Sun 17 Oct 2004
DJ Bacon
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Sat 16 Oct 2004
DJ Riko.com
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Fri 15 Oct 2004
Latest Mixes
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k you can now download the latest mixes from the list on the right side of the main page. It’s should always be fairly current and have the latest mixes.
There’s the small problem that it looks horrid and screws the design of the site a bit; I’ll try to fix that umhttp://b00mb0x.org. soon.
Please don’t LEFT CLICK the mix to stream. Please RIGHT CLICK and select SAVE TARGET AS to download the mix to your hard drive. If you stream off the site over and over, you’ll fuck us on bandwidth and we’ll have to shut down fast access for the mixes until the conclusion of our billing cycle. Only you can prevent forest fireshttp://b00mb0x.org. or something.
Fri 15 Oct 2004
special friends!
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If you contribute to our site and have a site you would like to be linked to by us put the site in these comments and we’ll add it to the friends page in a jiffy.
Thu 14 Oct 2004
Mixes down
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Newest mixes are down until tomorrow morning. Part of the inner hammering going on this month. Sorry.
Thu 14 Oct 2004
Tutorials
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Tutorials section is cleaned up and ready for prime time. Wanna write a tutorial? Write out the text and whatever images you wanna use (it doesn’t have to have images but it helps) and email it on over to us. We’d love to have ithttp://b00mb0x.org.
Tue 12 Oct 2004
b00mb0x awards
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Links on the b00mb0x awards page are working again. Here’s the deal. If you win 1st in any category in the yearly awards, your mix will be available here at high speed ferever. Consider it yer brush with immortality. Hehe.
Mon 11 Oct 2004
Help with our bandwidth
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Hi.
Clicking the below link and donating will directly help pay our site hosting costs. That includes the bandwidth to get new mixes, which we are now skirting the limits of as the site becomes more and more popular. Basically, we’re going to have to start shutting down serving new mixes early each month after our bandwidth limit gets hit. If you donate at the below link, that won’t happen. Or you’ll buy us some time. The money goes directly to our site host. So unfortunately, we can’t use it for hookers and blow.
The Staff of b00mb0x thanks you.
Oh, and naz wants you to know that by donating you don’t really get anything back other then karmic peace. As he put it this morning, “First person that demands something of me because he donated I’m ditching.” If you’d like something back then I suggest grabbing something from our cafepress shop. But we’re totally spending that money on hookers and blow.
Sun 10 Oct 2004
b00mb0x is unstable
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We’ve begun working on the front pagehttp://b00mb0x.org. expect lots of blips and farts in the next week. More then usual, hehe.
Tue 21 Sep 2004
Frequently Asked Questions
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1. Archive access
Q. Some of the old mixes are prompting me for a password/ I can’t get older mixes. What kind of shit is this?
A. We only post material publicly for a period of a week after which it is moved to our archives. The archive is pretty big (20 GB+, growing at 1-2 GB a month) and our bandwidth on the public folders is huge, so only mixers or folks who donate towards our bandwith have access to mixes older than a week. Information on donating can be found here.
We recommend that you use a download manager to download.
2. Submitting a mix
Q. I have a mix. I want to submit my mix on b00mb0x. What do I do?
A. We currently accept mixes uploaded to our server by FTP. FTP will work with Internet Explorer, but a dedicated application like CuteFTP will allow you to resume and do other fun stuff. New mixers can get the ftp upload details by emailing us @ admin@b00mb0x.org. Please take note of the following restrictions.
Just mixtapes please, please use the oodles of remix/bootie sites out there for your bootlegs remixes and send the record companies your beautiful original creations. If you don’t know what a mixtape is (!?), just look at what other mixers have posted, it pretty much explains itself.
In the interest of trying new things, b00mb0x now accepts video mixes. If you want to enter into this time consuming and frustrating process we accept up to 250 MB per video mix in the avi and mpg formats. If you are familiar with Sony Acid, you can use Sony Vegas for your video content, it works along the same lines.
You can do a full length mix made up of remixes but not a full length mix of stuff you made yourself. If there’s confusion about whether a mix is a mix or a remix, we’ll make that determination.
Please do not upload more than 1 mix a month. This is a new one. Its tough for us to deal with when people are constantly sending multiple mixes. We want to remain an open site so please hang back on sending your next mix until the following month. It’s because we have limited storage and resources and we need to be fair to everyone.
125 MB size limit per mix
MP3s only
Please don’t ask use to listen to your mix and decide if it’s good enough. Show some balls, man (or if you’re a woman, whatever the female equivalent of balls are).
Most mixes are between 20-80 minutes and encoded at 256kbs or lower (I recommend lowest quality variable bitrate with min/max bitrate set at 32kbs/320kbs if using CDex or RazorLame).
Most mixes have covers. Covers are considered an important part of the mix (like any good mix tape or mix cd) but are not required. Check around the site for peoples covers to see examples. We appreciate a tracklist for any mix.
You can now include a print quality cover if you wish along with your mix along with a cuesheet. Neither is required.
You basically need to 1) contact us for the upload server details 2) Run a google search on FTP tutorials so you know what you need to do 3) email us, letting us know your mix is there so that we can post it. If you haven’t contacted us regarding a mix that’s been uploaded and there for a while, we delete it.
3 .Delay between uploading and your mix being posted on the site.
Q. I uploaded my mix X minutes, days, weeks, months ago. If you didn’t like my Ukrainian ghetto-style, why didn’t you just say?!
A. If you have emailed us and received a response, it WILL be posted, it just a matter of time. We generally post mixes in the order in which we’ve received them.
4. Spam
Q. Why is somebody offering to extend my penis size in the comments under my mix? Is there some charge for this extra service?
A. Movable Type, the system we use for the site, is particularly attractive to spamming scripts. We maintain a blacklist of spam sites, but a few, sometimes a dozen or more, get through on most days. If you respond, you’re responding to a script. It feels no love, no hate, no human emotion at all. We usually delete whatever spam we get daily and any reactions to the spam. Sometimes we delete kosher comments by mistake when deleting spam.
5. Moderation
Someone is being mean to me! Make him stop!
A. We delete spam. You are entitled to say any mix sucks, just not over and over again.
6. b00mb0x
Q. What is b00mb0x?
A. b00mb0x is a mixtape competition site. It started off in an IRC channel in 2000, when assorted and I decided to see who could make the better mixtape (assorted’s was better). Since then we started hosting bootlegs and added things like the blog, but basically we are an online mixtape site, so we’ve gone back to our roots in that respect. All mixes are welcome, not just DJ sets (although they are very welcome) and the more imaginative they are, the better. Sometimes. We put mixes to the public vote once a year, around November and December.
7. b00mb0x email
Q. What’s the webmail link for?
A. Because we love you, anyone who contributes to the site can have a b00mb0x.org, bootbox.org, bmbx.org or mixes.b00mb0x.org email address, accessible via the web or an email client. Just let us know what address and password you want (you can change your password via the mailboxes link.)
8. Helping out on b00mb0x
Q. I’d like to help out on b00mb0x any way I can, what can I do?
A. We need people to write for the blog. Blogging is fun. You can write about anything you want, you don’t even need to be a mixer. You can link to cool stuff you found online or post your own images.
We’re on the lookout for tutorials on various mix related software. Abelton, Traktor, Cubase, ACID 5 all spring to mind. You can perform screen captures by pressing alt+print screen and then pasting the clipboard into your image editing application. We will be eternally grateful.
We also appreciate people submitting covers for the front page. Please don’t just take another image from the Internet and slap b00mb0x on it. That’s sucky. That’s not saying you can’t use “found” images in some context, just try to show a modicum of creativity.
Tue 21 Sep 2004
Very Basic Acid Tutorial
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Using Acid Pro as a mixer by naz Note: this is a very basic Acid tutorial. If this isn’t of any use to you, try fucking yourself Like Soundforge, Acid wasn’t designed as a mixer. It’s a sequencer that happens to perform very adequatedly as a mixing program. As it is professional software, there is a learning curve when trying to use it for mixing. Part One: MULTITRACKING Use the view > explorer option to display the file explorer. Drag a sound file into the centre of Acid. The beatmapper dialog will appear for long tracks. You can skip ahead to the beatmapper part of the tutorial now or later. For this part I cancelled the beatmapper wizard.
A track will appear on the left part of the work area. To start your mix, click the pencil icon and click and drag the waveform right. This can take a while and its quite awkward. To multitrack, load a second file into Acid and start dragging where you want to start the overlap between tracks one and two. Part Two: ENVELOPING A volume envelope allows you to control the volume levels. Right-click a track, Insert Volume Envelope. A brown line will appear. Right click the line where you would like to begin a volume transition, select add point. Add another point where you would like the volume transition to end. Drag the points to manipulate volume.
Part Three: BEATMAPPING When you load a large file into Acid, the beatmapper dialog appears. Beatmapping your tunes allows you to seamlessly mix tunes that around the same tempo. Sometimes. Firstly, Acid will attempt to locate the first downbeat. This, to me, means the first strike of the standard beat of the tune. Acid often gets it wrong. The below picture depicts a minimalist techno track, you may have to find the downbeat yourself.
After the downbeat has been defined, Acid attempts to create a loop. A properly beatmappedloop, if played continuously, will sound natural, no clicks, in time. Sometimes. The best way to get used to mapping the length and tempo of a loop is by experimenting with a dance track. When you have defined the loops correctly, proceed to the next screen. Inspect a few loops, to see if it remains in time. If so, click next and select Preserve Pitch.
The bottom left of the work area contains the tempo control for the entire project. If the project is set at 120 BPM and you beatmap a tune at 80 bpm, the tune will run at 150% of its proper tempo. Set the project tempo to whatever your mix material has been beatmapped at. You should aim to mix tunes of similar tempos together for the best sounding results. To change the project tempo half-way through a mix use Insert>Key Tempo change. Part Four: EXPORTING File> Render As. Have |
 
 
 Sun 19 Sep 2004
Archive
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We’re working on the archive for the last couple of days and we should have it ready, more or less, by the middle of the week. No new stuff is going to be posted until this is done. Thanks!