Sigh, a slow and tedious day. Have worked on improving the production of my (rather avant-garde) EP Finnegans Judgement. The original mixed the long (10 minute) vocals externally over the track, which was tedious but necessary as Prometheus back then couldn't handle large files. It can now, giving me more control. My motivation here is preparing the album for its future new release, so I thought I'd update it a little and create new canvas videos. The recording quality isn't ideal, the source audio was 16-bit and peaked to distortion at times, which is annoying, but I can improve on the current version at least.
After a few hours of endless tests and listens I've improved the music a little. The audio now uses a 32-bit master (the old album was/is undithered 16-bit), and the volume is 25% louder without any deterioration.
The track lengths have changed a little, as the original started track 2 with the end of track 1. Not much of a problem, but it would sound odd (and sounds odd now) if playing just track 2. This meant a new album code. I code albums with a number and a sub-letter. If the album is the same and has the same tracks and track lengths, I simply upgrade the sub-letter; but here the tracks are the same, differing by only a few seconds. It seemed to make sense to update only the letter, so I changed my catalogue system such that albums with the same artist, title and track names use the same code with a different sub-letter, even if the track lengths differ. This normally occurs for replacements, like a remaster.
A few older albums, specifically Synaesthesia, Animalia, and The Infinite Forest have, in the past, been remade and assigned new album codes because the track lengths were different, so today I recoded those and moved everything in the catalogue. Thus R26A Synaesthesia 2015 is now R57B, R51A Animalia 2020 is now R6B, and R56A The Infinite Forest 2021 is now R15B.
So, a slow filing day.
