Would anyone on here be interested in participating in a CD swap?

The general idea is that we'd put people into groups of five, exchange mailing addresses and then each person would make a mix CD of their favorite music and then mail out copies to the four other people in their group.

Meaning that you'd receive four mix CDs from other Stripcreator members.

I'm not committed to the idea but I'm interested to hear if anyone's interested in participating. I know we have some music fans on here.

Indeed! This could be super-cool, count me in.

Sounds interesting, but I'd have to hear more before commiting.

Sure, why not?

I'm in.

Me too.

I would agree, but my music taste is....slightly different...from you lot.

I would but that would be like $10 in postage. I don't have that kind of money.

actually $10 isn't much, I'd do it.

Actually, that's a good point you raise. Overseas shipping can be a lot of money for some people, and four overseas trades would put a strain on me right now. I certainly wouldn't mind one or two, at least. Just be aware that I may have to send them seperately from each other as opposed to just in one big trip to the post office if you get put with me and you're not in continental North America.

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I would agree, but my music taste is....slightly different...from you lot.

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Sounds very interesting. Count me in.

You are all going to be so dissapointed in me. I am so fucking whitebread.

Moo.

if this isn't just for the regs....i would definitely like to participate

I'd like to take part, but I think it would be good to put people who are close geographically in a group together (eg. Kajun and I).

Also, what format should they be in? In mp3 you get roughly 10 hours per disk, but with normal CD audio 1 hour is about the limit.

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Well not really; but rest assured there will be a few head-scratchers in there.

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Also, what format should they be in? In mp3 you get roughly 10 hours per disk, but with normal CD audio 1 hour is about the limit.

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Also, what format should they be in? In mp3 you get roughly 10 hours per disk, but with normal CD audio 1 hour is about the limit.

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I don't think I have the time to compile an MP3 CD. Most of my stuff is still on the original CDs. Plus, with so much space, one could get really lazy about the choices. I'd be more interested in people picking 12 - 15 really great songs.

I agree.

I'm in, and I also agree with it being a cd of about 12-15 songs.

I don't really mind about shipping costs, the more addresses of regulars over-seas that I get, the better. I plan on showing up uninvited to a lot of people's houses next year.

Hi LadyJ! I'm Kajun Firefly!

*slam*

Hi Boorite! I'm Kajun Firefl-

*slam*

and so on, as more regulars receive news of Kajun making house calls until:

Hi Gabe! I'm Kajun Firefly!

Come right in!

Thanks!

*door shuts*

ARGHHHHH!!!!

I'm in, if we can make a slight adjustment.

Instead of going through all the bother and expense and giving-out-mailing-addresses-ness of actually mailng CDs, why don't we just set up some happy FTP space somewhere and have exchangers upload MP3s to it for exchange? If you wanted to do groups of 5, that would be fine, too.

Anyone with the free RealPlayer and a CD-ROM can change music CDs into MP3s. Then, if they like the MP3s and want an audio CD, they can burn them onto their own CDs or minidiscs or whatever medium they like.

We can still keep the group-of-5 format, or do it however you want. We'd just need to find some FTP space. However, my CD-writer doesn't work and I don't give out my name or address on principle, so if you keep it the way it is you're missing out on all my wonderful music collection that no one but me can usually tolerate.

I still think there's something about getting a proper mixtape (or cd in this case) where care has been taken in not only selecting the songs, but also the order. Having just a load of mp3s removes that whole personal touch and effort that goes into it.

Sycess's idea sounds cool...

Josh recently gave me access to a repository of music from his old webspace hoster, an irc friend. When i looked at what was in there, it blew my mind. There were hundreds of artists, thousands of tracks. I have a playlist enqued in winAmp to demo stuff every now and then but to download it all would take forever and it'd take a year to listen to. Right now I've got 3267 tracks I wanna skim over(I'm not going to listen to every single one but you get the picture.)

But then again, the other option is just as cool.

Perhaps we should limit the swapping to certian continents. If there's enough scots and aussies who wannna participate together.

I mean limit the swaping to people in the same continent. americans w/ americans and so on.

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I mean limit the swaping to people in the same continent. americans w/ americans and so on.

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I guess no one from any other country would like all the bagpipes we listen to.

I think this should be a tangible CD swap. It's easy enough to have an FTP, and boring as hell. I want a package to come in the mail, with someone's handwriting scrawling the names on the songs and the artists on a piece of paper cut roughly to fit the jewel case, and maybe a photo of the reg holding the CD with a big cheesy thumb's up sign, or a note saying "Hi! I used the bathroom before sealing the envelope, and I forgot to wash my hands!"

It's FUN to receive mail. Downloading mp3s is just too commonplace to be fun.

Besides, I have cool packaging materials and I plan to include other silly stuff with the cds.

Count me in if it's a jen-yoo-wine CD swap of cd audio songs, old-skool style.

Aye.

I prefer tangible CDs. They're more human, and the wait for a CD to come in the mail is a lot less tedious to me than the wait for what... 50 - 70 songs to download? For me, a CD is harder to ignore, or put off until later.

No sealing envolopes with semen.

Why stop at swapping files instead of CD's? We could punk out completely and just exchange personal recommendations:

"Hey, Drexle; go to WinMX and DL that Garmarna track. Tell me what you think."

"Thanks Drex, but that's me!"

Lame, right? I prefer a physical CD swap. But I'm up for whatever.

Actually, I did. The ones I heard were cool. :p They were a bitch to get ahold of, though.

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I mean limit the swaping to people in the same continent. americans w/ americans and so on.

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Why?

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Well all of mine would be going to different continents.

Once again, I have to agree with LadyJ here. I'm in, and I don't care what continent I send it to, as long as no goverment agency types show up on my doorstep demanding to know why I was sending such filth into their country. I tried to send a buddy of mine in SA a tape of a local punk band...it got sent back with a nice little letter about their laws on such type music. Go Fig!

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Once again, I have to agree with LadyJ here.

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I'm not really here (I'm just a figment of your deranged imagination) but I'd really like to join in with this. A similar thing was started in another internet community I was involved with, and it just kinda... died. It was really disappointing, as I had all the tracks picked out and I was ready to go. I'm always telling people outside Australia how great our local musicians are, so here's a great chance to prove it to a bunch of people.

...though if anyone asks who gave you the CD, you must answer, "Nobody!"

Incidentally, there isn't much point to me swapping CDs with dcom, as we live about an hour's drive apart. I would much rather send CDs to the US and UK, where the lesser-known Aussie music with which I will fill my CD will be heard by fresh ears.

Oh, well. I haven't the cash for postage, access to a CD-writer, the get-off-my-assed-ness to actually package and mail anything, nor anything else, so if anyone wants to do the FTP idea as well I'm in. I'm always looking for new music. Otherwise... oh, well.

Perhaps a keen geek can write an SC - exclusive P2P service. I've heard of a wysiwig prog for such a thing, but I can't remember the name.

Gabester!

I don't know anything about it though; I just heard of the program from one of the other threads.

Yeah. That site mentions some kind of P2P service maker.

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I haven't.... access to a CD-writer

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You could convert the file into binary and write the 1s and 0s out by hand, copy 4 times and send it to people.

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I haven't.... access to a CD-writer

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I discovered this medium that's like this long long strip of magnetized stuff on two spools enclosed in this little rectangular plastic case. It's cheap like the wind.

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The FTP idea is neat but I won't be setting that up. Bandwidth, The Law, etc.

I'd like to keep this swap as simple as possible and see if it actually works. If this one comes off without a hitch, maybe we can do another round and complicate it and make it harder to manage.

It will be audio CDs rather than MP3s.

I'm not going to do any geographical sorting. If postage is going to be an issue, you may not want to participate.

If you want to be involved, send your mailing address, your email address and your Stripcreator username to cdswap@stripcreator.com by Monday, December 16th. You will get a confirmation reply.

I will divide the names and addresses up into groups and I will mail the group address lists out on Thursday, December 19th.

Once the group lists are sent, you have until January 19th to mail your mix CD to the people in your group. Please label and include track lists with the CDs.

I will start a forum for this soon.

I'm all for some manner that will let everyone participate, but half the fun is really actually receiving something in the mail. It'd be easy for most of us to just post a list of 12-15 songs and then we could go snatch them off of Kazaa, but that kind of detracts from the fun of it. I get a load of crap in my mailbox daily but I can't even remember the last time I got an honest to goodness personal letter. What with email, most people have pretty much given up writing by hand.

But a package? Huzzah! It's like Christmas. Or Boxing Day, or whatever the fuck you weirdo Brits have. So there can always be something slapped together for people that want to FTP stuff, but I'd hate to see the actual CD-exchange part of it disappear.