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Thanks for doing the interview!

Sooner or later the internet speed will get to a point that it will make sense for software to be accessed remotely. Of course, this is already happening to some degree.

Ah, Christmas at AGS. I always love bringing up "dollard" this time of year.

I agree 100% with Darth and only wish to comment that I was immensly annoyed by the music (James Horner ). Music was awful, repetative to a great point, and was 'just working with a film', only because one shouldn't want anything more.

The rest of the movie was simply PERFECT! A stunning movie!

I agree! And what was with the music during the credits?!

If anybody still has a Wave invitation, I have Google Voice invitations and would be willing to exchange. Send me a PM.

EDIT: Thanks Lemmy!!

Quit Spamming the boards, Greg! 

Actually I've used it plenty of times. In fact I went and got Kontakt 3, just to use your basses (honestly. Just got it on crossgrade price). And I've used it to other tracks, including pieces for a Pampers DVD informatial (especially Jaco, is sliding again and again and again. I think I'll get half of them sent back "Keep the bass but remove everything else and start over" from my clients! 

Hahah, I'm glad you like my basses and are putting them to good use! Man, you wouldn't believe how much work went into the Jaco fretless bass.

Sorry for the tangent. About your song, Chocolate--I love the way you're able to create a beautiful melody all while touching on some chromaticism and dissonance. That Cmajor, Dmajor7 move is really haunting. I feel like it could use some other instrument towards the end to make the arrangement evolve a little bit. Maybe a flute playing counterpart with the trumpet? Or maybe a cello?

Cool, CoreBass Pear! I know that sample library.

I'm glad you found a use for it, Nikolas!

Here's the link to the sample library webpage: CoreBass Pear upright bass sample library for Kontakt

Wow, Nikolas, this is really amazing work! Is that all EWQLSO? (the first demo reel, that is)

Totally Betty.

Densming's batch file worked, but we weren't able to find a way to disable 8.3 short file names, since I'm dealing with long file names only.

Basically with a few files it would "find the same file" more than once and execute the task multiple times, which gave the wrong results.

I'm assuming this is Windows?  If so, you could use a for loop on the command prompt:

for %f in (*d2*) do ren "%f" "01%f"
for %f in (*d#2*) do ren "%f" "02%f"
...etc...

Be careful though, if you run this from a batch file (as opposed to directly from the command prompt), you'll need to use double percent signs:

for %%f in (*d2*) do ren "%%f" "01%%f"
for %%f in (*d#2*) do ren "%%f" "02%%f"
..etc..

I tried this, and it works to some degree. On a few files it placed "01 01" at the beginning rather than just "01". It shouldn't be finding multiple matches within each individual file name...

Basically what I'm doing is renaming sample file names from including a MIDI note name to having a numeric value as a suffix. That way when they get sorted alphabetically, they are sorted chromatically. This makes mapping sample libraries a LOT faster and easier.

Thanks for the batch file help, densming.

After trying demos of at least 12 products, I just found this piece of software: http://www.coolutils.com/Article.php?Article=RenameFiles&from=AdWordsRenameFiles

It does exactly what I need, and also includes a scripting language as well.

I tried both, but I still can't do what I want.

For example, BulkRenameUtility--there's only one match/replace box. I need 30 separate matches/replaces for different strings.

Well, it's not even a match/replace, but it's more like a match/insert. Like in my example, "if the file name contains 'D2' (which it may not), insert '01' at the beginning of the file name". But it not only needs to do just that, but have many other insert strings depending on the match.

People on this forum have been so helpful to me in the past, I thought I'd try my luck yet again.

I'm looking for a batch file renamer which will rename files based on rules. For example:

If the file contains a "D2" in the file name, add "01" to the beginning of the file name.
If the file contains a "D#2" in the file name, add "02" to the beginning of the file name.

The interface might not be set up this way, but as long as it can do this task, that's all I ask for.

And so forth. I found the software "Sophisticated Rename" which allows me to do this. However, I don't want to pay $60 in case there is other software out there that does this.

Geocities still exists? It was bad 10 years ago...

Is there a reason you don't just send the emails yourself? I mean at work I typically send about 4000 emails per week and basically all I need is a program that can send emails and an email server that accepts connections from our internet connection (typically the ISPs own outgoing mail server).

Most email servers have limits for emails per hour. I would have to make a script to split it up into 50 emails per hour, since I wouldn't be able to send them all at the same time.

Personally, I am a fan of RSS.

Isn't that more convenient?

I am, too, but many people haven't caught on to RSS feeds yet.

Hi Greg,

For simple versions of this kind of thing I generally use Sparklit. Maybe it would suit you?

http://newsletter.sparklit.com/?sparkKey=df9931f89bbaae753788f2b7d7d579beb0

Thanks for the link, but you're going to want to change it to: http://newsletter.sparklit.com

You left the login key at the end of the url.

I'm trying to email out my own newsletter, and I have around 200 subscribers to mail it out to. My newsletters comply with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, containing an unsubscribe link and a physical business address.

I'm looking for a service that will be able to send out that many emails. I'm not looking for an email management service, which would keep track of the newsletter subscribers, since I do that myself. Also those types of services will automatically add unsubscribe links and whatnot. Since my newsletter format already includes that, I don't want software to automatically do that.

Any suggestions?

What, really? Which TV show? Any video clips available?