Hi Ali, great to hear from you.

Me? working hard??? You're kidding.  I play with the website stuff while the baby is asleep.  I don't get too much time for myself apart from that.  (We're great, thanks, hope you are too.  Check your mail for a personal reply.  For anyone who doesn't know him; Freddy Wilson is a great figure in Australian Jazz.  He's been an huge inspiration to me and many others much more noteworthy than myself).  I have been updating the website a bit.  I recently added some new music to the music section; have a listen at:

 http://www.liamalexander.com/music

I used another great website to create the flash based players:

http://flamplayer.com

Again, it's free and no bugs.  You need a webhost with mysql/php to do what I've done, (not hard) but they do offer the option to integrate the player into a page without mysql with a little block of code using their flam express service.  (you just need to upload your mp3 files somewhere).  The sql based integration is great though; it creates playlists very much like windows media player.  All I need to do is upload more files and they instantly appear in the players on my pages based on artist name or playlist name.  It has a nice admin panel which allows you to manage everything easily.  I recently used 'audacity' to edit out some of my favourite guitar solos (by me) http://www.liamalexander.com/music/solos.html

Ok, I know I'm a geek... but it works for me ;) Regards, Liam

--- In bluesette@yahoogroups.com, "ali carter" <alicatcarter@...> wrote:
>
> steven, you are working so hard, sharing all of this,doing your thing- how are you these days? hows the family?
> im still in london, not too sure when coming back,it may be soon,but I may have a chance to do some gigs round europe first.. so we will see what comes, its been great here tho and not sure I want to leave yet! I have working hol visa which only lasts 2 years,but hey anything and everything(mostly) is possible so see what happens.
> hows freddy do you still see him? if you do please give him a huuuuuge hug from me and a big hello :-)
> take care mate,
> ali x
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Liam
> To: bluesette@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 11:41 AM
> Subject: [bluesette] Audio Software
>
>
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> Audacity Audio Software, download from:
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> http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/Audacity/audacity.html
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> "Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects."
>
> This is an incredible program. It's free, no spyware, no ads, no catch, and it's much better than a lot of programs you'd pay $$$ for. If you want to edit audio; do fades, cut/paste, mix etc. this is for you. Includes multitrack recording, and you can output your audio as MP3, .wav or vog orbis. Highly recommended.
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> www.snapfiles.com has a huge number of freeware programs and utilities. I've just used quite a few of them and there is no catch.
>
> Regards, Liam
>