Song of the Week NEEDS YOU!

Originally Posted by CHz

TCK's going to be leaving too in about a month, so we could really use the help.

Unconfirmed as of yet, but it's quite possible that this time next month I won't be a part of SotW staff.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Drakken

I'd love to help out. I'd be more than willing (and have plenty of time) to do the following:



The only thing I would need some pointers on is using MP3Gain (and I'm not sure what APE tags are). Everything else I'm capable of doing already.

MP3Gain is easy as hell, it's just a case of downloading MP3Gain, and running all the tracks through it. Takes less than five seconds.

APE tags are another kind of tag like ID3, used by some programs instead of ID3 tags. For tags I've been told to use Tagscanner, and while it works I'm sure there's better out there.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Elorin

I could help out with preparing tracks for voting (MP3Gaining and tagging), research on track information, thread creation and nomination management if need be. I'm not all that confident with more intensive website managament and vote tallying, though maybe with some practice and a sample excel sheet I could pick up the latter eventually. Hopefully, my workload from July onwards won't be as heavy as my research project from a couple of months back.

There's only one thing staff need to do to the main site (apart from uploading the tracks via ftp), and that's update the results for the various results. That's easy enough, thanks to http://songoftheweek.info/update.php (the password is CHzsmells btw).

Vote tallying is all done via SotWiki. Because the results are set out in tables it can be really annoying adding votes in to it. The wikicode works, but unless you really know wikicode it looks like utter gibberish. If someone could create some sort of frontend where one could convert votes into wikicode that'd be great, but until then CHz should be able to cope on his own. Lord knows he has coped on his own for quite some time

EDIT: Mo0 got a post in before me. It's easy enough when you know how it works, but even then it can be really tiresome and repetative to add in voters.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Any progress with this?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I can confirm that I will be leaving. Starting a new job at Sega next week, so I'm not going to have much free time.

I can probably stick around for a little while to bring in the newcomers if required, but I'd preferably want to be relieved of all duties by the end of Week 65 (two and a bit weeks).

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by CHz

So, janitor then?

Pretty much.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Most certainly. However, we still need to meet up as far as I know to discuss staff matters. I've got no objections, that's for sure.

FELIPE NO