Tracks

[mdlbear]

While the rest of the family is having fun at FurCon, I've been having a little fun of my own recording. Re-recorded "Jabberwocky" (which I sing as a talking blues) and fixed the level problems with the previous take. Then I pretty-much nailed "Ship of Stone" on the first take. That felt good. Still needs the flute track, of course.

Also continued at the thankless but necessary chore of re-checking and annotating the stuff I've already recorded. Some tracks are useable at this point, but I hadn't been keeping proper notes. I now have a cute little script that lists the track directories, a line from the "notes" file if there is one, how many Audacity projects and .wav files there are, and whether I think they're OK to ship (marked by the presence of a file called OK, of course).

The story so far:

<steve 539> lstracks
  3  1          alphabet
  3  1          barratry
  1  1          bigger
  1  1          bugs
  2  2          can-t
  3  3 n!       cicero  take-3-f has the flute tracks
  2  1          daddys
  3  1          demon
  4  1          dream
  1  1          for-amy
  1  1 n        guilty  take-1 reasonable; some volume problems.  add flute ===
  2  1          heaven
  2  1 n        jabber  take-2 ok for demo; one minor flub; a short clip or two
  2  1 n        lcm     take-2 ok for demo but not final.
  2  1          mil-dawn
  2  1 n        mushrooms       take-2 almost makes it.  possible clippage. 
  1  1 n        net     take-1 has a lot of flat notes
  1  1 n        paper   take-1 OK for a demo; pitch control a little shaky.
  3  1 n!       pigeon  take-3 OK.  Ship it.
  2  1 n        rainbow take-2 has flubs; I prefer the picking style in take-1
  1  1 n        rosie   take-1 is damned good.  Probably useable
  1  1 n        ship    take-1 pretty-much nailed it.  Add flute and ship it.
  0  0 -        silicon
  2  1 n        silk    take-2 pretty good; break needs work
  1  1          stolen
  3  2 n!       stuck   take-3 ok.
  6  2 n        stuff   take-4 almost makes it, but has shaky notes at the end.
  2  1          teotw
  3  1 n!       uncle   take-3 can probably ship as is
  3  1          vampire
  2  1 n!       wannabe take-2 good.  Probably OK
  4  2 n!       world   take-2b has the flute tracks

(and here's the script)

<steve 540> cat `which list-tracks`
#!/bin/bash
#       List number of .aup and .wav files in track directories
#       Now lists the last line in */notes that starts with a nonblank in
#       column 1; this should normally be something about the most recent
#       semi-useable take.
#
# flags:
#       -  empty directory
#       n  "*/notes" present
#       !  "*/OK" present

([ -d test ] && [ "`ls test | grep .aup `" = "" ]) || cd $HOME/tracks

if [ "$1" = "" ]; then tracks="*"; else tracks="$*"; fi
for d in $tracks; do
    if [ -d $d ] && [ "`ls $d`" = "" ]; then
        echo "  0  0 -  $d"
    elif [ $d = "test" ]; then
        # Skip test/ even though it may have tracks in it.
        true
    elif [ -d $d ]; then
        echo -n " " `(cd $d; ls | grep .aup$ | wc -l)` 
        echo -n "  `(cd $d; ls | grep .wav$ | wc -l)` " 
        if [ -e $d/notes ]; then echo -n "n"; else echo -n " "; fi
        if [ -e $d/OK ]; then echo  -n "!"; else echo  -n " "; fi
        echo -n "       $d      " 
        if [ -e $d/notes ]; then grep '^\w' $d/notes | tail -1;
        else echo; fi
    fi
done