[peel] Update re ripping progress

[Tim Brooks]

Rocker,
   Thanks again for the hard work - let us know when you need money.... I'm in the USA so can't rip, but have reaped the benefits so am down to dig onto my pockets again!!

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On Sep 4, 2010, at 8:17 AM, rockerq@... wrote:



A quick update on where we are at!

Last week I posted out the final last batch of 20 of the eBay "400 box" cassettes - these were mainly odds and sods that got missed out of the main ripping schedule, plus a few faulty tapes which may just work on a different machine. There are around 50 tapes still out there with rippers, a few of which have been made available via this group already.

In the last few days I have had time to briefly go through the Steve Lowman tapes (and thanks to him btw!). There are 565 cassettes in all, and they are a very mixed bag - many are Peel / Kershaw, although of these I am unsure how many will turn out to be complete sections of shows, or just compilations of edited-down tracks without links. There are also quite a lot of non-Peel / Kershaw tapes, a few of "Mixing It", a few one-off radio shows, and a few which look like they were mixtapes, or recorded from LPs.

Quite a different task to catalogueing the 400 Box - 95% of these tapes come with extensive handwritten tracklistings on the inserts, but no specific dates, although quite a few have a month and year - this may reflect the fact that they may be compilations from various shows rather than individual shows, although the random ones I have listened to today turned out to be complete sections of shows.

Aware that there may be duplications, but suggest that we continue and rip all of them anyway, as there may be increases in quality, or tape flip / end-of-show gaps that can be filled.

Have divided them into sections:

1991 - mainly Peel & Kershaw - 56 tapes

1992 - mainly Peel & Kershaw - very full coverage - 174 tapes

1993 - mainly Peel & Kershaw - very full coverage - 204 tapes

1994 and later - quite a few are Peel & Kershaw - 65 tapes

Mixed bag - many non-Peel / Kershaw; Some pre 1991 Peel; One off radio shows & Lps - 66 tapes

Will start sorting these out and sending to rippers in the next few days. Have started numbering the individual tapes pretty much in the order they come to hand - have started at "L001" and so on.

Rippers - will mail you individually to let me know when I am sending you a batch.

Have updated my spreadsheet with a new page for these tapes, but have not had time to enter any detail in terms of length of tape, condition, tracklist, date of broadcast etc - so will ask the rippers where possible to add information - can someone remind me / us where to find the spreadsheet file online - or could someone set up a section in the wiki for this info?

There are a couple of odd tapes without tracklistings, and also a few cases with tracklistings but no tapes (no - they don't match!) - so if any rippers should find they have a mismatched tape and insert we may be able to swap.

Money-wise I will spend the last of the generously-donated funds from 2 years ago in sending out this first wave of Steve Lowman tapes with their prepaid return special delivery envelopes. So I guess when I start getting these back from the rippers I'll be coming back to the group cap in hand for more donations before I can send out the second wave.

Cheers!

Rocker