Grateful Dead

Heres the reasons Sugarmegs gives - sounds similiar to what your experiencing: "If you are absolutly STUCK with windows media player version 11 here is a workaround. FOR THOSE USING WINDOWS 2000 or WINDOWS XP, Right click the .asx file you want to listen to and download it to your desktop. Open it for text editing in notepad by right clicking on the downloaded .asx file. Do a search for ://mms (control f to search the text. Hint: its near the botton of the text.) and change it to ://http. Save and close it. Double click it to open it in Windows media player. You will not be able to fast forward the stream as you can with media player 9 or 10. FOR THOSE USING VISTA, you can simply click any .asx file and it will play as described above, no FF, without you having to do anything else. The reason for this is Microsoft is no longer supporting the ://mms protocol in player 11 which does not seem quite right to me but is the case neverless. Sugarmegs uses ://mms protocol because we use a 2000 server. " I hope that helps Eric

well i guess i already used 11 but something happend and now when i click on a song or sonds i get this little box asking me to play it in win player but theres nothin to let me drag it to win med player songlistbox.before when i clicked it would start playin then i would drag it to the list and i would keep it??????am i f---cked or what?? i love this site and the music

I have version 10 on my laptop, but while I was on Sugarmegs yesterday I saw a note that V11 doesnt work right for "our" needs so thats why you might be having issues. Anyone else with the newer version?Eric

well i used to be able to drag over to my win player now i cant ??? can anyone help mei already reloaded win med player 11??? help please mtgdeadhead

if it is at all useful I have been using a simple programme for some years now called POLDERBITS for digitising my old vinyl and tapes, but it also works fine for streams. It has a recording element (you have to adjust the input levels manually), an editing element which includes some simple tools to edit the recording, to filter it (for tape hiss or vinyl crackles), and a simple equaliser. Once you are happy with the result you can then save it with any name you like as an MP3 (at almost any quality you like) or as .wav You can then open the files in ITUNES or whatever and edit the information as you wish. Its so simple that it took me ten minutes to work it out and I have digitised a lot of old tapes and vinyl. An eval copy is free, but it is 40 USD otherwise..a bit much maybe but it has saved me a fortune and I cannot get on with audacity. Btw IMO the Quciktime streams from this site sound significantly better than the WMP streams. it is worth getting quicktime

Just interested in listening away from my comp.

Its kinda wierd that I can get advice/discussion here on how to best download and rip lossless GD SBD's available through other sites like etree.org but seem unable to get similar advice/discussion on using this site's streaming content on an iPod or MP3 player. Given the current furor over MP3 DL versus streaming content delivery in the Taper's section, I would have thought this was the place for recommendations for capturing streaming content for use on iPods or other MP3 players. A week or two ago I asked for advice on how I could best use these streams on my MP3 player and came up dry here. I dug in some and here's the best result I have been able to figure out so far. Anyone have a slicker solution? Here's a good URL to find out about snagging the RTSP content, assuming the selected player choice is streaming Windows media. There are probably other choices for those who opt for the streaming Apple media. http://all-streaming-media.com/site-archive/capture-streaming-video-and… Using any of the packages described there, one can capture the stream but I think the file names have to be manually redone when the stream is finished. The resulting files are 96kbps @ 44KHz sampling. The snagged files can be easily converted to MP3 using foobar2000 which preserves header tagging. Yes I know I am converting from one lossless format to another but a) the captured .ASF files dont work on my portable player; b) I am not using the streams for archival purposes; and c) at 96 kbps I have to be listening very hard to hear the difference while I am jogging or driving to work in my car :P Does anyone have a better solution that does not require the file renaming step?

GASP!!!!! was looking through a Hammacher Schelemmer catalog at the Dr.s office today and lo and behold found that they have a pricy little gadget that will convert tapes to Mp3 files into you're computer. It works for both pc and mac. Comming in at $ 199.95 unless you have a sick amount of tapes it might be something to look into.

It is a great little application that performs all sorts of helpful functions. Among them is decoding shn or flac files to wav files. You can then burn the wav files onto CD using a variety of CD burning software. It is free. Just google traderslittlehelper and download it. You wont be sorry. Peace, Richard

ok i sorta missed a step there. after you go to output in preferences in winamp and change it to nullsoft then you hit configure and tell it where to put the files. what the nullsoft output setting does is convert to wave files.