Toad the Wet Sprocket
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
If you are a Toad fan you really should download some of their live shows from archive.org. I downloaded their March 1st, 2003 show at Avalon in Boston and it is amazing. There is nothing like having the recording of the show you attended.
Some notes about these downloads. First they are big. This one was over 600 megs. Second they are in the SHN* format. You can play these files with WinAmp using the ShnAmp v2.02 plug-in. The 3.0 version will not work with version 5.0 of WinAmp.
On a related Toad note: In a prior post I explained how Toad the Wet Sprocket got their name. I found the wav so you can listen to it.
*Shorten (.shn) is an audio compression scheme that is used to compress audio (.wav) files losslessly. This means that after you decompress a Shorten file, everything that was in the original .wav is there. This is unlike MP3, in which the compression step throws away information that can never be recovered.
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