Re: batch archiving folders as separate .zip files?
Re: batch archiving folders as separate .zip files? I'd think you can use something like rar or what have you for the command line, then just write a batch script to do it that way.Failing that, just use Winrar and have it do something like add to archive.rar.Though that also depends on if you want the folder to duplicate itself inside of itself, i.e. if you have a folder called my-sounds, when you hit add to folder-name.rar, it'll give you two instances of my-sounds, one inside the other when you extract it back out with the extract to my-sounds. I usually do that anyway, though, just to make things easier for those who hit extract here, which if you don't have a folder inside the archive and it's just a list of files, well, you can easily imagine just how cluttered your folder will get with all of the extracted files...How many folders are you wanting to compress? If it's a small number, I'd just do an add to folder-name.rar or zip in your case with 7zip or whatever you're using. it should work well enough. Unless they want you to have each zip file just be the files inside of that, in which case things will get kinda interesting.Hope that helps. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/589025/#p589025 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Any vinyl guys in here ever find a way to mark their tracking weight?
Re: Any vinyl guys in here ever find a way to mark their tracking weight? Hi,I can't say I've ever found a way other than guess work as to how to set the tracking weight. I have to fix my main turntable because I fiddled with the antiscate and tracking force and am now having to play around with it to reset everything. Mine does not have a counterweight, though.What I do is just try to listen via ear and carefully adjust things as I go. What I'm really concerned about is the amount of distortion or Mistracking that you get towards the center of a record. When my cartridge was set up correctly, I had very little mistracking, and I'm trying to set things up so as to have the entire side of the record sound equally good from start to finish.The only thing I can say for setting your tracking force is to try to do it by gently holding the stylus in your hand and just barely turning your tracking adjustment. Assuming you've got a steady hand and a good sense of weight, you can feel the difference between 0.5, 1, 2, 3 Grams, and so on. If not, keep on reading.Also remember that vinyl was originally designed to be tracked anywhere from 6 to 10 Grams of force, and you will be able to hear if you are bottoming out your cartridge. What I usually do is use a beat up record with some surface noise on it and set things to where the noise will just get a lot softer. that's your sweet spot so far as what that record wants for a tracking force setting. It should also work for lots of other records, as well.Finally, what you can do is use a dime on top of your headshell to add more tracking force for a record that will not otherwise play. A lot of people say to use Pennies, but they are slightly heavier than dimes. A dime is 2.68 G whereas a Pennie is 4 or so G or something like that. Feel free to look this up on the U.S. Treasury website. I used this trick to successfully play back a 16 rpm record at 33 rpm that was very slightly cracked on one side and downwardly warped along the line of the crack on the other. I was surprisingly able to get a semi-decent transfer of the record, though I did go and find myself another copy of the album to get a cleaner transfer of the tracks effected by the warp. As for how I got the thing to sound correct after encoding it at 33 rpm?1. Open Audassity and import your flac file into it.2. Hit CTRL+A to select the entire wave form, after you've selected the track in the window.3. Go to the effects menu and choose equalization. Find the RIAA setting in the list and go tabbing until you find the invert button. Hit that and then press ok. This removes the RIAA Equalization that your turntable's cartridge applied to the original encoding you did, leaving you with a now straight-lined equalized recording. If it sounds a bit tinny, don't worry.4. Now, go back to the effects menu and choose Change Speed. In the new dialogue box that appears, you need to set the speed to -50.00. That's Minus 50 Point 000. This will cause the audio to be reduced in speed and pitch by exactly one octave, thus bringing it down to 16 rpm speed.5. Once you've hit ok on the change speed dialogue and let that apply itself, go back to the Equalization dialogue and now apply the RIAA Equalization Preset properly this time. This will re-equalize the record back to the way it's supposed to sound.6. Once you are happy with your changes, you can then hit Ctrl+Shift+E to Export the entire audio track and save it as a new file.Have fun.If you want any samples of 16 rpm audio transferred in this way, I'm happy to provide sample tracks or track clips, depending on what the mods think is best. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/588554/#p588554 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Some Public Domain Fun
Re: Some Public Domain Fun @7, Awesome! Thanks for those.Also, I agree with you on the catchyness of a lot of older songs. Speaking of another fun old song, go look up Nonsense by Will F. Denny.You're welcome.Pretty much everything he did was catchy, or poking fun at something, kinda like a very very early Weird Al. Just do yourself a favor and look up all of his stuff you can find. Same goes for Will Oakland, Harry MacDonno and Billy Murry. She Sells Sea Shells is a particularly good song of his.Chorus:She sells sea shells on the sea shore.The shells she sells are sea shells, I'm sure.For if she sells sea shells on the sea shore,Then I'm sure she sells sea shore shells.There's also an article on the Library of Congress' blog that talks about the song. It's quite interesting.Anyway, I hope you enjoy the songs you encounter on your search. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/576783/#p576783 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Some Public Domain Fun
Re: Some Public Domain Fun @4, thanks for that. I first found the song on the Cylinder Audio Archive as recorded by Frank Miller. That recording is from 1905-1910 or something like that, though it's always nice to hear different versions of things.You do have to admit that songs back then were a lot more melodically focused in terms of that they were either sung or played on Player Pianos or what have you. Speaking of songs, another one that fits Manamon, at least partially, is a song called "As I Sat Upon My Dear Old Mother's Knee".Chorus:"She was gentle and so kind,and I'll ever bear in mind,The many golden lessons she taught me.I have wealth and earthly power,Yet I'd give all for one hour,That I sat upon my dear old Mother's Knee."Granted, that song may be a bit of a stretch, but there is another that comes to mind. It's called "My mother's old red shawl". Both of these songs are performed by Will Oakland, and they both can be found on the Cylinder Audio Archive.As for something more comically slanted, there's a song performed by Will F. Denny called "You'll have to get off and walk". I will warn you that it is incredibly catchy. This can also be found on the Cylinder Audio Archive. I have about 800 megabytes of cylinder recordings that I've scrounged from around the net, including all of the recordings I've mentioned so far. If you want a link to a zip or rar file of them, please let me know.One final song to leave you with, which is also very fitting for Manamon, more-so the third verse, though I think the entire song could be made to fit with some head canon meddling, is "Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still". The version I have is performed by Charles W. Harrison and is from around 1913.The following is transcribed from the cylinder recording. Verse 2 was not included, so I have not looked it up, other than to confirm that there are 3 verses to this song, though there may be more, depending on the version of the lyrics you find.Verse 1:"'Tis years since last we met,And we may not meet again.I have struggled to forget,But the struggle was in vain.Chorus 1:For her voice lives on the breeze,And her spirit comes at will.In the midnight on the seas,Her bright smile haunts me still.For her voice lives on the breeze,And her spirit comes at will.In the midnight on the seas,Her bright smile haunts me still.Verse 3:I have sailed 'neath alien skies.I have trod the desert paths.I have seen the storm arise,Like a Giant in his wrath.Chorus 2:Every danger I have known,That a reckless life can fill.Yet her presence is not flown,Her bright smile haunts me still.Every danger I have known,That a reckless life can fill.Yet her presence is not flown,Her bright smile haunts me still."I could see this song as applying either to the protagonist's mother or possibly to Sierra, maybe after he or she has become Champion or what have you. It kinda adds this really interesting reflectiveness onto all of the things that the protagonist in Manamon goes through. Plus, the tune is quite nice and hauntingly beautiful, as well.What do you think? Do you think this has any merit, or maybe you can find some other songs or poems or what have you?I'm curious to hear everyone's thoughts on all of this. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/575557/#p575557 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Some Public Domain Fun
Re: Some Public Domain Fun That's exactly what I'm saying.And it doesn't have to be just songs, but you can use anything, as long as it's in the Public Domain.For example, I was thinking about what happens to Dustin, the fourth Stadium leader, and a line from The Prophet came to mind.For Life and death are one, just as the river and the sea are one.If you've not read The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran, I'd highly recommend you take a look at it.My reasoning for doing this is because everyone knows Harry Potter, but how many people know about the Oz series by L. Frank Baum? Or, everyone knows about our modern music because that's all you hear, but how many have gone and listened to some of the recordings from the turn of the 20th century or even before that? Think of it as a challenge to both broaden your horizons and discover things along the way. Plus, it might even be fun just to see what's out there.A few places to start are:Project Gutenberghttp://gutenberg.orgLibrivox,http://librivox.orgwhich is a very nice place for free public domain audiobooks.And then there's,http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/the Cylinder Audio Archive, where you can find tons of old cylinder recordings.Oh, and I almost forgot abouthttp://www.tinfoil.coma quite interesting website regarding Wax Cylinders and the technology behind them.There's also the Internet Archive,http://archive.orgwhich has loads of stuff to look at and play around with.Does that answer your question?Feel free to post any of your thoughts and ideas for fun public domain references and how they connect to whatever games you're playing at the moment, or maybe you are working on a fanfic or other project and want to use something in that. Have fun with it. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/575157/#p575157 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Some Public Domain Fun
Some Public Domain Fun Hi,So, I was playing through Manamon the other day, and I found myself lamenting that we cannot put our own Mp3s to stand in for the game's original score. Granted, there is nothing wrong with the music in either of the Manamon games, but I found myself going through a directory of old Wax Cylinder and early disc based recordings, in addition to looking up some older songs on YouTube.Then, I began to think of just how fitting some of these older songs would be at certain points in the game. For example, there is a song called "Don't Go Down in the Mine, Dad", which is about a little child begging their father not to go work in the mine because of a dream. Even just the Chorus is pretty telling...Chorus:"Don't go down in the mine, Dad,Dreams very often come true;Daddy, you know it would break my heartIf anything happened to you;Just go and tell my dream to your mates,And true as the stars that shine,Something is going to happen today,Dear Daddy, don't go down the mine!"Yeah, I'd recommend looking up the song for the complete lyrics, but I think you get the idea. Now just imagine that chorus replacing the track for Mineruff Tunnel...You're welcome.Another song that fits quite well in Manamon's aesthetic is a song called "Do They Miss Me At Home", which was written sometime around the Civil War and which if you look it up on YouTube or wherever, you can certainly see how well that song fits based on its lyrics.So, I'm wondering how many other people are now curious to go looking for songs that are in the Public Domain to add to your own Head-Canons for Audiogames or anything else you can think of. Plus, since the songs you find are public domain, you can use them in things like fanfics with impunity.By something being in the Public Domain, I am referring to Public Domain in the U.S., so that would generally mean anything from before 1925, as things are now, in 2020. I'm interested and curious to see what everyone comes up with.Have fun. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/574989/#p574989 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
