websites to download live shows

jonesbeach10 · Post by **jonesbeach10** » November 25, 2005 9:56 am

scotto wrote:
jonesbeach10 wrote:
scotto wrote:
jonesbeach10 wrote:OK- question for those that really know what they are doing with this stuff. What exactly does a song's MB mean and how is it determined? I know what it means, but how do they get it?

I ask this because I am trying to download and burn the show from Mohegan Sun 2005 for a friend who was at the show. It's a basic 27 song set, about 2 hour and 10 minutes worth of music (excluding intermission, time b/w encores, etc.). However, the entire set's MB is something like 87 and 92 MB. How does this translate onto a blank CD with 700 MB on it? And it seems that it is not based on length either. For example, Coconut Telegraph (3:39) from Live in Hawaii is 4.2 MB, while SOASOAS (3:39) from Mohegan Sun 2005 is 5.1 MB. If it is the same length, shouldn't it be the same MB?

Thanks and PHINZ UP!!!
First of all,
When making a music cd(one that you can play in a normal cd player), it will fit based on time. Most cds can hold 80 minutes of music playable in a cd player, which explains why the live albums like Live in Hawaii, Manfield, Fenway, and Vegas come in 2 cd sets. MB or megabytes, is the size of the file. You can look at it as quality. The higher the mb, the closer the quality is to the source of the music. I think that the mohengan sun concert was recorded from Sirius. To keep a good quality that's close to the original, the creater saved the file as high quality. The mohengan sun copy is still compressed, and not exactly the same quality as the original (the only way you can do this is with a lossless format, like .flac in the Toronto show-these files are really big). Now about the Hawaii Cd:
When you copy the files to your computers hard drive, they'd be very big, so whatever program you used to copy the tracks (window media player, itunes, or musicmatch) compressed them, so you lost some quality and some mb size, but that probably isn't very noticable.
You can burn a data or mp3 cd and it will be based on MBs, not minutes, but will not play in a cd player. If you need to make the size on MBs smaller, you can compress the files, just like what was done to the cd. Itunes, and I think total recorder can easily do this.
Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions.
First of all, why was I able to fit the Saturday Philly show ('05) into two CD's if the quality, in my opinion was almost as good, if not better, than Mohegan Sun?

Second, how do you compress the files?

Thanks!
Sometimes, once you get to a point, most people can't tell the quality difference. I think that most people will be fine with 128 kbps, which is the amount of music going into your ears per second. 128 kbps should be fine and you can do compression in itunes. This will only give you smaller amounts of MB, not fit over 2 hours worth of music on one playable cd.
If you already have songs in your itunes library, it's not that hard. (if not click file -> add files to library.)
Go to Edit-> Preferences- to the advanced tab, and then into the importing tab. Under IMPORT USING: select MP3 encoder and under SETTING, select good quality (128kbps). Press Ok. You only have to do that once, so the settings are in.
Whenever you want to compress a song, you can do this: In the library, right click on whatever song or songs you want to compress. From the menu, select Convert selection to mp3. That's it. There are other programs that do this too like musicmatch, but itunes is pretty simple after the first step. Good Luck

OK, I did all that, got it compressed, but it won't let me burn a CD. I tried on Audio and MP3 settings. For the record I was using a Memorex CD-R 52x, 700MB, 80 min.

scotto · Post by **scotto** » November 25, 2005 11:42 am

jonesbeach10 wrote: OK, I did all that, got it compressed, but it won't let me burn a CD. I tried on Audio and MP3 settings. For the record I was using a Memorex CD-R 52x, 700MB, 80 min.

What happens when you try to burn it? To burn it, create a playlist by clicking the plus sign at the bottom left in itunes. It'll create a playlist in the source section on the right. IF you want you can give it a name. Next, drag the tracks from your library to the playlist. This won't move the tracks, it'll just put them in the playlist. After that click on the playlist and go to file -> burn playlist to disc. Finally, click the burn disk pinwheel on the right.
If that doesn't work, can you burn cds with any other programs (if not, there's a problem with your cd burner, the blank cd, or the cd burner software/drivers)? Can you see the drive when you click on My Computer on the desktop?

jvman16 · Post by **jvman16** » January 3, 2006 12:32 pm

click

hawkeye315 · Post by **hawkeye315** » January 6, 2006 4:28 pm

Love the L.I. shows..always wanted a copy of them..

phansheridan · Post by **phansheridan** » February 16, 2006 2:13 pm

Just trying to bring this back upto the top for anyone new to the board

cdudley · Post by **cdudley** » February 16, 2006 10:32 pm

How do I get to hear music on this site? when i drag a file to my itunes or real player, it only saves a blank music file. additionally, if i click on any file, it just brings up an empty web page. any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

hawaiiboy · Post by **hawaiiboy** » February 17, 2006 12:14 am

cdudley wrote:How do I get to hear music on this site? when i drag a file to my itunes or real player, it only saves a blank music file. additionally, if i click on any file, it just brings up an empty web page. any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

you download the songs to your hard drive and then put them into iTunes

adamw · Post by **adamw** » February 17, 2006 11:40 am

If you want to put them on an ipod, those files that are in the Real Media (.RM) format are not compatible with itunes. You can use the free RealPlayer at www.real.com to upload the tunes to your ipod after you have downloaded them to your hard drive from the website.

LittleMrMagic · Post by **LittleMrMagic** » February 18, 2006 11:23 am

Has anyone downloaded any of the ".ram" video files? The icon shows Windows media player, but it doesn't work.
Any idea how to play these back?

YuppieParrothead · Post by **YuppieParrothead** » March 10, 2006 2:52 pm

Just moving this back up to the top so it's easier to find tonight when I download another couple of shows. Best concert site ever!

LittleMrMagic · Post by **LittleMrMagic** » March 12, 2006 2:50 pm

Yep, another thread worth moving back to the top of the list that has nothing to do with tickets!!!

Scoman16 · Post by **Scoman16** » March 12, 2006 4:03 pm

Thanks!!!!!!!!!! I hadn't seen this before

My version of the Exit inn show of 74 just got messed up and couldn't find the original download (I think I got it from Buffett on the Web)...

LittleMrMagic · Post by **LittleMrMagic** » March 18, 2006 10:42 am

This is twice now I've resurrected this topic in the last two weeks but maybe if people got back to the music, they would quit the bitchin' (myself included).
I'm signing off now to listen to some of these dandys! I personally recommend the Lulu's show. It's his Mother's 80th birthday and for those of you that want to hear a show free of "standards" (no Margaritaville here), this is it. He lays it down in the ground rules early. . .
He's singing songs that he thinks Mom wants to hear and really doesn't care what anyone has to say about that, if they do, they can buy a ticket for his show next week!
Amen, brother!

Soraya · Post by **Soraya** » March 18, 2006 11:27 am

LittleMrMagic wrote:This is twice now I've resurrected this topic in the last two weeks but maybe if people got back to the music, they would quit the bitchin' (myself included).

OHHH!! Merci, Gracias, Masuma, Dik', Dankon, Dankë, Kamsahamnida!!!

This is fantastic. Rock and I just spent the morning listening to the show at LuLu's.....he actually played some of Rock's favorite songs she she was thrilled.

OystersandBeer · Post by **OystersandBeer** » March 26, 2006 2:56 pm

just bringin it back to the top.

Ilph · Post by **Ilph** » March 26, 2006 3:59 pm

Are the two sites listed on the first page the only websites people know of?

LittleMrMagic · Post by **LittleMrMagic** » April 3, 2006 1:10 pm

Just ressurrecting my favorite post. Everyone should get a chance to see this one. This is truly a reat library of Buffett stuph! Oh and this is my 100th post!!! Wooohoo!

col cairo · Post by **col cairo** » April 3, 2006 2:48 pm

Most likely a stupid question, but once you download can you burn to a cd with music match? In the past when I have tried to burn a cd from downloaded music, the software (music match and windows media) did not burn the songs in the correct order?

phansheridan · Post by **phansheridan** » April 5, 2006 9:29 am

the freddie and the fish sticks concert is up on the first site from Aspen last christmas and it is highly recomended

redparrot26 · Post by **redparrot26** » April 29, 2006 3:18 am

I couldn't get the first link to work. It never asked me to log in. The second link asked me to log in, with the supplied ID and Password. And I'm listening to one of the tunes now.

Any suggestions? I'd really like to have the Aspen 12/21/05 show, as I'm still mad at myself for not going.

thanks

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