What time is it? Unstructured rambling time!
Just the current haps, yo.
My story at STANCE
Here’s the story I recited at the One More Light TDOR concerts with STANCE. Specifically this is the version I performed tonight (which is slightly different than Saturday’s rendition).
Random updates
I figure it’s been a little while since my last random-updates update thing, so here’s what’s going on in my life. Because I guess some folks like knowing this stuff? Weird. Anyway.
House updates and other miscellani
My new roof is finally getting installed. It sure is loud and poundy. Supposedly this is a two-day project so theoretically they are around halfway done. Unlike most home renovation stuff I can’t easily take photos showing the progress. Oh well.
Also after trying to work on some music in my newly-rearranged basement I was finding that having the computer desk in the center of the back “wall” with keyboard way off to the left looked cool but it made actually working on music a major drag, since I couldn’t just turn and start recording, I’d have to get up and take a few steps over, and that made my workflow really frustrating. So since I couldn’t work on music today anyway (because noise) I reoriented stuff to be a bit more like how it used to be, with the desk on the left and the keyboard to the right of it, and now it’s way more comfortable to work on things.
Quick test: B2 as Bandcrash CDN Notes
Just testing using Backblaze’s raw object storage as a means of serving up a Bandcrash player for cheap. I’ll be documenting the upload process soon, if actual playback performance is sufficient.
New pricing strategy
After years of constantly lowering my prices, trying to get a vanishingly-small amount of sales on things I care about, I’ve decided to raise everything and make it uniform, across all of my music storefronts, namely:
Here’s my pricing strategy and rationale.
Blorgin'
I feel like I need to come up for air, after some protracted busy-ness (not to be confused with business, which I have none of at the moment).
Bandcrash early alpha/beta/whatever released
So hey, the Bandcrash GUI is finally, finally in a working state! You can now use it to easily encode a bunch of wav files into mp3/ogg/flac and make a web preview, and optionally upload it all to itch.io automagically!
Also, I’ve released prebuilt macOS and Windows binaries over on itch.io. I’ll probably do a Linux version as well at some point, although Linux users are likely much better-equipped to just build-and-install it themselves.
To that end, I used it to upload one of my older albums to itch, and I gotta say, having a GUI to set it up is actually a lot nicer than doing it all from the CLI with hand-written JSON files? Weird.
There’s still a lot left to do on it but what is there right now is Good Enough for now.
That said, I’m hopeful that bandcamp remains viable for the long term, but now it’s a lot less necessary to worry about a single platform like that.
Current goings-on
Do people ever read these things? Or do people just like knowing that I’m still alive? Either way here’s a “I’m still alive” post.
Bandcamp Friday, October 2023
Caught up on my collections of:
Added the discographies of: