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Aug 06, 04
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ATN: DJs - We want your demos!
We recently upgraded our server, making room for a lot more hosted demos.
We're already hosting over 80 demos from DJs around the world, they do get listened to quite a bit (Click here to see them ranked by hits ). We never erase demos, and we make it easy for you to have your demo permanently online: - We will rip and encode the CD for you if you can physically get the CD to us - You can use our upload utility to upload your content (works best for smaller files) - You can post the link to your demo already hosted online (direct to music file only, post your page in the homepage field) All we ask is that if we host your demo on our server that it be encoded to 48kbps mono MP3 or WMA; it helps us conserve bandwidth for other users and makes listening more seamless for international visitors (not everyone is as blessed as us in North America with cheap highspeed internet!) If you have difficulty getting the demo up, we'll help you until it gets there. If you're having trouble, just email [email protected] 
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Aug 07, 04
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Aug 10, 04
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Aug 10, 04
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Well I record my mixes into WAV, and the cd's I make are from that WAV file. But then I make an mp3 file of the full mix as well so I can send it to people over msn or they can download once I get it up on the net.
Plus I record my vinyl into mp3's onto my comp so I can listen to it in the car or whatever so I can learn my tracks.
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Aug 10, 04
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Link to my lastest mix.... My Radio (double CD)
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Aug 10, 04
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If you look at it from our side, the Josh the Funky 1 CD that I recently posted up was downloaded over 75 times, at 100 Mb per CD that would have been 7 and a half gigs of transfer server side in the past two weeks for that demo alone, and considering we have over 80 demos which are being downloaded fairly regularly, we'd hit transfer limits really fast, forcing us to look at alternative methods of paying for our data transfer. At 48kbps its 20Mb per CD, thats only 1.5 Gb. I've found the WMA codec to sound much better than MP3 at lower bitrates. 48kbps mono also sounds like 96Kbps stereo- because it's only one channel utilizing the full 7kb / second instead of two. Even looking at your own account, if you are sharing a 100Mb mix your average $30 high speed internet connection package allows you 6Gb of transfer (if you pay $60 per month, bump that to 10) - and the companies are getting better at tracking than they have been in the past - share it to 20 people and you've already used a third of your account transfer. Add into that mix that an international visitor may be on dialup or have an unreliable connection, rates of 192kbps could mean a lot of buffering and slow browsing from one song to the next - they'll just skip it and move to something eaiser to listen to. The service we provide to DJs by hosting their mixes is for preview purposes only, not to create a perfect replication of the tracks. If you check out a DJs demo and like what you hear, you can always contact them and request a CDA version to come by mail through the site. Overall, of course the higher quality the better, and if a mix is hosted elsewhere at a higher bitrate it's welcome to be posted on our site (with the URL field pointing to the location the file is hosted), however you are going to get real loss at anything in a lossy codec like MP3 at bitrates under 500kbps - and high bitrates automatically tune out a lot of international previewers, which is usually who you are trying to get your demo out to anyway; otherwise you could just hand them a CD at full quality.
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Aug 11, 04
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In response to Sir_K:
I'm not well educated about all this stuff, but ya I understand that mp3's lose quality. In the end most of the people I send the mix to will get a cd copy of it anyway made up from the original WAV. But your site does sound cool, I should find a way to get a cd into you so I can have it up there as well.
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Aug 11, 04
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Rob:
We accept all submissions that are electronic in nature. From triphop all the way to gabber and speedcore. Charlie: No problem, if you get me a CD I can rip it for you. email me at [email protected] and we'll figure it out
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Aug 11, 04
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180Mb for a 80 minute set. Clear as fuck though! :y:
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Aug 11, 04
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Last edited by Sir_K; Aug 11, 04 at 04:00 PM.
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