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Do It Yourself Music: CD Cover Templates

By Authentic Vision | Published April 22, 2011

I’m probably shooting myself in the foot with this one but hey…I said I wanted to share here so share I shall! Plus a few of my minions will need this information some time in the near future. -grin-

If you didn’t know, my new day ‘job’ and current educational alignment fall into my Geek Ish – design. I tried, to no avail, to find satisfactory dimensions for pressing up CDs. I had the general idea and got them close enough (Planet Zoron and Umbravo and Lil 850) but now that we’re Official and stuff I have more to take into consideration!

In comes cdbaby.

Long story short, I’ve gotten to know them quite well since the release of Life, Cameras, Action and something I stumbled on – rather belatedly – was this awesomeness. Thank you, cdbaby, for making my job a lil easier!!

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Updates

By Authentic Vision | Published April 13, 2011

By happy ‘mistake’ I’ve been provided an opportunity to do something I was halfway trying to find the time to do: move more things around.

Most everything has now been siphoned off into its proper home throughout the Syndicate (there’s way to much to ‘fit’ into this little box) but there was an unknown trade-off in the upgrade. I lost all my embeds, which represented about 90 percent of my content.

Given there’s about to be a shift in the whole video presentation thing anyway, it works out but I’m left with a whole lot of mess that’s pretty meaningless until I have the time to get everything re-re-situated. And there isn’t a whole heck of a lot left here.

Now that I can focus my attentions somewhat back here, I’ll be working to fill in some gaps and provide knowledge I’ve gleaned from my journeys through musical entrepreneurship. And MNTLPLX is working on a new skin for this place so we won’t be dealing with this wannabe newspaper theme for long. ;)

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Reverb Nation for the Artist

By Authentic Vision | Published March 1, 2010

In helping a friend with some music portability, I’ve decided to post a little bit about Reverb Nation.

I first signed on with RN because I stumbled across their linkage with Facebook. I signed up for curiosity’s sake and when I logged in, I was highly impressed with all the tools they’ve made available. (You can sign up as an artist, management, a label, venue, and/or a fan.)

It’s like Facebook for music, only better, so I’ve decided to share a tutorial/review of the place from the ‘artist’ perspective.

Continue reading.

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Proprietary

By Authentic Vision | Published February 27, 2010

So, as has been mentioned, I’m working between Ubuntu and Windows. Ubuntu kicks ass but I’m stuck with Windows, as well, for a litany of reasons. Proprietary software is one of em.

I’m working on some music uploads and I decided it’s time to eliminate the issue of having ‘unknown artist’ pop up on a pressed up CD. It’s just not cool. Research led me smack into the fact that I can’t upload the music information unless I’m using Windows. The new owners of the CDDB won’t allow projects like MusicBrainz or freeDB access to their database. What a waste! Shame to think that CDDB started out free with people being able to send emails straight to the guy who actually started it!

Bad form, Gracenote, bad form.

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