Compilation Album update

November 28, 2006 9:00 AM

Now that the Metafilter Compilation Album is actually shipping, might it warrant a sidebar mention on the front page? I'll put a little more inside.
posted by nanojath to MetaFilter Music at 9:00 AM (28 comments total)

Being as how discussions of it have mostly confined to MetaTalk, which I believe is the least-trafficked area of Metafilter, and you know the holidays and everything and it is the perfect gift and all? So many people put in some really hard work on making this extra cool (and I just think the history of its creation makes for a really interesting story), I really want it to succeed.
posted by nanojath at 9:00 AM on November 28, 2006

There is an ad for it at the top right of the front page already.
posted by amro at 9:03 AM on November 28, 2006

There's a big image promoting it directly above the sidebar.
posted by matthewr at 9:03 AM on November 28, 2006

I'm seeing an actual largish-thumbnail image of it on the front page, over on the sidebar side, image being a link to www.meficomp.com.
posted by jfuller at 9:04 AM on November 28, 2006

Yeah, I would not complain about sidebarring at all, but I wasn't going to ask because Matt has already hooked us up with a cherry ad position.
posted by cortex at 9:05 AM on November 28, 2006

Least-trafficed area? Hell, MetaTalk is always the first of the metas that I click on in my RSS aggregator. Flameouts and callouts and assgrabbery, etc.
posted by Rhomboid at 9:15 AM on November 28, 2006

Sheesh, apparently I was so focused on poring over the sidebar to make sure I wasn't posting redundantly that I missed that (now) glaringly obvious ad. Or perhaps I've autotrained myself to ignore advertising images. Or perhaps I am simply dumb. Feel free to discuss this amongst yourselves. Meanwhile, does anyone know what to do about excessive hand-sweating?
posted by nanojath at 9:16 AM on November 28, 2006

In the old days, like last month and before, this is when ceiling cat would appear to watch everyone masturbating.
posted by caddis at 9:55 AM on November 28, 2006

THANKS TO THE IMAGE TAG, METAFILTER NOW HAS ACTUAL GOOD OLD DAYS.

OOOPS. MY CAPSLOCK IS ON. HEH.
posted by quonsar at 10:13 AM on November 28, 2006

Assgrabbery? All I've been getting is asshattery!
posted by arcticwoman at 10:13 AM on November 28, 2006

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ASCII CAT IS WATCHING YOU REMINISCE
posted by Plutor at 10:39 AM on November 28, 2006 [4 favorites]

So...about Volume Two...
posted by graventy at 11:13 AM on November 28, 2006

Heh. I think it can wait till 2007, graventy.
posted by cortex at 11:24 AM on November 28, 2006

Yeah, or 2008 am i rite
posted by interrobang at 1:23 PM on November 28, 2006

Next time for volume 2, I say online mp3/FLAC only. I can setup a paypal thing where the whole album is $5 and we don't have to worry about printing costs or shipping at all. We can still master it and have nice artwork, but we won't have to go through the pain of delivering physical media.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:10 PM on November 28, 2006

But dude, I love getting mail.
posted by Roger Dodger at 3:52 PM on November 28, 2006

Also, we are masochists. O Lord mathowie, please grant us our indulgences, and may jessamyn be awake to delete my eventual flameout before it is yet ablaze.
posted by blasdelf at 6:11 PM on November 28, 2006

I can't wait for this to arrive. What's the estimated arrival date for UK copies?
posted by MrMustard at 6:06 AM on November 29, 2006

I have been informed by one UKite that the time span of delivery from the US via standard mail is "between 3 days and 3 weeks."

So, uh, between 3 days and 3 weeks. I'm going through mailing this week; already have older pre-orders flying, working to get caught up with the more recent stuff now.
posted by cortex at 8:52 AM on November 29, 2006

ASCII CAT IS WATCHING YOU REMINISCE

Um ya, if you stand 10 feet away and squint. :)
posted by The Deej at 2:15 PM on November 29, 2006

Mine came today!!! I am experiencing rawk right now! Thanks cortex and everyone!
posted by and hosted from Uranus at 4:39 PM on November 29, 2006

Rock!
posted by cortex at 4:41 PM on November 29, 2006

Thanks cortex. It's possible it could get held up a bit by the Christmas post. I'll do my best to be patient!
posted by MrMustard at 11:26 PM on November 29, 2006

mathoiwie wrote: Next time for volume 2, I say online mp3/FLAC only. I can setup a paypal thing where the whole album is $5 and we don't have to worry about printing costs or shipping at all.

No. I'll feel ripped off if I don't receive a physical object. On the other hand, if the download is free, I'll assume the music crap. (Yes, I'm serious.)
posted by ryanrs at 12:39 AM on November 30, 2006

My CD just arrived!

Is there a way I can share the song titles/artists with CDDB or something so everyone who plays the CD on his or her computer doesn't have to re-enter that information? What genre would you suggest I give it?
posted by pithy comment at 1:51 PM on November 30, 2006

I found a "Submit CD Track Names" feature in iTunes. I think I'll go with "Alternative" for a genre.
posted by pithy comment at 1:55 PM on November 30, 2006

By all means, go for it. I tried and failed to do this via WMP last week, and realize now that I never got back to it, which is a shame—I wanted the very first happy customer to pop in their CD and have everything pull correctly off the bat.

I'd request that you list the artist names as the mefite names as listed on the back cover, for simplicity and consistency's sake.
posted by cortex at 2:31 PM on November 30, 2006

Yes, I used the back cover, though I capitalized the first letter of the names.
posted by pithy comment at 7:24 PM on November 30, 2006