If you don't save your lossless files then you won't be able to share them later because no one will want your mp3s.ĭon't Forget To Share Your Free Grateful Dead Music It's always a good idea to back up important data. I do both, so I don't lose anything if one of my hard drives dies. You can either keep them on your hard drive or burn them to dvd+r. It's perfectly fine to create mp3s from the lossless files for your own personal use such as with an Ipod.īut you should never trade them and you should always save the lossless files. Therefore no one trades lossy files online and mp3s are generally unwelcome at Grateful Dead bittorrent trackers. They want to preserve this free Grateful Dead music that they love so much in the highest quality possible for future generations. Some Deadhead tape traders also consider themselves to be archivists. They refer to any compressed music files in a non-lossless format as "lossy". Many tape collectors consider themselves audiophiles and want to hear the best recordings reproduced faithfully on high quality stereo equipment.
If you're interested I get my high capacity hard drives at Amazon. Lossless compression is true to its name in that it retains all the information in the recording - nothing is lost. When you compress an audio file using the mp3 format some of the information in that recording is permanently lost. Lossless files are used because they are the most faithful to the original recording. The last one had a capacity of 1 TB and cost the same as my first one! When I first began I had a 120 GB hard drive. Thankfully, hard drive capacities keep getting larger and larger while the prices keep getting lower and lower. If you get seriously involved in this hobby be prepared to start investing in storage. They take up a lot more space on your hard drive. Lossless audio files are huge compared to mp3s. Re: 1 ping to c-freedom.Free Grateful Dead music is generally shared in the form of lossless FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) or SHN (Shorten) files. We reserve the ability to withdraw our sanction of non-commercial digital music should circumstances arise that compromise our ability to protect and steward the integrity of our work.ġ ping to c-freedom. This notice should be clearly posted on all sites engaged in this activity. No commercial gain may be sought by websites offering digital files of our music, whether through advertising, exploiting databases compiled from their traffic, or any other means.Īll participants in such digital exchange acknowledge and respect the copyrights of the performers, writers and publishers of the music. Our stipulations regarding digital distribution are merely extensions of those long-standing principles and they are as follow: That a new medium of distribution has arisen - digital audio files being traded over the Internet - does not change our policy in this regard. The Grateful Dead and our managing organizations have long encouraged the purely non-commercial exchange of music taped at our concerts and those of our individual members.
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