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Day Three Hundred Three

Tonight was awesome. I had said last night that all I was hoping to accomplish was getting the file sharing situation squared away. We struggled initially, with the files I sent, again, not being able to transfer to her system. I wound up figuring that B. would need to burn the files I sent her to a CD before she could transfer them into Magix Music Maker. After all, that was the way I had success initially. Turns out that wasn't the case.

What I couldn't wrap my head around was this: if I have the files on my computer, and the files worked, then why, if she had the files on her computer, did they not work? After having a bit more trouble, I finally uncovered the "share your screen" option in Skype, and was able to walk her through what I was doing. That, it seems, was what we needed to do all along, because after working out a few more kinks (like finding the folder where the files had been saved, converting them properly, and opening them in itunes first) we made it over that hurdle.

That, however, was just for the file that we had been fooling around with the other day, not for anything official. So, naturally, the next big question that needed answering was whether or not we could convert the old demos into files that would work in Magix Music Maker. I converted one of them into an aiff file (one of the kinds supported my MMM), and sent it to her. While it took FOREVER to download, we were able to successfully play it in MMM! This was the biggest victory of the evening. Now, the only thing we don't know yet is whether or not B. can add vocals/instruments/effects on her end, and send them back to me. I suspect this will work, though, so hopefully we will be in the clear on that one. She said she was going to try adding stuff in the next couple of days before our next scheduled work session (either Wednesday or Thursday).

While we were waiting for that huge file to download, we spent a little while discussing some thoughts on what some of the old songs needed in order to sound the way we think they should. Oh, and I sent her the mp3s of all the old stuff, so she could drop them onto her computer without having to go digging through boxes for her old CDs. About the only thing we didn't do was send the aiff's of the rest of the demos her way, although I suspect that will a) take forever, and b) happen in the middle of the week. All told, today was a day of victory for the future of the process. Now, we just have to figure out how we're going to get rhythm tracks underneath the songs we're happy with, and determine whether or not we have to start from the ground up (likely) on the rest of the old stuff and everything that's new. Those questions will likely have to be posed to J. sometime in the next few days. Hooray for progress!

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