MetaTalk posts tagged with mefiswap

Winter MeFiSwap!

carsonb — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:23:58 -0800

You listen to good music. You pick some of it out, and you put it in a certain order, and you listen to your mix all the time. It's good! It sounds good, too good to keep to yourself. So you burn 5 copies of your mix to CD and you put 'em in the mail. Soon 5 different discs containing 5 different mixes from 5 other people appear in your mailbox, and this is good because you're tired of listening to the mix you made and some new tunes from cool MeFites is just the right thing.
MeFi Swap Winter 2009 is open for sign-ups. To sign up, send me an email containing your MeFi username and your mailing address. tediseasy [at] gmail [doot] com. I think these work best if some guidelines are set out right at the beginning:

We usually swap music CD-Rs. If you want to swap data discs or tapes or something and enough are interested, I can set up a side-swap.
If you signed up to participate last time but didn't mail out your mix, you are not invited to swap again. Maximum pukka is attained through 100% participation. If you sign up to participate this time, do so with the full intention of mailing out at least 5 mix CDs. You may be asked to mail overseas (and if you live outside the USA, you will most definitely be asked to mail packages to foreign countries). Communication is important so if you can't get your mixes out by the deadline (see below), let me or the other members of your swapset know.
Deadlines, here's some schedule:
Sign-ups close Sunday, December 20th, 2009.
Swapset assignments will go out shortly thereafter.
The mailing deadline is pretty far off, considering the holiday season and general craziness: Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
If you would like to be in two swapsets (mailing 10 copies of your mix out) or if you have any other specific requests or restraints, please include them in your sign-up email.

MeFiSwap Summer 09 Mailing Deadline Reminder - Aug 15!

carsonb — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:45:23 -0800

MeFiSwap Summer '09 reminder thread — Mailing deadline is Saturday, August 15! Hey swappers! This is just a friendly reminder from your local swap organizer that mixes need to be mailed out no later than August 15. (You should also have a fresh email reminder from me...my last group communique until next swap.) If for whatever reason you can't make that deadline, please either email your swapset to let them know or alert me so I can pass on the news. I know I don't need to remind you that flakers are derided and loathed to the extreme. Questions? I'll be around this thread to answer them, or send them in via email. My email address is in my profile.

MeFiSwap Summer 2009

carsonb — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:09:43 -0800

MeFiSwap Summer '09
Believe it or not, it's been about that long. Let's mail each other good music. I think these work best if some guidelines are set out right at the beginning:

Email me at tediseasy asper@nd gmail stop. com if you would like to participate. Please include your mailing address and your username. If you would prefer not to use email, memail me. However, things are much simpler from an organizational standpoint if I can use the robust features afforded by email rather than barebones memail, so email is preferred.
Sign-up deadline is 2 weeks from today, July 12th.
If there's enough interest, I'd be happy to set up side swaps for tapes or whatever (how many of you cut vinyl?), but let's stick to swapping CDs for the most part and mixes of music for sure (not teddy bears or tshirts or wevs).
If you signed up to participate last time but didn't mail out your mix, you are not invited to swap again. If you sign up to participate this time, do so with the full intention of mailing out at least 5 mix CDs. You may be asked to mail overseas (and if you live outside the USA, you will most definitely be asked to mail packages to foreign countries). Communication is important; if you can't get your mixes out by the deadline (see below), let me or the other members of your swapset know.
Once sign-ups are closed, everyone will be broken up into swapsets. Swapsets are ideally 6 members big, so each swapper will mail out 5 copies of their mix. If you're in the mood to mail out more (and receive more in return!), lemme know in the email.
There's generally a deadline set for mailing swaps out, so let's set that to Saturday, August 15th.

As usual, I feel like I'm leaving a lot out of this, so if you have any questions I'll be skulking around here all day and/or email me.

CD Swap Reminder - Jan. 20!

carsonb — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:55:52 -0800

MeFi Winter CD Swap reminder!
Hey swappers, the deadline to mail your mixes is one week from today, January 20th. If you can't mail out by next Monday, please let the rest of your swapset know. I am willing to pass on any messages as well. My own mix is just about finished; as soon as it's unleashed upon my fakebandmates I'll post a link here to a digital copy (for anyone who didn't/couldn't participate but still sorta wants to).

MeFiSwap 2008

carsonb — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:06:39 -0800

Hey, anybody wanna swap Muxtapes? ...Oh.
Well, how about another MeFi CD swap? It's been a while since we've mailed each other shiny discs of mix, and I'm itching for that wonderful feeling at the mailbox. (Plus, thanks to AskMe my digital music collection is finally all in one place and organized!) So let's swap. Last year 'round this time ND¢ proposed a swap twisted to only include music from 2007 (The Best of 2007). I'd like to go back to a free-for-all this time around. Swappers have been consistently impressive over the years when coming up with their own mix themes, and I figure Best of 2008 is still applicable if you want; it's just not required. Send the music you're listening to, and the music you love. A couple of questions come up every time. Who's organizing? I would be happy to, though I can't promise Dreama-level organization. I'll probably just keep track of everything on paper and email swap sets out. Sets are ideally six people big (everyone sends out 5 discs). International swappers will probably be mailing to the USA. I'm kind of excited about organizing this, having participated over the past 5 or 6 years, but if anyone else has a burning desire to step up and put everything together, that's fine. What do I send? Generally I've received single CD mixes in slimline jewel cases. Liner notes have ranged from nothing at all through single-page hand-written tracklist all the way to elaborately designed liner booklets. They usually come in padded mailers. Can we trade tapes instead of CDs? It's a CD swap. I suppose if five or six people pipe up wanting to trade tapes they could be a separate group, but I'd prefer we stick to burned CDs. What about digital mixes? Why don't we just leave the dirty, expensive hassle of snail mail and send each other archive folders? My main reason for wanting to keep it dirty is sentimental: I love getting mail. Even more, I love getting mail with music CDs inside. One thing that worked really well last year was to have a follow-up thread where everyone who mailed discs posted their tracklists and maybe a link to that downloadable archive of the mix. People who don't want to (or can't) swap via mail can still join in at the end. How come I didn't get mixes from everybody in my group? It happens sometimes, for whatever reason, that not all the mixes make it out. It's sad, it's disappointing, and it's a risk you take by participating. People flake, forget, or simply can't get life out of the way long enough to mail strangers music. So I'm doing a cursory reading back through old swap threads; as usual the people who didn't send out mixes after saying they would in the past won't be in this swap. Is there a deadline? I suggest a couple deadlines. First, swap sets will be determined and mailed out by December 1st. That leaves 3 weeks for interested parties to sign up. Then how about January 20th, Inauguration Day, for a mailing deadline? That give about a month and a half to get 'em together and out into the world. This looks like the longest thing I've written on MeFi, so I'll stop now. Suggestions? Still interested? Who's up for some new music?

I've got a bunch of good mixes just waiting to be made.

god hates math — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:42:06 -0800

So it's mid-April already, and I haven't yet heard anything about MefiSwap 2008. So who's in? The MeFiSwap webpage from last year is no longer up, and I got no response when I MeFiMailed Dreama, so I just don't know what's going on. I had a good time sending/receiving mixes last year, and it seems like I'm not the only one. So, I'm willing to administer the whole thing - I'll make the swapsets, and send out the emails. I'd also be interested in having a few theme swapsets, if people are interested - 2-disc mixes, covers-only mixes, mixes with track names that spell out embarrassing 4th-grade style acrostic poems, etc. I'm open to suggestions. If people are interested, we can decide on a timeline in-thread, and get started on making some mixes. Dreama, if you're there, and I'm stepping on your toes or anything, let me know.

MeFi Swap Tracklists

spicynuts — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:57:44 -0800

Post your MeFi Swap tracklist. I thought it would be great to see everyone's track selections and several people gave me encouragement so here goes. Mine is inside

MeFi Swap

Dreama — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:36:54 -0800

It's that time once again. Please feel free to sign up now for another round of the MeFiSwap. (And yes, the security glitch that plagued a subsection of the site for a few days last time around have been addressed and solved.)

MeFi Swap

crunchland — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:19:25 -0800

Mefi Swap 2006 : Come on. You need to send out your CDs already. I participated in two groups this time around, and sent out 10 cds. I've received only 4. This isn't an election where that sort of return rate is acceptable. Get off your lazy ass and fulfill your commitment.

MeFi Swap

tomble — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 18:43:53 -0800

MeFi Swap 2006! Has everyone participating sent off their CDs? Has anyone received CDs? Will there be some sort of Post-Swap forum where we can compare track listings and so on?

What happened to the latest MeFi CD Swap?

bjork24 — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 19:08:28 -0800

Does anyone have info about the latest, greatest MeFi swap? There hasn't been any new updates on their site, and the "sending of the swapsets" date has come and gone. What gives?

Last call for the MeFiSwap

Dreama — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:50:09 -0800

Last notice: you have until midnight tonight (just over 20 hours) to sign up for the current session of the MeFiSwap.

MeFiSwap music musicexchange

Dreama — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:00:25 -0800

Reminder: There is just one week (give or take 12 hours) to sign up for the latest go of the MeFiSwap. The more the merrier, and right now participation numbers are kind of low, perhaps because the announcement scrolled off of MeTa in less than 36 hours, so if you were wondering if it's on, yes, it's on! Get in while you can.

MeFiSwap update

Dreama — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:46:52 -0800

For those who are interested, I'm open to running another session of the MeFiSwap and have fiddled up the site (hat tip to the Metafilter Writers Group for the look) to make it a little easier for everyone to deal with. If you're in, come sign up.

I'm asking for your input on the future of the MeFiSwap.

Dreama — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:59:35 -0800

Survey redux... the virtual idea was overwhelmingly shot down, so once again I'm asking for your input on the future of the MeFiSwap. This will be the last survey, from here we'll move forward to start the next swap on May 1, in whichever format is most preferred, so if you have any inclination toward swap participation whatsoever, please weigh in on this one. (And let's hope this stays on the front page of the grey long enough for everyone to know about this. Spread the word.)

Opinions on MefiSwap (music)?

Dreama — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:42:00 -0800

Voice your opinion on the future of the MeFiSwap. Or at least the MeFiSwap as I've got a hand in it. If you've been a part in the past, if you want to be a part in the future, if you've just got a thought you want to share, here's an opportunity.

Share your MeFiSwap experiences

rxrfrx — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 09:19:49 -0800

Those of you who participated in the most recent MeFiSwap: How many CDs have you received?

MeFiSwap

edgeways — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:38:20 -0800

So... it appears that MeFiSwap is dead or becoming dead. Dreama appears to be very busy with a new kid and everything else that happens in life.

Are people interested in reviving this? I would be willing to do the administration aspect. I would NOT be able to start it until about 3 weeks, as I will be traveling and dealing with school related stuff. Undoubtedly my site style/options will not be as slick as Dream's setup, but I see no reason why it would not work.

This post is just to inquire how much interest there is.

The MefiSwap deadlines have changed once again

Dreama — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:36:48 -0800

The Swap deadlines have been rejiggered once again, and it's time to get this ship out of the dock. Sign up now, add your addresses now, get aboard. This is the last hurrah for this session, so don't wait for another reminder!

MeFi CD Swap

absalom — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:44:58 -0800

So, this MeFi CD swap reincarnated (previously discussed here) has its own page now, but I don't see a whole lot of activity. Are we going to do this thing, or what? (Or am I just being impatient?)

MeFi Swap

me3dia — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:06:18 -0800

What's up with the MeFi Swap?

What happened to the CD exchange?

spicynuts — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:08:13 -0800

MeFi CD Mix Exchange... please let me know if this is an inappropriate place for this question. A while back there was a sign up for a MeFi CD Exchange. I haven't heard anything about it again. Any idea if this was legitimate and is still going on?

MeFi Swap returns

Dreama — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:07:47 -0800

As per last month's teaser, the Swap is back, better than ever and super sex-ay with the php/mysql automation-fu for the new year. Check the latest news before signing up, and have fun with it, kids.

Return of MeFiSwap!

Dreama — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:59:39 -0800

Per the misplaced thread in AskMe, and for all of you wondering about the MeFiSwap... [+]

MeFi Swap

asok — Mon, 06 Sep 2004 04:44:51 -0800

Mefiswap! Much as I love the swap, I have to ask what is the purpose of having two MefiSwap sites?