Grateful Dead

iTunes doesn’t play FLAC, it will play AIFF, ALAC, AAC, and possibly WAV on PC’s.

There is free software to convert audio files, probably more for PC than Mac.

If you have a PC then Windows audio player might convert FLAC to WAV.
I think that VLC (the traffic cone video player) will convert audio files.

If you want lossless files in iTunes then you will need to import into iTunes with the import setting to ALAC. The files that you use to get imported cannot be FLAC, but WAV or AIFF will work.
Thus, the torrent FLACs have to be converted to WAV (PC) or AIFF (MAC) before they can be imported into iTunes.

The effort is worth it because there is a lot of music available.

If you have a Mac and need more details on converting audio files let me know.

Edit:
Some people claim that you shouldn’t convert a compressed format (FLAC) directly to another compressed format (ALAC, AAC, mp3) but should first convert it to an uncompressed format (WAV or AIFF).
I can’t confirm whether this is true, but I do convert all torrent FLACs to AIFF first.

I read, some stuff, mostly dead or drug related, Just finished Electric kool-aid Acid test again, that one fits in both categories, drugs and the dead. Also read Billy's book recently, good read, better than Phil's book in my opinion. I also just got finished rereading Carlos Castaneda's first book about Don Juan, The teaching of Don Juan, this is a great book, forgot how much fun it was to read. I have a signed first edition which has some stories about Don Juan's concoctions and how they were made that were excluded in later pressings. Of course, On the Road is a favorite and everyone should read it at least once, love the way Kerouac writes. Back in the day I visited the house he lived in in Winter Park , Fl and they had the original copy of his manuscript on display, just one continuous page rolled up into a roll, very cool.
Sorry but how could you not like drums>space? Best part of the show imo and the part I always waited for, Micky and Billy's beast with 8 arms was always a good time, especially when Micky played the beam. What can you say about the space section, they made it up right there on the spot, you can't get better improv than that, anywhere. Yes, in the latter years the space section would get a bit sloppy and sometimes, they would lose the crowd, but most of the time, it was brand new Dead music being made up right in front of you. Never met a Drums>Space I didn't like. For some good examples with some fantastic names provided by Mr. Hunter, Infrared Roses is the way to go, it would definitely be part of my lost on a deserted island music stash and one of the first ones I would play when smoking Jerry weed :)
Does anybody use winamp anymore? Plays all my flacs with no problem. Don't you lose a bit of the sound when you compress shows into Mp3? Sure, might take up a bit less space, but at the cost of the sound? not interested. I have no mp3 music unless it's a show that I can't get on any other format. I agree, most dead shows can be found on etree. Get you some.
You are right, no one does it like Jerry, end of story.

Just part of the adventure

Hey yall

4 27 77
There is video

Another fine 77 show

DaveRock, thank you for the tip of the hat. Muddy Waters recordings from the 1940s & 1950s are pure gold. I saw Muddy Waters play in 1977 at the 1839 Theatre in S.F., John Hammond opened the show. Lots of great videos on you tube of Muddy, Howlin Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson from the 1960s over in Europe. When Little Walter played in S.F. on 8/9/66 , at The Matrix Club, he was backed by The Quicksilver Messager Service. Walter stayed out at Quicksilvers place and they invited Pig Pen to come out and hang out with him. Pig Pen being a drinker , they felt he would get along with Walter

My buddy JUST sent me a program called "FlacSquisher", free online somewhere (or he wouldn't have gotten it!).

Thing works very nice, very quick. I have been converting a massive amount of flac to mp3 and this little guy has cut my conversion time by 70% over the method I was using. Will preserve the id tag info also!

Hey man, curious if you had the chance to try the Absinthe yesterday? Was thinking about ordering some myself, and wondering what you thought??

JRF-there is a free program that you can download called XLD that will covert your FLAC files to ALAC. I have used it frequently however my system automatically purges it every time I run a general software update on my computer so I have to redownload it every time. You can probably find a link advertised in the back of Set magazine, or uuu can just google it, thus avoiding herpes if that’s not your thing!

CJM...drums and space don't alway sound so much to me on recordings, but listening to a recording of Wembley 11/1/90, I was reminded that when I was actually there, lost in the soup of time, drums and space were the sections of the show I enjoyed most. Its not now, listening at home- but to be there- the power of it, and the way it seemed to ricochet round the stadium at incredible volume and velocity. So maybe, to fully get into it, you had to be there, lost somewhere in the middle of it.

Billy the Kid...tip of the hat for mentioning Muddy Waters and Little Walter in your last 5. Last month I bought a killer cd credited to Muddy Waters called "Rollin' Stone : The Golden Anniversary" . This features all the recordings made between 1948 to half way through 1952. Many, many tracks with Little Walter on harp...stunning sound...stunning music.

I also use itunes, and no, I don't think it plays flac, only wav, mp3, and a variety of apple formats. I am pretty sure you need to first convert the flac to wav then you can let itunes convert the wav to some format it likes.
On another note, does anybody really, really like Drums and Space? I mean is it a super popular part of the shows? I was listening to it on the drive home last night and wondering why they played it so often; maybe it was something they really enjoyed playing and looked forward to, even if it meant bathroom break for a good part of the audience.

Blows me away that comments can talk about tech set-ups and phaser arrays and stereo link photon links add nauseum....but I get no help with what apparently is a simple music download.

Fuck It. Think I'll go read SET Magazine now...