KVR Audio

braj · Post by **braj** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:03 pm

Just in case someone doesn't know of this awesome site, you can find thousands of live shows by bands that allow taping here.

http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisti ... tion=etree

Glassback · Post by **Glassback** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:23 pm

Nice one!

Just grabbing The Tom Tom Club gig now. Only another 4+ hours to go!

tommo · Post by **tommo** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:42 pm

Good set of stuff there tho

http://www.legaltorrents.com/
ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/music/groups/so ... ords/live/

village orchestra (no drums/beats at all there) & kilowatts - live at lab30 are pretty cool, between the other sets here

knockman · Post by **knockman** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:47 pm

good call braj! i often visit that place never occurred to me to post a link here

that's a great site, the other libraries are excellent too - check out http://www.archive.org/details/movies lots of incredible documentaries, commercials and best of all public information films from way back. i use them for teaching sometimes

regards

bobbyblank · Post by **bobbyblank** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:52 pm

I use archive/prelinger all the time for video work. it's a footage goldmine.
never even thought about live shows, though. gotta check it out.

Landphil · Post by **Landphil** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:48 am

Thanks, braj. Much appreciated!

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Glassback · Post by **Glassback** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 11:34 am

So, having spent 4.5 hours downloading the Tom Tom Club gig, I find I can't open it.
It's all as .shn and despite googling, I can't make head nor tail of this.
I've downloaded an exe file for 'shorten' but it doesn't appear to do anything.

I've read a few pages of stuff about it but feel I could do with someone to translate into laymans terms just how I unpack these files.
Any advise, people?

Thanks in advance.

Oh, and to save anyone the bother of saying it - yes, I must be stupid or something.

tommo · Post by **tommo** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 11:39 am

There u go Mick

http://research.umbc.edu/~hamilton/shnlinks.html#dl

http://www.u2shn.com/software.html

Hovmod · Post by **Hovmod** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 11:40 am

My winamp plays shorten files, but I probably installed a winamp plugin aeons ago.

I just downloaded a couple of Trail of Dead concerts, and they were flac'ed. Needed a plug for that, too...

Both flac and shorten are good lossless formats, and if you're going to start downloading concerts, you'll need both codecs installed.

I can't recall where I got the codec, but I can't believe google didn't help. I can't imagine I got it any other way...
Let me have a look around my old disks.

edit: You don't unpack them. You play them in your media player.

Glassback · Post by **Glassback** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 11:43 am

Hovmod: Yeah, I've got FLAC and Monkey Audio but Shorten is a new one to me. Never come across it before.

I'll try it in winamp though, see what happens.

Thanks tommo - I'll investigate those links now.

Glassback · Post by **Glassback** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 11:54 am

So, with a combination of help from tommo and Hovmod, I installed a plug-in so these files will play in WinAmp (my fave media player anyway) without uncompressing.
Better than nowt. Don't know why, but I was expecting an actual video of the gig.

Thanks guys!

tommo · Post by **tommo** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 11:55 am

Glad u sorted in the end

Looks like there are plenty of recording on the first link i posted.....

knockman · Post by **knockman** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 11:57 am

i don't think layman's terms suffice

there are different issues depending on your os, but here's a useful link:

http://www.etree.org/mkw.html

worked for me

regards

EDIT: bah! too late might be useful to some though

Glassback · Post by **Glassback** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:39 pm

Hey knockman!

Perfect - just what I was looking for.
A simple drag n drop interface to convert from .shn to .wav. Burning now. Thanks man!

braj · Post by **braj** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:52 pm

Glassback wrote:Hey knockman!
Perfect - just what I was looking for.
A simple drag n drop interface to convert from .shn to .wav. Burning now. Thanks man!

Oh, that's brilliant!

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