The Annual Songcrafters Sampler Jukeboxes

[alfstone]

Here I am:

2010 Watermelon in Easter Hay ->  https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=7746

2011 The Old Faun's dance -> https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=10090.0

2012 Hard Times, Come Again No More (with orh) -> https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=15370

Alfredo

[ODH]

These new jukeboxes are great and its really nice to hear my songs in the context of all the other great songs posted here.

What it has brought home to me though is how crappy the mix was on some of those earlier songs.  I'd like to do a better mix and replace - is that allowable?  Not re-record anything, just a better mix.  This is because participating on this site and sharing my songs has taught me a lot. I can tell the difference between my older stuff and recent ones.

I'm already thinking twice about what I put in, but I'm presuming that once a song is posted to the jukebox it has to stay there.  Otherwise people will be routinely changing their songs, I guess.

[henwrench]

These jukeboxes are awesome, they're chock full o' good shit.

       Chock full o' good shit, I tells yer.

           

                               henwrench

[Hook]

These jukeboxes are awesome, they're chock full o' good shit.

       Chock full o' good shit, I tells yer.

           

                               henwrench

Yes indeedy!
Juke On!

[64Guitars]

I'd like to do a better mix and replace - is that allowable?  Not re-record anything, just a better mix.

No, we want the samplers to contain a sampling of what our members recorded and posted in a given year. We don't think a 2013 remix should be in a 2010 jukebox, for example. You could re-record the song and submit it next year for the 2013 sampler, if you like. But you'd have to re-record all the tracks because, otherwise, it would just be a 2013 remix of 2010 (or whatever) tracks. I think everything (performing, recording, mixing, and posting) should be done in the year of the sampler jukebox. The only thing that doesn't have to be done in the same year is the songwriting. You can use songs you wrote earlier as long as everything else was done in the year of the sampler jukebox.

I'm already thinking twice about what I put in, but I'm presuming that once a song is posted to the jukebox it has to stay there.  Otherwise people will be routinely changing their songs, I guess.

As long as people aren't too fickle, I don't mind changing a few songs. But only till the end of the year. Come January 1, 2014, all of the jukeboxes up to and including 2012 will be frozen as they are. No changes will be made and no new submissions will be allowed. We'll start thinking about the 2013 sampler instead.

[hooper]

Nice to have this particular Songcrafters playlist evolving.  Gonna make it a lot easier to set up a special Songcrafters folder on my mp3 player.  Gotta jump in now...

2008 - Way Beyond Your Dreams
https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=677

2009 - Itineris
https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=3925

2010 - Last
https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=6693

2011 - Light At The End Of The Tunnel
https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=12120

2012 - Ruby Tuesday
https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=15793

2013 - Strange Brew
https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=17537

[maxit]

I restored in reverbnation "songwriter" as a 2012 alternative to "aint U the 1":

2012 "songwriter": https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=14617.msg183170#msg183170

thanks again 64

[IanR]

OK, here's mine

2013 - My castle is on the hill
 https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=18717

2012 - Change the station (2012 was a lean year)
https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=16585

2011 - I didn't see it coming (2011 was my best year so far)
https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=12455

2010 - I think God's got a halo but it don't fit me (2010 was when I was kicking off)
https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=9289

2009 - Wattlebird (the first song I recorded on the MBR - terrible recording of a good first effort)
https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=5432

[Geir]

WOW this was hard,....... but hear's my songs for the sampler

2009   My friend
https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=5477

2010   Painted Gray
https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=7461

2011   Mugged by a monkey
https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=11938

2012   No birds, no wind
https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=13511

[dasilvasings]

2010 Love-Terror

https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=8525

the rest is basically covers, so it is fun but not worthy.

I really suggest there should be a final mix on all songs, at least to normalize the volume.

That's gotta be a pain in the neck - otherwise just make a procedure so we can normalize ourselves, e.g.

1. open wav in audacity
2. normalize -5db (?!?!)
3. equalize preset C3PO (?!?!)
4. save as wav 44.100 whatsoever