the way i did it back then was as a page by page exploration, by what was then facebook post and what would now be blog post. there were only about 100 odd posts, in total - including one for each song and one for each record. from the record page, you could open pages for each song; from the song page, you could find links to the different remixes. it was connected together in a linked list, with arrows in the corners of the html page allowing you to move back and forth. further, you could enter the list via two index pages - one a listing of the release by inri number and the other a comprehensive list of all posts, ordered chronologically.
these journals are 50 pages long and have dozens, if not hundreds, of posts, each. i will not be arranging the items in this manner, but i kind of like the deeper presentation for at least the period discs, as well...if not most of the alephs....
the initial presentation did have the full journal (what i'd now call the master document) as a component, but it was just as a link off the html document. the html presentation was essentially a condensation of the journal.
i think i'm going to want to salvage something like that for the period discs when they come up, but does that make sense for these flac discs, which are supposed to just be a convenient way to combine these collections? i'm going to say it doesn't.
there's also the issue of the ability to embed flacs, which i have now and did not have then. so, when i loaded the album page then, it seemed natural to click the track title and have it launch a different document; now, that seems cumbersome - now it seems like clicking the track title ought to actually play the track, and that's what the player does. that said, what i'm thinking going through this is "ok. but, what if somebody just wants to stream the record without reading a book, first?", and i think the answer is just to add a separate page that is the player and the player only. in fact, i'm considering adding that to the bandcamp package.
and, now i'm not.
the html frontend is really just supposed to be a mirror for the liner notes. if you're downloading something in flac or mp3, the notes are presented in doc or pdf primarily, and the html is just a convenient way to make it interactive. these are liner notes, though, they aren't anything else. if you want to listen to the record without reading the liner notes, just load them in foobar or whatever you're using; if you want an interactive experience with the liner notes, that's what the html presentation is for.
with the aleph discs, though, the html front-end helps as a filing mechanism, and it could get cumbersome to have to sort through and load these journals just to get the player to run.
this shouldn't be a complicated problem. i just need to fix the links, copy the html file as it exists and delete everything except the player. then, i can add a quick link to the front-end.
so, the way these flac and mp3 discs (rather than the period discs, which will be something else) are going to work is that you'll load a simple start page with a list of items, that will look something like this:
flac dvd disc #1
inri000: liner notes (html, pdf, doc), player, playlist
inri001: liner notes (html, pdf, doc), player, playlist
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inri014: liner notes (html, pdf, doc), player, playlist
inriℵ0: liner notes (html, pdf, doc), player, playlist
that way, you can get easy access to what you want from the start.
the liner notes will be arranged in a linked list, like the items in the period disc - same format.
you can of course also just browse the iso....
