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    Download problem

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Although everyone has chimed in with the solution, I will mention that I too use Chrome and have the same auto-play "feature" when it comes to MP3s. While I do suspect it's Quicktime's fault, no matter what I try or what Chrome setting I try to set/reset, nothing solves it. But since there's a workaround it doesn't stop me from using an otherwise awesome browser. :)

    zirconmusic.com Redesign/Relaunch - Come one come all!

    in General Discussion

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    Love the redesign zircon! Will have to pick up RAR tout de suite.

    Minor feedback: On the digital store page, all the album covers are resized to 200x144... Maybe this was an intentional design choice, but to me they look squished since the full covers are square.

    Elsewise... ever considered using Bandcamp for your digital downloads?(kinda like Protagonist Records does now - See, e.g., http://zircon.protagonistrecords.net/.) One advantage people don't realize about Bandcamp is that listeners can browse by tags/genres and may stumble on your music that way (we had a number of visitors to EFP Vol 2 this way).

    Cheers!

    Metric!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Some good submissions here. I'm a Metric fan and I love when bands host this kind of open-collaboration-mix type thing to get more fans involved. They also play a really good live show. ;)

    Andy Hunter - Collide

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Thanks for the heads up on this. Despite being a huge electronic music fan I'd never heard of Andy Hunter before (there's so much to discover). Wow great stuff, definitely going to check out his catalog.

    But, I'll wait until Collide is on Amazon (sorry can't help with the dance chart push on iTunes, I don't buy there!).

    Modified MP3 Tagging & Official OCR Album Art!

    in Announcements

    Posted

    Anyway I think I'll convert the new cover into a 200x200 image too, bigger covers (in mp3 files) are useless in my opinion.

    :shock:

    Believe me there is a HUGE difference between 200x200 and 600x600 on my iPhone 4's display (920x640). The smaller art just doesn't look as sharp/refined. Makes me really regret, years ago, saying "Oh I think 300x300 will be fine" when I first embarked on my album-art project for my music library. In most cases the file size difference is minor unless you're getting up to 1000x1000 and higher, and if you're into collecting music then I think you've already forgone the "I don't have enough hard drive space for that" argument. 8) Don't make the same mistake I did!

    I'm thrilled to see 600x600 as the new default, looks awesome on my iPhone and even Foobar when I maximize my player window. Coincidentally Bandcamp defaults to 700x700 for embedded art, which is pretty close too.

    other people might have said: "that's the new tagging, if you want old stuff tagged: do it yourself". so kudos to you.

    I agree, I think it's great you guys are doing this. I don't understand why, to this day, artists put music on the web with incomplete/improper tagging (and I do mean the artists themselves, not * ahem * others who might put them up somewhere, usually with proper tagging). I mean there's an ocean of music and why make it harder for us to look you up later? Updating all the older OCR tracks and making them easily available says to me, as a listener, that somebody cares about the branding and consistency, which is huge.

    Oh and Larry, I think the URL in the album title is a great idea as this makes it drop-dead simple for new visitors to know exactly where the mix came from with no ambiguity or pain. In the modern era of "everything now" it really IS asking a lot for someone to take that extra step of Googling your site. Although many/most of us care enough to take that extra step, that's probably because on some level we're all music enthusiasts. The average listener is much lazier/busy/ambivalent IMHO. (And although I change the album title for my own library, I still agree with the decision as it's just good marketing sense!)

    Modified MP3 Tagging & Official OCR Album Art!

    in Announcements

    Posted

    This is absolutely amazing! Thanks guys for this much-needed update and the art looks sweeet! No more blurry 250x250 placeholder (which was fine but getting a little outdated...).

    Love the track # update especially, doing these manually was getting painstaking.

    Now the tags will almost comport with my own variations, but they are minor so no complaints here (I change genre to "Game Remix" and add the release year to album title for my own sorting purposes).

    Massive free indie electronic sampler - Electro Freaks Present Vol. 2

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hey guys, I just wanted to bump this one more time and give a big thanks to everyone who downloaded, commented, and in general liked the compilation. Our Bandcamp stats indicate we had a LOT of visitors from OCR, so thanks for checking us out! :)!!

    Two quick points:

    1. Our Bandcamp "free downloads" cap will reset in 2 days, which means between now and then, I highly encourage anyone who hasn't done so to go download it now! Yes, it WILL still be available for free after that, it's just that we have a monthly allocated "limit" and since we haven't reached it yet (and it doesn't rollover), please download away!

    2. We also uploaded EFP Vol 01: Digital 61, our first release from 2009. If you haven't checked it out yet, please use up our download credits and grab a copy TODAY. It's also FREE!

    http://electrofreaks.bandcamp.com/album/efp-vol-01-digital-61

    Please enjoy responsibly. Unless playing this LOUD and OFTEN would be irresponsible. Then by all means, enjoy irresponsibly.

    Thanks folks! You are all awesome. 8)

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    OCR00998 - Chrono Trigger "Time Management"

    in ReMix Reviews & Comments

    Posted · Edited by Zen Frazier

    OCR featured this track on its Facebook page today and a few people were wondering about this fabled "extended version." The link was buried a few posts back, but here it is again for anyone still looking!

    Unfortunately it's only 128kbps but hey, better than nothing!

    http://www.rpgamer.com/games/chrono/ct/sounds/mp3/TimeManagement(E-Bison).mp3

    EDIT: Forgot to mention, this has long been one of my favorite OCR tracks. Thanks E-Bison for making MANY of my workouts much more enjoyable! :D

    Album! LEITBUR - You and I Could Rule the World

    in General Discussion

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    Just posted to Bandcamp!

    http://leitbur.bandcamp.com/

    That site is fantastic, by the way... so much simpler than everything else out there.

    @RedFusion: Thanks! There's a bare-bones CD release heading to Amazon, but it's mainly so that I can qualify for Pandora, LOL. Should be there sometime next month (in time for a music video push). Oy, this marketing thing is tricky. I just want to write, haha.

    Yay Bandcamp! Thanks for the quick turnaround sir. Now to get paid so that YOU can get paid... 8-)

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