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Website is doing weird things. I did not make the quote in Carlos88's most recent post.

That was definitely my fault when editing the message and losing some of the quote wrappers.

I've got one Billy Joel song recorded and in the hopper, but was considering to submit another instead. But now I see (in post #1) that the "recording may consist of a medley of two or more very short related pieces."

Does that mean that I can submit TWO pieces back to back (related because they're both by Billy Joel) as a medley? (Total time would be about 8 minutes.) If so, would I physically have to play them in realtime back-to-back? Or could I take the best recording of each and attempt "splice" them together?

I'm not looking to "cheat", but just want to clarify that rule.

Thanks!

You're talking to a computer dummy, wouter79. I have no idea if Carlos's idea would work. All I know is that when somebody uses a strange character the program doesn't like, it produces about 3 lines of gibberish that looks scarily similar to the REAL code, and I have to painstakingly go through and separate the bad gibberish from the good gibberish in a trial and error sort of way. I'd just as soon we sacrifice phonetic accuracy for administrator ease.

ok thanks. Am I right that you are just create a new thread here on PW and then copy the texts one by one from the program into this new thread? If that's the case, Carlos's suggestion would not work either and "& amp;" would just show up like that, and not like "ä".

BTW I notice right now that this forum also does weird things with the text. If I type "& amp;" but without the space as it should be, I get only "&"

Newbert, these recitals were set up as a way to somewhat replicate the setting of a real recital. In many ways, it IS a 'real' recital as we are submitting our best recorded performances for others to hear and enjoy.(...)

Newbert, these recitals were set up as a way to somewhat replicate the setting of a real recital. In many ways, it IS a 'real' recital as we are submitting our best recorded performances for others to hear and enjoy.

Of course, there is a slight catch. More like a perk. A pretty big one!

The 'perk' is that in this online format, the performances are not 'live', but rather recorded. Unlike a live performance, you are able to make as many attempts at getting your best 'take' of your performance as you want. First take, second, fifth, forty third...whatever. This is a HUGE benefit that a lot of us may take for granted. I for one would probably choke in a live concert setting in which you must perform your best every first performance.


Anyway, in a live recital, if you were to perform a compilation of several medleys, that would be fine. As long as you strung them together as one complete performance done in one sitting. If you want to perform several medleys in our ABF recitals, it would only be fair to everyone else to do this compilation in one complete sitting. Just as you would in a live recital. Of course, just like everybody else, you can make as many attempts at your 'one' complete performance. This is what we are all doing. Unlimited attempts at one complete submission.

If you were to record several individual tunes and then splice them together as a medley, then that's what you would have....a spliced together medley of individually recorded tunes. That would be the equivalent of someone recording their performance in several individually recorded sections and then splicing them together as one complete recording/medley.

I hope I've supported my logic as to why I would suggest you record your several tunes back to back...and end up with a single performance medley of several compiled tunes.

I look forward to hearing it. Medleys, original compositions, written score, whatever. It's all good.

Maybe I'll just keep the 2nd one in the hopper for the next recital....

Thanks for the clarification.

ok I updated the title etc as Carlos suggested.

On the upload page the titles now show literally "ä"

Monica, can you check if this will this work out properly in the final version on the PW pages?