Long time ago I uploaded the mp3-files of both sides of an old cassette tape to 4shared.
It was full of the best FM-Pac/MSX-music from Japanese MSX-games I could find (at least 3 Aleste games, Undeadline, and more).
Then I post a message at msx.org with the links and got comments about why not splitting the mp3-files into a bundle of songs.
Well, I thought it had no use, cause if they wanted the songs they better search on YouTube for the complete soundtrack of each game. And not all of the songs were great, that's why I made the collection in the first place....
So after that I don't wanna upload any of my other mp3-images of MSX related old cassette tapes, cause somebody may asked me to split it in songs again.
But lately I did it, but I uploaded not to 4shared but to mixcloud
It was a lot of work, cause there were 4 tapes with A and B side , so totally 8 big mp3 files to upload. And each must have their own picture, comments and tags.
In the end it was worth it, and so I could enjoy once again these old tapes via a browser
on the net.
As you will notice, the first 2 tapes (4 mp3 files) are in MSX-Stereo (FM-Pac left channel, Music Module right channel - or viceversa -) and the last 2 tapes are in just mono (Music Module left and right channel).
Well, the MSX-Stereo tapes contains FAC Soundtracker 1.0 files, which could be played
in MSX-Stereo with a few pokes. Moonsoft created a nice program to make interactive music-discs for these files with on the fly changing of channels (FM-Pac or Music Module or both) and some different VU-meters.
They called it Moonsoft Awesome Compilation Disk Creator (or something like that,
I should have the disk somewhere ?)
Here is a screenshot of the Moonsoft Musicdisk Awesome 2, which looks like the creator.
The other 2 tapes contains FAC Soundtracker 2.0 files, which could not be played in MSX-Stereo anymore. This was really a mistake of the FAC I think, otherwise Moonblaster would not become so populair.
When I made the tapes I was just starting collecting Soundtracker 2.0 songs, so I had not enough to fill 2 tapes completly. I recorded some music-samples of MSX demo's and songs from Philips Music Creator instead.
I recorded these 4 tapes at the end of 1991 and beginning of 1992 on my father hifi-set.
It was a Schneider, but it took me a lot of time to find a picture on the net of this set.
That was not easy, cause the cassettedeck had no automatic recording level, so I had steer
volume levels of the left and right channel constantly during each song.
You can see that in the picture the 2 big buttons on the left side of the cassettedeck.
Finally I converted the tapes into mp3-files with my Philips hifiset and an old usb memorystick. The set can only record mp3 in 192 bps and can only use usb memorystick no bigger than 512 Mb, but this much easier to use than connect a cassettedeck to the line-in on your computer and trying to capture the sound with Audacity...
One last word:
The tapes were already at least 10 years old, when I converted to mp3, so something it sounds a little out of tune.
It was full of the best FM-Pac/MSX-music from Japanese MSX-games I could find (at least 3 Aleste games, Undeadline, and more).
Well, I thought it had no use, cause if they wanted the songs they better search on YouTube for the complete soundtrack of each game. And not all of the songs were great, that's why I made the collection in the first place....
So after that I don't wanna upload any of my other mp3-images of MSX related old cassette tapes, cause somebody may asked me to split it in songs again.
But lately I did it, but I uploaded not to 4shared but to mixcloud
It was a lot of work, cause there were 4 tapes with A and B side , so totally 8 big mp3 files to upload. And each must have their own picture, comments and tags.
In the end it was worth it, and so I could enjoy once again these old tapes via a browser
on the net.
As you will notice, the first 2 tapes (4 mp3 files) are in MSX-Stereo (FM-Pac left channel, Music Module right channel - or viceversa -) and the last 2 tapes are in just mono (Music Module left and right channel).
Well, the MSX-Stereo tapes contains FAC Soundtracker 1.0 files, which could be played
in MSX-Stereo with a few pokes. Moonsoft created a nice program to make interactive music-discs for these files with on the fly changing of channels (FM-Pac or Music Module or both) and some different VU-meters.
They called it Moonsoft Awesome Compilation Disk Creator (or something like that,
I should have the disk somewhere ?)
Here is a screenshot of the Moonsoft Musicdisk Awesome 2, which looks like the creator.
The other 2 tapes contains FAC Soundtracker 2.0 files, which could not be played in MSX-Stereo anymore. This was really a mistake of the FAC I think, otherwise Moonblaster would not become so populair.
When I made the tapes I was just starting collecting Soundtracker 2.0 songs, so I had not enough to fill 2 tapes completly. I recorded some music-samples of MSX demo's and songs from Philips Music Creator instead.
I recorded these 4 tapes at the end of 1991 and beginning of 1992 on my father hifi-set.
It was a Schneider, but it took me a lot of time to find a picture on the net of this set.
volume levels of the left and right channel constantly during each song.
You can see that in the picture the 2 big buttons on the left side of the cassettedeck.
Finally I converted the tapes into mp3-files with my Philips hifiset and an old usb memorystick. The set can only record mp3 in 192 bps and can only use usb memorystick no bigger than 512 Mb, but this much easier to use than connect a cassettedeck to the line-in on your computer and trying to capture the sound with Audacity...
The tapes were already at least 10 years old, when I converted to mp3, so something it sounds a little out of tune.
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