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    as I suspected, it didn't work
    it is listed in the moderation queue, but when I click it there is no image there, and also no file. This, shall we say, happens a lot, so if we can figure out what does and doesn't work that would be useful.
  • 3D
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    Got delayed, ready to
    Got delayed, ready to attempt upload now @ 300 and we'll see if the software chokes. If so it was an unsuccessful test but at least then we will know.
  • marye
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    and fwiw
    there are at present no files uploaded by you in the moderation queue.
  • marye
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    well, like I say
    uploading 300 dpi is a waste because the Web can only display 72 dpi and the software is almost certain to choke on the hi-res, but whatever.
  • 3D
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    RE: Submitting a Fan Photo
    Looking to upload via the Submit content under user name on the left, which I have not tried to do yet, not post in a message. Dunno if there is any difference but I could see allowing less in a regular forum post as opposed to a "gallery". On the first page of the Community link at the top left I found, "File size limit is 1.2m. (Photo may take between 1-12hrs to appear on the site.)" At the Submit Fan Photo page it shouts (LOL), "ALL PHOTOS ARE SUBJECT TO APPROVAL AND WILL NOT BE "LIVE" IMMEDIATELY. IT CAN TAKE BETWEEN 1-24 HOURS TO APPEAR." so I figured a human inspects each one for several reasons. Also on the Submit Fan Photo page it has, "Upload your JPG, GIF, or PNG file here!" underneath the field with the browse button. I could see not wanting any uncompressed .tif or .tga files. Yeah I agree jpegs are the best for all around usage. I did some image info viewing from the Community link>Fan Photos. I sampled from Tickets, Concert and Festivals. I tried some I thought might be older and recent uploads. One labeled Further Tour 2010 has to be pretty recent, right? :) All the ones I checked were 400 pixels high, varying widths (600, 533, 419, 181, ...) and 300 dpi when saved and opened in a simple photo program. I wonder if there is an automated process before or after approval to make them all 400 pixels high? There was some other location I found max file and pixel size along with lots of other kinds of info, hence why I thought I could find it fairly easily again, but it was after continuously surfing the site for an hour or 3 so info retention was certainly diminished. I don't recall anything about file part but I want to say I saw a little over 1000 pixels as the max for one of the dimensions. I scanned it in at 300 dpi, will leave it at that, resize it down to 400 pixels high from 586 and it is only 68 KB so that should not be a problem. I'll give it a go here shortly and we shall see what happens.
  • marye
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    yes, for whatever reason
    the Fan Pix upload is quite temperamental and your problem may well have nothing to do with your image per se. That said, the Web can only display 72 dpi, so uploading hi-res is asking for trouble. I would recommend keeping the image no more than about 400 pixels wide at 72 dpi, just because bigger than that starts doing weird things to the page layouts. Jpg is the most reliable format to use, although in theory gif and bmp work also. Tif definitely does not. Also, all pix go into a moderation queue where I look at 'em and mostly turn 'em loose. About half the time the uploads contain no image so there's nothing for me to turn loose (see above). Still, this info should help you avoid some of the known trouble vectors. Thanks! (And yeah, one of the reasons the uploads go to moderation is that we occasionally get spammers or others uploading porn and the like and that is so not happening here.)
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    Submitting a Fan Photo
    Last week I stumbled across technical info about uploading photos and now I can not find it. FAQ & HELP links at the bottom of the page are about the store. When I do a search I get many results but unfortunately clicking on a result that is in the forum goes to the first page of that topic instead of the post with the info returned in the search :( Since it seemed I came across the info fairly easy I thought I could find it again fairly easily so I did not note the info but no such luck. When one goes to submit content I would think info/restrictions would be listed there but I did not see anything. It could be somewhere obvious that I overlooked but right now I am out of time to search and this appears to be the place to ask. My questions are: 1. What is the max file size to upload a photo? 2. What is the max size in pixels? Thanks
  • marye
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    dunno!
    remind me Monday, everyone's gone home for the weekend...
  • dajokr
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    thanks Marye -
    - great news. Any plans for more Road Trips full-show downloads?
  • cosmicbadger
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    thanks Marye
    for the info. Yesterday I did some more tests on material from Livedownloads and it seems to be the 100% the real deal, no sign of MP3s in there.
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the dead were featured on a 'behind the music' many years back. there was a beautiful song right at the end.........what was it? thanks, c.
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I'd say contact customer service: Customerservice@dead.net with the details. But feel free to send me a PM with the same information (what address it's now going to, etc.) and I'll pass it along. Thanks.
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Hello... How do I get access to my profile.... and how do I add an avatar? Thanks in advance... Groovy Man
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after you log in your user name appears on the right of the screen under whos online,above that you got options,my account,inbox etc click submit content and upload your pics bro.peace. just click on your user name to access your profile.
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RE: 30 Days of Dead, I downloaded the song and listened to it once, where did it go? I can't find it any more, do I get to keep it? I don't know where it is on my computer, I think it went to a temp folder but I want to hear it again.Thanx.
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If you do not know where you downloaded your file (it's the default place where ALL your downloads go if you didn't specify @ dload time)....I don't know if you have a MAC or WINBLOWS but just do a search for this~~~~> newspeedwayboogie Copy and paste that into your search and you will find the file...make sure that the date you put the file in was yesterday. CC ♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥ Twirly Banner
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CC: thanx, I have Windows. Did the search, "no file found." I have just downloaded today's Dark Star, and did it differently, I hit 'Save' the file, yesterday I did 'Open.' I must not have the newspeedwayboogie saved anywhere. Any chance I can get another chance to download newspeedwayboogie? Appreciate the help. :-)))
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I can't get registered here ... about to give up. I tried to register as marshallstax but it keeps saying my email is already in use... it might be because due to getting replys in my spam folder I also registered as mstax. I WANT TO REGISTER AS MARSHALLSTAX NOT MSTAX!! Much more of your catch-22 games and I'll just give up... life's too short for the hassle just to get registered here!
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I assure you that if you are posting as marshallstax you are duly registered. The system has been a little overtaxed since yesterday so you may have experienced some strange behavior, but it looks like it's working...
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in here if you aint registered.
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Just spent last 29 mins looking. Where's the link?
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somewhere is this it? no thats my sandwich oh well.
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Ripple, you crack me up.
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You advertise these free downloads. How? Am I a total moron? Everytime I try by clicking the graphic I get a search yielding 0 results. What am I missing?Help! I am not totally tech-illiterate.
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weir do i find the song of the day (DOWNLOAD)
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Click the Grateful Dead bar at the top of the page to get back to the homepage. Click the 30 Days of Dead link to get to today's page. Scroll down the page to the track of the day. Click Listen to stream and click Download to download. It seems to be working fine now; it may have been acting up when you tried earlier, so please try it again. Thanks.
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Hi there, I missed downloading that Dark Star and it isn't downloadable in Chrome. How can I get a download of yesterday's song? GrilfulDead
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I tried several times yesterday and the "click here" never appeared...am I outa luck? it's cool, can't expect everything...thanx for your time!!!
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I missed out on the first three days, are the songs available somewhere else on the site or will there be a big page of downloads available at the end? Thank you for your time.
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I don't know if this question is in the right place but would it be possible to have back covers with track listings available for downloads also a track list of the show when you click on it before deciding to purchase would be a great help.
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I logged on to download the free song today and don't see any lisiting for November 6th.Has anyone downloaded this song today?
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but it took me a couple of tries
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I can't get this to download. Goes to the desktop and itunes opens... no song. Anyone else having this issue?
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Where are the links to downloads?Make it a sticky at the top of the page so others can find them too- Many are asking this same question.
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how much stickier you can get than a big honking link smack dab in the middle of the homepage... Now it is possible that something may not be working properly, but it's not like the page is invisible. I've noticed some issues this morning myself, and reported them.
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:)********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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hi ya, says free downloads avail 4 30 days n no luck finding past songs. china cat n that other song i love... ? a few days ago... help n thanx
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Hi folks--

We knew you were going to love 30 Days of Dead. We may have underestimated how much.

The original plan, as we said in the beginning, was that each day's stream and download would only be available for that day. Well, demand was so high that many folks had trouble connecting and downloading, so we've kept each day's files available short-term while we addressed the technical issues.

Once we've got those issues resolved and the downloads are going smoothly, we'll be removing the archive of previous days' files. We will give an advance warning before we do this. Meanwhile, here's a list of links to date  so you can download what you may have missed. Thanks!

30 Days of Dead

1. New Speedway Boogie - Download

New Speedway Boogie
Fillmore East, NY, NY - 9/20/70
10:03 - 23,574 KB approx 23.0 MB

2. Dark Star - Download

Dark Star
Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA - 6/5/69
21:11 - 49,686 KB approx. 48.5 MB

3. Althea - Download

Althea
Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT - 3/14/81
8:46 - 20,579 KB approx. 20.0 MB

4. Playin In The Band - Download

Playing In The Band
Iowa State Fairgrounds, Des Moines, IA - 5/13/73
28:56 - 67,837 KB approx. 66.2 MB

5. Easy Wind (A) - Download

Easy Wind (A)
Springer's Inn, Portland, OR - 1/16/70
9:51 - 23,109 KB approx. 22.5 MB

Easy Wind (B)
Winterland, San Francisco, CA - 12/31/70
9:35 - 22,465 KB approx. 21.9 MB

The file for Easy Wind (B) is no longer available.

6. Sugaree - Download

Sugaree
Warfield, San Francisco, CA - 10/13/80
10:14 - 24,011 KB approx. 23.4 MB

7. He's Gone (A) - Download

He's Gone (A)
Hartford Civic Center Hartford, CT - 3/26/87
12:55 - 30,310 KB approx. 29.5 MB

He's Gone (B)
L'Olympia Theater Paris France - 5/4/72
8:05 - 18,954 KB approx. 18.5 MB

The file for He's Gone (B) is no longer available.

8. Estimated Prophet - Download

Estimated Prophet
Warfield, San Francisco, CA - 10/7/80
12:16 - 28,779 approx. 28.1 MB

9. China Cat Sunflower / I Know You Rider - Download

China Cat Sunflower / I Know you Rider
The Warehouse, New Orleans, LA - 2/1/70
12:03 - 28,274 KB approx. 27.6 MB

10. Cream Puff War - Download

Cream Puff War
????? Date/Venue
6:15 - 14,656 KB (15,006,880 bytes) approx.14.3 MB

 

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how do you find previous days free downloads?? china cat, est profit?? help
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since I just clicked the Chinacat link in the post above and it is downloading as we speak... It doesn't load a page, it just starts the download. Check your download folder; you may actually have the file already.
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lmao, check like you said n very busy there. 6 downloads goin, so learning w computers. thanx a bunch mary
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and welcome to our little corner of the world...
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I had an uncle who was kind of a hippie, and he took me to a free concert in Piedmont Park in Atlanta GA in July of 1973, right before my 13th birthday. I never remembered the name of the band, but I was drawn to the Dead as a college kid and saw them 126 times before Jerry passed. Well, a couple months ago, one of the shows played on the xm radio noon concert was from 7-7-1973, Atl GA. This show is not listed on the website, but I could swear that this was the show my uncle took me to. The story the dj on xm said was that the free concert happened the day after a really hot Allman Bros show and had something to do with the promoter showing his appreciation to the city's music fans. Can someone out there verify that show happened, and if so, how can I get a copy? Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile!
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In the Deadheads of Canada, eh link?? Have never seen anything like it here.********************************** I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde
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dunno but I'll check it out.
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that most odd greasy spam post! must be such a drag marye! :(********************************** I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde
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now that 30 Days is settling down a bit the spammers seem to be seizing the moment...
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there out in numbers today too.
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Hi,I'm a very new user of this site. I would like to know when I could send a new topic? This new topic is about the Willie Dixon song "the same thing", I just want to know if I could hear this song in a live or studio Dead's album?Till now I have only listen it in a live recording at Winterland Arena ,Dec 31st,1971 and sung by Pig Pen: majestic!! Thanks for answers take care....and forgive my english
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Do i have to have a separate account for the store??? Logging onto the site is fine, but when I hit the "Checkout" button - the next screen doesn't accept my username/password info?... help please close your eyes and listen to the colors of your mind take a breath of fresh air & let your soul unwind
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http://www.dead.net/forum/search-info here is a good place for that question. "in search of info" thread "till now" German Head perhaps?? ********************************** I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde
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I would try buying what you need else where.. If you order here you will probably only get a partial order and be waiting for a response from the $$$ hungry people here.. I am still waiting to hear back about the missing CD from my order of Jerry's new album releases.. Ordered the bundle and only get one CD.. Now thats how a company can make $$$ only ship half the order.. Good luck to those who order from this sight..
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please send me a PM with the details and I'll try to get it straightened out. built, as I understand it it's no longer necessary to have a separate account for the Store, but let me verify that. It's a holiday weekend, so I may not hear back on this till Monday. Thanks.