Topic: Question about circulating an MP3 sourced show

[tcort]

Hi,

I attended a John Mayer concert at the Bell Centre in Montreal on March 15, 2004 in hopes of taping it. My recording didn't turn out, but an "amateur" taper got 6 of the songs in MP3 format and 2 in Quicktime. I've taken the audio tracks from the quicktime movies and converted them to SHN and converted the MP3s to SHN. My question is should I circulate this? I often hear... "NEVER circulate MP3 sourced shows", but there are no other recordings that I know of.... nothing in the etree database for 3/15/04 for John Mayer and nothing discussed in several John Mayer forums. I know some hard core John Mayer fans would like it, but some audiophiles would frown upon it. Any advice?

Tom

[greenone]

Chances are good that it wasn't recorded in mp3 to begin with...don't do it. A non-lossy, more complete source almost definitely exists - try poking around some more, find out where the "amateur" got his mp3s/quicktime from. These don't just materialize from nowhere.

[tcort]

Thanks for the advice. I was able to track down the taper's e-mail. I'll e-mail him and see if he has it in a lossless format.

[tcort]

I got a reply from the taper and he only had those 8 songs and he didn't have the original lossless audio files anymore.

[greenone]

Well, that's not smart. Maybe there's another taper, but without leads, not much you can do. If you do circulate, make sure to label them clearly as mp3-sourced...

[hexyjones]

yeah - just make it clear that it's mp3 sourced...

STG might let you get away with it...

you'll get pulled on etree...

[thierryhenry]

Keep it for personal use, don't circulate it.

[Brian Skalinder]

I'm a firm believer that any recording of a performance is better than no recording.  So I say document and circulate, especially if no other recordings exist.  If it were me, I'd probably circulate in MP3 (not WAV) since [1] it's the original format, [2] they'll get converted back to MP3 anyway, and [3] anyone who really wants to convert to WAV can do so easily enough.