Contata 2011

[hms42]

I got home a few hours ago (via my parents house for dinner.)

Just a quick note for now...

The convention was good and a lot of fun. Major thank yous to Spencer Love and Joe Kesselman who assisted with running sound and making it so that everyone had a good time! I could not have done it without your help.

More details when I have time (a day or two from now), including track listing for the CDs I published for the convention. (Fanac, Dark Deeds & Desperate Men (and Women). There were 4 new CDs at the convention that I know of and got copies of.)

Comments

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had a good time at the con!

What were the new CDs out?

[hms42]

Fanac (for all members of the con - attending and supporting)
Where the Lightning Strikes - Premium Package
RHMS 1987 performance - Special Friend package. (A copy will be interfilked @ OVFF this year.)

Roberta Rogow's Dark Deeds & Desperate Men (and Women) CD. Its a mystery songs themed CD which includes a cover of Been There, Dun That performed by Juanita Coulson. (I know I emailed you about permissions before it went to press and I will be getting the contributor copies out sometime this week.)

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

I should really put up the track listing for Where The Lightning Strikes on the Contata website and link to it so we can put it up for sale.

I came home to retroactive permission from Bill Steele for a parody of 1000 Songs, so we're 100% legal again. :)

[hms42]

Yea! I need to purchase an extra copy of "The Lightning Strikes" for a friend who was not at Contata.

[hms42]

I also heard about a CD that Ben Newman had a song appear on. (last track.)

http://www.quakersong.org/meet_me/

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

By the by, the credits for tracks 9, 10, 11 seem to be swapped.

I fixed it in Gracenote for the iTunes CD database.

[hms42]

I must have had one bad copy get thru somehow...

I just put the CD into my laptop and it found the tracks in iTunes. Thank you for doing that. I never entered the tracks into the computer. Did I ever say thank you for your help on getting this CD done and out?

[jonbaker.livejournal.com]

So, um, if the track credits are in Gracenote, why, when I tried ripping the two CDs (FANAC and Lightning) with Win Media Player yesterday, was there no track info?

Update: Didn't see it in iTunes either. How do I find them without typing it all in?

[hms42]

It might not have been entered by someone at the time you had put them in your computer. I ran out of time or I would have entered the song list info before the convention.

See if you can trigger it to check for song lists now and if it turns up.

I did put the CD in on my mac and I know the track names were not encoded in the CD info. (Wrong burning program.)

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

These are now both in iTunes. I'll double check them from my home computer later, but I believe they are both properly uploaded now, as well as the Rocky Horror Muppet Show CD from 1987.

[hms42]

Let me check it on the PC....

It just came up in registered Winamp for Fanac. I am testing Windows Media Player next.

I think I found the problem.... The server that Windows Media Player points at is not gracenote, but "fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com". (Don't you just "love" a company that can't use the main database that most other programs use and forces you to enter the SAME data 3 times over... (My CD ripping program uses 3rd CDDB service.)

It looks like we have to add it to a 3rd database when producing an album. (Testing with Fanac.)