Hey now!
First post here - and I have a few questions about amassing my personal Dead collection.
I'm a little cheesed at dead.net for their limited edition policy on CD releases - it's almost like getting tickets to a show...if you don't have a spare $150 on you RIGHT NOW then you aren't going to get the new whiz bang box set - you'll be forced to get it off ebay for 4 times the price, etc. Scalping all over again. I make a good living but I have two daughters in college and completely missed out on the May 77 box which I wanted, now it's $500 on ebay.
So in addition to a few suitcases of tapes from the old days, I have tons of CD naturally. But in just the past few years of course there has been the digital tsunami of free GD shows on so many different outlets, many of which offer downloading.
I'm thinking of getting a big external hard drive, maybe a 5 terabyte, and starting to amass downloads for my own sanity (if I don't own it then IT MIGHT DISAPPEAR!!) but don't know anything about this really. Is there some way to get schooled on the best way to start down this road? I'd like to be able to have the music and then burn CD's if I want to for my own use, all completely non commercial of course.
Also, many shows are streaming only naturally - is there some way to play the music on my laptop through a home stereo and record it? Maybe onto cassette? Maybe onto a hard drive directly?
Like I said, babe in the woods with this. I've had iTunes and an ipod but that's the limit of my modern musical recording skills.
Many thanks for any help.
First post here - and I have a few questions about amassing my personal Dead collection.
I'm a little cheesed at dead.net for their limited edition policy on CD releases - it's almost like getting tickets to a show...if you don't have a spare $150 on you RIGHT NOW then you aren't going to get the new whiz bang box set - you'll be forced to get it off ebay for 4 times the price, etc. Scalping all over again. I make a good living but I have two daughters in college and completely missed out on the May 77 box which I wanted, now it's $500 on ebay.
So in addition to a few suitcases of tapes from the old days, I have tons of CD naturally. But in just the past few years of course there has been the digital tsunami of free GD shows on so many different outlets, many of which offer downloading.
I'm thinking of getting a big external hard drive, maybe a 5 terabyte, and starting to amass downloads for my own sanity (if I don't own it then IT MIGHT DISAPPEAR!!) but don't know anything about this really. Is there some way to get schooled on the best way to start down this road? I'd like to be able to have the music and then burn CD's if I want to for my own use, all completely non commercial of course.
Also, many shows are streaming only naturally - is there some way to play the music on my laptop through a home stereo and record it? Maybe onto cassette? Maybe onto a hard drive directly?
Like I said, babe in the woods with this. I've had iTunes and an ipod but that's the limit of my modern musical recording skills.
Many thanks for any help.