[peel] Mystery Box

[Stuart Brooks]

I know for a fact that there are a few stalled cassette and reel to reel projects as some folks on here have lost interest so it would be good for us to pick these up

On 1 October 2019 22:20:26 BST, "Tim Giebel-Inanloo timgiebel@... [peel]" <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>I’ve got a small number of tapes to do once I get my Nakamichi tape
>deck back. But every day I check my saved searches on eBay, and I check
>all the cassette listings on gumtree and Facebook marketplace, so if I
>spot anything, I will definitely buy them. Also, as I have a general
>interest in cassette tapes and reel to reel, I am always picking up job
>lots and going through them, and I occasionally find a Peel show or
>two.
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>On 1 Oct 2019, at 21:16, RobF
>robfleay@...<mailto:robfleay@...> [peel]
><peel@yahoogroups.com<mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
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>I've been racking my brains as to how to encourage more people to share
>their old stashes of tapes. There must still be loads out there.
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>Short of asking someone on Twitter with a lot of followers (hem hem -
>hello Mr Quantick) to put out an APB then I guess we're stuck scouring
>Gumtree  and eBay
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>On the subject of eBay, I had my dummy listing (pointing people at the
>wiki and asking if anyone had any tapes)  removed yet again. I think
>they have periodic sweeps of all listings that contain links to
>external sites.
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>On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 20:29, Mr M D Luetchford
>M.Luetchford@...<mailto:M.Luetchford@...>
>[peel] <peel@yahoogroups.com<mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
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>Real shame that you've run out of tapes to rip. Is no one on here
>sitting on some tapes wondering if they will ever find time to rip
>them?
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>Mark
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>On 30 September 2019, at 14:22, "'Stuart Brooks'
>stuartb@...<mailto:stuartb@...> [peel]"
><peel@yahoogroups.com<mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
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>I have done, but only on my various HDDs, that’s why I always name them
>beginning with yyyy-mm-dd, and rename the ones I download
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>From: MLEFJ mlefj@... [peel]
>Sent: Monday, September 30, 2019 8:36 AM
>To: peel@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [peel] Mystery Box
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>Brilliant work Stuart. If you’re bored you should do what I’m thinking
>of doing. Getting all the shows (from various people’s folders) and
>putting them in chronological order for the whole of JP’s career.
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>Then I can just listen to all the shows there are in a row... Starting
>with the earliest.
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>You’ve probably already done this, I guess
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>Thanks again to you and everyone who does all the work
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>James
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>On 30 Sep 2019, at 01:50, stuartb@... [peel]
><peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>Well that didn't take long...
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>MY10 contained an 85m continuous section of 29th November 2000,
>previously only some edited tracks from the Lee Tapes were available.
>Warning, the sound is bad and soon becomes atrocious bordering on
>unintelligible; this sounds like the tuner was mistuned.
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>MY11 contained 71 mostly continuous minutes of 14th March 2001, again
>adding to the edited tracks from the Lee Tapes. It's interesting that
>both of these shows were very rare in having no shared audio, then like
>buses, two sources came along at once. There was also a very short
>snippet from a previous use of this tape, shared as March 2001 on the
>wiki. It's an unknown date.
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>MY12 produced a mainly continuous section of 1st March 2001, though
>only 7 minutes are new.
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>Finally MY14 added some edited tracks (with intros) to 10th September
>1998.
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>All the other tapes were duplicates of shows already available complete
>in good quality so weren't shared.
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>That's my tape backlog cleared. So what to do now... I have still a few
>Derby Box tapes to re-rip (the Memorex ones with the dodgy pressure
>pads from the first half of the box). But if anyone who got fed up with
>their ripping projects fancies sending me the tapes I'd be happy to
>digitise and return.. (Peel  only)
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>If not, might need to find a new hobby...
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>Stuart