PJ Autoharpy

I went out and got some fixative this morning and stamped, then smudge-proofed the CDs.

There's most of them.  While waiting for them to dry I attempted to master the disk, mixing down each file and adding compression and eq and...quickly gave up.  I'd already done this on the 1-2 bus in the mixing stage, and doing it again seemed redundant.  Not to mention that I couldn't hear any difference.  So I just made sure they were normalized and started and stopped at the right places, then burnt a disk.

 I imported it into iTunes, added the relevant information, then submitted it to Gracenote's CDDB, the database that most media programs use to get artist and track names for albums (that info's not usually on the disk itself).  Apparently it'll take at least a couple days to show up when other computers query the database, but then nobody with an internet connection will have to type in track names.

iTunes needed album artwork, so I just took a shot of a copy of the album with the ribbon on (the rest don't have ribbon yet).

Finally, I listened to the disk.  Turns out I didn't check carefully enough: on "Spagett!" the guitar solo didn't get shifted over when I cut out the silence at the beginning.  Ditto the sax on "Life of Fridays."  Fixing these problems changed the length of the songs, which I anticipated would be no good for Gracenote to correctly recognize the album (I can only assume they go by number and length of tracks).  I carefully made the track lengths match the old ones, and succeeded in fooling my computer into thinking it was the old version.  So hopefully it should be okay.