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Hi everyone. Just wanted to let you know that FATAL REVENANT is finally available as an audiobook download on my website, www.scottbrickpresents.com/wordpress/blog/ . I know, I know... previous posts had the release date as May 1st, and this is what, the 7th? Well, there were a few glitches. We made the date with LORD FOUL'S BANE, but oh, the REVENANT problems were rampant. Basically we're only allowed to sell the book to certain countries, and because the two books come from two different publishers, there were two sets of excluded countries. When we tried launching FATAL REVENANT on the 1st, our download partners only had the BANE exclusion list...

Y'know, never mind. The less said, the better.

We'll just leave it at this: the books are finally available, and I really appreciate the patience everyone's shown as I worked my way through this crazy publishing process for the first time. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did making them. Please drop me a line and let me know what you think. And only six more months to THE ILLEARTH WAR!

Oh, one last thing: some people have been experiencing problems when dragging the files into iTunes, apparently it's been wiping out the track ID tags. This should be fixed very shortly, but you might want to use the IMPORT option in iTunes rather than merely dragging them in, that apparently keeps it from happening.

Best,

Scott Brick

IMPORT works just fine.

The problem doesn't appear to be iTunes, it's that the tracks don't have proper tagging. I just checked the files before I imported them and the tags are all messed up. Scott, you might want to check w/ iAmplify and see if something they're doing is corrupting the tags.


As an aside, iAmplify should have an option for 'download all files' or a Download Manager app or something, like LiveDownloads.com uses... having to d/l only 2 files at a time, then click the next, etc, is very time-consuming. What if I'd just bought a bunch of books? Or what if each CD had been divided into 10 tracks, like Runes is?

Relayer wrote:The problem doesn't appear to be iTunes, it's that the tracks don't have proper tagging. I just checked the files before I imported them and the tags are all messed up. Scott, you might want to check w/ iAmplify and see if something they're doing is corrupting the tags.


As an aside, iAmplify should have an option for 'download all files' or a Download Manager app or something, like LiveDownloads.com uses... having to d/l only 2 files at a time, then click the next, etc, is very time-consuming. What if I'd just bought a bunch of books? Or what if each CD had been divided into 10 tracks, like Runes is?

Well, the files are properly tagged to start with; I can say that with assurance as I was the one doing the tagging. I spent hours, to be honest, making sure they were all labeled correctly, so yeah, as you say, it appears to be a glitch in iAmplify's system, but as soon as we told them about it, they started working to fix it, and it should hopefully be taken care of in the next few days. Sorry about any hassle you may have experienced. We're also looking into registering the files with Gracenote, the folks who keep track of all the files for audible and itunes. That way, no matter who handles the files or what program they're installed in, they should all keep their tags.

Best,

Scott

Thanks for looking into it Scott. BTW, was there also artwork attached to them? If so that was gone too.

I simply went into iTunes and tagged them w/ the highly creative names of FR01, FR02, etc. and then added a copy of the book cover.