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For those of you that listen to lots of live recordings, how do you store and listen to them?

As somebody who loves live music and audience recordings thereof more than almost anything, I've always been quite a fan of listening to ROIOs—recordings of independent origin. I spend time every day finding new recordings, as well as making, mastering, and distributing my own.

Of course, the community of people that do this is very large indeed! And yet, I rarely see people discussing how they listen thereto in this digital era. It's hard to avoid being advertised one of the uncountable software solutions for listening to one's favourite albums, but no software seems to specifically cater to fans of live music to my knowledge, with the only options being either to bodge some metadata for every single live recording one has and treat each like an album, which drowns out actual albums (do I really want hundreds of live recordings of Godspeed You! Black Emperor or black midi amid their respective small number of released work?), takes a lot of work, and feels a bit silly, or one can navigate through a file manager and open a directory of a live performance in, say, VLC Media Player, which is functional if awkward and unglamorous.

I've always wondered how others approach this issue: how do you?

3 comments

  1. Kilcundas
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    I know this isn't the answer you were looking for, but as someone who has always enjoyed listening to song demos and early recordings I'd never heard of the term Recordings of Independent Origin....

    I know this isn't the answer you were looking for, but as someone who has always enjoyed listening to song demos and early recordings I'd never heard of the term Recordings of Independent Origin. I'm now happily diving head first in to a rabbit hole I didn't have any knowledge of just fifteen minutes ago. Thanks for sharing!

    Do you have any notable finds/tracks in your collection that you found particularly interesting?

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  2. burntcookie90
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    I just use plex. It'll handle well tagged files without an issue. From there, if you've got enough, just put them in their own library so it doesn't overflow your main album library

    I just use plex. It'll handle well tagged files without an issue. From there, if you've got enough, just put them in their own library so it doesn't overflow your main album library

    2 votes
  3. Rancor
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    I’ve used Relisten in the past which allows you to download them to your device: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/relisten-all-live-music/id715886886 I’m not sure if there’s an android version...

    I’ve used Relisten in the past which allows you to download them to your device: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/relisten-all-live-music/id715886886

    I’m not sure if there’s an android version though: https://relisten.net/

    It’s wonderful if you listen to jam bands or bluegrass and want to hear a specific show!

    2 votes