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- From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal )
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: Good Party Tunes?
- Message-ID: <crystal.727824423@glia>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 21:27:03 GMT
- Article-I.D.: glia.crystal.727824423
- References: <dac.0706@dacami.cmhnet.org> <82oPXB3w166w@hogbbs.scol.pa.us> <crystal.727624846@glia> <jbickers.0nxe@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
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- In <jbickers.0nxe@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
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- >Quoted from <crystal.727624846@glia> by crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal ):
- >> In <82oPXB3w166w@hogbbs.scol.pa.us> crunch@hogbbs.scol.pa.us (Travis Prebble) writes:
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- >> >It's time to begin a revolt! From now on, all music will have 50
- >> >character file names! Well, okay, maybe not. :)
- >>
- >> Add a .readme and Everyone will be happy :>
-
- > Not everyone. I only keep MODs, not the accompanying readmes. The
-
- So, toss the readme after you have read it and determined that it is something
- you wish to bother with downloading or not. (or keep the readmes.. :>)
-
- > best approach, IMHO, is for the authors to embed the names in the
- > file. MED supports this, and people do it in MODs by naming the
- > instruments things like "by Audiomonster". If people want to put a
- > whole lot of text in the file, I've seen that done by inserting
- > the text as a bogus instrument.
-
- So *THAT'S* how they do it! Interesting... Yes, it is sad when one puts
- something up and it is listed "unknown" and it's *beautiful* and you can't
- track the person down to find out the other titles he/she/it did.
-
- (Coversely, you can't find out the titles to AVOID by an "unknown" you don't
- like the style of... :<)
-
- > As far as names go, 20 seems to be ideal. Besides being the length
- > of the name field in normal MODs, it also allows space for a
- > "mod." prefix and a ".xpk" suffix.
-
- Number of characters in a name is not NEARLY as important as having an
- understandable title. Those who like cryptic titles must have learned
- programming by using BASIC...in which cryptic variable names are used.
- Kinda hard to break a bad habit. *sigh*
-
- >> Crystal
- >--
- >*** John Bickers, TAP. jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz ***
- >*** "Radioactivity - It's in the air, for you and me" - Kraftwerk ***
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