Request for a few minutes of your time

Post by **Neil B** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 3:02 am

Hi folks

For many weeks now I've been struggling with how to track the downloads on my website.
Well, I think I've cracked it and re-uploaded my site with the new code today.
It takes Google Analytics a while to play catch up though.

I'd like to ask a favour of a few of you.
If you have a few minutes to spare over the weekend (1st & 2nd march) can you download one of my tracks please - I don't care if you delete it without listening

Simply select one of the blue buttons off the page link below and then download a track off that page - or simply go to the Quicktraxx button and go to the page where they're all displayed.

http://www.tonaleffects.co.uk/neil_b_mu ... s_home.htm

It'll really be a big help to me.
I'll let you know if it works okay.
Thanks so much

Post by **garyb** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 3:05 am

worked for me...

Post by **Neil B** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 3:08 am

Wow that was quick
Thanks Gary
I know that the downloads buttons work - it's a matter of whether it logged that you downloaded a track. Normally Google Analytics reports when someone visits a page, but the code I've used here pipes the rightclick to download through a filter to log that you actually downloaded something.
I should know if it worked in about 12 hours, but don't wait up on my behalf

Thanks

Post by **Neil B** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 3:10 am

Thanks Stardust - I'll see if my code is good enough to track who downloaded what !!!! No, it isn't that slick. It'll simply come up as a referral from Planet Z and the city that you are in.

Post by **Neil B** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:09 am

Someone downloaded "Leaving Middle Earth" from the Berlin School page?
And do you come from Culver City in the States?

Seems like it may be working and the first one has just come through!

Post by **garyb** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:54 am

Culver City is part of Los Angeles and Long Beach is part of the Los Angeles harbor area, soooo....that is probably me....

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:08 am

I don't like that gxxgle tracking sh*t of everything at all, I really don't ...

with spreading their free analysis bla bla they can even profile the non-search-engine-users...

cheers, Tom

sorry, I should have mentioned at least that it's a nice site, must have been quite an effort
great landscapes pictured and your wife's paintings are well done, too

Post by **garyb** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:39 pm

information! information!
you won't get it!
oh, but we will. by hook or crook we will...

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:50 pm

I liked the stuff between you and CW.

Downloaded all 3 of the star chasers.

Let me know where my location is, since it was a new mobile device.

I'd be interested.

BTW, Great Work Neil B.

zangsta · Post by **zangsta** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 2:56 pm

I´m listening to the Pluto-mp3 right now, very good !
And realising where you come from, maybe you know of a soundtrack
that Tangerine Dream made for a movie; the Keep. I was very impressed
by that soundtrack at the time, but have never been able to hear it again,
do you know if it was released on cd?
TD and Popol Vuh were some of the musical influences I had when I was working on the tracks of Starseed.
All the Werner Herzog-movies I saw made me listen a bit extra to Popol Vuh.

Thanks
Jörgen

Post by **Neil B** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:39 pm

garyb wrote:information! information!
you won't get it!
oh, but we will. by hook or crook we will...

I am not a number. I am a free man.

zangsta wrote:I´m listening to the Pluto-mp3 right now, very good !
And realising where you come from, maybe you know of a soundtrack
that Tangerine Dream made for a movie; the Keep. I was very impressed
by that soundtrack at the time, but have never been able to hear it again,
do you know if it was released on cd?
TD and Popol Vuh were some of the musical influences I had when I was working on the tracks of Starseed.
All the Werner Herzog-movies I saw made me listen a bit extra to Popol Vuh.

Funnily enough, I seem to remember when Chris & I uploaded "Pluto" Paul R Martin mentioned the Keep too. I've no idea if it was released but I'll have a look for the discography.
Ah, Popol Vuh, Can and all those others - those were the days eh? And no presets either
Must listen to the Starseed tracks - have you got a quick link?

astroman wrote:sorry, I should have mentioned at least that it's a nice site, must have been quite an effort
great landscapes pictured and your wife's paintings are well done, too

Thanks for the compliments on the site Tom. I used a package called Webeasy, but it has its restrictions. I'll pass on your remarks to she who must be obeyed

Jimmy V - just about to check if my coding has worked. I'll let you know.
Thanks for the compliments on the Starchaser tracks. I'm sure Chris'll be pleased but he's Sooooooo busy at the moment.
We did start a fourth Starchaser track last year but never had time to develop it with our individual commitments. Who knows though - we still have all the files.

Thanks all for the help - I'll see if my code has worked next and let you all know.

Post by **Neil B** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:58 pm

Well folks
It seems as though it's worked fine, although some of your downloads haven't been picked up yet. I don't know how long it takes for Google to circle the earth, but there'll be a few more I'm sure before the end of the day.

Zangsta - Trollhatten in Sweden
Jimmy V - Las Vegas - Cox Communications

Both of you downloaded all 3 Starchasers

Leaving Middle Earth - Gary B Culver City and someone (Stardust?) Lens in France.

Becoming Unstable - DSL Subscribers (Burnham - UK)

I'm reassured that it works anyway. Hopefully it'll pick up any others in the next few hours.

Thank you all so much again.

Post by **Neil B** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 12:06 am

Zangsta - re "The Keep"

Released in 1997 although it has the original line up including Christoph Franke.

http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=10469

http://www.connollyco.com/discography/t ... index.html

Glad to help

zangsta · Post by **zangsta** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 1:00 am

Neil B wrote:
garyb wrote:Must listen to the Starseed tracks - have you got a quick link?

I just have one track posted here;
http://www.planetz.com/forums/download.php?id=2633

And you nailed me to Trollhättan, that´s relatively close, I hope that´s as good as the CIA/NSA do when I post angry stuff about chemtrails etc..

It´s the nearest city to us, about 20 kilometers away.

Thanks for the Keep-links, much apreciated!

Jörgen

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:02 am

I was too busy being everyone else's musical director and bitch that I missed a whole decade of quality music.

I am really enjoying hearing Popul Vu, Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Jarre. These guys just wrote really fun stuff and used the basic synth building blocks.

After performing evening after evening of music you really don't care for, you tend to grab tracks you really love for escapement I suppose. The '90s is where I started my 12 year period of not listening.

You guys are showing me the many beautiful things I missed.

I appreciate this very much.

The closest I got to this stuff was Harold Faltemeyers Axel Foley song.

I am purchasing new CD's at an alarming rate.

It's so nice to be able to hear and play what you want for a few days at a time.

We all need a fresh start every now and then.

Lots of great music here Neil B.

Chris W., Paul Martin, Zangsta, and you are guiding me back to more sane times.

Don't take me wrong here, but I had to meet the girls at a popular " Gay Bar " to discuss events, and pry my paycheck out of the little witches hands, and I must say I was enjoying the constant bass drum in Yo Face kind of tunes that seemed to go one after another and was even forced to dance with a little. I had alot of fun, and am realising what a closed mind I have had.

Old Hunting Dogs can still learn new tricks, and enjoy them as well.

Your Site Has A New Lurker.

JV

zangsta · Post by **zangsta** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:26 am

Hey Jimmy, I know precisely what you mean,
and how that works.
I almost lost a decade in the same way, the eighties.

And a tip for you, see if you can find some of Bo Hansson´s stuff.
When I was in Canada, it turned out that what my friends there knew about Sweden and what was swedish, was Börje Salming, ABBA and Bo Hansson.
Hendrix knew Bo Hansson, had jammed with him and had Taxfree in the can when he died, a Bo Hansson-composition.

Enjoy!

Jörgen

Post by **Neil B** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:03 am

One of my all time fave albums - Lord of The Rings by Bo Hanson!

Hey Jimmy, if you're playing catch up with Berlin School, keep your ears open for Redshift, Ron Boots, Air Sculpture (or just listen to Paul R Martin

), Radio Massacre International and Node, to name but a few.

And back to the 70's - anyone remember Faust?

kylie · Post by **kylie** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:13 am

well, then, track me down

Post by **Neil B** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:28 am

Hi Kylie
If you mean you've just downloaded a track - oops, I screwed up the site a bit earlier and have had to upload it again

Can you have another go please and I will track you down (is there a clue in "Dresden/Germany" ?

BTW - I was born in Dresden, England

kylie · Post by **kylie** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:33 am

Neil B wrote:Can you have another go please and I will track you down (is there a clue in "Dresden/Germany" ?

yeah, I'd start thinking about applying at the MI6, if I were you

BTW - I was born in Dresden, England

cool. didn't know that that exists, but, then, why not

I'll start downloading in a minute.

-greetings, markus-