RTP-area local music and culture

[tommy Gibson <tcgibson AT mindspring.com>]

Chris,

I put 3 of my favorite "local" albums online.
I'm pretty sure they're tagged appropriately (ID3v1, not v2).
Song titles are links to the actual mp3s.
If any of these files look like they might be useful, please
feel free to help yourself.

http://tommygibson.com/mp3s.html


-tG


Chris Calloway wrote:
> i need your help. all the cool kids are doing it. you
> may as well, too.
>
> in less than a couple of weeks, i teach (yes, i know,
> hold your laughter) a computer programming boot camp
> for research scientists in a number of disciplines.
>
> for one of the first lessons, the class walks through
> a nearly trivial program which parses ID3v1.0 tags out
> of MP3 files and prints them. like so:
>
> album=you win
> comment=http://www.thestrugglers.org
> title=the cascade range
> artist=the strugglers
> year=2005
> genre=255
>
> we'll do that because it's easy and fun compared to
> what we normally do all day. ID3v1.0 tags are the last
> 128 bytes of an mp3 file if those bytes begin with the
> string "TAG" and then the data is positional from
> there. whoo-hoo. that's is about as easy as metadata
> gets.
>
> because not only local folks, but people from all over
> the country are coming to this class, i thought it
> would be fun to populate the example mp3 directory for
> testing the program in this lesson with tunage from
> some of my favorite local bands.
>
> so i went to trianglerock.com and spent way to much
> time downloading mp3s made by many of you kind people.
>
> this despite deadlines are looming large quickly and i
> really don't have time to spend skipping through mp3
> gardens. i mean, sleep is entirely out of the question
> for awhile. like, i've been meaning to write this
> email for three months now and i can't wait any
> longer.
>
> so after spending this time downloading, what i find
> is that very few of us tag our music files. the
> strugglers, as shown above, are a very fine exception.
> thank you, strugglers! the moaners, veronique
> diabolique, vibrant green, and jett rink also get
> merit badges for having at least partial tag data.
>
> and you should tag your files. embedded tags are what
> allow you to see what's playing in your player without
> having to attach to some creepy file signature service
> on the net collecting data about what you listen to.
>
> so to finally get to the point, what i'm asking is, if
> your local band has mp3 files you'd like a captive
> audience of geeky science nerds to hear, tag 'em with
> complete and informative ID3v1.0 tags and send 'em  or
> a link to 'em to me via private email at the from
> address of this email. i'd be pleased as punch to plug
> your tunes in return for a good sampling of complete
> tag sets.
>
> There's a whole crapload of freeware, shareware, and
> otherware tag editors here:
>
> http://www.dailymp3.com/id3tagging.html
>
> and still a bunch more not listed there all over the
> web.
>
> also, i'm looking for id3v1 tags and not id3v2 tags.
> id3v2 tags are more complicated and less suited for
> this nearly trivial lesson. pretty much all of those
> tag editors will let you choose which tag version you
> are applying to your files and some are smart enough
> to do both.
>
> ok, thanks. that is all.
>
> 3
>
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