Science Gone Mad: Audio eXchange - Call For Submissions

How to submit music for exchange & review amongst your peers

I figure most people might know how to do this stuff, but just in case, I’ll put this tutorial up to help those among us who might want to participate in this grand online project.

1. You need the song in question to be in mp3 format. If it’s already on your hard drive, skip to #2.

1.5. If your song selection is on CD,* you need to convert that track to mp3. There are some excellent CD ripping softwares available – my favorite to use is and has been for years the CD Extractor, also known as CDex. It’s extremely easy to use, very user friendly, reliable and very fast in its job.

*If it’s on vinyl, cassette or 8-track tape, you might just be on your own.

Anyway, rip your track, find where it copied to, and keep that jank in mind for ...

2. Upload your mp3 to an online file sharing utility. As you know by now, I use Sendspace. Also extremely easy to use. Browse for your mp3 (where it’s located in step 1.5, for those that stopped there), and put it in the upload area. Click, click, click and wait for the song to upload.

3. Post your song and link to the track. Start a post like you ordinarily would, punching out the track name and artist name. Cut and paste this template to directly link to the download or its page:

<a href="http://www.THEDOWNLOADLINKPROVIDED.com">Name of track – Artist Name </a>

... of course, replacing "www.THEDOWNLOADLINKPROVIDED.com" with the link provided by the site you use; "Name of track" with the name of the track, and "Artist Name" with the name of the artist. Of course.

3.5. Alternately, you can just post the track’s download link and leave it for us shlubs to find it on our own.

I hope you guys will participate, because I'm a fool for some new stuff, and I especially enjoy being schooled in styles that I'm blind to, haven't expanded upon, or had forgotten. Hope to hear from all o' youse mugs.