"Curtains for You" [mp3 removed].
Revised and slightly expanded version of a piece previously posted. I essentially made all the changes I said I was going to make: the Farfisa organ now has wah-wah pedal (after the break), the melody has more variations and syncopations than the original placeholder riff, and delay pedal and percussion effects have been added. I'm sure I could keep thinking of little refinements, but it's past the skeletal phase at least.
Hey Tom, I think you'd mentioned something like this not long ago, but why don't you put your name on these files? For example, this file is "Curtains_for_You_expanded.mp3", but when I download it I put your name on it ala "Tom_Moody_Curtains_for_You_expanded.mp3" so I know where this came from. Is there any other data embedded in the files that identifies the author, title, etc.?
That's interesting. Of course Tom could embed id3 data inside the mp3 file specifying the name of the track and artist name, etc.... But one of my goals for the new music system (coming sometime in January) is to have id3 info editing available right in your browser. This way the actual file name could be 'Curtains_for_You_expanded.mp3' (that just makes it easy across different file systems), but the track name could be 'Curtains for You expanded' (or whatever including spaces and special characters) and the artist name, and album name, and all that other info would be embedded as well. Then this would be what would show up in iTunes or WinAmp or whatever MP3 player you used.
Again, you could already add that stuff with an external editor (it is all stored inside the file, so it's there no matter what with mp3s) but the point is that we need to make it easier to add, edit, and delete the mp3 meta information right in your browser. This is all coming. I know I have been slow on the music front. But soon.
cough, cough
Yeah, I know. Fair enough. Feel free to cough louder. It does make me move faster.
My Winamp 5 supposedly allows me to add/edit metadata to the file and I know I did it once, but the last few times I tried I couldn't figure out what I did.
As far as copyright, the official URL and first publication of this song is tommoody.us/audio/dec05/Curtains_for_You_expanded.mp3
It just seems wordy and slightly vain to change it to
tommoody.us/audio/dec05/tom_moody_Curtains_for_You_expanded.mp3
I did mention earlier that mp3 sites are linking to these tunes without mentioning my brand, I mean, name.
In effect, each song is written by an alias on those sites, because they just use the title as the name of the artist, for example, "Blues for DG2" by Blues For DG2. But all of them ultimately link to my tommoody.us URL, because they're too cheap to download and store the mp3s themselves.
Bottom line, I've just been too lazy to go back and rename over a 100 songs.
I may regret this inaction eventually, but it may also not matter. I have given it thought.
Oh, and thanks for downloading "Curtains for You expanded" by Curtains for You expanded. (I do plan to edit out the "expanded"--probably later tonight.)
If you use iTunes, and you select the song and then do a "File > Get Info", you can enter all the relevant data...
big if thor
I do have the iTunes media player, just not the dollar-a-song store. Thanks for that info, I'll try to use it to edit files.
Oh yeah I like that music too.
Thanks, man. OK, I realized what I was doing wrong in Winamp--duh, I had it loaded with the original .wav files, which aren't editable like mp3s are in the player. I used ID3v2 to edit the data--I assume that's the standard, as opposed to ID3v1? This file and "Crickets" now have the metadata. Can someone please help me verify that it's working? I didn't plan on spending my holiday replacing 100+ files, but I probably should be a responsible Internet citizen.
Yes, it all turns up in the title, artist, and composer fields.
In iTunes you can select a range of songs and then do file > get info on the whole group and add yourself as artist to all the songs at once. Doesn't get the track name in, but it's a lot quicker than going through every file individually.
Thanks, I'll try that.
Look, I just figure, dammit, you make the stuff and your name should go on it. If you don't take credit no one else will give you credit, and you deserve the recognition! Embed the URL and any other data in the file if you can, too. If you don't want your name on the music then maybe you should be posting these anonymously from a site without your name on it, but I don't think that's what you want. And my guess is once you build a body of work (or make this existing body of work bigger and bigger) you're going to be glad everything is labeled fully and properly. Besides, I've got a bunch of these files on my computer and when I open iTunes or Real all I see are the titles; once I hear the music I know who made it, but I can't sort it by your name.
Hey, did I miss the big grand opening of tommoody.us? Where have I been? How did I not know about this? Was there a ribbon cutting and cake? I just caught the reference when you noted above the path names to the files, for example, .
Aargh, never put anything here in the less than/greater than brackets used for HTML; the URL missing from my post above is tommoody.us/audio/dec05/tom_moody_Curtains_for_You_expanded.mp3.
There was no grand opening--I was watching all the tommoody URLs getting snatched up and figured I better stake out some turf. Mostly I use it for posting my own music (including trial balloons) since it's a storage and bandwidth hog.
Pretty sure if you check "remember me" you lose your (guest) status and the system lets you post HTML. Otherwise it strips it automatically. That's one reason we're not sharing this thread with the spam industry.
That's correct Tom.
JR Simon Jr. Referred me to this site after viewing my Illustrator files.
I'd like info on how to get on a web site.
William Tuggle
willtug01@earthlink.net
seriously can we help this guy out? JR Simon Jr. Referred me to this site after viewing my Illustrator files.
I'd like info on how to get on a web site.
William Tuggle
willtug01@earthlink.net
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"Curtains for You" [mp3 removed].
Revised and slightly expanded version of a piece previously posted. I essentially made all the changes I said I was going to make: the Farfisa organ now has wah-wah pedal (after the break), the melody has more variations and syncopations than the original placeholder riff, and delay pedal and percussion effects have been added. I'm sure I could keep thinking of little refinements, but it's past the skeletal phase at least.
- tom moody 12-21-2005 11:22 am
Hey Tom, I think you'd mentioned something like this not long ago, but why don't you put your name on these files? For example, this file is "Curtains_for_You_expanded.mp3", but when I download it I put your name on it ala "Tom_Moody_Curtains_for_You_expanded.mp3" so I know where this came from. Is there any other data embedded in the files that identifies the author, title, etc.?
- chrisashley (guest) 12-22-2005 12:11 am
That's interesting. Of course Tom could embed id3 data inside the mp3 file specifying the name of the track and artist name, etc.... But one of my goals for the new music system (coming sometime in January) is to have id3 info editing available right in your browser. This way the actual file name could be 'Curtains_for_You_expanded.mp3' (that just makes it easy across different file systems), but the track name could be 'Curtains for You expanded' (or whatever including spaces and special characters) and the artist name, and album name, and all that other info would be embedded as well. Then this would be what would show up in iTunes or WinAmp or whatever MP3 player you used.
Again, you could already add that stuff with an external editor (it is all stored inside the file, so it's there no matter what with mp3s) but the point is that we need to make it easier to add, edit, and delete the mp3 meta information right in your browser. This is all coming. I know I have been slow on the music front. But soon.
- jim 12-22-2005 5:25 am
cough, cough
- bill 12-22-2005 6:01 am
Yeah, I know. Fair enough. Feel free to cough louder. It does make me move faster.
- jim 12-22-2005 6:56 am
My Winamp 5 supposedly allows me to add/edit metadata to the file and I know I did it once, but the last few times I tried I couldn't figure out what I did.
As far as copyright, the official URL and first publication of this song is tommoody.us/audio/dec05/Curtains_for_You_expanded.mp3
It just seems wordy and slightly vain to change it to
tommoody.us/audio/dec05/tom_moody_Curtains_for_You_expanded.mp3
I did mention earlier that mp3 sites are linking to these tunes without mentioning my brand, I mean, name.
In effect, each song is written by an alias on those sites, because they just use the title as the name of the artist, for example, "Blues for DG2" by Blues For DG2. But all of them ultimately link to my tommoody.us URL, because they're too cheap to download and store the mp3s themselves.
Bottom line, I've just been too lazy to go back and rename over a 100 songs.
I may regret this inaction eventually, but it may also not matter. I have given it thought.
- tom moody 12-22-2005 7:44 am
Oh, and thanks for downloading "Curtains for You expanded" by Curtains for You expanded. (I do plan to edit out the "expanded"--probably later tonight.)
- tom moody 12-22-2005 7:49 am
If you use iTunes, and you select the song and then do a "File > Get Info", you can enter all the relevant data...
- Thor Johnson (guest) 12-22-2005 6:57 pm
big if thor
- bill 12-22-2005 7:00 pm
I do have the iTunes media player, just not the dollar-a-song store. Thanks for that info, I'll try to use it to edit files.
- tom moody 12-22-2005 7:15 pm
Oh yeah I like that music too.
- Thor Johnson (guest) 12-22-2005 7:58 pm
Thanks, man. OK, I realized what I was doing wrong in Winamp--duh, I had it loaded with the original .wav files, which aren't editable like mp3s are in the player. I used ID3v2 to edit the data--I assume that's the standard, as opposed to ID3v1? This file and "Crickets" now have the metadata. Can someone please help me verify that it's working? I didn't plan on spending my holiday replacing 100+ files, but I probably should be a responsible Internet citizen.
- tom moody 12-22-2005 8:20 pm
Yes, it all turns up in the title, artist, and composer fields.
- Thor Johnson (guest) 12-22-2005 8:25 pm
In iTunes you can select a range of songs and then do file > get info on the whole group and add yourself as artist to all the songs at once. Doesn't get the track name in, but it's a lot quicker than going through every file individually.
- jim 12-22-2005 8:30 pm
Thanks, I'll try that.
- tom moody 12-22-2005 8:33 pm
Look, I just figure, dammit, you make the stuff and your name should go on it. If you don't take credit no one else will give you credit, and you deserve the recognition! Embed the URL and any other data in the file if you can, too. If you don't want your name on the music then maybe you should be posting these anonymously from a site without your name on it, but I don't think that's what you want. And my guess is once you build a body of work (or make this existing body of work bigger and bigger) you're going to be glad everything is labeled fully and properly. Besides, I've got a bunch of these files on my computer and when I open iTunes or Real all I see are the titles; once I hear the music I know who made it, but I can't sort it by your name.
- chrisashley (guest) 12-22-2005 9:46 pm
Hey, did I miss the big grand opening of tommoody.us? Where have I been? How did I not know about this? Was there a ribbon cutting and cake? I just caught the reference when you noted above the path names to the files, for example, .
- chrisashley (guest) 12-22-2005 9:50 pm
Aargh, never put anything here in the less than/greater than brackets used for HTML; the URL missing from my post above is tommoody.us/audio/dec05/tom_moody_Curtains_for_You_expanded.mp3.
- chrisashley (guest) 12-22-2005 9:52 pm
There was no grand opening--I was watching all the tommoody URLs getting snatched up and figured I better stake out some turf. Mostly I use it for posting my own music (including trial balloons) since it's a storage and bandwidth hog.
- tom moody 12-22-2005 10:24 pm
Pretty sure if you check "remember me" you lose your (guest) status and the system lets you post HTML. Otherwise it strips it automatically. That's one reason we're not sharing this thread with the spam industry.
- tom moody 12-22-2005 10:29 pm
That's correct Tom.
- jim 12-23-2005 1:18 am
JR Simon Jr. Referred me to this site after viewing my Illustrator files.
I'd like info on how to get on a web site.
William Tuggle
willtug01@earthlink.net
- willtugg01 (guest) 1-08-2006 11:28 pm
seriously can we help this guy out?
- bill 1-09-2006 3:40 am