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deadlist

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A Ruby gem for downloading Grateful Dead concert recordings from the Internet Archive
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 Dependencies

Runtime

~> 0.21
~> 1.10
 Project Readme

deadlist

A client for downloading Grateful Dead recordings hosted by archive.org.

With Deadlist, you can download audio files in any of the formats available, regardless of if they have been marked as "Stream Only". Files will download into a 'shows' folder in the location deadlist was executed from.

Install

gem install deadlist

Usage

Download a show in mp3

deadlist -f mp3 -i gd1977-05-09.123480.sbd.miller.flac16

Full list of arguments

Name Arguments Usage
Format (required) -f, --format Format for track downloads, typically .mp3, .ogg or .flac
ID (required) -i, --id Identifier of show to be downloaded.
Help -h, --help Show help documentation
Version -v, --version Prints version of DeadList being run

How do I find the identifier of the show I want to download?

  • IDs can be found in the details section at the bottom of the page (just above reviews), alongside 'Lineage' and 'Transferred by' etc.
  • ID's can also be found in the web-address of the archive.org page, just after /details/
    • Given a show https://archive.org/details/gd1977-05-09.123480.sbd.miller.flac16
    • Then the identifier is gd1977-05-09.123480.sbd.miller.flac16