Sat - October 18, 2003

BritInvasion Page Updated



[I don't have a "BritInvasion" category, but the BI page is hosted on HiWAAY like the AYBS?VVV, so I guess news can go here.] I've added iTunes Music Store links to the BritInvasion page so that visitors can click on the appropriate button to start up iTunes and go to that artist's section at the iTMS. Of course, not all the groups mentioned on the BI page have a section at the iTMS (paging Apple Corps. [The Beatles' Apple, not that pesky computer company]). There's also a link to go to the iTunes download page if visitors haven't already installed iTunes. I might announce this on the BI mailing list, if I can be certain such a Mac-slanted announcement (although iTunes is now available for Windows also) wouldn't cause an insurrection among group members (especially the "over here in America, nobody uses Macs" guy).

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Mon - October 6, 2003

Virtual Video Vault Update (New Sound Files)



I've added revised versions of two sound files to the VVV (from the new AYBS? box set): a better version (hopefully) of the main AYBS? theme (from "The Hold-Up", the only episode with a complete, clean rendition of the theme), and a stereo version of the AYBS?A! theme. There are links to them on the front page of the VVV. (For those who care, I used my old Rev. D iMac [I can't use my new Mac to record sound files because of a nasty "hum" problem] to record these. Since it's still only running OS 9, I used SndSampler to record and edit the files [I can't get playthrough to work with Amadeus on that particular Mac]. I then used Audion 2 to encode the AIFFs as .mp3s [on the AYBS?A! theme I had to use 192kbps encoding to get it to sound right at all] and then used iTunes 2 to edit the ID3 tags. After all this, I transferred them to my new Mac via SuperDisk. Now you know. :-\)

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Wed - October 1, 2003

It Came!



Box set arrived yesterday (I'd really given up on it and was resigned to the fact it was going to rot in UPS's Nashville hub overnight). See here for my comments on said box set. I've also updated the Virtual Video Vault's video guide and "Celebrating Mollie Sugden" pages accordingly.

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Tue - September 30, 2003

Hello, "Roots?"!


AYBS? Box Set 2 on Its Way (Hopefully)

After having ordered the second AYBS? box set back in June, I received word that it was shipped yesterday. [Fingers crossed] Hopefully it will arrive today or tomorrow.

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