Who's got their SGF CD-R?

Dave Harmonson · Post by **Dave Harmonson** » 25 Feb 2011 12:31 pm

Just got my copy of the CD-R 50 steel guitar songs. Some great stuff. Thanks to B0B and all the players for making it happen.

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 25 Feb 2011 1:46 pm

It may be lurking in my mailbox?

Jay Fagerlie · Post by **Jay Fagerlie** » 25 Feb 2011 2:16 pm

I got mine
I'm up to song 20 or so.
What a great idea, I am enjoying it.
Some good stuff, for sure.
Jay

Brian McGaughey · Post by **Brian McGaughey** » 25 Feb 2011 3:30 pm

Just got it and put it in. Great fun! Thanks b0b! Goin' on my ipod which I listen to while I work.

Jim Eaton · Post by **Jim Eaton** » 25 Feb 2011 4:47 pm

Got my fingers crossed hoping my copy is waiting in the mailbox for me when I get home tonight!!!

JE:-)>

Frank Estes · Post by **Frank Estes** » 25 Feb 2011 5:19 pm

Got mine today. Really amazing variety!

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 26 Feb 2011 9:32 am

Got mine yesterday. A great diversity of styles.

Paul Sutherland · Post by **Paul Sutherland** » 26 Feb 2011 10:22 am

I received my copy yesterday and listened to every tune. There's a broad variety of music played; certainly not all country. Alan wins the prize for making me laugh.

I couldn't help but notice that 6 of the 50 players hail from Northern California. I'm not sure what that means, if anything. Is No Cal a secret hot bed of steel guitar madness?

Mike Perlowin · Post by **Mike Perlowin** » 26 Feb 2011 3:03 pm

Paul Sutherland wrote: Is No Cal a secret hot bed of steel guitar madness?

Yup. So Cal too.

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 27 Feb 2011 7:41 pm

I got mine today and made it thru song #5 before I had to go to work some really nice tunes out there...Proud to be a part of it!

Jim Eaton · Post by **Jim Eaton** » 28 Feb 2011 2:12 pm

My copy arrived this weekend and I'll agree with early posts by saying "There are 50 different songs on there and we all owe b0b a big thanks for all his efforts to put this together for us!"
JE:-)>

Larry Bressington · Post by **Larry Bressington** » 28 Feb 2011 7:28 pm

I'm lost? What's going on, need filling in!

admin · Post by **b0b** » 28 Feb 2011 7:35 pm

Here you go, Larry:
SGF-Members-Showcase-MP3-CD

To date I've sent out 75 copies. A few more have gone out direct from Kunaki.com. The last of the artist's copies went out today. All of the pre-orders have shipped.

I highly recommend that you play it in "shuffle mode" so that hear tracks at the end as often as you hear the opening tracks. Some of them are really stuck in my head! I'm real happy with the way it turned out.

Any comments about the liner notes PDF file?

Ken Pippus · Post by **Ken Pippus** » 28 Feb 2011 9:50 pm

That's the best $10 I've ever spent, by a couple of orders of magnitude!! Great to attach a sound to a bunch of familiar names.

Liner notes like this make me long for the days of vinyl record jackets. Great to have all that detail available.

Great job, and thanks, bOb

KP

Bill Myrick · Post by **Bill Myrick** » 1 Mar 2011 3:02 am

I see it says MP3 CD . I was thinking that is two differant formats ? Do you need to specify CD or what's the deal. Yep. I'm an old duck and not "hep" on things like this. Thanx---

Nic du Toit · Post by **Nic du Toit** » 1 Mar 2011 3:35 am

Bill,
From one old duck to an older (I think) duck ;

You do have things a bit mixed up.
The term "CD' is short for 'Compact Disk', and refers to the disk (CD) itself....the content can be Music, Movies, pictures....etc.
The standard industry "Format" for the music files written (or burned) to a CD is in the 'Wave File' format (.wav )...meaning Audio Sample Rate = 44.100kHz, Audio Sample size = 16 bit, and the Tracks are nowadays mostly in Stereo.
That said, if you have an older type CD player the disk from b0b won't play...... it will only play on your PC, or DVD machine.
The reason is that the "Format" used for the files (music) burnt to that CD is in the '.mp3' format, which differs considerably from the normal.

Newer players do 'read', or play, mp3 and wave files.

Of course, the mp3 files occupy a much smaller data space on the CD, so you can fit many more songs than normally on a CD.

Hope this helps a bit.

admin · Post by **b0b** » 1 Mar 2011 7:58 am

Bill Myrick wrote:I see it says MP3 CD . I was thinking that is two differant formats ? Do you need to specify CD or what's the deal. Yep. I'm an old duck and not "hep" on things like this. Thanx---

It's not a regular audio CD. It's a data CD containing 50 MP3 files and a PDF file of the liner notes.

You can copy all of the files to your computer to play them, and from there you can also put them on your iPod or other MP3 device.

Some CD and DVD players will play the MP3 files directly from the CD. These players usually have an "MP3" logo on them somewhere.

Bill Myrick · Post by **Bill Myrick** » 1 Mar 2011 8:07 am

Lots of help !!! Thanks guys--'preciate it !

Henning Kock · Post by **Henning Kock** » 2 Mar 2011 10:24 am

I got mine today.
Great idea, b0b.
What about a volume 2 now in a few months?

Henning from Denmark

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 2 Mar 2011 1:02 pm

Got mine today! and "the check is in the mail".

Thanks/b0b

bruce fischer · Post by **bruce fischer** » 2 Mar 2011 1:52 pm

ordered mine yesterday & the check is in the mail.............cant wait!

Mike Perlowin · Post by **Mike Perlowin** » 2 Mar 2011 3:58 pm

Mine arrived today. It plays fine in my car's CD player, but won't boot up on my computer.

Is anybody else unable to boot the CD on their computer?

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 2 Mar 2011 4:15 pm

Mike, it's not a "bootable" disc. You copy the data on the CD to a folder on your hard drive and then play the songs from the hard drive. Or you can access the music files on the disc and play them through your PC.

admin · Post by **b0b** » 2 Mar 2011 7:44 pm

Put the CD in your Mac's drive, then open a new Finder window. It should show up in the left panel under "Devices".

Mike Perlowin · Post by **Mike Perlowin** » 3 Mar 2011 12:22 am

Right now the CD is in my car.

GADZOOKS! What an amazing and diverse display. We have a lot of wonderfully creative people here.