Which are John Peel's 140 fave albums?

Here you go Bob:
http://www.yousendit.com/howdoesitwork.aspx

Youjust need to know where the song file is stored on your machine, and browse to the file through YSI.

You can then take the link that's given after a successful upload and paste it in the message here.

This is a test upload & not JP related. This band only ever sold 60 copies of their single in the UK. Yet one of those copies made it to a radio station in New York & received regular airplay so that are known by a few fans in the USA. Hope you enjoy it.

Bob

http://d52.yousendit.com/D/10MFAOCAKNU9J05VG0EZ8RG1WR/BFTE.wma

OK I am happy now. The second link seems to have worked. Forgive my uploading Boys From The East. I thought they were a fabulous little group from Bradford UK who had zero success in the uk in the early 1980's. By a miracle they seem to have been noticed in new York USA, which I only picked up from the ebay link below. (The band had no idea about this until I spoke to a member last week) By way of reparation, I will upload the Mighty Avengers & G L Crockett B Sides at the weekend. Roshell Anderson is on the way.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4797725547&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

could we have another link to aldo's torrent? pretty please?

> By way of reparation, I will upload the Mighty Avengers & G L Crockett B Sides at the weekend. Roshell Anderson is on the way.

curses. my last day with decent net access until the new year and you go and do this! argh. 8)

It ended up not working for anybody, so I'm going to retry it tonight.

great work bob,
not wishing to sound picky, but is there any way of saving the files as mp3 rather than wma?

OK, attempt 2.

http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=25YD0QA9KDMQC2QWO4YSDN8ZIT

Hopefully this should be the Mighty Avengers & G L Crockett. Sorry files are WMA as I don't know hoe to convert to MP£. All this techy stuff is new to me!!!

http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=096PEF6PUY8B62ZEH6OEU80VMQ

http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0ZXM62M4G29KY1U53LBEC9CC1M

I'm not seeing any peers on the torrent--anyone else having luck?

Hey Bob - can I help you get some MP3s out?
What software are you using to record from vinyl?

Hi Yoz,

It is quite a long route. I record the vinyl into a TASCAM digital recorder. I then very slightly mix it to try get it as clear as possble. I can't get rid of background crackle though if it is there on the record. I then burn a CD & upload the CD onto my PC via Windows Media Player. I can then upload to yousendit. My son has an MP3 player & he might be able to assist. I suppose he can record the CD I have burned into MP3 & if I can the upload the MP3 onto my PC, the problem should be solved.

Regards

Bob

PS

I am sulking this morning because I got outbid on Sasha Caro despite having bid £51 (It is worth £25). If only the purchaser knew how many people he has deprived of a bit of Xmas happiness!! Oh Well, if at first you don't succeed & all that!!

I just found this page for the first time and the different links to different songs is a bit overwhelming!

Is there much chance of the whole collection being put together into one torrent or something?

thanks

Hey Bob - Those sound great, thanks for getting them up!!

Mark - there is a torrent (not sure it's working right now), scroll up or use 'find on page.' Also, a lot of people have them all at Slsk. But yeah, you have options in terms of getting them all at once.

Bob -

The entire thing, except for the last ten or so, is available as two torrents here:
http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/peelbox

The remaining tracks will be torrented soon - I was waiting for more to trickle in...

(and if the torrent doesn't work, email me - If my PC is off, there may not be other seeders right now...) right.knewitATgmail.

Bob,
I highly recommend taking a look at this page:
http://www.br0wn.co.uk/vinyltocd.htm

It talks about plugging the turntable directly into the PC, but you can do that with the TASCAM, or even rip WAV files off the CDs and pull those into Audacity. (I would use DBPowerAmp - www.dbpoweramp.com - to do the ripping, it's fast and easy. Just make sure you rip to WAV format at 44.1khz in full stereo.)

That page also has some recommendations of software for the removal of vinyl noise.

Once you've got the WAV in a decent state, Audacity can export MP3 - just make sure you download the lame_enc.dll file and tell Audacity it's there. Then save the MP3s as 192 Kbit/s or higher.

This tutorial is pretty good for getting started with Audacity:
http://www.edhsonline.org/other/audacity/

Hi

i have managed to purchase software called Magix. this allows me to import from CD clean up crackle & clicks etc & export as MP3 I will reload the tracks in a cleaned up state shortly.

Bob

Hi

I have managed to purchase software called Magix. this allows me to import from CD clean up crackle & clicks etc & export as MP3 I will reload the tracks in a cleaned up state shortly.

Bob

sounds great bob
your efforts are much appreciated!

k

yes, excellent work Bob!

would it be impolitic to contact the winner of the Sasha Caro? I haven't been able to come to a decision on it myself.

i would say: go for it!
i'm sure whoever they are, they would be interested in this project and could be persuaded(!!)

k

damn, apparently you can only send a message if you're the seller, or if that person has any active auctions (he doesn't). ah well.

anyone else have ideas?

I thought that's how they worked things, damn! I used to contact winners when I was really poor and before they changed things. But no, Patita, I've no ideas.

yeah, I guess I remembered the old rules. ah well, maybe another copy will surface. Bob is on the hunt, and who knows what will turn up.

long-winded, but…
could you contact the seller and ask him to
a) pass on a message, or
b) give you the winner's email

or
c) wait for another to turn up…

k

.....or

(d) stop worrying 'cos i won it and i'm gonna post it up anyway!

there's always that option matt!
excellent stuff…

k

dude! thanks matt! and a happy winter holiday of your choice to you!

Anemic Boyfriends B side: Bad Girls in Love

http://s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0M1THKUEV144V269DI8DLFDPF9

it's not a great rip, but it will suffice for now. I can repost it later if the holidays prevent anyone from getting it.

Thanks patita and for your recent get well message :)

Sorry to be dim, but I can't seem to get any of the MP3s from the torrent to play. Is it something to do with firewalls?

not enough info to tell.

can you normally download torrents?
what torrent client are you using?
importantly, have the files downloaded fully?

I've never done it before. I downloaded Bit Torrent from the BT homepage (http://www.bittorrent.com/)
Aha. I think it's possible the files haven't downloaded fully. How long does it take?

In fact, two hours later and they haven't downloaded at all. Zero percent.

maybe no one is 'seeding' the torrent. i tried to grab the torrent last month and no one was sharing (seeding) it.

download speed depends on how many ppl are seeding & how fast their and your internet connection is.

in the bittorrent client it should tell you what % of the file has downloaded (if any).

possible solution - try and use the azureus torrent client (google: azureus) - i think the torrent was set up in such a way that only this client works.

but again, if no one is seeding the client, then you wont be able to get anything

Before the holiday I'd attempted to get the festive fifty torrent with no luck... but I wasn't using Azureus. I'll try again with it (though it confounds me with its l33tness).

i use azureus and tried to get the 6 gig 'festive 50' torrent. no one was seeding it, so i deleted it.

:(

here's wishing that the remaining tracks come to us early in the new year! cheers everyone!

Repost, *but* this is a higher quality vinyl rip than previous:

Anemic Boyfriends B: Bad Girls in Love
http://s64.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0NYF6MLB7YUEK0ON7VBEDGBUQG

Hi all,

first time this awesome page came to my attention and I must say it's a real treat: thanks so much for all the effort and work involved - this is really neatly done!!

Are you still interested in K. Coyne's/Siren's 'I Wonder Where'? If this is the case, please provide me with an e-mail adress where I can send it to (will be an mp3 - file).

Q.: is there any updated list of songs available for free download, but one where the link is NOT expired?

Cheers,

Dirk, Germany.

Hi Dirk, We have Siren's "I Wonder Where." There might be people missing it though so you can go to yousendit.com, upload the song, and then post the link here. As for your second question, I'm not sure anybody is seeding a torrent right now. Second place to check is slsk, a number of people have the complete set there.

To catch us up after the holidays, here's a recap on the status so far. According to what I have in the spreadsheet, we're still without any leads on these:
Arthur K Adams: Wildwood flower/It's a wild, wild, wild, wild wildwood flower
Dreamland Express: Groovy/u.f.o
Firemen: Old smokie/Louie's theme
Sipho Bhengu: Tickey dopies/I saluti
Spit Out: O from I/Tan/Rot'n'roll

Various folks have indicated that they have these (but they haven't been uploaded yet):
Easy Teeth: Car Noise
Ken Colyers Jazzmen: all (If I Cease to Love is the correct A side)
Pocket Fishrmen: Yr Story
Sasha Caro: all (lucky catch)
The Legion of Super Heroes: all (or did I imagine this?)

Missing B sides (don't know if anyone has them):
Clefs of Lavender Hill: First Tell Me Why
Greenhornes: Stayed Up Last Night
Mickey Lee Lane: With Your Love
Ray Martin: Bell of the Ball
Roshell Anderson: Such a Beautiful Thing
Stanley Winston: It's Alright
The Big Three: If You Ever Change Your Mind

Thanks again to everyone who's bought the singles, called in favors, or gone to great lengths to get missing tracks. We're within range of completion I think!

Feel free to amend what I have here if I've got the status of anything wrong.

i lost out on the Big Three thing on ebay over christmas but wasn't too fussed as someone had said they had a copy in the meantime (there are a couple of cds available which contain the track but it appears under a different name, details upthread)

for patita:

http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=05PPP5399EXN42A94LBBBP39EA

these are more reposts from patita's list... great name dropper and ray martin and mickey lee lane b-sides:
http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0X8XQGYQNDM3T1DIRDBE9982KH
http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=05P7W65CKFLXM0IXS7YAQBDHQY
http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3V3J7MSM5QU7D14Q00AKCTK8WH

did anyone convert bob's wma files to mp3 yet?
(g l crockett 37b & mighty avengers 105b)

k

and pocket fishermen, yr story:
http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0CEJGLJ7HLSRV3KUZ7WUBDIFTH