Steel Guitar Players Web Site Updated

Charles Tilley · Post by **Charles Tilley** » 19 Oct 2007 5:03 am

I have had some recent inquiries as how to place a song on ETSGA web site. Here are the rules:

1. The song must be steel guitar with no singing.
2. If the song submitted is by someone other than yourself, permission from that person must be received. This is not a You Tube site.
3. Send the songs MP3 if possible. Other formats, but not all, may be accepted.
4. Only one song at a time. That song can be changed once every 25 days.
5. Be aware that any song published is subject to listener downloading.
6. Talent level is not a factor to submit a song.

Should you have other questions, email me at ttexastilley@sbcglobal.net

richard burton · Post by **richard burton** » 20 Oct 2007 6:46 am

Charles,
Can you remove my tune 'Oldies Medley', as, now it is in the new format, unfortunately the sound quality has been reduced, and is not representative of my true tone.

Charles Tilley · Post by **Charles Tilley** » 20 Oct 2007 7:07 am

Richard, I sure hate to do that but I will if you wish. Before I did the 3 day conversion from MP3 to Mpeg, I had about 6 people give me their opinion of wheather the sound quality had been altered and all said no.

If you would like (instead of removing the song) I can change it back to Mp3. What I was doing is to give the dial-up users a chance to hear the songs also. Changing back to Mp3 will not prevent that but it will take them about 20 minutes to downlaod the song (so I have been told).

If there are other players that feel my conversion has taken away some quality, please let me know. I have no intention of doing that to anyone.

Please advise on this suggestion.

Al Marcus · Post by **Al Marcus** » 20 Oct 2007 7:31 am

Richard-I just downloaded your "Oldies Medley" and the sound was very good to me,on Charles Tilleys's new MPEG site. You did a nice job on your E9th.I have a Altec Lansing speaker system hooked to my compouter....al.

:)

richard burton · Post by **richard burton** » 20 Oct 2007 7:51 am

OK, if it makes it easier for people to download, then leave it as it is, thanks Charles.

It's about time that I did another tune, that one has been up about about 3 months now, I'm getting lazy

c c johnson · Post by **c c johnson** » 20 Oct 2007 8:02 am

thanks for taking care of us poor fellas that have to stay on dialup. cc

Al Marcus · Post by **Al Marcus** » 20 Oct 2007 8:14 am

Charles Tilley sent me some of his songs in MPEG and took a minute to download, when before it took up to 30 minutes the old way. I couldn't hear any appreciable difference in the sound.

Tilley did a lot of work with his program converting all those MP3's to MPEG, and we all benefit as NOW , us poor guys on dial up can hear a lot of the songs on Tilley's site instead of just a few we have time for.
I might even be able to hear them all now with the new MPEG technology, thanks to Tilley....al.

:)

Charles Tilley · Post by **Charles Tilley** » 20 Oct 2007 12:19 pm

I have completed the conversion of the songs. If you have a problem, be sure and let me know and MAYBE I can fix it.

Moon in Alaska · Post by **Moon in Alaska** » 20 Oct 2007 12:36 pm

Charles.... I listened to my song and it sounds fine...Thanks for your effort !!!!
Moon

Joe McHam · Post by **Joe McHam** » 21 Oct 2007 8:10 am

Sounds good down here on DSL..

John McGlothlin · Post by **John McGlothlin** » 21 Oct 2007 12:01 pm

When we send a song in to the website do we keep sending it as mp3 .....I'm a little dumb on some of the computer terms...the MPEG is a new one on me. I've listened to some of the songs and they all still sound great to me. John

Al Marcus · Post by **Al Marcus** » 21 Oct 2007 12:15 pm

John-you can send your song MP3 and Tilley will convert it to MPEG...al.

:)

John McGlothlin · Post by **John McGlothlin** » 21 Oct 2007 12:32 pm

Thanks Al.

Ray Harrison · Post by **Ray Harrison** » 22 Oct 2007 9:06 am

Al, Thanks so much for all your efforts. It is great that we have the access to listen to and download all the various friends that we visit on the Forum. All your time and dedication is appreciated and hopefully will be rewarded.

Karen Lee Steenwijk · Post by **Karen Lee Steenwijk** » 24 Oct 2007 7:14 am

Charles just wanted to say a "thank-you" for a great site!! Really enjoy listening to all the players. and the music is great..added it to my favs.
Karen

Charles Tilley · Post by **Charles Tilley** » 24 Oct 2007 12:53 pm

I want all you guys and gals to know that the nice things you are saying about me and my site is ample payment for time spent doing it. You know, I enjoy listening to every one of you. Yes, I know some are better than others but I enjoy them all.

I have just today reformatted the player list. I hope all of you like the change. I will keep converting mp3 files to mpeg and publish them along with the mp3 file so that you dial-up folks can listen to. Read the note above the player list.

Feel free to keep your songs updated monthly should you want to.

NOTE: the mpeg files are much smaller than mp3 so dial-up users can downlaod songs in about 1 minute or 2 instead of 20 minutes per song.

Charles Tilley · Post by **Charles Tilley** » 28 Oct 2007 4:19 am

Send your song file!!!!

Charles Tilley · Post by **Charles Tilley** » 7 Nov 2007 10:08 am

to the top

Pete Young · Post by **Pete Young** » 7 Dec 2007 7:52 pm

Thanks Charles for what you are doing for every body

Al Marcus · Post by **Al Marcus** » 7 Dec 2007 8:30 pm

I just posted my song for the holidays, a Christmas Medley. Thanks Tilley. By the way guys, give a listen to Charles Tilley's contribution, beautiful playing....al.

:)

Charles Tilley · Post by **Charles Tilley** » 2 Feb 2008 5:40 am

Charles Tilley · Post by **Charles Tilley** » 2 Feb 2008 5:41 am

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Dean Salisbury · Post by **Dean Salisbury** » 2 Feb 2008 7:25 am

be nice if we had the url to you cite?

thanks

Al Marcus · Post by **Al Marcus** » 2 Feb 2008 8:20 am

Hi Dean-look under Steel Players, and "Send your song heard around the world" The URL is in Charles Tilley's first post....al.

:)

Charles Tilley · Post by **Charles Tilley** » 2 Feb 2008 8:53 am

www.etsga.org/steelguitarplayers.htm

The Steel Guitar Forum

Steel Guitar Players Web Site Updated

Steel Guitar Players Web Site Updated

Conversion complete

Sounds Good Here!!

Al Tilley site

Great site!!

Enough to make it worthwhile

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what is the URL to your web site?