Discussion on Aural Moon updates

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
Using the last two Moon updates (see prior posts here and the Moon main page), and any 2004 releases, please throw in some ideas for my next Rickter Scale show by Wed 12/15.

I want to catch up on that stuff, and I had planned to not worry about a set list.

The Mininum Vital will most likely be played in its entirety, leaving 2+ hours to fill.

Suggestions, please?

How about Random Selections from the Playlist. Scroll randomly, pick blindly, sit back and enjoy. Kinda like an extension of the Request Free Wednesday or something.

Just my $.02.

Roger -Dot- Lee, remember what you paid for it.

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
Sheesh next thing you know I'll be hearing "can ya play Community Chest"?

Sure I will. Any particular tunes (question to the "Chance groupies")....

How about three or four of the thus-far unheard selection from Chance? As far as community chest, I'd have to veto that, as the only community chest group I've ever heard of is a polka/dance group out of southwestern Wisconsin. Definitely not prog.

Roger -Dot- Lee, opinions 'r' us!

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by mossy
How about three or four of the thus-far unheard selection from Chance


Have you heard any of them, dot? Aside from our mutual interest in the first track.

If not, take your pick Rickles. Would be lovely.

I haven't heard any but the one I popped on the stack when I originally loaded it. Yeah, I think it's time to showcase at least one of the rest, especially if they're even CLOSE to being as good as the first...

Roger -Dot- Lee

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Jim thought he could slip one by on me, but no. I'm far too crafty and on-the-ball to allow that to happen.

The fact that the new files had been sitting there for two days not withstanding, of course.

The first half of this list has already been posted on the main page, so I didn't bother posting them here. I posted them here now because I felt like it. So there.

• Asturias - Brilliant Streams
• Boffo, Jean-Pascal - Jeus De Nains
• Cast - Imaginary Window
• Chance - Escape To Horizon
• Drama - Flying Over The 21st Century
• Minimum Vital - Envol Triangles + Les Saisons Marines
• Priam - 3 Distances-Irregular Signs
• Rousseau - Square The Circle
• Shylock - Ile De Fievre
• Taal - Mister Green
• Taal - Skymind

And the latest entries, as of last night:

• Galleon - From Land To Ocean
• Kaos Moon - The Circle Of Madness
• Retroheads - Retrospective

Now there's some seriously good stuff in that list.

Enjoy!

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Ladies, Gentlemen, and everyone else:

I'd like to announce the NEW WORLD RECORD for the SINGLE BIGGEST UPDATE to the Aural Moon Library! The Gold Medal goes to our very own ProgDirJim, for sending up SEVENTEEN albums equalling ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY INDIVIDUAL TITLES!

I'm getting Carpal Tunnel just looking at the additions! In fact, I had to add an entire new subdirectory just for this upload (or I'd still be at it well past midnight).

The list:

• Boud Deun - Astronomy Made Easy
• Cairo - Conflict And Dreams
• Flash - In The Can
• Flash - Out Of Our Hands
• Fripp & Eno - Evening Star
• Hands - Hands
• Kinesis - Misc Sampler (Three different albums)
• Kraan - Wiederhoren
• Lifetime (Tony Williams) - Believe It
• Lifetime (Tony Williams) - Million Dollar Legs
• Magenta - Broken
• Qadesh - Misc Sampler
• RPWL - World Through My Eyes
• Second Sufis - Seven Rays
• Spock's Beard - Octane
• Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation
• Wappa Gappa - A Myth
• WLUD - Carrycroch'
• Zello - Zello

Enjoy!

Roger -Dot- Lee, didn't think there was that much cool stuff out there!

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by Steady Stan
How difficult would it be for the new additions listed in the forum to be actual links to that section of the playlist? Click on the artist's name & go to their listings; click on the cd title, and go to the song listings for that cd. Seems like that would encourage listeners to request new additions.

If you can figure out a way of figuring out the post number of the last post regarding the updates, bypassing the extra chatter, comments, cheap shots at Yesspaz that I love to take on occasion, cheap shots at Yesspaz that Keithie loves to take on occasion, cheap shots at Yesspaz that Rick loves to take on occasion, cheap shots at myself, Keithie, and Rick that Yesspaz loves to take on occasion, and other such frivolities that we all like to engage in on occasion, then ... er ... what was I saying? Oh yes. If you can figure out a way of getting past all that, then I'm all ears.

Unfortunately there IS no postid=Dr.Dot'sLastPostRegardingUpdates function in the system. I only wish there were.

Roger -Dot- Lee, if for no other reason than to record my prose for posterity (or would that be 'posterior'?)

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by Steady Stan
I thought it might be as simple as a hyper link. Obviously, if it was, you would have that figured out by now.

Exactly. If it was a hyperlink, I likely would have. Quite some time ago.

However, I am pondering a different way of doing it thanks to your suggestion (actually, more thanks to my response to your suggestion, but, well, you started it).

We'll see if it pans out.

Roger -Dot- Lee

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by progdirjim
what I think Stan meant, (and if not, then I mean it) was when you (Roger-dot-lee) post here in the forums, make the band or album name a link to the playlist. Something like <a href="http://www.auralmoon.com/html/pnplaylist.php?search=band1"> band1 </a>

I know that href url is bogus, but you get the idea...don't you?

We will be somewhat limited by the behavior of the search script - but I think it will be cool if you can take the time to include a link or links...

I see what you're saying. I don't know if that's what Stan was asking, however. I got the impression that he wanted the link to go right to my ever-so-wonderous prose here in the forums.

Stan? Which did you mean? If you meant the search going to the playlist, then that'd be a lot more do-able than going straight to the post.

Actually, I'm liking that idea too. Putting search links in the posting is likely to be more do-able with a little experimentation...

Roger -Dot- Lee, at least more so than going straight to my posting from the front page...

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by mossy
Dot, how's about having the most recent additions to the playlist coming up at the top of the thread rather than the last page. Just an idea and I know you're busy.

Interesting idea. Unfortunately, I don't know of a way of doing that on a forum by forum basis, and I don't know about how to do it on just the posts short of creating my own dot only forum. Don't want to do that because it'll cut down on the opportunities for ... feedback.

I like the way the ideas are going, though.

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Greetings and salutations, one and all.

As is my wont, I usually put some sort of witty comment here. But since a wonderful occurance has happened to one of our very own, that I shant eclipse his joy.

Next time you see Jam Forte, offer up your congratulations.

Now, for the additions!

• Flash - Flash
• Group 87 - Group 87
• Hammer, Jan - The First Seven Days
• Ilium - Paint By Numbers
• Ilium - Plexiglass Cube
• Popol Vuh - In Den Garten Pharaos
• Pulsar - Halloween
• Random Hold - The View From Here
• Stein & Walder - Elements
• Styx - II
• Zappa, Frank - Francesco Zappa

Roger -Dot- Lee, no, you'll have to ask him yourself.

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by Steady Stan
As the other "resident mainstream rocker", Styx II is a great addition. Hearing "Little Fugue in G" & "Father O.S.A." in the same rip today was awesome.

However, when you search the playlist for Styx, a number of un-Styx like songs are shown as being from Styx II. My guess is that we have a data entry error.

Probably more of a data corruption error than a data entry error.

I'll look into it after work (before I have to come in at 0100 tomorrow morning for maintenance).

Roger -Dot- Lee *yawn*

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by progdirjim
Don't know how, but all of Kenso II, FSB II and Polifemo II got relabeled as Styx II. I fixed the artist, but Roger, I didn't correct the cover since I'm not sure how to and didn't want to create a bigger problem. (Which I am oh so capable of doing....)

oh yeah, the year is wrong on those now too, but I don't have the CDs with me to check the proper year...

Hrm. I'm wondering if this is another side effect of the database corruption we had. Those were older updates to the library and I haven't touched 'em in a while.

Geh. I'm wondering if it might not be a good idea to do an entire drop and reload one of these days, especially if we get a bunch more of these.

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by Yesspaz
SAM recognizes album titles as distinct fields from the artist, so when you add a cover to a track, then upload it, then "apply to album" you will apply the cover to any track from an album with that name. So when Roger.Lee added Styx II, he added to album and it labeled every track from every album named II. When you go to add covers to albums, you can de-select the ones that are actually different albums. I can fix this after PSHores is off. Not a problem.

Oh, I see what you're saying.

It may have been that the album titles (to all of them) were simply 'II'. That would pick them up that way, wouldn't they? I thought it compared artist, and in order to qualify for same album status, it had to match both artist and album name.

That makes me feel a little better. At least it might not be DB corruption. Again.

Roger -Dot- Lee, find database corruption even more distasteful than Neil Young!

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Greetings and salivations, Moonies!

I know that you all by now have noticed that I've made this particular thread sticky. No, it's not because I'm so enamoured with my own turgid prose that I expect everyone to swoon at every keystroke.

I just got sick of trying to find the bloody thing. So I made it permanent so I wouldn't LOSE it.

Anyway, here's the latest additions to the library. Some VERY interesting looking stuff. I'm going to dig around at these my very own self as time allows...

• Clearlight - Infinite Symphony
• Guerin, Shaun - Archives
• Moraz, Patrick - Human Interface
• Solstice - Silent Dance

Roger -Dot- Lee

[Wojtek]

Thanks for update Roger. This Paatos should be one of the best 2004 albums. Fantastic mellotron performance and Steven Wilson as a producent.
Gargantua is Polish band, something for Gentle Giant fans.

[Wojtek]

Originally posted by Roger Lee

• Mostly Autumn - The Spirit of Autumn Past

Thanks for this album Roger. Very good stuff

[Wojtek]

Originally posted by Roger Lee

• Dream Theater

For the moldy used as cannon fodder beef roulade's sake!!!!!!!!

It's revolution, I was execting everything but not Dream Theater!! How was it possible?

And big thanks for two albums I really love, The Perfect Element and Stardust We Are. Phenomenal stuff! Thank you guys!!

[RogorMortis]

I am most tempted to send Roger a Billy Idol for Christmas but then I proberbly get arrested for cruelty to animals

[fremder99]

Just a thought... Is there any way to close this thread, clone it, and remove the "commentary" leaving only a list of album additions?

FWIW, I found it useful to review the playlist additions, as a newcomer, and found a few artists I hadn't stumbled upon in the RQ list... That's probably a minimal justification tho...

Alternatively, maybe a "read-only" thread with a single post that only "someone in charge" modifies that is simply a growing list of "Artist-album" entries... It might be a nice to have a reference list of some sort, that allows a "quick look" that is an alternative to the RQ list, where you sort of have to know what you're looking for, or are willing to click your way through...

Well, you guys have to work with it, I only have to play with it, and I'm certainly not trying to create work for anyone... just some ideas...

[progdirjim(Admin)]

This thread that you are now reading is open for continued commentary from the beloved peanut gallery. It is not stickied.

There is a read-only (Roger and myself can post to it) thread for just the updates.

I'm thinking of keeping the read-only thread a floating one year time period - so you can peruse the last year's worth of additions, but not earlier. that should keep it to a manageable length, hopefully.

Comments?