753 Topic by Battle Lava

(4 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I uploaded all the tracks of my latest self-released work to bandcamp, then bothered to listen to them just recently and found that the quality of them was pretty poor, that is to say worse then they sound before uploading.

This is because the files are being converted into something crappy once uploaded?  Anyone know more about this then I do?

I took down all my songs, re exported all the tracks form my DAW and started to re-upload them to try and solve the issue, but realized it hasn't solved anything!

Is there something I can do to fix this or is this just something to deal with... ?

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754 Reply by Battle Lava

(96 replies, posted in General Discussion)

likeluke I like your posts in this thread

I'd loooove if one of the members of IFD would give us there side of it, but I don't see that happening.

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755 Reply by Battle Lava

(177 replies, posted in General Discussion)

http://battlelava.tumblr.com/

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756 Reply by Battle Lava

(7 replies, posted in Releases)

cool!

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757 Reply by Battle Lava

(106 replies, posted in Trading Post)

I hope you keep doing this for a while, I'm going to want one soon and wouldn't want to miss out yikes

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758 Reply by Battle Lava

(14 replies, posted in Releases)

dl'ed, listened to preview on cdk site, sounds sick... gonna throw it on the ipod and give it a real listen tomorrow

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759 Reply by Battle Lava

(96 replies, posted in General Discussion)

8bitweapon wrote:

...I'm not trying to upset folks, its just I've studied this a long time...

I'm not trying to upset you, but I have a hard time taking this seriously.

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760 Reply by Battle Lava

(96 replies, posted in General Discussion)

likeluke wrote:

tour support and booking, publicity, distribution.

True, but these things can be done without a label, but I guess are easier with a label, because someone else working for the label can do all that work for you.

I guess reading that albini article made me super paranoid of labels- that they are just crazy money hungry loan sharks!

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761 Reply by Battle Lava

(96 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Just 'cause they are on a label now doesn't mean they're gonna rake it in, they probably owe they're label money now if anything

The below link is not they're situation exactly but if you never read it, it could be interesting:

The Problem with Music by Steve Albini

I heard they made $10,000 with a fundraising/donation campaign selling limited edition stuff.  If there fan base is so helpful/generous, I'd think they would be better off working as hard as they have building it up even more, independently.

Look at really, really successful musical acts these days, they don't want to be on labels (radiohead, madonna)

Radiohead made the most money off of in rainbows then any album made when they were on a label.

Now of course I fight dragons are not this popular by a long shot, but I'm just using them as an example to make a point.

Anyway, blah blah blah, but why do people want to be on labels these days?  Enlighten me if you know.

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762 Reply by Battle Lava

(17 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

very cool!

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763 Reply by Battle Lava

(10 replies, posted in Collaborations)

starpause wrote:

wat did i type that out loud ^_________^

no i just READ YOUR MIND

B E W A R E

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764 Reply by Battle Lava

(23 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Is KiGB actually any good to use with lsdj, because I've tried GB emulators before on the mac and found the sound emulation pretty bad.  Have I been using the wrong emulators or am I just too picky?

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765 Reply by Battle Lava

(36 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

PLEASE DO! What is the preferred method for you? how big is the file?

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766 Reply by Battle Lava

(327 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Now my download folder has sooo much stuff in it my whole day is gonna be spent listening to undiscovered (by me) chip music big_smile

Does any else use the vox player for mac os x?  It's my favorite for mac for playing mod formats.

dl link

btw, paul the penguin is so old skool/amazing!

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767 Reply by Battle Lava

(3 replies, posted in Releases)

downloaded!

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768 Reply by Battle Lava

(36 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

Ok I'll investigate the site more

edit: Ok I get it now.  The paragraph explaining the link states it's for os x but the zip folder contains 2 windows executables.  The source is also provided, so I guess I'm expected to compile it myself in x-code?

sorry ant1 big_smile

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