[estranged4life]

Originally Posted by glitter_fades

I've made a few friends over at easytree. A lot of great traders and archivists there, but yer right, wow, are they crabby about lineage and source. We have so much mp3 source material in our trade circles that it makes it hard to share what we have on that site.

It still seems a waste to start a Fleetwood Mac torrent site when that one works so well. We should make more use of what's there but just torrent the good stuff we can verify.

since I had to bust ass to get a few shows from non-FM collectors who were afraid that their shows would be altered from the original source (The Rosemont, IL 2003 show comes to mind as does the May 27,2003 Worcester show.)

I feel if we can get our collected **** together we can go ahead and use easytree

First, we need to clean up our sources by getting back to the original cd and tape like you've mentioned. Another way I've started to clean up my stuff before trading with the torrent guys is to rip good audio from my video sources. I have some VHS and dvds with better source audio than a lot of audience boots floating around the trade community.

I have LONG been trasnferring from VHS/DVD to CDR without any problems whatsoever (I have most of the 2004 California SYW shows on their way and those will get the same treament), Just to upgrade the sound quality and have a recording that is as close to perfect as the master recording...And I do it without a editing program or compression, I manually add the fades in/fades out, etc. Which is one advantage of a self-contained CD burner...I go from a Panasonic DMR E-55 DVD burner into either my ol' reliable TDK DA-3826 burner or my newer JVC XL-R2010 burner straight onto a CDR.

We need to make the effort to put only the best stuff out so everyone will be cool with it. It might take some time to get other traders on board with what we FM fans torrent but that's only because FM boots have a bad reputation. I haven't seen any complaints so far about the FM material uploaded to date. As long as the door is open we should take advantage of what's there and do what we can to bring the FM music up to standard and get it out to more listeners than our own camp.

I take advantage of trading for upgrades at any chance I get, That's why I have multiple versions of some shows, I keep upgrading until I find one that fits with what I think would be considered a quality recording that can be traded about...Then if that show gets traded around no one is stuck with the lame assed/crap filled sandwich version of the recording.

Fans of other bands are still sitting on gems we'd want because they know we'll poison our own well (had to say that ) if they allow us to get good source material and degrade it amongst ourselves.

True...That's why as of late I would rather trade for audio cassettes of older shows & transfer 'em myself than rely on receiving a CDR of MP3 sourced crap....I guess bein' around Beatle traders rubbed off on me cause they are the truly "perfectionists" when it comes to ROIO's.

Brian j.