From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V19 #442 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, May 8 2018 Volume 19 : Number 442 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: fegmaniax-digest V19 #441 [bayard ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 17:13:29 -0400 From: bayard Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V19 #441 > Hey Bayard! > Hey Stewart and Lauren!! > > > If you're looking to maintain Robynbase, IA has a queryable interface > that could (with a little fiddling) return performance dates to > particular songs. > Can you point me to more info on this? It sounds like something I should learn more about. > > > having the shows on the Archive would be very handy since you can see all > > the details without having to be member of anything, and can even stream > > the audio. What's the scoop on this? > > Streaming is nice, but you do get the gatekeepery type of taper who > insists on no lossless, which means you can't stream it. Given that the > original FLAC files are kept in place, I don't see any problem with IA > providing streaming files as well. > I agree. I get people's objections to lossless, but as long as the original files are in a place we can always find them... (theoretically)... > Not all the files on DIME are audience recordings, and Robyn is on > record (a long time ago) saying he didn't want soundboard recordings > uploaded: https://archive.org/details/RobynHitchcock&tab=about I know! I'm the one who checked with him about it... seemed like the polite thing to do. There are tons of audience recordings, anyways, and whose who want to trade boards privately will do that, like always. > > > My main issue with uploading to IA is its very narrow file naming > conventions. I'm sure there are scripts for this. > The naming conventions were what totally impeded me ever getting anywhere with uploading. If you can think of a way to automate it that would be amazing! Let's keep working on this. The Archive will also be a great source of info for RB. Both setlists and through linking, the great dream has always been to be able to access the archived recordings from Robynbase (via links to the Archive, either song by song or show by show). b. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V19 #442 ********************************