Template for posting new shares
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:25 pm
Hey all,
There's a lot of great material being shared, and we are probably past the time of trying to standardize the way it is done.
First of all a reminder that the rules are clear: official releases are not allowed.
These suggestions won't all apply to fan remixes, so let's not get caught up with those for now.
This thread will be an open discussion for beatleg share formats and once we decide on various 'standards', I'll create a new sticky to show the guidelines that we've decided to use.
Keep in mind there will be exceptions. Not everyone is sharing something they have ripped themselves. The expectation should not be that in order to post, a user has to have the ability and go back to clean up whatever problems are in the files. It is recommended though for the users to point this out in the body of their post.
I've filled in some basics to get things started, but I haven't ripped anything in probably 20 years so I'm not up on the latest technology there. Let me know if you have any suggestions for something missing below.
SUBJECT: [Artist] - [Title] - [Label] - [LabelID] Artist is probably only necessary for solo stuff
POST BODY: Artist, Title, Label, LabelID, Description of contents including source if known, Track Listing, link
RIP METHODOLOGY: TBD
FILE TYPE: Lossless FLAC preferred. However it's better to share 'as-is' mp3s (or other lossless formats) and let people here do their magic rather than make a potentially poor FLAC conversion.
MINIMUM FILE TAGS: Author, Album, Title, Track Number
FILE NAME CONVENTION:
--FOLDER: [Artist] - [Title] - [Label]
----(if more than one disk) SUB-FOLDER: [CDx]
----FILES: [track number] [Song Title]
SHARING PREFERENCES: mega / we / gdrive / etc?
The above are all just suggestions to get things rolling. What say you?
There's a lot of great material being shared, and we are probably past the time of trying to standardize the way it is done.
First of all a reminder that the rules are clear: official releases are not allowed.
These suggestions won't all apply to fan remixes, so let's not get caught up with those for now.
This thread will be an open discussion for beatleg share formats and once we decide on various 'standards', I'll create a new sticky to show the guidelines that we've decided to use.
Keep in mind there will be exceptions. Not everyone is sharing something they have ripped themselves. The expectation should not be that in order to post, a user has to have the ability and go back to clean up whatever problems are in the files. It is recommended though for the users to point this out in the body of their post.
I've filled in some basics to get things started, but I haven't ripped anything in probably 20 years so I'm not up on the latest technology there. Let me know if you have any suggestions for something missing below.
SUBJECT: [Artist] - [Title] - [Label] - [LabelID] Artist is probably only necessary for solo stuff
POST BODY: Artist, Title, Label, LabelID, Description of contents including source if known, Track Listing, link
RIP METHODOLOGY: TBD
FILE TYPE: Lossless FLAC preferred. However it's better to share 'as-is' mp3s (or other lossless formats) and let people here do their magic rather than make a potentially poor FLAC conversion.
MINIMUM FILE TAGS: Author, Album, Title, Track Number
FILE NAME CONVENTION:
--FOLDER: [Artist] - [Title] - [Label]
----(if more than one disk) SUB-FOLDER: [CDx]
----FILES: [track number] [Song Title]
SHARING PREFERENCES: mega / we / gdrive / etc?
The above are all just suggestions to get things rolling. What say you?