My (not so much a box but more several shelves of) Peel Tapes

[ken]

More uncontrollable excitement! It's dangerous for my (wobbly) health, you know!

thanks - but seriously, once you get sorted Phil can I make a special request for your starting with the lacunae that is shows from 87-90, specifically the 2 hr, then 90-min ones mid evening on Radio 1 FM from Oct 88 to Oct 90? There are only a few of these around, and the other amazing recent projects/contributions (which I am enjoying enormously, thanks all) mean 91-92 is now pretty near complete....

Sorry, i can give no advice on how to make them available technically via a server - i only use upload/download services like megaupload...

k

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Philip Edwards <festive50@...> wrote:
>
> At last.
> I've finally gotten around to getting back to digitising my 500+ tapes.
> Although I contributed my 20 quid to that 1st box of tapes we collectively
> bought a few years back which kicked off these various taping projects, I
> probably only got around to downloading about 50 shows.
> The reason being, I was waiting to get my new server in a satisfactory
> state. Hopefully I will also be looking at getting this working in the near
> future.
> The vast majority of these tapes (about 90+%) are TDK AD C90s and are
> complete shows.
> Taking the form of :-
> Tape 1 = show 1 part 1 of 2
>  Tape 2 = show 1 part 2 of 2 + show 2 part 1 of 2
> Tape 3 = show 2 part 2 of 2 + show 3 part 1 of 2 etc.
> 
> I'm planning to stitch the parts together (removing the blank bits where
> tape reverses) to end up with complete shows (normalised to minimise
> clipping, using Cool Edit Pro 2.0) as 1 file (current bitrate of 44100 bps
> gives approx. 100 Mb per 2 hour show. Is this too large a file size?
> Mostly these tapes will be digitised using the same tape deck as they were
> recorded on (A TEAC twin deck which recorded on both decks).
> Will probably manage about 2-3 tapes per evening.
> 2 Things
> 
>    1. Until the issues with my server are resolved, where can I upload these
>    shows? Is Gary's (Niag) server still available? I don't have an account with
>    any of these file share sites such as MediaFire or RapidShare or whatever.
>    Probably the reason I never bothered downloading many shows due to their
>    limitations.
>    2. At present the shows will be completely random as they are in complete
>    disarray from when I was digging stuff out from when Ken was finalising his
>    book. This will soon be resolved as "she who must be obeyed" has instructed
>    me to tidy my study and is well under way, having thrown out over a dozen
>    bin bags of books, giving me more shelf space to rearrange the tapes.
> 
> Phil
> 
> P.S. These shows are from 1987 onwards (about 300 tapes between 1990-2)
>