THANK YOU!!!!!
FP

LEFT BEHIND!

Instead of hearing Gregorian Chant yesterday, I had a flashback experience to being on a plane in Charlotte, NC and, at the last moment a horde of sweaty women came stomping down the aisle and sat in the rows behind me...raving about almost missing the plane and running through the airport being on the way back from a missionary trip to Africa.

Interesting, but hardly noteworthy. Until the plane was cleared for takeoff.

At this point this Pentecostal group all began praying and shouting in tongues. Loudly. Very loudly.

At this point my friend Peach, if she was there would have said, "Oh, m'God!"

I said to myself....with all this prayer going on if a plane's going down today it's going to be this one. But things were fine.

What does this have to do with this forum?

I boarded a plane yesterday, got in my seat and began to hear humming behind me. The same melody over and over again, in a man's voice. The melody was different, with a sort of hopping rhythm and melismatic phrases. Over and over again. At first it bothered me...5 hours of this to look forward to?

I mean the fact that the movie was a dud was bad enough.

Then I got it. The three orange-robed Buddhist monks were right behind me! Neat.

Takeoff was fine and then they all fell asleep until we landed.

I got a chance to talk with them.

I also just uploaded the Professor Mahrt's Vespers class from Tuesday, it's down at the bottom.

Here's the link

Carl - Thank you for all your work.

This helps ease the pain of not being their

David Deavy

Yes thank you thank you guys for uploading the Masses and some of the lectures!!!!

Ed Schaefer was kind enough to send me the PDF for the handouts for his Semiology class.

I have now uploaded Friday's Mass.

I'm hoping to get to the rest of the recordings this weekend - thanks to all who have volunteered to upload files! I'm overwhelmed.

After that, I'll try to produce the packaged zip files (so you can download the whole file set much easier) and the high-quality versions. I was also wondering how hard it might be to produce an RSS file so people can have iTunes or other podcatcher download the files automagically - anybody know how to do that? I'd rather not do it by hand, since this is hundreds of files.

Carl

Compression artifacts? Absolutely, and I find them annoying myself. See my response to this thread from last Sunday to see why I'm doing it that way.

The uncompressed versions will be forthcoming, it just takes more time. Many thanks to you and the others who recorded the source uncompressed, and then were extremely patient on the upload process.

I just uploaded Jennifer's recording of Wednesday Lauds.

I've now added the tracks for the New Compositions on Saturday. It will take a while longer to split out each song individually and stitch together the pieces, so please be patient with that.

This gives such great hope for the future of Catholic sacred music!

I've now added a bunch of "play boxes" so you can stream each Mass to your computer without downloading:

Here's the main page

I've also been creating ZIP files so you can download an entire Mass at once. Takes awhile, as these are huge files, but well worth the effort. I would strongly recommend downloading a WMA version first, because if you can play it (on iTunes or Windows Media Player or whatever) then you have the highest quality version.

Here's the link for the download page

For you techies out there, notice that I've also created an FTP account so you can download the files faster using FTP. If you don't know what those letters mean, then don't worry.

Carl

Anybody else having problems with the media players on the page? I checked each of them and they seemed to work...

The media player is fine here -- even using the Opera Mobile browser on my Android phone!

Kathy, your point is valid, but it is a part of the reality of technical fixes and bugs that if the technicians can't reproduce the problem, it can't be fixed. This is why it is important to report when the issue cannot be reproduced. Sometimes people interpret this as "it's not my problem so it must not exist." That's not it at all. It is just a matter of narrowing down the source of the problem, and it's appearance in some settings and nonappearance in others become an important part of the diagnosis.

Vista 2007 running IE.

Firefox works normally.

All the tracks on all the boxes are affected. Every box is identical.

OK, it appears to all be fixed. Thanks for the help, Kathy! Let me know if you see any more problems - no doubt there's errors scattered through the page.

(It was a really bizarre IE bug, totally illogical, but what we've come to expect from IE!)