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Geeze, you've been using IA to host your own personal media projects? That's disappointing to hear. What's wrong with, like, SoundCloud, etc? I rely on IA for

by rexpop 1mo ago

Geeze, you've been using IA to host your own personal media projects? That's disappointing to hear. What's wrong with, like, SoundCloud, etc? I rely on IA for literal public archival material like newspaper scans and broadcast recordings. Your usage of it seems a tad self-indulgent. It seems like having a 1TB drive and p2p hosting would be the most pro-social move, here, if you're unwilling to pay for cloud hosting or otherwise participate in the market.

earworms 1mo ago
Yes. Soundcloud has a 3 hour limit; meaning with my 200 hours of music, i would require a lot of accounts, and i have a song that is 3 hours and 5 minutes long. And i have songs that are as short as 4 seconds long. Bandcamp has a limit on the size of files you upload; which make it even more difficult as a lot of my songs are longer than 25 minutes. (which is precisely the amount their limit is.) Then if you sell something you can get up to a larger file size; unfortunately that is only about double the amount; and the said 3 hour song is 2.1GB on it's own. Music distributors are unlikely to upload a couple dozen albums because i use excerpts in a creative manner of cartoons and anime or television shows. Which are not allowed on most of them. Plus i have no control over the release day. All of the ones we both know about are individual song uploads, meaning the album that has 67 songs (released in 2019) with a bunch of five second to half a minute songs, it becomes mildly tedious. I agree with the P2P idea as well, it is my last resort though. (as i still need to obtain the drive.) Internet Archive; has the easy drag and drop of a folder and then type in some metadata for the entire release and wait about 20 or so minutes and it is released, no wait time, no individual song uploads, and practically unlimited. (with in reason.)
- rexpop 1mo ago
  I see, those are some extreme dimensions.

by rexpop 1mo ago

earworms 1mo ago

Yes. Soundcloud has a 3 hour limit; meaning with my 200 hours of music, i would require a lot of accounts, and i have a song that is 3 hours and 5 minutes long. And i have songs that are as short as 4 seconds long. Bandcamp has a limit on the size of files you upload; which make it even more difficult as a lot of my songs are longer than 25 minutes. (which is precisely the amount their limit is.) Then if you sell something you can get up to a larger file size; unfortunately that is only about double the amount; and the said 3 hour song is 2.1GB on it's own. Music distributors are unlikely to upload a couple dozen albums because i use excerpts in a creative manner of cartoons and anime or television shows. Which are not allowed on most of them. Plus i have no control over the release day. All of the ones we both know about are individual song uploads, meaning the album that has 67 songs (released in 2019) with a bunch of five second to half a minute songs, it becomes mildly tedious. I agree with the P2P idea as well, it is my last resort though. (as i still need to obtain the drive.) Internet Archive; has the easy drag and drop of a folder and then type in some metadata for the entire release and wait about 20 or so minutes and it is released, no wait time, no individual song uploads, and practically unlimited. (with in reason.)

rexpop 1mo ago
I see, those are some extreme dimensions.