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
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. :)
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.
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.
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...
yeah - just make it clear that it's mp3 sourced...
STG might let you get away with it...
you'll get pulled on etree...
Keep it for personal use, don't circulate it.
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.