Just trying to guage interest in vines of the Vertigo Tour.
The idea is to make sure those who can't download, but wants clean, lossless, copies of Vertigo shows can get them. This is also good since tapers usually don't want their work flying around in a lossy format.
The cost is minimal. Postage ($0.60 for a single-show vine), tape, and blank CDRs. You do need to have a CD burner or a very large hard drive.
The process would be a seeder gets SHNs or FLACs of the sources circulating and puts together a package to be mailed to all who want. If you want a copy, you sign up on the vine. Once you get the show and make your copies, you mail the original seed to the next in line.
All you would need to do is download free programs to convert SHN or FLAC files to WAV files and then you get a copy of the show the way the taper wants it heard. The conversions are easier than you might think. If you can post on a message board or send E-mails, you can convert SHNs to WAVs.
SHN conversion program: http://www.etree.org/mkw.html
FLAC conversion program: http://flac.sourceforge.net/
To see what the signup process would look like, check out this vine page from a Grateful Dead online community. http://www.philzone.org/discus/messages/3207/3207.html?1117899350
If you think you may be interested in something like this, just post here and we'll take it from there.
The idea is to make sure those who can't download, but wants clean, lossless, copies of Vertigo shows can get them. This is also good since tapers usually don't want their work flying around in a lossy format.
The cost is minimal. Postage ($0.60 for a single-show vine), tape, and blank CDRs. You do need to have a CD burner or a very large hard drive.
The process would be a seeder gets SHNs or FLACs of the sources circulating and puts together a package to be mailed to all who want. If you want a copy, you sign up on the vine. Once you get the show and make your copies, you mail the original seed to the next in line.
All you would need to do is download free programs to convert SHN or FLAC files to WAV files and then you get a copy of the show the way the taper wants it heard. The conversions are easier than you might think. If you can post on a message board or send E-mails, you can convert SHNs to WAVs.
SHN conversion program: http://www.etree.org/mkw.html
FLAC conversion program: http://flac.sourceforge.net/
To see what the signup process would look like, check out this vine page from a Grateful Dead online community. http://www.philzone.org/discus/messages/3207/3207.html?1117899350
If you think you may be interested in something like this, just post here and we'll take it from there.
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