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The Overnightscape Underground
onsug.com
Overview – 1/26/09
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Day 1 (December 2007) – 75 tracks – 24 hours
Day 2 (Spring 2008) – 29 tracks – 24 hours
Day 3 (Spring 2008) – 21 tracks – 24 hours
Day 4 (Summer 2008) – 24 tracks – 24 hours
Day 5 (Fall 2008) – 39 tracks – 24 hours
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The Overnightscape 1-750
March 2003 – October 2008
750 tracks – 644 hours, 55 minutes, 43 seconds
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The Rampler 1-100
August 2008 – October 2008
100 tracks – 90 hours, 4 minutes, 17 seconds
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Part 6 – November 2008
60 tracks – 55 hours, 23 minutes, 23 seconds
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Part 7 – December 2008
50 tracks – 52 hours, 29 minutes, 25 seconds
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Part 8 – January 2009
in progress
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Part 9 – February 2009
coming
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etc.
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Amazing. Absolutely amazing. This is one of the coolest things anyone has ever done. A video all about The Rampler by Andrea from Croatia. It makes me happy!!
…on the DOWNLOADS page…
You can download all 29 tracks of ONSUG Day 2 in one zip file… or get all 24 hours in a single MP3 file… get them both on the DOWNLOADS page!!
You may notice the “genre” tag in The Overnightscape Underground files is not “Podcast” – it’s “New Time Radio”. This project represents a lot of new ideas about Internet radio, and it is certainly distinctly different from podcasting in a number of ways.
The Overnightscape Underground is a “virtual broadcast” – a lot of audio you can download all at once, not via RSS but in one big ZIP file. Load it onto your computer or MP3, and explore the broadcast… it’s easy because the content is broken up into multiple tracks.
I’ll be elaborating more on these ideas, but I just wanted to let everyone know this is a new and different thing.
Go to the Downloads page to get the updated 24-hour, lo-fi mono MP3 file. In the lyrics tag you will find brief descriptions of all the tracks.
This file supercedes the preview version of the 24-hour file, and is the same except for a few tracks where the audio was enhanced, but not changed.
Here is a zip file containing all 75 tracks in Day 1, plus a text file with all the descriptions:
onsug_day_01_tracks_128k.zip
This file is kind of big – 1.26 GB
Once you download it, just unzip it and use it like any other album in MP3. Just this one has 75 tracks and is 24 hours long.
Let me know if this works for you – it’s the first time I’ve released a file so large.
Wow… it’s been a long road getting here, but Day 1 is finally released!
(I had to “back date” all the track posts so they come up in the right order on the feed.)
I have just started to set up this website. I am hoping to start with the official release of The Overnightscape Underground soon. For now, you can check out a full 24-hour preview of The Overnightscape Underground.
WordPress is good for this project in that each audio track can have its own page on the Internet with comments. Plus, you can listen to each track in a Flash player very easily. The problem is, blogs and podcast feeds generally present content in “reverse” order… the most recent stuff at the top and going back in time as you go down. Since The Overnightscape Underground is a sequential set of tracks, this “reverse” thing won’t work. So I have to figure out what to do… perhaps back-date all the posts so they wind up in the the proper order? I don’t know.
Things will be experimental for awhile…
