April Fools! The judging panel announcement was an April Fools joke. Long live new-files . In all seriousness, we hope to improve on turnaround time on getting files out of new-files and into the archive. We are currently working on converting the metadata about our files into a database. A beta ver...
During our latest staff meeting, we have decided to phase out the new-files section. Starting April 5, submissions will get sent directly to staff where we have set up a panel to discuss and debate whether each file should go into the archive. A new submission/upload page will be forthcoming. Until ...
They tried to entertain us with videos and interactive stuff shown on projection screens. It was sometimes entertaining, and sometimes made you want to go insane. A lot of the interactive stuff required Text Messaging, which I don't do. At one point they made the entire line dance to You Can't Touch...
Got back Sunday night from PAX East in Boston. Here are some photos I took with my cell phone. Photo 1: Lines, long lines. Photo 2: Open Ceremony Photo 3: Guy in Green Body Suit (far right) knows how to rock at Rock Band Photo 4: Musical Guests Panel (MC Frontalot in center in green shirt, and Jonat...
Happy 13th Birthday to the Video Game Music Archive. Today we are starting the process of moving a new server, which upgrades us from old hardware (single-core, 512 MB ram, 80 GB hard drive) to a much better setup (quad-core, 8 GB ram, 1 TB hard drive, and double the bandwidth). Please note we'll be...
So far I've tested the page on: Operating System, Browser, Media Player (embedded / external window): Windows XP Professional SP3, Firefox 3.5, Windows Media Player (external) Windows XP Home SP3, Firefox 3.5, Quicktime (embedded) Ubuntu 9.04, Firefox 3.0, Movie Player (external) I also tested Inter...
The Random Song page now auto refreshes after each song in order to provide an infinite playlist! Special thanks to the PerlMonks for code to calculate the midi play length (not a trivial task)! A meta refresh tag is calculated upon each page load based on the midi play length plus two extra seconds...
Also, if possible, I think that filtering out results that are beneath a particular duration would be awesome. Like, say, I would really prefer to filter out results shorter than 30 seconds. And maybe an option that makes it so you don't even have to click the "Another Song" button. Becau...