check hexawe@gmail.com whenever u feel like seeing if any releases are queued up.

after you've replied to an email or done whatever needs to be done with it, archive the shit! keep that inbox sparse. feel free to follow up with an artist via your personal email.

for any release, the artist should provide:

• mp3 render of their project (if you have to render yourself lame -V 2 -q 0 –vbr-new –lowpass 22.05 –interch .001 is a nice setting)
• .zip of the lgptProject folder
• square album art (bonus points if it says HEXAWE on it)
• info txt (greetz, facials, contact info, version of piggy the render was made with, etc)

once these things are collected they can all be thrown in the meat grinder

the lgptProjectFolder should be contained in the .zip

all txt/gfx should sit as siblings to the lgptsav.dat

to be more explicit, here's an example file structure:

• [lgptProjectFolder]
  • [samples]
    • whatever.wav
    • another.wav
  • lgptsav.dat
  • albumArt.jpg
  • infoText.txt
  • someOtherTreat.jpg

mp3gain is like replay gain but it doesn't rely on the player being smart to any special tags. this is done so that the entire hexawe catalog is smoother listening on random play (like for the flash based radio player that's on the way).

mp3gain software is available for win/mac/*nix so grab what you need:

• win
• mac
• nix

and be sure your Target “Normal” Volume is 89.0 (the default), gain per track (rather than by album), and prevent clipping.

take the square art from the artist and embedd it in the mp3. if it's huge kilobytes re-save it for web or something to make it reasonable.

software for:

• win: Mp3tag
• mac: eyeD3 (command line tool via macports)
• nix: kid3 (graphical tool, 1.0 lets you drag the image into the kid3 window for the selected file), eyeD3 (command line tool)

eyeD3 example (removing all tags before adding any art because you can make a mess by adding multiple FRONT_COVER art files):

eyeD3 --remove-all hex0003_burke_stank_by_starpause.mp3
eyeD3 --add-image=burkeStank.jpg:FRONT_COVER hex0003_burke_stank_by_starpause.mp3

these are pretty obvious except the creative commons license fields, but those tags must be added and filled in exactly to allow robots to find the files.

• artist name and track title should be obvious
• album title: hexawe
• track number: catalog number (ie hex000A)
• date: just the year is fine
• genre: make it up if the artist didn't
• comment: http://hexawe.net/
• WCOP (you might have to create this field yourself): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
• WOAF (you might have to create this field yourself): http://hexawe.net/
• TCOP Licensed to the public under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ verify at http://hexawe.net/
• COPYRIGHT Licensed to the public under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ verify at http://hexawe.net/

name the .mp3 and .zip the same, just different file extentions

check hexawe.net to see the next available catalog number, remember it's in hex!

use alpha numeric only, no special characters, _ instead of spaces

otherwise, just follow convention … there's lots of examples to look at :)

• get in #hexawe on efnet
• logon to the hexawe ftp and upload the .zip and .mp3
• ask someone familiar with this document to download the files and check their integrity

done!

not necessary, but nice. a few sites to hit (and please add your own):

• spause
  • noerror
  • traxernews
  • netaudio mailing list
  • littlegpttracker mailing list
  • mnvibe
  • tribe
  • mp3death mailing list
  • best media in life is free
  • kotaku
• jonbro
  • starfrosch
• lazerbeat
  • jamendo
• rhinostri
  • last.fm
• sm0hm
  • discogs
  • littlegptracker community @ livejournal
• j0nk13
  • archive.org
  • itunes
• dotdummy
  • 8BC
• herr_prof
  • peter kirn @ cdm
• dmusta1ne
  • gp32x.com
  • gp32spain.com
  • prophet64 forum
• EVERYONE
  • myspace
  • facebook