Album notes

[mdlbear]

I've actually been getting a few things done on the music front.

1. Went down to Stanford to see who to talk to about selling albums. Most college bookstores have a section for works by alumni. Stanford doesn't: it's owned by some chain that doesn't give a damn. I pledged them $50 this year; next year I'll just send that much more to Carleton.
2. Essentially finished with adapting the various make rules and perl scripts to the new directory layout. Track working directories now live underneath the corresponding album working directories.
3. My TrackInfo script is now capable of computing total time for a list of songs, so it can take over much of the work of the Setlist script. Eventually it should allow me to integrate setlists and the corresponding concert recordings.
4. Did some tracklist planning. There are definitely three albums in the queue now. Stop laughing.

I could use a little input from your collective wisdom here...

... in particular about the title. The new album will have mostly space and fantasy songs, with maybe one or two computer songs thrown in. That includes The Rambling Silver Rose, which doesn't really fit into the narrative arc of Hackers' Heaven. How does "The Rose Among the Stars" sound for an album title? Or perhaps simply "Rose Among Stars"? Or am I getting too obsessed with roses here?

I'm getting a definite image for cover art; I'll write more on that when I have the directory set up.

I expect to have a web page with a tentative track list up by Monday, along with a couple of new scratch tracks.