[johnfowles]

Originally Posted by charlene

http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f90...ml#post1007328 - audio recording downloads..

I recently said apropos the "All Live" release

"it makes me appreciate even more the better bootlegs because usually the creator takes a single continuous recording and splits it into individual tracks but they retain all of the intersong applause and banter, therefore the resultant CD can be burnt with no gaps between tracks to simulate the continuous live concert experience, complete with Gord's groaners, band intoductions etc"
there were a pair of bootlegs from the 2010 season,those from St John New Brunswick and from St Petersberg FL,but there are none at all (as yet anyway) from 2011
So far in 2012 there was a bootleg from January's Clearwater FL concert (see my thread at:-
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=26109 )
In my posting I mentioned that there was a torrent on dime (http://www.dimeadozen.org )(which as per dime's policy comprises like all torents listed there a set of lossless flac files ) (FLAC= Free Lossless Audio Codec) but dime torrents are only for those who understand how to deal with torrents and are signed in members. I also gave a link to the decidedly lossy and lower quality streaming file on the sugarmegs website.
http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/G...earwaterFL.asx
although we were able to attend our "local" concert in New Brunswick ( the NJ one not the ersatz Canadian variety) and the more distant one in PA with the great Greek restaurant nearby we had to miss three others within reasonable driving distance. I was therefore very pleased when Char gave the link to guitars101 for this Northampton MA concert. the downloaded rar files were extracted using the JZip program that I recommended in my posting at:-
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showpost.php?p=161246&postcount=2
In which I also expostulated on how to burn a "gapless" CD.
I found that the extracted mp3s were sampled at what is usually the highest bitrate of 320 (KBPS-KiloBits Per Second)
I have checked and there is now a similar listing of mp3 rars for Clearwater at
http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f90...-a-136949.html
Although the sampling rate of the Clearwater mp3s is a lower 192KBPS
(which can be burnt to a full CD with the resulting sound almost indistinguishable from the original uncompressed recording) For anybody who considers that they have superhuman hearing the torrent set of flacs is again being reseeded on dime, plus the Northampton concert has been uploaded for streaming to sugarmegs
http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/G...thamptonMA.asx
So there you have it both 2012 boots are available in the three qualities
1 Low 40KBPs wma on sugarmegs as per the two links shown above
Note that although you may download the wma files they are NOT recommended for burning pukka CDs from
2 higher qualiy lossily compressed mp3s at guitars101
using Char's Northampton link
http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f90/gordon-lightfoot-2012-05-18-northampton-ma-141151.html
and the Clearwater link I pasted in above
3 perfection loosslessly compressed flacs as torrents from dime
Finally please note that the burning program that I recommended for burning "gapless" CDs (the Australian Express Burn) will itself convert both mp3s and flacs before burning