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Hi, I’m preparing to release an album in a few months, and am looking at shipping options for a physical release. I’m hoping other artists here have some advice on these options!

For some context, what I’ll be shipping is CDs in jackets.

What I’d like to be able to do, ideally, is:
- Ship from the US, both domestic and internationally
- Use UPS as a carrier as there is a physical location near me.
- Reliably know shipping costs (even for international) up front so what I tell Bandcamp to list as the shipping price is accurate
- If I use a third party shipping service, to be able to pay a cut of each sale instead of a monthly fee. I expect my volume to be very small, and althoug

Hi, I just built a new PC and there's two lingering questions that I'm not sure whether or not I did right, and I'd like to be more sure I didn't screw it up before I connect power to this thing. I'm unable to attach or embed any pictures here, so I'll try and describe them the best I can.

First question:

The PSU (Rosehill VSB 650W, if it matters), in addition to the 24-pin mobo connector, has a CPU connector that consists of 2 8-pin connectors that are oriented very oddly to me.

- One 8-pin connector seems like it is the opposite end of the PSU, as you would expect cords to be.

- But the other 8-pin connector looks like it's opposite the first 8-pin connector, kind of off to the

I'm looking to build a PC, something low-budget. I don't really do much gaming (mostly pixel art games), only music production. And even the audio I do is pretty low-resource. Here's a build I'm looking at:

CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 7600

Motherboard: ASRock B850M STEEL LEGEND WIFI AM5

RAM: Patriot Viper 1x16 DDR5

Case: Fractal Design Focus 2 Black ATX mATX Mini ITX Clear Tinted Tempered Glass Mid Tower Computer Case

Power supply: ASRock PRO Series PRO-750G 750 W ATX 3.1 Compatible 80 PLUS

HDD: WD_BLACK 1TB SN850X NVMe Internal Gaming SSD Solid State Drive - Gen4 PCIe

Newegg doesn't report any of these as incompatible, but I'm not sure if there could be someting I'm missing. The main compat

I did a collaboration with another musician and Suikoden fan on Youtube; we played Carried on Rippling Waves, the Lakewest theme from Suikoden II. We ended up doing two videos, one on each of our channels.
https://youtu.be/ijf_7XyZo5w - franji's channel, video of us playing

https://youtu.be/Tci49lhZSQU - my channel, using a music visualizer I wrote previously

I picked up a sheet music book called Five Impressions for Classical Guitar. Five student solos. I thought this one was beautiful and decided to record it.

https://youtu.be/STqM391Nkx8

I slowed it down because I thought it sounded nice at a funeral-like tempo. From a pedagogy standpoint, I've been using this as a way to practice balancing the volume of the melody versus the accompaniment. My first versions had what I would call a too-loud accompaniment, and I think it sounded muddy. For this recording, I was giving extra focus to a soft accompaniment and loud melody, and I think the piece sounds much better this way.

Book: [https://www.guitarchambermusicpre

I'm in the middle of writing a an instrumental album and wanted an introspective piece to come near the end as kind of a setup for the grand finale. In the album's lore in my head, the guitar is the focal point of the hero's journey, and represents the protagonist and their growth. This plus I'm myself a guitarist convinced me I should write it as a solo guitar piece. I can't play it yet (I never said I was a good guitarist), so what I have so far is a MuseSounds rendering.

Video: https://youtu.be/NGkC6DEvREo

Score: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xRP_dHXSr6eriFIsmHHuW9Xe6Nz0pDA-/view?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xRP_dHXSr6eriFIsmHHuW9Xe6

I learned Laura Snowden's arrangement of In the Bleak Midwinter this holiday season. One of my favorite carol melodies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws8GRm9B-8Q

Feedback welcome! I'm still not very experienced, though I do feel that my tone's improved a lot from when I started recording myself a year ago, and I'm happy with most of the dynamics here.

I've recently wrote a piece meant to be reminiscent of an overworld theme in an RPG. One comment I've gotten is that it sounds like "sailing the open seas", which I guess is pretty close. I'm curious if others think this evokes those feelings.

The instrumentation is similar to that of other pieces I've been writing in this suite (Cello/Flute/French Horn/Acoustic Guitar/Bass/Drums), with the intention of the whole suite being playable by a small group. One substitution I've made, though, is a piccolo instead of a regular flute. I think it captures the feel better.

Feedback welcome!

Score video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWtoyB6njbw

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I'd like to be able to hear more of the score when using the arrow key to move between notes. I'm not sure if any version of this is possible in MuseScore right now.

First version: play all notes in the same instrument or even just voice. For instance, say an instrument is playing chords, and I want to hear each chord. Right now I just hear one note. I think it's possible there could be a way to do this that I'm missing

Second version: it would actually be cool to hear the whole score (or even a group of instruments) playing at a certain point when I arrow between notes. I say this because I often split chords between different single note instruments, and would love to be able to hear tho

I thought I would see how a composing timelapse video would turn out. Basically I had previously written the first 75 seconds or so for a tune (intended to be some kind of mountain town theme for a videogame), but recorded a screencast of myself working in MuseScore on the next section.

Of course, seeing this in real-time would probably be boring, so I heavily sped it up and instead put in subtitles explaining a bit about what I was doing/thinking about for each section.

During this, the audio from the beginning section of the piece is playing, but when we reach the subject of the timelapse, it switches to a real-time score video.

Video link: [https://youtu.be/qEoN1LEYO5k](https://youtu.

https://youtu.be/_LgIvZcMeeE

I wrote this piece about the pull between ordinary life and adventure.

This video is made directly from MuseScore; I do plan on pulling this into a DAW to produce further but I've spent so much time on it (and MuseScore has upped their playback game enough that I'm fairly comfortable with it) so I made a score video at this stage.

I've started a project to write music for an imaginary RPG. I'm trying to stick to the same chamber orchestration (one woodwind, one brass, one bowed string, classical guitar/bass/glockenspiel) for each number but explore different parts of an adventure.

This tune I wanted to sound kind of mystical, and ended up with some kind of a 'winter village' theme. I think there's both coldness and warmth here, so the idea of a cold external environment but warmth of a village appealed to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcMD7MOqIag

I think it needs live clarinet at least, but I like the state the composition is in.

Let me know what you think!

I released a Suikoden fangame this weekend!

Game link: https://thcrock.itch.io/kanakan-stories-vol-2

"What is it?"

Kanakan Stories Vol 2. It's a adventure game. Basically a visual novel, similar to a Suikogaiden. The main difference is you can walk around the city freely similar to standard RPG town maps.

Wandering in the city garden

"What's it about?"

Two kids from Kanakan, an inventor and a bookworm, make a flying machine.

The idea behind the series is: what if you got to play the origin stories of a bunch o