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Re: ISO info on Patti 10/29/97 recording



thanks very much for your replies, thanks to which I have also went to
the babel-list archives.  it seems the show was a rocktropolis.com
RealAudio streaming cybercast in 2 versions: 28.8k and dual-ISDN
(100k).

is Stuart out there?  anybody else have the (his) complete webcast?

in any case, if I do patch with the webcast, I won't be able to upload
it to Dime as even the 100k steam doesn't meet Dime's 192k threshold;
I'll pick someplace else to upload it.

--- weapons of mass destruction-related program activities wrote:
> skywalker (skywalker919919) wrote:
> > 
> > oops, I just noticed that it is the webcast, not the audience
> > recording, which is missing a song (the opener, Waiting 
> > Underground).
> 
> Any version of the 10/29 webcast missing WU, I'd be
> suspicious of, because it's very very very very very 
> likely to be originally sourced by some idiot (I've 
> known him for more than 40 years - he's ugly and his
> momma dresses him funny) who taped the webcast at 
> work onto analog digital cassette (a vintage 1983 
> Technics cassette deck, which was actually very good)  
> connected to the outputs of a Creative soundblaster 
> soundcard. 
> 
> Anyway, he managed to SOMEHOW erase WU, not realizing 
> it until it was too late and rocktropolis had eliminated 
> the archive forever, and it was too late to re-stream 
> it and try again. 
> 
> Main deficit of this version is that this IDIOT 
> didn't know how to capture RA to the hard drive at
> the time. His "source" was and continues to be 
> the analog cassette.
> 
> The person quoted from the archive who offered 
> an analog tape for private trade only (Stuart) 
> is not the same guy. Stuart's "master", if it 
> can be found today, is probably a better source 
> of the webcast. (Obviously, the bestest source
> would be the original digital masters, but whaddaya
> gonna do?) 
> 
> Anyway, back to the idiot -- he also created MP3s
> and distributed them without asking on the Interweb. 
> So there are probably quite a few MP3-sourced versions
> out there. 
> 
> And their real lineage would be: 
> 
>  webcast --> 
>  Technics audiocassette deck --> 
>  another computer acting as recorder --> 
>  CoolEdit96 --> 
>  WAV files. 
> 
> 
> I'm not saying this guy's stuff is THE ONLY SOURCE OUT
> THERE IN THE WHOLE WORLD FOR THIS SHOW, but just letting 
> you know what you are _probably_ listening to if you have
> a webcast without WU. 
> 
> 


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