What’s next?

Hi everyone, I’m writing a quick recap on the status of the project, what’s working, what’s not, what should be improved and how.

Let’s start with the releases: these are working great. People are downloading them, watching them on youtube and it seems that they gathered interest among the retrogaming community. Truth to be told, it seems that no one is interested in the CD quality format as everyone is just downloading the hi-res and MP3 ones. In the future I may consider removing this intermediate format and just go with hi-res and MP3 versions.

Next up is the social component of the project such as the twitter page, the facebook one and our channel on youtube.
Twitter has no visits and no one seems interested in it as it has only 3 followers (our staff members FYI) and if it doesn’t get some followers in the next 3 months, it will be shut down.
On the other hand, our Facebook page is going well although the activity is from italian users only and it seems that it has no visibility in the rest of the world.
The Youtube channel is going well but I wished it had more viewers and more subscribers although this may change in the near future.

Now, onto the (very) bad news: the community is simply non-existant, the forum is empty, there are no users and no one is registering. This makes me very sad because this project is going to be a community driven project and without a strong community we’re not going far. When partnership with other websites will start I hope people will come and join us. Until then, I’m afraid that the forums will be empty.

How are we addressing these issues?
As of now all our hopes reside in future partners.
We’re well indexed on Google but it seems that very few are reaching us from there as most visits are coming from the youtube channel.

Anyway, a new release will be out soon and it is something that all retrogaming fans will love, think about a game that we’re still carrying in our hearts. :]

Stay tuned!

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Our second release is out: enjoy Sonic 3D!

Guys, it’s with great pleasure that today I’m revealing you our second, awesome release: get hyped for the Sonic 3D soundtrack!
Oh man, I’ve been looking forward releasing this game’s tracks since the beginning as, IMHO, this Sonic game has hands down the best soundtrack in the 16 bit console era.
Even if you have never played this game before, check it catchy tunes out!

Get it in our Media page!
Or get a preview in our Youtube channel !

And one more thing: maybe you’re asking yourself “What’s the matter with the Sonic games? Will the next release be another Sonic game?”.
The response is: yes, we’re going to release all the Sonic games soundtracks first because we have something very very big in the works which will finally get our project be known amongst the retrogaming community. A partnership maybe.

So be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter, the links are at the footer of the page, to always stay updated on the latest news.

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A quick word on downloading the tracks

Many of you will probably have realized by now that all our tracks are hosted on the Mediafire file sharing service.
This is because I don’t have that much space on this hosting and I don’t want traffic/bandwidth issues that might slow the website or have it shut it down for some time because of it. Also, I prefer to store the tracks away so if there’ll ever be a shark-lawyer reclaiming the inexistent copyrights of some 20-years old videogame there won’t be issues for the hosting service and will eventually just take down the tracks on Mediafire which, obviously, will be uploaded again in few hours.

By the way, Mediafire is an awesome file sharing service, as you don’t have to wait nor write a captcha to download the files and there’s no daily downloading limit as well and still has decent speed and, of top of everything, it is free.
There may be many of you annoyed by the fact that they still have to download one song at time and it can be very time consuming to have the entire album: in this case I strongly suggest getting JDownloader, it is a download manager written in Java (compatible with all OS) with an awesome feature: the link grabber.
So, how does it work?
You start JDownloader, go to the game’s page you want to download and simply right-click the link and copy it in the clipboard: JDownloader will save it in its link grabber window, so you can just go on and copy all the other links and, in the end, just press the “play” button on JDownloader to start the downloads. That’s it.

In the future maybe we’ll consider using other means as bit torrent, but for now, we’re good this way.

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