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I managed to record the show on Tuesday at the New City. I need some suggestions on how it should be formatted and distributed.
I recorded it using a Sony Mini-Disc (MZ-N707) and a Sony mic. My friend has a MiniDisc with an optical out and G5 Mac with an optical in. We'll be using that to transfer it.
What I'd like to know is what format should I put the file in? I see people trading SHN and FLAC files as well as WAVs. I don't know how to work with SHNs and FLACs on the Mac, any suggestions? Are those the best formats to use?
What's the best way to distribute it? Set up a Bittorrent? Put it on one of the FTP sites?
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Hmmm.. I don't know a lot about shn's, Flac and bittorent but the best way probably would be to convert to wav because it's easily burnable to cd from wav and then you can do b&p's to people.
Someone else could probably lend some information on converting to shn or flac.
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please, please. put it up on thehuderdthmeridian ftp site we will all be forever grateful.
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I definitely think that bittorrent is the way to go. We can all get in on it at once, instead of just a few at a time on the FTP. It should also be a lot faster with so many people all sharing at once. And I'm sure there'll be a lot of interested parties. I'm not sure if it's any different on a Mac, but both SHN and FLAC are very easy to use, and its easy to find out lots about them. FLAC does have a better compression ratio.
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personaly i would convert it to SHN, or FLAC! I am unsure about that torrent stuff (i tried joining the site to get access) but still ahve no clue how to download from the site........
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if you can find a site with lots of bandwidth ftp would be great but if there is enough ppl wanting it a torrent would be the best
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If you send me the raw WAV files I will convert them to FLAC and seed the torrent for you.
I need 2 Kingston Tickets, please help.
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FLAC=Free Lossles Audio Codec
MP3=Lossless Crap
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Polar_Bear_Gus Wrote:mrlayance Wrote:If you send me the raw WAV files I will convert them to FLAC and seed the torrent for you.
I've been looking into FLAC and I figure I can convert it myself. But hosting the torrent would be great. I'll give you a shout once I get it off my MiniDisc.
Would it be OK to do two torrents? I was thinking I'd make one long file that has everything I recorded including all the crowd noise at the begining and end. And then I'd make a set of files that are basically just the songs with any excess crowd noise cut out. That way anyone who wants to just listen to the songs doesn't have to sit through 3 minutes of crowd chanting in between each encore.
Just fade in and out for the encoues and leave 30 seconds of croud noise at the beginning. Try and only release one of your sources. Makes thinks easier to track.
I need 2 Kingston Tickets, please help.
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Just let me know where it'll be.
Bit Torrent = I'll adapt
FTP = I'm up til 4 in the morning
Doesn't matter.
(But maybe break it up into parts or chapters cuz I got slow 56kps)
