 12 June | 20:09

amberglow has mine and is/was seeding it...i'm trying to walk him through creating and seeding his torrent...email me to get a copy of my torrent.

posted by Schyler523 12 June | 20:33

i'm finally able to make a torrent of mine that works...email me for it. : >

posted by amberglow 12 June | 21:58

Email me for my torrent. I'm also seeding Schyler's and Amberglow's.

posted by matildaben 12 June | 23:42

i've got 17 tracks at about 2-3.5 mbs each and a pdf cover, 50.2 mb.

posted by puke & cry 13 June | 03:00

so should i load up? someone give me the high sign and i will

posted by ethylene 13 June | 03:34

so should i load up?

yes. check the instructions here.

posted by dodgygeezer 13 June | 03:37

just for you, dodger
*very nSFW sign*
will do it track by track so follow the listing come monday
or should i do a whole folder and the then track it?
removing all the edits/mixing, it's just a bunch of songs you either never heard or heard long ago, variatons, etc.

posted by ethylene 13 June | 03:40

coda: i may well be dyslexic but it's been to far along and far gone to figure it out, but in most romantic tongues: just fine

take that, tom cruise!

posted by ethylene 13 June | 03:42

doing it one track at a time to make sure, even though i'm not sure of the tracks

sorry, haven't equalized the sounds or mixed them together but it seems easier this way, despite lost jokes

posted by ethylene 13 June | 03:49

how does it look so far?

posted by ethylene 13 June | 04:05

it'd really help me out if you could put all the mp3 files in a zip file labelled ethylene.zip and upload them again. if i can't then i'll do it later.

oh and thanks for freaking me out by including a track i was listening to not more than five minutes ago.

posted by dodgygeezer 13 June | 04:16

sorry, i was going to but i thought i would be more assured they would get there individually in case of a break down--
should i stop and start over?
(btw, i meant to do that)

posted by ethylene 13 June | 04:30

ok, artful dodger, is it ok or should i zip it?
(i sent them in order of listing)

posted by ethylene 13 June | 04:40

yeah, just do it as a zip - so far all the others have got there OK so it should be fine. thanks.

posted by dodgygeezer 13 June | 04:41

are they usable as is? because unless someone else was loading at the ame time, it should be all 25 short tracks, san jokes (added on track list later today).
i don't want you to go through any extra trouble, so tell me what to do, like i'm special and you're reading to me slow.

posted by ethylene 13 June | 04:44

add s on ame

posted by ethylene 13 June | 04:45

ok and sorry, i have to run off to another crisis situation. the cocoa isn't working so just omit my entries if it's any bother. no one will be the worse for ware.
(but the "right by your side" is very much how i picture, and for, taz: a song that can be redone forever (have autographs to prove it))

I'll try to check in tomorrow, barring funereal services)

posted by ethylene 13 June | 04:57

Trying, but the power keeps going out here :-(

posted by dg 13 June | 07:31

Hmm here's something that maybe someone can use to set up a tracker: http://www.blogtorrent.com/

Apparently one of the users is the illustrious founder of our parent site.

posted by matildaben 13 June | 10:39

dg - your mix has been received

posted by dodgygeezer 13 June | 11:57

Done. 94.3 MB @ 192 kbs.

posted by carter 13 June | 12:06

carter the unstoppable mix machine - received

posted by dodgygeezer 13 June | 13:00

heh that's a damn good name - why didn't i think of that ;)

posted by carter 13 June | 13:05

how many do you have so far?

posted by amberglow 13 June | 13:08

So we're almost at the deadline in UTC, aren't we? I figure it's about 45 minutes from now??

posted by carter 13 June | 13:14

no, it's an hour and forty mins from now.

posted by dodgygeezer 13 June | 13:21

Gah! That means I'll have to stay at work for another two hours ...

posted by carter 13 June | 13:23

ethylene - sorry I can't sort out your mix tonight - it'd really be much, much easier if you could put them into one zip file and upload them. thanks.

posted by dodgygeezer 13 June | 13:55

One hour to go. I'm going to use the phat pipe here at work to download all the mixes, copy them to my iPod as zip files, then smuggle them home to un-zip, en-iTunes and then re-iPod.
Silly, I know.

posted by Capn 13 June | 13:57

it is the circle of life

posted by dodgygeezer 13 June | 13:58

dodgygeezer, I just want to confirm that you have mine - I uploaded it a few days ago. Thanks.

posted by matildaben 13 June | 14:08

ethyl, if you want you can email them to me, numbered, and i can zip it all together tonight.

posted by amberglow 13 June | 14:15

Boo. Mine failed. I'll have to try later today from work.

/swears

posted by bdave 13 June | 17:44

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