so, this liner note release is actually going to have two discarded versions of the record attached to it, from 2013 and also from 1998. i had to take them down to 192 khz to get the package under 300 mb. remember: these are deleted masters, so this is material i've deleted from my discography. it's here for historical reasons, and it's buried in the download on purpose, but i feel it's necessary to include it - in one file format, in relatively low quality. if you want these deleted items in high quality flac, you'll have to get the aleph discs. even accessing these 192 khz mp3 files requires purchasing and downloading the item, and unzipping an html package. the files are there, but it's meant to be streamed via the html frontend.

that means i have two player controls in this package. i'm done the first one. the second should be minor tweaks on the first, and then it's just typesetting the rest of it. so, it should be done relatively soon.

as the purpose of this is for the files to interact with the front-end, the way i'm going to do this is to drop a folder of mp3s inside of the existing html folder.

so, you'll get a file called inri015.html.7z.txt in the download. you'll need to rename it to remove the txt. when you extract it, it will create a folder called inri015.html, inside of which will be an html frontend, a lot of pictures and a new folder called "2013" which will contain 320 kbps mp3s of the discarded 2013 masters, for integration with the apparent html frontend.

got it?

i'll need to do something similar for inri021 and, in the long run, for the other recordings that have discarded mixes like this, including inri000 and inri001.

let me actually do it, now.

guys, if you make this too hilbertian, you're going to lose the plot.

it can't just be a game with symbols. you have to think about what you're doing.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-what-the-first-few-post-iowa-polls-say/

so, it's not going to be surprising if buttigieg catches sanders in new hampshire, and, if he does, it won't be at his expense. warren & klobuchar are both falling into the lower tiers more generally, and buttigieg could badly beat biden in this state, too, even if that doesn't kill him. this is the first evidence we're seeing of biden explicitly losing to another candidate; it's been a while coming, surely, but it's just finally actually happening just right now.

keeping in mind that sanders got like 70% of the vote in 2016, you'd think polling at 35% should be sort of disappointing. and, given that the centrists are, together, polling closer to 70% right now, that means buttigieg has some space to grow.

but, sanders and buttigieg are not running against each other right now so much as they're running beside each other, and the outcome of the race is really going to depend on how much support buttigieg can pull from these other candidates, and how much of a frontrunner he's erecting himself as.

if he badly beats biden, it's going to open questions about the south, but he certainly hasn't demonstrated that he's challenging biden, yet. he will obviously need to. and, it's not at all clear that he can.

for now, don't be surprised if buttigieg does manage to coalesce a lot of support in new hampshire, even as sanders does well, too. they won't really get into one-on-one's until the field narrows, a few states down. but, that could be the end result, here.

klobuchar & warren both had to break through, in these early states. they're not going to break through in south carolina. if they poll below 10% in the face of voter preference elevating sanders & buttigieg, they're going to need to face the facts and get out.

and, then it's open warfare between biden & buttigieg for who gets to hold the center against sanders, and his ridiculous amounts of money, and all the things he can buy with it.

so, i'm not going to make a prediction, so much as i'm going to erect a function: as more centrist support coalesces around buttigieg, he will pull further ahead of sanders, notwithstanding fishy last minute absentee ballots that tip the race back to sanders when nobody's paying attention. if warren makes a strong case, or he produces a gaffe, or he just can't close the deal overall, you could see a small sanders win. but, with each passing day, as he builds more momentum, the size and likelihood of a buttigieg win increases, until he gets to a maximum point where the other centrists, with the exception of biden, are convincingly defeated and need to go home.

then, everything evaporates as none of this matters in nevada, unless nevadans decided that it should, which they might. biden is supposed to be electable...

if buttigieg can get to 30 at the primary expense of biden, i'd expect to see the fundamentals in the race start to shift.

i'm most of the way through the frontend for inri015 and we're going to keep going because it's a friday and, with any luck, i can be done with this by sunrise on monday.

these html5 frontends will eventually end up in the aleph discs, where they will crossreference to all of the outtakes. right now, the liner notes are only interacting with the files in the download, and presenting external links to files that aren't. inri015 and inri021 present somewhat of a challenge for this model, because the files uploaded in 2013, where these updates exist in chronological time, have actually been replaced. so, the frontend should actually be interacting with files that aren't there.

and, i'm wondering if i need to bring the files back in.

for inri000 & inri001, the files are 2013 remasters of tracks from 1996 and 1997. for inri002, it's a new 2013 reconstruction of shorts of that remastered material. inri003 & inri029 are new eps of unaltered material from early 1997. inri016, inri027 & inri028 are revisionist singles dated to 2013 of material from 1998-1999. inri022 & inri023 are 2013 compilations of material from 1998-1999.

so, i can convincingly date everything to 2013.

inri015 & inri021 were created in 1998/1999 and withdrawn in 2004, then remastered and rereleased in 2013, but that remaster was itself withdrawn in 2015 in favour of instrumental reconstructions, which were finalized over 2016. for inri000 & inri001 i have to leave the 90s stuff for the aleph discs, but the 2013 remasters still stand. everything else is actually coming to you straight from the 90s, except inri015 & inri021 which have these lost remasters dated to the chronological space that i'm releasing the first remaster in.

so, if you download the liner notes today in 2020, you'll get the front-end connecting to the instrumental 2016 release, dated to the 2013 notes. this is kind of disingenuous on my behalf. i really ought to have this frontend connected to the 2013 releases..

i've been toying with the idea of releasing the 2013 remasters as a bonus download for awhile, and i'm going to need to chew on that this morning. it would be the correct way to do this. i'm just not sure what the best way to do it that makes the most sense is.

the frontend for the current version of inri015 is dated to jan, 2016 and the frontend for the current version of inri021 is dated to the fall of the same year, with a final release in december. so, that will need to wait until i get there.

what i want to avoid is uploading the tracks as "bonus tracks" in the bandcamp ui. i want them to come in silently over the backend. and, i'm actually ok with uploading them in fairly low quality. so, the best way to do this might be to upload all of the tracks as mp4 files and stream them over the video container in the html5 frontend.

i'll have an answer in a few hours.

it's coming together; it might be done for noon.