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Grateful Dead - Bird Song (1972)

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    arghdos
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    I typically avoid posting the Dead on ~'s, because well.. not everyone digs the 11 minute jams :). But I have adored this version of Bird Song for quite a while now. Part of a string of absolutely...

    I typically avoid posting the Dead on ~'s, because well.. not everyone digs the 11 minute jams :). But I have adored this version of Bird Song for quite a while now. Part of a string of absolutely phenomenal shows in Nov. '72. Peak Dead.

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    1. [3]
      cfabbro
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      I'm not really a fan of the grateful dead myself, but just wanted to thank you for linking to this anyways. I had no idea archive.org was now supporting a music service in partnership with others....

      I'm not really a fan of the grateful dead myself, but just wanted to thank you for linking to this anyways. I had no idea archive.org was now supporting a music service in partnership with others. Neat!

      https://relisten.net/about

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      1. [2]
        arghdos
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        So I don't know if it's any official partnership, or just that they have a fairly robust API. In either case, Relisten is the Bee's Knees of streaming off archive.org IMO. Dan is a friend of mine,...

        So I don't know if it's any official partnership, or just that they have a fairly robust API. In either case, Relisten is the Bee's Knees of streaming off archive.org IMO. Dan is a friend of mine, and I regularly tell him how much I love that site. He actually implemented his own custom gapless playback such that the transitions between songs (particularly important for the Dead where you see a lot of tracks ending w/ ">") that's technically very cool. I've literally been streaming off it on a flight before, and it worked beautifully even when I barely could access my ssh server! It's a lifesaver for me right now, since my foobar install got... foobar'd by some wine update (need to move to a new wineprefix, probably). Their iOS app is quite good as well.

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        1. cfabbro
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          Ah, in retrospect that makes a lot more sense considering the mention of "complying with archive.org policy" in the about page... Still pretty cool that archive.org allows this though! And I will...

          or just that they have a fairly robust API

          Ah, in retrospect that makes a lot more sense considering the mention of "complying with archive.org policy" in the about page... Still pretty cool that archive.org allows this though! And I will be sure to check out the iOS app and give it a try too. :)

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