Over the next two days, I'm going to go back and re-export all the Tyrian and Stablehand midis with TiMidity into Ogg Vorbis, so they can be uploaded to the Internet Archive and subsequently to libre.fm.
The awesome thing about this is that they'll be in highly stable storage and presumably easier to find via a search engine, and the Internet Archive system will automatically generate mp3s from the oggs so I don't have to do that again. They will probably also sound better since I think some of the Tyrian ones had previously gone through an mp3 export twice or more, and the TiMidity sequencer doesn't seem to do the terrible clipping VLC and Windows Media Player did (not to mention essentially playing the entire thing off key, which a couple of years ago I put up with because I thought Windows Media Player was the one singing off key).
There are still a couple problems I have yet to work out, like the (awful) way TiMidity is rendering cymbals, which may be challenging, but overall I think this will be an improvement. You can listen to the first three songs I got re-exported again here.
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