[DECtalk] Major changes at the DECtalk archive

[peter Mahach]

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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