(007878) Suede - August 27, 1999,. A Campingflight To Lowlands Paradise Biddinghuizen, The Netherlands

22:30-23:30 Golf stage

1. Down (7:02)

2. Beautiful Ones (4:03)

3. She's In Fashion (7:30)

4. Can't Get Enough (3:47)

5. Trash (4:37)

6. She (4:38)

Total running time: 31 minutes and 37 seconds.

Tracks 1-3 taken from the Dutch Radio 3FM "Lowlands 1999" FM radio broadcast, August 29, 1999.

Tracks 4-6 taken from the Dutch TMF "TMF Live" TV broadcast, September 28, 1999.

Source and lineage (taped and transferred by Magnix): FM cable > VHS > WAV > CD-R > WAV > FLAC level 8 (tracks 1-3).

Source and lineage (taped and transferred by Magnix): TV cable > VHS > WAV > FLAC level 8 (tracks 4-6).

Used software: Cool Edit Pro > Adaptec Easy CD Creator > EAC v0.99pb4 > Cool Edit Pro v2.00 > CDWave v1.94.5 > FLAC v1.2.1 as build in Traders Little Helper v2.2.2 (build 152).

Another tape from the Magnix Live Archive.

The original transfer of the FM tape was done almost 10 years ago (November 1999) when I had just started transferring (mostly older) tapes to CD-R. At this point I was not yet familiar with sector boundary errors and such. I used to record, edit, and split WAV-files with Cool Edit Pro before burning to CD-R. Later on I learned that Cool Edit Pro does not split exactly on sectory boundaries, which results in those annoying 0.2 seconds gaps (heard as pops when listening back). So, the CD-R of this tape-to-WAV transfer had these little gaps.

Also, FLAC, SHN, and the likes didn't exist yet (I think), and storage was not as easy as nowadays (with affordable external harddrives, recordable DVD's, etc.), so this was only burned as audio, and not as a lossless data backup file as well.

Now time has moved on, I'm going back to these older transfers to rip them for back up. When the rip is OK, EAC-wise and soundwise, it will be transferred to FLAC for backup purposes right away. If there's a problem, the old tape will be dug out again, and a fresh transfer is made when the tape hasn't gone down any further. And when I haven't come across the same or an upgraded version on a BitTorrent site or elsewhere, it will be shared for others to enjoy.

In this particular case the EAC-rip was error-free (sorry no log included), and I do note have the original (FM) tape anymore, so I opened all files with Cool Edit Pro (for editing and such it's an amazing piece of software) and edited out those mentioned mini-gaps by hand. The VHS tape was freshly transferred and mixed right after the FM recording. The result was one large WAV-file, which has then been split to separate tracks again, using CD Wave this time.

Magnix,

February 2009/July 2009/April 2017.

Uploaded to DIME on April 29, 2017 by Magnix.

P.S. One day I probably will dig out the VHS tape of the TV broadcast again and also share the video of the last three tracks. In due time folks, in due time ...

https://mega.nz/file/c7lVUAZC#VjeYOroSUa61Wn4msgfynSPOqwMNAHohYjUnBCRr5R4