Sisters of Mercy

[tapingguy]

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Martin Wheatley <martinwheatley@t...> > 
> There is a distinction between recording current stuff where most
> people have the means to get a clean signal and can suit themselves
> how to record it and older stuff.where you are stuck with how it 
was done
> originally.   One great thing about Freeview is that you a good 
clean
> signal or nothing.   There aren't very many people with perfect FM 
reception
> (I never have) and of course there is even some stuff that only went
> out in AM, Then it would have been put onto tape and  as a 
consequence
> any copy you make now in whatever medium is going to start degraded
> 

true - I loads of tapes in boxes from the early 80's onwards which
have been either played to death or just haven't made the trip 
through the years too well. 6 music dearmticket is great for
offering up that 'instant upgrade' feature. Some stuff will never
be broadcast again - either for copyright reasons or its just become
plain lost so in that case peoples old tapes are the only way to go.
Peel sessions seem to come under copyright issues - from what I can 
gather.


> Have you tried .ogg rather than mp3 - that's supposed to be good
> 
as far as I know ogg is lossy so I haven't bothered looking at it,
although it is supposed to be better than mp3. A 90+min gig can
be stored on a cdr using FLAC no problem, so thats fine for me. FLAC 
is open-source as well so it has little chance of becoming obsolete 
so I'm going to stick with that.

> I've not yet faced up to what to do with all the stuff I've got on 
old tapes
> It's at the same time priceless and deteriorating!
> 

it takes ages whatever you do. I pick a few tapes at a time and
ask if anything better - sometimes preFM tapes leak into circulation
which are obviously infinitely better than broadcast recorded tapes,
if it exists I try and get a copy of that and throw the tape - if 
there are no copies around then I transfer my own version. 6music
also helps out from time to time. I upgraded all my Smiths tapes
the other week with their week long special. ( Although a good
Glasgow 9/25/85 FM would be most welcome if anyone has a copy)

wayne