[bcab] Re: Catnav CDs

hi Tim
 
not only that, but when the information is available, we can demonstrate
the feature as part of the EyeT4All awareness days themselves, killing
two birds with one stone by engaging people with the albums without
explicitly advertising them.  We tried to do this at the Sight Village
Plus mini EyeT4All seminar on Friday, and that's when the problem first
came to light.  The label owner told me: "We didn't do it because you
didn't ask us to".  I didn't ask, because, on production of the playing
times and other details, I thought it was a given.  We didn't ask when
we put the previous three albums together and it happened, so I am
frankly puzzled by the whole thing.
 
Regards,
Clive
 
 
 
          
Clive Lever
Diversity Advisor
01622 221163 (extension 7000 1163) Room 1.15, Sessions House, County
Hall, Maidstone, ME14 1XQ.
Diversity is a strength and we will value and harness difference for the
benefit of all service users, the individual and KCC. 
 
 
 
 

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Sent: 28 July 2009 10:40
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Subject: [bcab] Re: Catnav CDs



Thanks Clive,

 

Can you let us know when the info is uploaded.  I find the feature in
Media Player, where it assigns the track title as the filename, very
useful for locating tracks, and will be keen to try to assign this info
when it is available.

 

Many thanks again,

 

Tim

 

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Sent: 28 July 2009 10:36
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Subject: [bcab] Re: Catnav CDs

 

Hi Tim,

 

I think you are right, but I'm not certain.  I'm not certain either,
whether Proper Music, the distribution company have yet uploaded the
info to the internet.  In other words, this would make our current batch
of BCAB CD's "pre-release".  This was part of the plan, because the
official release of the album would have missed Sight Village, and we
wanted to make the CD's available there.  Good job we did, because we
sold about an EyeT4All awareness day's worth during the week, and got
interviews on Talking News Federation, Insight Radio and on Brian
Hartgen's podcasts.

 

Best,

Clive

 

 

 

          
Clive Lever

Diversity Advisor

01622 221163 (extension 7000 1163) Room 1.15, Sessions House, County
Hall, Maidstone, ME14 1XQ.
Diversity is a strength and we will value and harness difference for the
benefit of all service users, the individual and KCC. 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sent: 28 July 2009 09:46
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Subject: [bcab] Re: Catnav CDs

Hi Clive,

 

My understanding with the information used by Windows Media Player and
similar products, that they pick up the info from the internet based on
a unique signature for the CD composed of the timings for each track.
If this is correct (which I'm by no means sure) this might mean that
once the information has been placed on the internet, presumably as part
of the process of preparing the next batch of CDs, then the information
should be available to Media Player if I were to attempt the "ripping"
process again.

 

Do you (or anyone else) know if this is true?

 

Regards and thanks,

 

Tim

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Sent: 27 July 2009 17:25
To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bcab] Re: Catnav CDs

 

Tim,  it would appear that there was an omission on the first pressing
of the CD, which means that when you put it into your computer, it comes
up with "Unknown album", Unknown artist".  I intend to get this
information in-filled before the next batch of CD's is pressed.
Meanwhile, we hope to have the track list information uploaded to the
BCAB website before long.

 

Please may I apologise to anyone for the inconvenience of not having the
track lists come up automatically first time around.  Yours isn't the
first enquiry I've had asking why titles and artists are not coming up
this time.  It was done as a matter of course on the previous albums,
but I was told I should have asked this time around, which I find
puzzling, I must say.  I didn't ask because I didn't know there was a
question to be asked.

 

BTW, it would be interesting to know, and to post up comments on
FaceBook, saying what is your favourite track from the album and why.
Anyone who wants to provide a sentence or two for inclusion can do so by
emailing: 

guidecats@xxxxxxxxxxx

 

 

All the best,

Clive

 

 

 

          
Clive Lever

Diversity Advisor

01622 221163 (extension 7000 1163) Room 1.15, Sessions House, County
Hall, Maidstone, ME14 1XQ.
Diversity is a strength and we will value and harness difference for the
benefit of all service users, the individual and KCC. 

 

 

 

 

 

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From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of tim.pennick@xxxxxx
Sent: 27 July 2009 15:49
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Subject: [bcab] Catnav CDs

All,

 

Purchased my copy of the excellent Catnav CD set last week.  I'm really
impressed with the content, but have a query about the CD format.  I
attempted to load the CDs into my Windows Media library, and noticed
that Windows Media Player doesn't seem to be able to pick up track
information to label the tracks in the library.  Is this correct, or a
problem with my configuration?

Regards,

 

Tim

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