mattc

hello - just an update to say we've added a full-on 'BUDGET MUSIC PC BUILD
VIDEO' article if anyones thinking of building a music PC and is a beginner.

The video IS big of course, devided into episodes, and will require
broadband access to d/load, however, for the noob it covers absolutely
everything for building a powerful but cheap budget Athlon music PC - you
can watch the whole thing as it happens from start to finish, and the
article covers also the full XP setup, inc' drive partitioning, creating
audio drives, service-pack 1a setup, dx9 addition, all critical drivers &
patches, xp tweaks for music pc, services walkthru and tweaking, etc etc.

the Build is for a cheap budget athlon 2400, using a Gigabyte KT600 chipset
motherboard which can facilitate an AMD chip up to just beyond 3ghz for
upgrading in future, but it keep costs low for the initial build (£310 UKP
for the whole lot, ex screen) - The build package includes dual screen
graphics card & cd-burner and all parts are commonly available now at any
local PC fair.

and NO....we are not selling pc parts, this is purely an article for noobie
help not to promote sales of something!





COMING SOON - COMING SOON

we are finaly updating the music-section of the dancetech site
(www.7161.com) - we split off the music section at Christmas time 2003 to
open up the server facility for other music users who didn't make
dance-music, and so www.7161.com was born with genre's for dance AND rock
music/bands to upload - However, we are updating the site so that users can
manage their free server space direct rather than restricting uploads to a
max filesize and max track-count. This was a leftover of the old music
section which was started back when few people outside the USA had cable or
broadband - Now broadband is more prevelent, we are updating the site to
allow larger hi-fi file uploads.

This should be implemented within a few weeks from today after which users
can upload 128k or whatever bitrate 'hi-fi' files and manage their available
space which the system will measure each time they check-in to their admin
and present them with their remaining available file-space.

With this new method, you can choose to upload many smaller files, or many
files of mebbe 32kb or 56kb etc, or if you prefer, you can upload only 128k
files but of course you'll be able to add less tracks in total if file-sizes
are bigger.

We are also adding a command-line encoder to the server so that ALL
uploaded 'hi-fi' mp3 files will be automaticaly encoded by the server after
upload to create a 24k mono lo-fi 'demo' version for modem users to checkout
prior to d/loading hi-fi versions if they cannot stream 128k files.

This will kick in within a few weeks, I'll pop back and post a note when
it's up and running and has been 'Mac tested' too - lol

For those who don't know, 7161 offers free webspace with an admin section
for managing original music Tracks/Mixes online for bands/artists/deejays -
included in the package:

1. Free space for tracks (about 100mb + space for images & banners etc)

2. You can create online 'Virtual CD Albums' with cover-art, liner notes,
and add tracks from your uploaded 'Track-pool' to created 'albums', You can
then stack the play order independently for your uploaded track-lists AND
albums, and artist-pages include links for 'Stream all at once' play for
created albums and track-lists.

3. FREE user 'homepages' with a unique user web-address which open 100%
independently of the main 7161 site - you can create these via your admin
area if you wish too -

Homepages show: All added Tracks/Mixes, created 'CD Albums', Artist/band
details text & contacts, a band/artist image/logo, a full online gig diary
to show your forthcoming gigs and shows, a visitors feedback form (so people
can mail you if you wish your email to remain hidden which is an admin
option), you can also add a banner image or FLASH banner FREE to your
homepage- all this is via an automated admin and can be changed anytime, so
you can upload new tracks, add new gigs, change your tecxts and banner
image/Flash or re-set it back to zero etc -

All you need to do is keep your details and tracks and gigs up to date in
your admin area, and all this loads to your 'Homepage' for display when
someone visits your homepage

There is NO main site logo on band/artist/deejay created 'Hompages' for the
parent 7161 site, there is NO banner-ad's, pop-ups, or any advertising at
all and no spyware etc - 100% FREE homepages for music-makers and Deejays
with no crappy advertising AT ALL!!

4. Join a large community of thousands of music makers



As I say - this is being updated as soon as the lo-fi automated encoder is
fixed in place and tested, after which you can upload larger hi-fi files and
decide how to manage your space in terms of how many tracks you add to the
given free webspace.


more news/updates coming soon.

Thankyou for your time.


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