Long Beach Arena '77 1st and 2nd gig (Help needed)

I talked to Chinwonder about it but will post it here as well. Please forgive me that I delay posting the stuff. I am a music fan since 50's (yes, I'm an old guy) and sometimes it's pretty hard to solve technical problems, especially when it comes to modern technology. I try my best to preserve the quality of the recordings and all detailed information.

Hey man, as long as you come through on your word lots of people here will be apologizing to you c:

^ :)

-Chin

[QUOTE] [b]Black King wrote:[/b]

OK, thanks Greg. Then I won' bother it. Thought it might be serious.[/QUOTE]

SBEs are a problem only in the case that somebody decides to burn it on audio CDs.

[QUOTE]Audio CDs hold data in minimum block ("sector") sizes of 1/75th second (0.01333 seconds / 2352 bytes of data / 588 stereo samples). If you try to burn an audio file to an audio CD, and its length is not an exact number of sectors, the last sector will usually be padded with digital silence (zeros). This gap is referred to as a "sector boundary error" because it is an error caused by a large audio file having been split into individual tracks at places other than sector boundaries (1/75th second intervals).

As such, an SBE is a silence of less-than-but-not-equal-to 1/75th second found "between" audio tracks on a CD. I say "between" because technically it is at the end of the preceeding track and has nothing to do with the one that follows. In some cases, this flaw could be completely unnoticeable, as it could be only one sample, and could fit neatly into the current flow of samples. However, more likely it will leave an audible silence, or an audible click. The click is caused when the silence interrupts a "loud" part of the waveform, i.e. one that is not close to digital silence. The waveform makes a sudden jump from a loud value to silence, and then back up again to carry on when it left off. I'll add some images in a minute for clarification.

Once you burn an audio CD with SBEs, the silences become part of the audio data - they won't disappear again if/when you extract back to your computer. An audio file extracted from a CD can never have an SBE because it's come from a CD and is as such sector-boundary-aligned.

It should be noted that "SBE" has falsely become something of a catch-all term for anything that has a short (non-two-second) silence between tracks. There was an Ozric Tentacles show seeded on STG over summer straight from the master, which had silences at the end of each track that were maybe 0.05-0.1 seconds in length. I've no idea what the taper did to achieve these, but I've seen the show on tradelists noting "quite a large SBE between each track" - there's no such thing as a "large" SBE - it's by definition less than 1/75th second in length.[/QUOTE]
(http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-2422.html)

why not send the whole thing trough wetransfer to Chin??

My ftp offer is still open by the way...

Hi I will post more samples later today.

Great! We are waiting for this recording.

[QUOTE] [b]RabinMurryEC wrote:[/b]

Hi I will post more samples later today.[/QUOTE]

Thank you. We are curious about this recording.

[QUOTE] [b]RabinMurryEC wrote:[/b]

Should I post more of Blackpool or since nobody wants to believe me, I'll quit the site.[/QUOTE]

Sure, but what you've posted is not Blackpool 1979, since that never took place :)

any news about our friend Black King?

[QUOTE] [b]little foetus wrote:[/b]

any news about our friend Black King?[/QUOTE]

Unfortunately not yet, nor anything from Blackpool '79

-Chin

Pittrek, check your pm!

Chinwonder, you've got a message.

[QUOTE] [b]Black King wrote:[/b]

Pittrek, check your pm![/QUOTE]

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