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Tony Rees Fairport in Amsterdam in the 70's (13) RE: Fairport in Amsterdam in the 70's 04 Feb 21


Hi Lin,

You can get the sets if you know what to do, although the process I used is a bit fiddly...

Here is an example: Click on "SANDY DENNY - Mile End Sundown 1972" - takes you to the description page for that set which is http://forum.pinkrobert.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=427&sid=cf324cfe457b12913f426e33821461f9 . Then down the bottom, you will see several links, in this case:
https://mega.co.nz/#!LJlGnSSQ!GARwQSlsUew6obVR6DSqChQw2U8qhKvGDUKhEq9EyC0
https://mega.co.nz/#!nBVz0JxB!Szb3cWSprD6C9baCAsOSpRJJmz1Yzq4br6g1EzPgYEQ
https://mega.co.nz/#!iF0z1RQD!DxXNWSf9jJCxDW08VfFrkhnZOgIUlM4x0B_cKWIWh7g

I posted the first of these into a new browser window and it takes you to a page labelled "SDMile.part1 .rar
97.7 MB" with a "download" link. Click on that link and the file will download to your machine; it will be as "SDForTheLastTime.part1.rar". Repeat for the remaining links, making sure they end up in the same folder i.e. together.

Now you need some (free) software which will extract .rar files, which is a compressed file format. I found some on the web (cannot remember offhand but it was not hard to find). If you extract part 1, I think the extraction will proceed through remaining parts 2-4 as well so long as they are in the same directory.

Now you will have a set of extracted files - in this example 15 different .flac files, one per track, plus a .jpg file (the cover) and a .txt file (the associated text). flac files are a high quality uncompressed format which some music players will play automatically, or can be transformed to wav files (or even mp3) using other software like "Audacity" (also free). This is what I have and (although a bit tedious) I end up with 15 .wav files that I can put into their own directory either for playing on the P, or burning to a CD to put on the shelf.

Apologies if this is long winded but it is very nice of Pink Robert to make his music holdings available like this in high quality.

If this all sounds too much, try Sugarmegs where a lot of the same content is also available e.g. as mp3 files for direct download (compressed quality only): http://tela.sugarmegs.org/alpha/f.html for Fairport and Fotheringay, http://tela.sugarmegs.org/alpha/s.html for Sandy Denny.

Hope this helps...

Regards - Tony


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