Competition

General Discussion
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Hello

I think it is great that you guys are putting up this competition, and the amount of involvement renoise composers are putting in.

Sadly, I use linux, and I am unable to open any of the 52 entries.

I would so very much like to hear them, as I am a massive fan of new music and like to hear experimental tracks whilst driving to work.

I would be very grateful (and will provide hosting solutions) if anyone (windows user) could convert each of these 52 entries to 192 (or more) mp3 format - then send to me.

Thank you.

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dual boot?

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sorry joshier, the complete competition songpack goes over 2 hours in duration, I don’t think anyone is going to render all the songs, then convert them to 192kbps mp3, and put the resulting 300+ megabyes file somewhere for you.

good luck for it, anyway.

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I might just render the tracks for my own mp3 player, easier to listen to them that way. Exept I’ll miss the quality of for example alex strain’s fab animation. ;)

Tho I’m still at the “might just do it”-stage. No promises.

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since BB5 rating guideline is also based on tracking skills, I would not use this as a method to gain more reviews.

could be a good idea to offer a separate MP3 download link for each song for those who want to test Renoise capabilities, but this should have nothing to do with BB5 rating.

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Over 2 hours in Ogg Vorbis 96kbps would be something like 100+ megs, a couple of megs per track, I think it’s acceptable for general public.

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oh well, in that case I’m not against it… I was just speaking basing my thoughts on the guidelines.

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Okay, I have begun doing this. It will obviously take a while :)

I’ll post again when it’s finished.

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Sure… do you know a good freeware way to do this batch style?

Other than that I’m just rendering with dither/auto dc/soft clip btw, and will encode to mp3 with a target bitrate of 192 (VBR, not CBR). I can’t be bothered to tag all those files though, consider that homework :P (it would be neat to have the .xrns comments as description tag)

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Foobar 2000 is the best one to play/convert, you also need Lame command line encoder. Though I still recommend Ogg usage. Linux dudes should know why…

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Cheers for suggesting foobar2000, didn’t think of that.

Yeah, plus OggDrop also has a normalize function… but there’s no point in debating this in this case.

(by the way, anyone know a flash player that supports .ogg?)

Oops. Well, xmplay has a normalize function, so yay.

12

There’s a problem with Alexstrain’s UnderTheC, it stops rendering prematurely (the progress bar is at 100% though). What gives?

13

I’d recommend update (replace) your iPod firmware with Rockbox, then I assume it’s gonna support ogg, flac and the stuff Apple’s perfect world don’t support.

14

Can anyone at least confirm that?

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Well, I simply left it out (and I obviously didn’t check the songs for sounding correct, I simply loaded, rendered, normalized them).

Now uploading a 330mb archive, ETA 2 hours… I don’t know if I’ll stay awake that long though, so I’ll pm the link to joshier right away.

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Sure, done (pm).

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This is very nice. Thanks.