Want to burn Internet Archive Tracks onto a CD, and put onto my iPod

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Want to burn Internet Archive Tracks onto a CD, and put onto my iPod

I am a Grateful Dead fan, and I've been legally downloading tracks from the Internet Archives and importing them to iTunes. The track names show up, and I can listen to the music, but iTunes won't allow me to burn CDs of these tracks or put them onto my iPod. The message reads that they are not on my hard drive. How can I get these songs onto my hard drive? These tracks are free downloads. I'll post the link from a particular show if it will be helpful.
http://www.archive.org/details/gd72-10-02.sbd.lai.158.sbefail.shnf
Any advice is greatly appreciated. It's very important to my wife and I to be able to listen to these songs. We were at many of these shows!

MacBook Pro 13 inch, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Nov 22, 2009 5:47 PM

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ed2345

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Nov 24, 2009 7:27 PM in response to JAKEfromMAINE

JAKEfromMAINE wrote:
The message reads that they are not on my hard drive. How can I get these songs onto my hard drive? These tracks are free downloads. I'll post the link from a particular show if it will be helpful.
http://www.archive.org/details/gd72-10-02.sbd.lai.158.sbefail.shnf

Jake - For that particular show, they are not downloads. They are simply links that allow you to stream the show. Note the indication on that page saying "This audio is available in streaming format." You can also notice the small size of the files. Actual song files would be many MB.

Any advice is greatly appreciated. It's very important to my wife and I to be able to listen to these songs. We were at many of these shows!

Try a different show on the same archive. For example look at this one from 1974:

http://www.archive.org/details/gd1974-07-19.shure.unknown.102766.flac16

Notice the file sizes are big enough to be actual songs! They offer in 3 formats, two of which are incompatible with iTunes, so unless you wish to convert make sure you download the MP3s. And the music will never stop...

Ed

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Answer 2

Nov 25, 2009 12:48 AM in response to ed2345

Thanks Ed. I realize now that some shows are just in streaming format.
As far as recording them and turning them into MP3s, I am clueless. But knowing some of them are MP3s is comforting.
Thank you. I'm Grateful!

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ed2345

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Nov 25, 2009 5:35 AM in response to JAKEfromMAINE

Jake,

Hopefully some of the shows that you remember attending will be in the archive in MP3 format (like the night you and the wife were smooching while the band did a 35 minute rendition of Dark Star).

Recording from an internet stream can be done, but is out of the scope of iTunes, and it raises copyright issues that you will need to check.

Ed

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