Yet More Festive Fifties - 1986 & 1987

[Stuart]

I find downloading zip and rar files most troublesome, especially on my home PC on O2 broadband. The files are the correct number of bits but the slightest corruption causes CRC fails on extraction. MP3s are much easier as any minor corruptions are usually inaudible.

Normally downloading on my alternate Sky Broadband rig avoids these errors. 

I've heard that downloading from Mediafire can corrupt rar files and that if the broadband provider caches these files, you may end up redownloading the same corrupt version.

It has taken me 3 or 4 attempts using jDownloader to get an extractable version of these shows. I got fails with 4 of the files, currently I've managed to get good copies of all shows but the 
28th Dec 1987.

It might be easier just to upload large files as two mp3s as downloading is much more reliable.

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, rockerq@... wrote:
>
> > <<1987 Festive Fifty is complete, 5 x 2-hour shows. I patched in 30 
> > seconds or so per show from the recordings currently out there (which 
> > incidentally all run 2-3% too fast) to cover tape flips. These are large files as a 
> > result and each is split into two pieces to satisfy Mediafire.
> > 
> > 22/12/87 to 30/12/87 (5 shows, 10 pieces):
> > 
> > http://www.mediafirhttp://www.mediahttp://www.mediahttp://www.mediahttp://www.media
> > (that link should all be on one line)>>
> > 
> I cannot seem to unrar two of these - JP19871228 and JP19871223 - have 
> re-downloaded and files seem complete - anyone else having problems?
> 
> Rocker
> >
>