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I agree with you, Mark. A light haze is no big deal. That rarely affects the audio quality.

Now, Buffed 45s is a different matter.

The only percentage I find fault with is the reversed label pressing error. My personal most hated problem with 45s. I'd rather have a cracked but plays perfect (no noise) 45 than one with flip-flopped labels. I'd make that a 25% less factor in the algorithm.

Ok! I might adjust hazy wax up a little just to please Mr. Segment.
Buffed 45s are also my personal nightmare. But that is already accounted for by the overall condition rating, it is not a defect per se.
I'm surprised about your reversed label phobia. I have never minded that so much, because you still have everything you need, 100 percent of the sonic and visual information, and it still looks nice. But I will adjust upwards and heed the advice of G45central's most eminent professor.:sonny:
 
Agreed! There are a lot of dealers who will offer a buffed 45 as VG++ or even Mint minus. Then you get it, play it and it sounds like cacca...

I had a copy of the Black Watch "Left Behind", sold to me as VG++ but it was buffed (F-You Bob Stricker, even if you are now dead, haha!). The high end played hissy. I could see that some of the deeper abrasions had been sanded down. I think I ended up selling it for $25 when I got a mint minus copy.
At least he didn't buff shoe polish into the wax, like some dealers STILL do.
 
Autographed by band member + 15%

Things are getting subjective here: Personally, I'm no big fan at all of signed labels and I'd rate them rather as a value-decreasing factor (5-15%, depending on how many members scribbled on). However getting a nice note + signature on a plain white/brown/green sleeve adds a pleasant touch of autheticity.
 
Things are getting subjective here: Personally, I'm no big fan at all of signed labels and I'd rate them rather as a value-decreasing factor (5-15%, depending on how many members scribbled on). However getting a nice note + signature on a plain white/brown/green sleeve adds a pleasant touch of autheticity.
This is really too subjective. Many Japanese collectors, for example, really dislike autographs on labels, even if they were signed at the time of release.

As long as the signature is not very ugly or intrusive into the label info, I'd consider it a minor plus - if it were signed about the time of release.

I treasure the Purple Hearts 45 that Mick signed when he visited NY in 2009, but that's personal. As a buyer I wouldn't really want a record that was signed years after release. On 45s this kind of thing is not usually too bad, but I hate LPs with a giant signature in marker on the cover.
 
Signatures on the label should be given a negative value via the "Writing On Label" defect, balanced with a positive "Artifact" rating. The balance can be manipulated via the 1-10 ratings of both values.
 
Signatures on the label should be given a negative value via the "Writing On Label" defect, balanced with a positive "Artifact" rating. The balance can be manipulated via the 1-10 ratings of both values.
But not always. I'll take a 45 with Hendrix, Morrison, Lennon, Eddie Cochran etc. (or anyone famous who died young) signatures any day over ones without.:sunny:
 
Would you rather have a 45 with a BOBBY FULLER autograph on it rather than one without? yep
 
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I have made all the requested changes (reversed labels, hazy wax, buffed wax, artifact weighting).
The artifact is now weighted exponentially while still respecting the sound/rarity combined value. It is designed so that 1-5 ratings are suitable for cool or unique label designs, and 6-10 ratings are for inclusions such as inserts, stickers, photos, autographed band photos, black/white or full color picture sleeves. Artifact "10" which should only be used for ultra rare, heavyweight full color picture sleeves will now add a lot of value in the case of rarer 45s.

http://www.g45central.com/Gtest/nutest4.html
 
Some slow progress at the Console Development Center.
I have implemented the function which saves the multiple track data for A/B sides and tracks 1-12 on each side. I have just one nagging technical problem at this stage, and Aaron is still not ready to work on the project (although I expect he will be ready very soon).

Maybe in the meantime one of our readers / members knows the answer, which I can not find. If you use the link below, you will see that you can change the A/B side in the blue "Tracks" section of the console.

http://www.g45central.com/Gtest/nutest8.html

Also if you set the Format to "EP" or "LP", you can change the Track to any value between 1-12. Therefore there are 24 possible tracks per LP or EP.

If you enter some fake data into a few of the A/B 1-12 tracks, you will see that all the data is saved and re-appears when you change from track to track. You can see all the checkboxes and text fields remember all the settings entered for each track. However, the drop down menus are not remembered (actually they are remembered but not displayed). That's the problem. Whatever I do in the coding, the drop-downs will not change when you change tracks or sides. That makes it impossible to use the console, because you can not see the effects of your drop-down menu selections, as you change from track to track.

The strange white button at the bottom is just for test purposes. It prepares the data arrays for the next stage (php).

Here is the Javascript I'm using. It works for text fields and checkboxes, but not for drop-downs ("select-one" elements). If anyone knows the answer, that would be fantastic! The entire Javascript coding is available here:

http://www.g45central.com/Gtest/mtjs.js

The faulty part is in the arrayrefresh() function...

//part that won't work follows...

if (elem.type=="checkbox")
{if (selside==0)
{elem.checked=eval(vala);}
else
{elem.checked=eval(valb);}
}

if (elem.type=="text")
{if (selside==0)
{elem.value=vala;}
else
{elem.value=valb;}
}

if (elem.type=="select-one")

{
if (selside==0)
{elem.options[elem.selectedIndex].value=vala;}
else
{elem.options[elem.selectedIndex].value=valb;}
}
//works for text elements and checkboxes but doesn't work for select-one elements?!?
// elem.value=vala doesn't work for select-one elements either (already tried that) ...
 
You can all stop racking your brains. i cracked the bastard!
Here is the solution

if (elem.type=="select-one")
{
if (selside==0)
{
for ( var cc = 0; cc < elem.options.length; cc++ )
{
if ( elem.options[cc].text == vala )
{ elem.options[cc].selected = true;}
}
}
else
{
for ( var cc = 0; cc < elem.options.length; cc++ )
{
if ( elem.options[cc].text == valb )
{ elem.options[cc].selected = true;}
}
}
}
 
And here is the FINISHED data entry console (except for fancy header which I will design later).
One thing i do still need is a list of international Pressing Plants. Any help would be appreciated, although i can probably research it myself via the net.

Please test out the track entry section with fake data. I would like to find any bugs as early as possible! Don't worry, no data is transferred to the database, at this stage it just stays in your own computer so go ahead and fill the fields with nonsense or rude messages.

http://www.g45central.com/Gtest/nutest8.html

Oops - it ain't finished. I forgot the musicians 1-8 section.
 
It seems to work fine! A mighty impressive menu. Only comment I have is the choice of number of uploads in the Uploads section. Several releases have variations in PS design/color (Seeds inverted b&w photo & Cirkit blue vs purple color fer instance)

Of course it could just as well be mentioned in the comments section.

Looking forward to this!
 
Just a few things I noticed quickly.

- tracks, links, comps section - misspelled Aliens LP dropdown.
- Styles - language could be expanded - I have some 45's with Spanish and English sides, same for french & english, there must be lots.
- Styles - The a & b sides are going to be different styles sometimes!
- Features - each song may have different features
- sessions and personal - the members don't change over ...oh you know that...

but overall it seems complex but idiot proof errrrr I fink??