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Hello, music lovers!
Pandora Records was established in 1973. The business was active for over ten years, finally succumbing when the LP died because of the CD. The master tapes (and LPs when tapes are missing) are being archived; in addition, there is a contrib directory for other items.
This webserver doesn’t have much bandwidth; hebb.mit.edu and cuba.calyx.nl may be faster.
wget is a fantastic downloading tool; however, if you’re not used to command-line applications, it can be somewhat intimidating.
Go to Heiko Herold’s Windows wget spot and get the latest stable version of wget. In case you don’t feel like reading, you’re probably looking for the table cell with the bright blue background. Get the binary for the most recent stable version (last we checked, it was 1.8.2), and don’t forget the SSL libraries.
Unzip all these files into a directory; we suggest C:\bin. Once you’ve done that, hold down the Windows key and press Break; this will open System Properties. (Alternately, right-click on My Computer and select Properties.) Head on over to the Advanced tab and click on Environment Variables.
In the System variables section, you should see a variable called “path” (case doesn’t matter). If you look at it, you’ll notice it’s a semicolon-delimited list of directory names. Edit it and append, say, “;C:\bin” to it. Press OK, and then OK again.
Incidentally, this variable is called %path%
or
%PATH%
, depending on how much you love your Shift key.
Now, open up a command prompt with Start -> Run -> cmd.exe and type in wget --help. You should see wget’s help screen scroll by; if you get an error message along the lines of “bad command or file name”, the system isn’t looking in the right place. If you get a dialog box that complains about not finding something like “SSLEAY”, you probably forgot to put the SSL libraries in C:\bin along with wget.exe.
Now, assuming you get wget’s help screen to come up, you might
think it scrolls by too quickly. In that case, run
wget --help > wgethelp.txt
and read wget’s help
screen in Notepad or your favorite text editor.
Let’s try out a sample run. Make a new directory, say, “contest pieces” and go into it with cd "contest pieces". Now run
and wait for it to finish. That’s it!
To download or update everything on this server:
To get all the violin music:
To get rid of junk files like index.html?D
:
The index.html files will be retained. They are needed to use the directory links in the copy.
You may want to remove index.html files that wget downloads; in order to remove them in one fell swoop, try:
The music files here are in the Ogg Vorbis format; if you’re in Windows and need a player, try Winamp 2 (oddly enough, it’s been updated more recently than Winamp 3 and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future), foobar2000, or Zinf. Mind you, this isn’t a complete list; vorbis.com has a slightly more exhaustive catalog.
If you’re using a unixlike operating system, your player probably already plays Ogg Vorbis files. If not, try XMMS or ogg123, the latter being included with the vorbis-tools package.
If you’re on a Mac, try Frogg (unfortunately, it only will play one file at a time). If you’re feeling spendy, try Audion or MacAmp.
The MP3 files have been moved to gas.zipcon.net; however, Ogg Vorbis compresses files more efficiently than MP3 does.
These files are available for free download subject to the EFF OAL.
This website is in part an offspring of the work of Glenn White, the father and champion of realistic recording in Seattle. Glenn authored The Audio Dictionary. Many of the recordings here were made and edited by him. Old, damp Ampex tapes were baked and repaired by him and then digitized.
I am indebted to Conrad Parker for his Sweep editor, and particularly to Benjamin Weste Pearre for his needed advice. Ben has an interesting collection of free music at hebb.mit.edu. Ben mirrors the entire Vorbis collection at hebb.mit.edu. Thanks also to Mr. Boink who has a partial mirror at cuba.calyx.nl.
Thanks also to Nathan Sharfi for the section on wget installation; for collecting and refining all the information on this site into one file; and for his patient correcting of my ignorance and errors.
Thanks also to Giuliano Pochini for his program to convert directory links to hypertext links.
Thanks to Beni Cherniavsky for his help with the Sweep editor.
Comments? Questions? Mail gold@gas.zipcon.net.
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