Any shows starting to surface yet?
If any tapers get this, please drop me an email at agreuel40@hotmail.com
…me too!
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to be there this year and would love to check out some of the shows, especially Sam Bush’s main set!
I did catch some of the morning sets on the Koto live stream which was great but I missed a lot of the afternoon and evening sets due to the 7 hour time difference!
Cheers, Sam.
It usually takes a few days for the first sets to start popping up. I’d say the earliest we’d see anything would be Thursday or Friday.
awesome.
yonder first night pre-festy opener at telluride conference center
(right now it’s top of this torrent list, click through for show details or to launch torrent):
http://www.cotapers.org/torrents.php
thanks Bob!
I’ve got to tell you, I have no idea how to open/download this. I’m torrent educated deficient. HELP!!!
You need a torrent program to get the files, I use utorrent (it’s free).
Then you need a decoder for .flac files as well.
The torrent program allows you to download files while the torrent is live. Think of a giant spider web. One person starts the stream, that is the seeder. You become a leecher by joining the stream and starting to download files from that seeder. Then another leecher joins the torrent after you. Since you have some of the file(s) (but not all), the torrent program allows you to upload to the new leecher, as well as continue downloading from the original seeder. Now you are a seeder as well as a leecher. The more people who join, the faster the torrent streams! You can have tens or even hundreds of people simultaneously seeding and leeching, and it starts going very fast.
Another part of the trick: the files you are downloading are not .wav files, but “lossless compression” compacted files, usually in .flac format. An older common compression format is .shn (shorten). Once you download the .flac files via the torrent, you then have to convert the .flac files to .wav, then you can burn them to disc or drop into itunes (and then convert to .acc if you are so inclined). The link referenced above has some talk of player that can read .flac directly, no conversion needed, but I always convert mine to .flac.
Start by researching bittorrent (do a Google search) and learn from there. Configuring your torrent software (eg utorrent) can be slightly tricky because you want to make sure the right ports are open and you are not firewalled off in the wrong places, but it’s not a daunting task, once you get it all figured out it’s quite easy. The power of the torrent is amazing at times, you can get a whole show in like 15 minutes if you have enough peers (fellow leechers and seeders). Good luck.
I would like to find as many of these shows as possible…if anyone has any TBF 2009 please drop me a line.
they’ll pop up here when they’re ready. just be patient!
the tapers are VERY generous with the copious amounts of sets they tape and upload. in 2007 (i skipped 2008) nearly every set from the entire festival showed up after about a month or so between a number of different sources.
http://www.archive.org/details/ymsb2009-06-19.mtx.flac16
Yonder Sheridan on Archive! Great recording!