[DECtalk] Major changes at the DECtalk archive
peter Mahach
pitermach at gmail.com
Thu Oct 1 06:22:58 EDT 2009
hi, I noticed that there is a dectalk done song in the vocalrider folder,
the ID3 tags actually confirm it. the name is pworld.mp3. hth
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From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net>
To: <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 7:33 AM
Subject: [DECtalk] Major changes at the DECtalk archive
> Hi all,
>
> If you take a look at http://dectalk.goldenaudio.net/ you'll see that
> I've made some major changes to the archive. For the most part, nothing
> was deleted but almost all of the directories were moved around. Below
> are some of the changes:
>
> 1. I cleaned up the /text directory. Almost all files now have a .dec
> extension and I changed most filenames to lower case. In theory,
> installing the PlayDEC program and associating .dec files with it should
> let you automatically play them from Windows Explorer. That has not
> been tried yet but it should work. The files that still have a .txt
> extension are probably duplicates. I'm looking for a volunteer to go
> through them and make sure. I would like to get the dupes cleaned up
> because I'm planning to have a zip file of all the .dec files for easier
> downloading.
>
> 2. I moved all the individual artist directories out of the root and
> into their own /artists directory. I also removed the spaces, corrected
> the case as necessary and replaced the spaces with underlines. For
> example, the "Blake Roberts" directory has now moved to
> /artists/Blake_Roberts. Hopefully it makes for a less cluttered
> appearance and things are easier to find.
>
> 3. I created two new directories and moved files around. Now, all the
> DECtalk related software, manual, etc is in the /dectalk directory.
> That's also where playdec.zip is. The /dectalk/software directory has
> versions 4.3, 4.4 and others not from GW Micro. The GW_Micro directory
> has now moved and is under the \dectalk\software directory. The files
> from GW Micro are different sizes and have different contents. The
> DECtalk PC manual moved from the /text directory to the /dectalk
> directory. I also created \dectalk\examples which has various example
> files.
>
> 5. I created the /synthesizers directory. That's mostly the same as the
> old hardware synth demos but also includes some files that were in other
> places, like in misc. I created /synthesizers/software_demos which is
> currently empty but will hopefully contain demo files of software
> synthesizers such as Eloquence, etc.
>
> What's still left to do:
>
> 1. go through all the artist directories and delete adult and illegal
> files
> 2. eliminate dupes in the /text directory
> 3. create basic web pages giving some background
> 4. go through the misc directory, do some cleaning and create a new
> README file
>
> As always, suggestions are welcome, especially on the new structure. If
> you can't find something or it seems confusing, post here and let me
> know. I'm still not 100% decided on upload procedures but feel free to
> contact me if you want to upload anything. I'm especially looking for
> synthesizer demos, more on that in the next message.
>
> Tony Baechler, DECtalk archive maintainer
> tony at baechler.net
>
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