The Police 23rd July, 1979 BBC Studios, London, UK MP2 RECORDING Broadcast by BBC 6Music on 6th December 2007 "Live at 4" series A previous torrent on DIME "The Police - Lost BBC Studio Tapes 1978-79 upgrade" (http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=74064) states that it's tracks 1-4 are a BBC session for John Peel dated November 1978. This current session does not appear to be a duplicate because: - The Police only recorded one session for John Peel and that was in 1979 - the session torrented here - Track listings are different between these two torrents - The previous torrents has acknowledged problems with sound quality which are not present on this recording - Two other sessions were recorded for the BBC but not for Peel, perhaps the previous torrent was one of these **[BBC 6Music is a digital only broadcast with no FM transmission. Bit rate on DAB radio is 128kbps, DVB-T and Digital Satellite 160kbps. Older archived recordings may have been transmitted on BBC FM stations in the past and FM recordings may exist. Please post torrents of these if they exist as upgrades to these digital recordings which will then be removed. As these are lossy radio transmissions they have not been bloated to flac, following DIME guidelines.]** DVB-T (160kbps / 48Khz) > Nebula DigiTV > Hard Disk MP2 > mp3DirectCut [Originally recorded as a session for John Peel on 23rd July 1979 - See below] Tracks 01 This Bed's Too Big Without You 02 Message In A Bottle [cut] 03 Next To You [cuts in, cut] 04 Can't Stand Losing You [Actually is Reggatta de Blanc cut from CSLY] Unfortunately suffers somewhat from some vert nasty placing of jingles and DJ banter which has been removed and left some fairly abrupt endings on a couple of tracks, probably works best as a burn with no between track gaps. *************************************** PEEL SESSION 23/07/1979 - Police * TX - 30/07/1979 * Producer - Tony Wilson * Engineer - Dave Dade * Studio - Maida Vale 4 TRACKLIST * This Bed's Too Big Without You * Message In A Bottle * Next To You * Can't Stand Losing You ('the Bit We Left Out') LINE UP * Sting (Bass, Lead Vocals) * Stewart Copeland (Drums) * Andy Summers (Guitar) ***************************************** ; wholefile md5 checksum file generated by Trader's Little Helper ; generated on December 17, 2007, at 11:50 am d427788f8f4834262bddc74d05485c75 *01.mp2 fc0db5f1081ff67c9ac5bd585125c073 *02.mp2 d1323854564ea3c55f0266c47f8cc6f3 *03.mp2 ce7458460498c23eef934a065cab3177 *04.mp2 Instructions (With thanks to hamhen) QUOTE: Please do not use the dbpoweramp software to transcode the mp2 files to .wav. The transcoding process leads to a noticeable decrease of the sound quality! For transcoding the .mp2 file I recommend the freeware BeSweet/ BeLight (if you use a Windows PC Ihave to add) : http://www.free-codecs.com/download/BeLight.htm Both are .zip-files; unzip BeSweet first into a folder. Then you should unzip BeLight into the same folder. This done, you can start the software by clicking on the BeLight symbol in the folder. The software is easy to work with, I think; choose the register card "WAV/ PCM". Do not check any of the boxes on the left except the one for "Output Sampling Rate" (this should be 44100hz), and on the right please choose "wav" (under "Output Format") and "16 bits stereo wav" under "Output Channels". Put the mp2 file into the window on top and click on the "Start Processing" below. The transcoding process will start immediately. If BeLight does not work with your computer you should try a software named Switch. It is available for free at http://www.nch.com.au/switch/plus.html There are versions for Windows and Mac. - paul_b35_uk Mon 17th Dec, 2007 11:55 GMT (banned)