The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Dammit I forgot about the optional challenge, and I probably could have incorporated it nicely

This is my first legit Song Fight entry in approximately 8 years. It's a good thing this isn't Nur Ein, because I'm 2 days late.

Votes to Distinctions and High Distinctions

HIGH DISTINCTION
The Gross Tones

DISTINCTION
Phlebia
Sweeney Toad
Berkeley Social Scene
Paco del Stinko

CREDIT
Cavedwellers
Amby Moho
Fussy Britches
Vom Vorton

PASS
Brown Word and the Big Whine
Lichen Throat
Pigfarmer Jr
Hot Pink Halo
James Owens
WreckdoM

FAIL
tomdb and wub
Tales About Digits
Seaweed Delete


EDIT...............
shit - posted in wrong thread - go to the other one - nothing to see here

If you're like me, and the "stream all" option on the website has never reliably worked for you, you may be interested in downloading this zip file that has all the mp3s for this fight. I've painstakingly edited all the id3 information in these files so if you just drop all these files into your mp3 player it should organize everything nicely and not make a mess. For me, this makes it a lot easier to listen to the fight on my preferred music players and devices.

https://muppetlabs.com/~mikeh/bs.zip

Chumpy wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 28, 2020 2:07 pm

If you're like me, and the "stream all" option on the website has never reliably worked for you, you may be interested in downloading this zip file that has all the mp3s for this fight. I've painstakingly edited all the id3 information in these files so if you just drop all these files into your mp3 player it should organize everything nicely and not make a mess. For me, this makes it a lot easier to listen to the fight on my preferred music players and devices.

https://muppetlabs.com/~mikeh/bs.zip

Is this different from the Zip mirror?

owl wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 28, 2020 2:10 pm

Is this different from the Zip mirror?

Yeah. That's a handy zip file that has all the files in it, but the id3 tags have whatever random junk in them as set by the submitter. So, for example, if you drop this into any of the Apple music players it's going to make a mess. It will treat them as individual songs, and many of them won't have the title right, or the artist, won't be in the right order, and they won't be part of the same compilation album.

It would be amazing if the website could normalize the id3 tags when it publishes them, but hey, I understand the site is crufty and hard to maintain as it is.

I've been using this: http://sfjukebox.org/

Maybe I should add some suggestions to the submission FAQ for folks on how they should set their ID3 tags? I wonder if things would improve at all from that? Of course, folks can't even correctly spell their own band names or use the correct titles sometimes, so ... maybe not.

Lunkhead wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 28, 2020 6:41 pm

Maybe I should add some suggestions to the submission FAQ for folks on how they should set their ID3 tags?

I was thinking that it would be nice to have guidelines... but who am I kidding? It took me years just to get the file name correct the first time.