Decemberists

[kosmo vinyl]

Only a couple up now, but the Decemberists are allowing concert recordings to be posted over at the Internet Archive.
 
 http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?cat=The%20Decemberists

[distance]

i was thinking of taping them in austin.
 they are playing a club show with built to spill post-ACL (i think saturday night) and then sunday i can choose between seeing them or bob mould.  hmm.

[muschi]

the files at that link are in flac format, wtf is that?

[markie]

Free lossless audio codec

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by muschi:
  the files at that link are in flac format, wtf is that?

It's a lossless compression format (much like .shn) that is commonly used in the live bootleg world. Shrinks files to approximately 42% of the size of a .wav or CDA file, has builtin error checking (unlike .shn).

[muschi]

christ like i dont feel old enuf. so thats y the files r like 20-40mb. who needs the filez that big i dont. i mean after all the songs might blow why would i want to download something that big for soemthin i dont even kno i want. ok commence hostility towards me for expressing that weiner boy.

[kosmo vinyl]

Elliot Smith @ Black Cat 2002

[kosmo vinyl]

Fuzagi @ Fort Reno 2002

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by muschi:
  so thats y the files r like 20-40mb. who needs the filez that big i dont.  

Yes, but you can decompress a flac to a .wav file that is an exact digital original of the original file. For people who don't want sound quality loss (bootleggers and audiophiles), the use of an mp3 simply won't work, and as big as a flac might be, it's only 42% of the size of the alternative.
 
 Obviously for a studio cd song, a simple mp3 will suffice for most people's ears, but for this specific purpose, flac has a use, and a viable one.

Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb porn CONNOISSEUR:
  Yes, but you can decompress a flac ?

<img src="http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~aw299999/esp/duckwalker.jpg" alt=" - " />
 Aflac!

[kosmo vinyl]

so xavier doesn't feel left out
 
  DBT @ 9:30 2004

[LRHippo]

Don't forget forum faves, DCFC:
 
 http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?collection=etree&cat=Death%20Cab%20for%20Cutie

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  so xavier doesn't feel left out
 
  DBT @ 9:30 2004

this guy must have had a sweet rig, the sound quality was fantastic .. fun show...

[muschi]

id just burn my mp3s at 320kbps rather than standard 128kbps.
 
 often i'll just burn at 192kbps cuz 320 is cumbersome.
 
 i noticed the high end sounds [cymbals] sound all swishy at 128kbps.
 
 really pissed me off when i'd work out and blast it, ya kno, so i go deaf, and itd be all f'd up sounding.
 
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 hrrrumphh i see im the only dork on the board at night. wow! u all have lives!

[Jaguär]

Not even worth burning if you go below 192kbps! At least, in my opinion. When I can, I try to stick with 320 myself. They sound so much better!