Album status

[mdlbear]

After a nearly-two-week dry spell during which I did little besides think about the insert text, I finally got back to working full bore on the albums this week. Spent Thursday evening and most of my non-work time yesterday working on the build scripts for About Bleeding Time!, and was able to burn a test disk with very little trouble. I added a step to normalize the tracks; hopefully that will smooth out the volume differences between the two concerts I pulled tracks out of. I also added a Software directory to the CD-ROM portion, with versions of Audacity 1.3 beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Got drafts of four different versions of the cover art from artbeco -- looks great! It's going to be a hard decision, but I'm leaning toward the one based on this one for the cover, and this one (with totally different text) for the back of the booklet. The inside of the booklet will be pure text -- the annotated tracklist, dedication, and credits, and the tray card will be a simulated screenshot with the un-annotated track list, barcode, logo, and other info in an assortment of windows. With luck I might be able to make drafts of both of those this weekend.

I also have Joyce coming over this afternoon to rehearse for my Consonance gig and record some vocals. And I still have to do data-entry and send email, don't I? Urk!