Looking for Deadheads and interested Civilians

[August West]

When I discovered the archive I looked up and listened to the shows I attended

Good Idea.

 

[AudioSceptic]

With the latest box set that just came out, there are now 382 live shows. All the folders have been renamed to fall into perfect order by date. Inside the folders, all songs have been renumbered to get away from cd's (when there are multiple cd's).

You don't like this convention for track numbers in multiple CDs:
1-01
1-02
1-03
etc. for CD 1;
2-01
2-02
2-03
etc. for CD 2;
?

 

[August West]

You don't like this convention for track numbers in multiple CDs:
1-01
1-02
1-03
etc. for CD 1;
2-01
2-02
2-03
etc. for CD 2;
?

That's exactly how I rename them. (Every cd rip always starts with 1 thru how every many tracks there are. So a 3 cd concert rips to 3 folders and they got renamed as you typed so that all tracks fall in proper order. Besides doing that for the official releases, we also renamed all 2100 plus unofficial shows as well.

 

[August West]

Further thought: Is there an easier way to rename tracks than manually?

 

[AudioSceptic]

That's exactly how I rename them. (Every cd rip always starts with 1 thru how every many tracks there are. So a 3 cd concert rips to 3 folders and they got renamed as you typed so that all tracks fall in proper order. Besides doing that for the official releases, we also renamed all 2100 plus unofficial shows as well.

Good, much better than a folder for each CD.

 

[AudioSceptic]

Further thought: Is there an easier way to rename tracks than manually?

You could do it with a script. Do you use Mac, Linux, or Windows?

 

[August West]

You could do it with a script. Do you use Mac, Linux, or Windows?

I use Windows but I have never used a script ever.

 

[AudioSceptic]

I use Windows but I have never used a script ever.

OK. I'll see what I can come up with.

 

[AudioSceptic]

OK. I'll see what I can come up with.

I was going to write something but just found this <https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/> Worth a try?

 

[August West]

My friend uses that and I have it on my 3rd pc (dedicated to being a small FTP server. It's complicated for my old brain.

 

[AudioSceptic]

My friend uses that and I have it on my 3rd pc (dedicated to being a small FTP server. It's complicated for my old brain.

This is supposed to be easier to use <https://www.den4b.com/products/renamer>.

 

[Rocky Maine]

Boston Garden '74 - wall of sound is why my ears ring now
Billerica, MA '79 - turned my college roommate onto live Dead
Ventura County Fairgrounds '82 - not the way to cure a post-wedding hangover, or maybe it was

 

[mhardy6647]

Boston Garden '74 - wall of sound is why my ears ring now
Billerica, MA '79 - turned my college roommate onto live Dead
Ventura County Fairgrounds '82 - not the way to cure a post-wedding hangover, or maybe it was

Where did the Dead play in Billerica? Seems like an odd location for a Dead show ... in '79?!

 

[August West]

Where did the Dead play in Billerica? Seems like an odd location for a Dead show ... in '79?!

The Billerica Forum 05-11-1979

 

[August West]

now known as the Chelmsford Forum

 

[mhardy6647]

now known as the Chelmsford Forum

I lived (and worked) in that general area for 23 years*... I didn't know there was a Chelmsford Forum?!

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* A little to the south and a fair piece west of Chelmsford, but, still, spent 16 years commuting that corridor on I-495, and worked in Bedford for a couple of years (not far at all from Burlington nor Billerica).

 

[August West]

I lived (and worked) in that general area for 23 years*... I didn't know there was a Chelmsford Forum?!

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* A little to the south and a fair piece west of Chelmsford, but, still, spent 16 years commuting that corridor on I-495, and worked in Bedford for a couple of years (not far at all from Burlington nor Billerica).

2 Brick Kiln Road
North Billerica, Massachusetts 01862 USA

 

[mhardy6647]

2 Brick Kiln Road
North Billerica, Massachusetts 01862 USA

I am chagrined.
(edit: i.e., I am chagrined that I didn't know of it...)