[peel] State of play

[festive50@...]

re File Naming
Not Peel yyyy/mm/dd (session artists)
ie. omit the "/" seperator and definitely not the "." seperator.
Below is an example of my file naming.
Phil


John Peel 19900101 - House of Love and The Fall Sessions.mp3
John Peel 19900122 - Nirvana Session.mp3
John Peel 19900501 - Robert Lloyd Session.mp3
John Peel 19900813 - The Fall Session (rpt).mp3
John Peel 19900820 - The Hearthrobs Session.mp3
John Peel 19900821 - The Crane Session(Debut).mp3
John Peel 19900823 - My Dad id Dead Session.mp3
John Peel 19900828 - Three Mustaphas Three Session - 128 kbps.mp3
John Peel 19900830 - The Cows Session.mp3
John Peel 19900904 - Bolt Thrower Session.mp3
John Peel 19900906 - Sex Clark 5 Session (rpt).mp3
John Peel 19900917 - Filthkick Session.mp3
John Peel 19900925 - Drive Session.mp3
John Peel 19900928 - 48 kbps.mp3
John Peel 19901229 - includes FF 26-20 - 128 kbps.mp3



> Hi folks,
>
> Seems to have gone slightly quiet in the last day or two. Thought perhaps
> I could a try and
> sum up the current state of play on the tapes as I understand it.
>
> A bit hazy on some points, so please feel free to throw in clarifications,
> corrections,
> further ideas, etc.
>
>
> 1. The tapes were collected by Rocker, who is holding onto them right now.
> In due course,
> he will start sending them off around the country (not internationally?)
> for digitizing by
> those who have volunteered. Postage and packing costs will be covered by
> those who have
> already put their hands up for financial contributions.
>
> Rocker, guess you need people to get in touch with you directly with their
> addresses (for
> sending tapes to) or to sort out getting money to you. Is this happening
> already? How's it
> going?
>
> Guess it makes good sense to go with Ken's idea and start by giving every
> tape an ID
> number so we can keep a track on who has what. Incidentally, do we have a
> final tally for
> just how many tapes we ended up with?
>
> Agree with Rocker that might be best if all the tapes are returned to him
> after digitizing so
> the collection can be kept together while a longterm home is pondered.
>
>
> 2. As agreed, digitizing for the archive should be in FLAC format.
>
> In the interest of standardizing things, I agree with previous suggestions
> that file names
> should be done on the following basis:
>
> Peel yyyy/mm/dd (session artists)
>
> Maybe we could add the tape ID number in there, as well as a/b to indicate
> the side of the
> tape, although not exactly sure of the best place to put this. At the end?
> For example:
>
> Peel 1978/10/25 (Fabulous Poodles, Metal Urbain) (101a)
>
>
> 3. I'm not exactly sure where FLAC files will be uploaded to initially,
> although think there's
> been a number of suggestions. Maybe I've missed something here. There's
> also the
> related matter of a permanent archive.
>
> The size of FLAC files might make it tricky to use services like
> megaupload or rapidshare
> for uploads of these. Maybe a server (or bittorrent tracker) could be
> best?
>
>
>
> 4. As discussed before, big downloads might be tricky for some people for
> various
> reasons, so people (original tape converters or other list members) might
> want to make
> additional mp3 versions from FLAC files for uploading to rapidshare,
> megaupload,
> whatever. This would only be an additional thing to widen access. Whatever
> central archive
> is used should be FLAC files only.
>
>
> 5. The list should be notified of any new uploads.
>
>
> 6. Not exactly sure on the best thing for tracklistings in the short term.
> Elsewhere, I've
> seen them uploaded on txt format files to go with the music file. Think
> this would be fine
> as an initial thing. Perhaps if any people who do digitizing of tapes find
> doing tracklistings
> as well too much time/trouble, we could throw open the job for particular
> FLAC files to
> volunteers from the list.
>
> Alternatively (additionally?), there's the question of a database, which
> would be excellent
> if it can be set up relatively easily. Seems to me it would be best to
> have something online
> and the simpler to use the better.
>
>
> Sorry to go on at length here. I was thinking it might be good to try and
> bring together
> the various things related to the tapes at the moment, trying to get
> things clear in my own
> mind as much as anything.
>
> Many thanks again to everyone involved in this whole thing. Can't wait to
> hear the results!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steve W
>
>
>
>