Unless you have them all already, that'd just lengthen the time... but I'm making progress, slowly but surely. I may be able to find space for all 88 episodes, we'll see.
My music studio has acquired a number of high-end audio restoration programs and I will be experimenting over the next few weeks to see if I can improve the audio quality on some of the scratchier episodes. I am also capturing the Quiet Please streaming episodes from Cyber49er with Total Recorder onto MPEG's that can be downloaded. Fourble was the first. If you would like any episodes let me know and I can either e-mail them to you as attachments or I can post them on one of my minimalist websites. Will let you know how the restoration project is going as I (hopefully) make some progress. Love, Drunken Mozart!
I should be getting all the episodes on CD in a week or two so I'll just wait for that... after all, my modem is slow enough that downloading would take a week anyway. http://www.otrcat.com/quietplease.htm has a CD with all the episodes for only $5, in case anyone else is interested.
Warning: In order to simplify the database, I'm changing the file names.
If you can't get an episode to download, try using the production order number of the episode as the name of the mp3 until the episodes section is complete. For example, "We Were Here First" was the 3rd epsiode of the series and so it's 3.mp3 ... the full path being http://www.quietplease.org/mp3s/3.mp3
Using Sound Forge with X-Click, X-Noise and X-Crackle I tried to find the best balance between reducing noise and maintaining audibility. The overall sound is a little quieter but if you compare it with the original I think you'll find it more listenable. www.telusplanet.net/public/synthi is where you can find it posted. Your comments are welcome but please remember this is my first effort and the raw material was brutally corrupted. Enjoy, and thanks again for the shows!
If you can't download my attempt at cleaning up Nothing Behind The Door due to your modem connection please feel free to send me a postal address and I will burn it onto CD-ROM and mail it to you. Will be working on other damaged episodes as time allows.
I downloaded what you have there. The file plays to the end, but for some reason the end of the credits is about a minute before where the file length indicates. Strange... seems to be nothing wrong with the audio, just something wrong with where it thinks it's supposed to end? But anyhow, I compared it with the other version I have of the episode and it does sound a bit better... less static.
Actually downloading isn't as bad as uploading... uploading, as this thread being started in January illustrates, takes me a very long time. However there may be an easy solution to that... I've set up an FTP account for you so you can upload the files directly into quietplease.org webspace, to a directory from which I can easily rename and move the files to the permanent location without having to spend the hours re-uploading files myself.
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Unless you have them all already, that'd just lengthen the time... but I'm making progress, slowly but surely. I may be able to find space for all 88 episodes, we'll see.
Here's another batch:
Light the Lamp for Me
12 to 5
13 and 8
Adam and the Darkest Day
And Jeannie Dreams of Me
The Third Man's Story
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If I Should Wake Before I Die
Beezer's Cellar
Tap the Heat, Bogdan
Good Ghost
In the House Where I Was Born
Tanglefoot
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Gem of Purest Ray
My Son John
I Always Marry Juliet
That's 57 episodes in the archive now... there are only 32 existing Quiet Please episodes not available yet in this thread.
Could you soon put out mp3s for The THing On The FOurble BOard, Let Us Consider The Lilies, and Northern Lights?
http://209.151.141.104/Cyber49er/INDEX_PAGE.ASP 88 shows! Including The Thing On The Fourble Board.
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Yes, although unfortunately only in RealAudio. Sadly I only have Fourble in RealAudio at the moment also...
Here's some more, including "Northern Lights"... I'll get "Let the Lillies Consider" up soon.
Northern Lights
The Hat, the Bed, and John J. Catherine
Not Responsible After 30 Years
One For the Book
My music studio has acquired a number of high-end audio restoration programs and I will be experimenting over the next few weeks to see if I can improve the audio quality on some of the scratchier episodes. I am also capturing the Quiet Please streaming episodes from Cyber49er with Total Recorder onto MPEG's that can be downloaded. Fourble was the first. If you would like any episodes let me know and I can either e-mail them to you as attachments or I can post them on one of my minimalist websites. Will let you know how the restoration project is going as I (hopefully) make some progress. Love, Drunken Mozart!
Sorry, I meant MP3's, not mpeg's. All this technology has turned my brains into (M)ashed (P)otatoes! Drunken Mozart.
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I should be getting all the episodes on CD in a week or two so I'll just wait for that... after all, my modem is slow enough that downloading would take a week anyway.
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More, starting with the requested "Let the Lilies Consider":
Let the Lilies Consider
Never Send to Know
A Night to Forget
Quiet, Please
Meet John Smith, John
There Are Shadows Here
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Warning: In order to simplify the database, I'm changing the file names.
If you can't get an episode to download, try using the production order number of the episode as the name of the mp3 until the episodes section is complete. For example, "We Were Here First" was the 3rd epsiode of the series and so it's 3.mp3 ... the full path being http://www.quietplease.org/mp3s/3.mp3
Using Sound Forge with X-Click, X-Noise and X-Crackle I tried to find the best balance between reducing noise and maintaining audibility. The overall sound is a little quieter but if you compare it with the original I think you'll find it more listenable. www.telusplanet.net/public/synthi is where you can find it posted. Your comments are welcome but please remember this is my first effort and the raw material was brutally corrupted. Enjoy, and thanks again for the shows!
If you can't download my attempt at cleaning up Nothing Behind The Door due to your modem connection please feel free to send me a postal address and I will burn it onto CD-ROM and mail it to you. Will be working on other damaged episodes as time allows.
For some reason my cleaned-up file ends about a minute before it is supposed to. Will correct this and let you know when it is reposted. Sorry!
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I downloaded what you have there. The file plays to the end, but for some reason the end of the credits is about a minute before where the file length indicates. Strange... seems to be nothing wrong with the audio, just something wrong with where it thinks it's supposed to end? But anyhow, I compared it with the other version I have of the episode and it does sound a bit better... less static.
Actually downloading isn't as bad as uploading... uploading, as this thread being started in January illustrates, takes me a very long time. However there may be an easy solution to that... I've set up an FTP account for you so you can upload the files directly into quietplease.org webspace, to a directory from which I can easily rename and move the files to the permanent location without having to spend the hours re-uploading files myself.
Login and check your private messages. ( www.quietplease.org/forum/m...ion=messages&box=inbox ) I've sent you a message with the FTP info you'll need.