[Jabaxo]

Converting from SHN to FLAC is bad bad bad!

Backing up in original data format is the key ingredient to successfully archiving and restoring filesets with their original TTH

If everyone starts converting original SHN shows there is going to be mania in the trading community.

John from California may have just read your article. Along with Joe from Alaska, Wendy from Canada, Jack from England, Roberto from Brazil, and Surferdude from Hawaii.

Let's say all of these people were in a Led Zeppelin trading group and each of them obtained the same exact bootleg over the last 5 years.

Each of them never directly traded with each other and they dont know each other. However through the next month each of them are going to read that article and they are going to want to try and "help" the community like you just "tried" to. And theyt follow your advice and by pure coincedence all convert or re-rip their SHN bootleg into FLAC by means of a combination of different softwares.

Now one seeds on Dime, one seeds on a private tracker, one seeds bootleg archive, another one seeds on Echoes Hub etc etc

Now we have the original zep shn boot circulating along with 4 more different FLAC rips of the same show. By the time this propagates into each community and and gets incorrectly distributed, everyone is going to be confused and some people very angry that there is alot of work to be done

5 different rips of the same boot circulating with all different TTH matches is not something our communities need. We need to spend less time fixing things that are not broken, and concentrate and focus our energy on the now and the future to make things simpler and get these mp3 traders to understand the concept of lossless audio. NOT find ways to convert lossless audio into other lossless formats and shit in our own backyard.

Think of what happens when this happens to 1000 boots x 5 conversions. Who is going to fix this? When Jane in Iowa had a bad TTH set in a show and she asks for help with disc1 track 7? Pierre in france send it to her and it extracts fine, but it doesnt match her TTH file set. - She doesnt know any better and then decides to make NEW ffp/md5s and delete her old ones. (This way she has a matching set from 2 different sources that she may trade and really fuck up the communities.

So now let me ask you again............

What are you recommending? You were saying WHAT? Did the leader of the mp3 community send you over as a drone to secretly try and plant this horrible information into our heads or did you think this, blood-curdling festering boil on the butt of humanity yourself?