Audio Geek Tidbit
Archive.org has a bunch of concerts from bands that allow tapers to upload music to the Net (Deadheads know this: at last count 2,875 Dead concerts archived there–can you smell the patchouli already?), and other archival music such as public domain 78s. Unfortunately, they tend to use an audiophile format called FLAC that isn’t standard for mp3 players and the like. I can play them using the best media player of last resort, VLC (if you don’t have it you might want to get the free download), but those FLAC files just didn’t fit with my other music stuff.
Here’s the Mac version of the secret dance you need to convert FLAC files to something else that works better in iTunes. There’s another format called “shorten” or SHN, but that’s another issue.
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