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Fico

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Re: Cartel Website uo and running...
« Reply #60 on: July 30, 2004, 12:07:00 pm »
do you lot know of any other webzine/blog that covers DC music aside from bigwayn/net?

Barcelona

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Re: Cartel Website uo and running...
« Reply #61 on: July 30, 2004, 12:16:00 pm »
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  Barcelona, "Fiesta del Chivo" is outstanding..really loved that book..I've given the english version to a few non-spanish speaking friends and they've loved it to. I would also recommend "in the time of the butterflies" by Julia Alvarez...it's the story of the Mirabal Sisters..I admire them immensley...don't know if you remember them but they were also murdered by Trujillo's regime and their faces appeared on the 25c coins back home...
 
 Jaguar,
 Yeah, eternally grateful for hooking us up..in Cartel's book that will get an EP sent your way   :p  
Fico, I have heard about the Mirabal sisters, but not about the book. I will try to find it. Thanks for the recommendation.

Darth Ed

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Re: Cartel Website uo and running...
« Reply #62 on: August 02, 2004, 02:00:00 am »
I just downloaded both tracks. I really like "Polly Jean" and "Fleets" is good too. I'll probably by your EP once it's available, assuming I can make it to one of your gigs.
 
 I would like to give some very important advice to you and, for that matter, any other band getting started out there that posts MP3s on their Web site: Always make sure you add ID3 tags to your band's MP3s. Good file names (with the band's name and the song's name) are required too. Fortunately, you nailed that part at least, but a lot of people use applications to index and store their MP3s (e.g., iTunes, MusicMatch, etc). These applications by and large index the MP3s by their ID3 tags, not the names of the files. If your MP3s don't have ID3 tags, they can be hard to locate, and, after a week or so, they'll be impossible to identify. Besides identifying the song and the band, with ID3 tags you could include some notes to the listener, a picture of the cover of the album, maybe even lyrics, and most importantly a link to your band's Web site. That's the kind of stuff that will make your MP3s stand out over those of other bands. Probably 80% of the MP3s I download from Web sites belonging to bands don't even have basic ID3 tags. Those that do have a tendency to stick around on my hard drive longer and inevitably get played more often.