Song of the Week NEEDS YOU!

I was going to make this thread, but you did a better job than I would've! =O

Originally Posted by Kaleb.G

And of course, being on staff means working with CHz and TCK. They run a tight ship, so you'll need to co-operate with (and learn from) both of them.

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

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Okay, I've been a killer combination of lazy AND forgetful about this thread. HERE WE GO

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.

Yeah, I remember you were part of the research crew a while back. If you want to continue reprise that role, that would be super.

Once all the research is done and copies of every track have been found, tagging and MP3Gaining doesn't take that much effort with TagScanner.

Originally Posted by Kaleb.G

So you guys don't even use a spreadsheet anymore? Let's hope Mo0 didn't do any more miscounts

I actually copy-paste the table into a spreadsheet to do the totaling. >_>

Originally Posted by Klondike

Anyway, I f-ing love the game music community, I'm a big fan of SOTW and I've found a lot of wonderful music from there, and I'd love to help with another project doing something I greatly respect.

You should nominate something once in a while.

Originally Posted by orion_mk3

I'd be more than willing to lend a hand. I've done my share of wiki-ing at the grand Wikipedia, and I've created at least one voting thread when I got impatient

Since you're already familiar with wiki editing, and you've shown enthusiasm in getting the voting thread up (if only for your own benefit), I have to agree with Mo0 here; you'd make a fine thread manager for here, assuming you don't mind wiki'ing up votes and nominations.

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Here's what the duties are looking like to me thus far. Input graciously accepted.

* Thread creation and upkeep at one or more forums.
I'll continue doing STC, since that's really low maintenance. If/when TCK decides to leave, I can take over Chudah's Corner too, since that also doesn't get a lot of activity. orion_mk3 would be my choice for GFF manager, taking over for me.

* Nomination management: Culling all forums for nominations, updating the Nomination Queue, restricting nominations in co-ordinance with the thread manager(s), and taking care of week rollovers.
This has been falling on the thread managers, although I've been picking up CC for TCK for a few weeks now. >:(

As far as the rollovers, I can handle that.

* Vote tallying at all forums: Need to be able to use Excel, OpenOffice Calc, or another spreadsheet type.
Copy-pasting the voting table into a spreadsheet takes about ten seconds, since my web browser conveniently delimits cells with tabs.

* Information researcher: Making sure each track has all the correct information for artist, album, track title, catalog number, etc.
Getting Elorin back in the researching saddle will make this part much easier.

* Voting tracks preparation: Properly tagging all of the tracks with ID3v1/ID3v2/APE and MP3Gain.
Elorin, Drakken, me? This one's still up in the air.

* General wiki maintenance: Update the front page as needed, keep an eye on recent changes, ban spammers, clean up dusty old articles (the "Song of the Week" article still needs to be properly divided up into smaller articles).
I can handle this, except maybe the SotW article division, which no one's ever gotten around to doing.

* Programmer to clean up my n00b php code and/or add more functionality to the site.
Klondike has shown some interest here.

* Graphic designer to add more styles to the site and/or create a redesign if able.
No one here as of yet, although this isn't a huge priority for me because the site looks fine to me as is.

* Someone to create the Song of the Year award graphic (yes, this still has gone unaccomplished).
Both Kanji and SonicPanda have shown interest.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Elorin

Research, tagging and MP3Gaining is fine with me. Might need help/advice with APE tagging and converting certain submitted file types into mp3 but major ones like .ogg shouldn't be a problem.

I can convert pretty much anything, so you don't really need to worry about that, assuming I remember to actually do it.

We don't get many nominations in non-MP3 formats anyway.

Originally Posted by Elorin

1) when should we start cracking

Maybe as soon as right now! Depends on if everyone else is ready to start as well.

Originally Posted by Elorin

2) are we going back to using the chocojournal for communicating info? Or #sotw (I'm afraid I need some orientation on how #sotw works :P)?

We've been using the wiki for a while. If you need a crash course in how the system works and how to edit everything, just ask and TCK or I will oblige.

Originally Posted by TCK

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.

So, janitor then?

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

Originally Posted by Drakken

So...would you guys like me to help, or no?

If you'd like, you can prep the tracks for voting each week. Basically, this would involve downloading the tracks from the links in the Research Base, tagging everything with the proper information, running MP3Gain on the tracks, and then uploading them to the voting archive.

If you're interested, let me know and I can give you more explicit instructions and find times when you're free to do everything. We'd also have to get you hooked up with an FTP account.

I've got next week's (Week 64's) tracks covered, so you can start on Week 65.

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

Originally Posted by Kanji

Questions for the higher-ups: If I get around to making a graphic that I feel is proper for SOTY, what should I do with it? Post it in this thread, or maybe send a PM to one of the staff members? And if the latter, then whom?

You can either post it here to get comments from people or just PM it to Kaleb. He's the one who'll have to specially add it.

I was speaking idiomatically.