MIDI Week Singles Archive

 

I mentioned this back during our Monthly Update article last week, but I wanted to expand ever so slightly while at the same time recapping.

Back when Dr. Potts and I were starting out the MIDI Week Singles articles at TwoBoysAndTheirBlog, we would simply upload the videos directly to the Blogger portal for songs we already had access to, or link to YouTube videos for songs we didn't have.  After rebranding as Stage Select Start in 2015, I started uploading the videos to my YouTube account, then linking them to our MIDI Week Singles articles.  I had originally kept the videos on YouTube as "Unlisted" so they could only be played through our articles, but over the years, I decided to make those MIDI Week Singles videos on YouTube public.  I figured it would be good for the brand to have article links back to our Stage Select Start site too.

The difference between the MIDI Week Singles Archive and our regular MIDI Week Singles is simply just the songs that we first used over on TwoBoysAndTheirBlog.  I still haven't decided yet if I want to replace the videos in the articles over on our first site to keep everything on our YouTube channel, or to keep the site the way it is now, for posterity's sake.  It's a toss-up because if I update the video, then the linked video will say "MIDI Week Singles Archive" with a video uploaded to an article that was posted 12 years ago.  That being said, I am tempted to replace all of the dead URLs from YouTube accounts that don't exist for one reason or another on TBatB with new videos so that there's something there besides a dead link.  Yet I'm still conflicted.

I've also debated whether I want to include the handful of songs we posted there for Game Scores, but keep them under the MIDI Week Singles Archive banner.  As we were still finding our footing at the time, there were even a couple of Game Scores articles that didn't have any music, and we would just talk about the music itself.  

Until I come to a final decision, you can check out new videos posted to our MIDI Week Singles Archive playlist over on YouTube, updated every Friday for at least the next 45 weeks.  The release order will mimic the original releases over on TBatB.  Thanks for listening.

~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
We Have Sailed For So Very Long

P.S.  There were even a couple of MIDI Week Singles articles where we didn't use video game music, but arranged video game music, and in one bizarre instance, music from a movie soundtrack.  It was a weird time.