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Jazzfan,
Don't give up on us. I've been pretty busy. I am downloading the music file (28 minutes. I guess my DSL is pretty slow-dsl.
OK OK - 39 minutes and 256 MEGA Hootsies later, then another 30 minutes trying to get Nero which is suppose to play "flac" files ....finally downloaded Winamp which plays Flac....Listening on computer Altecs with Sub.....Sounds fabulous! Then piped in to big rig thru USB external DACS, ummmm... not sooo great, but not bad either. It IS a live show after all. Love the guitar player. Could have sworn I heard Hendrix yell "HEAH" during the guitar solo. Reminded me of Electric Ladyland. Must be the trio plus one? Gonna give it a few more spins while catching some dinner.
RG
Okay here's the deal, the main reason I put the link to Flac frontend in my previous post was so that you would download it!! And use it!
Yes, I know it's really cool to have the codec for the media player which allows it to play the compressed file but some codecs and media players don't seem to get along too well. Foobar and WinAmp are two players that seem to work quite well with most the common compressed file formats. Windows Media Player and flac don't seem to get along well together so I figured I'd offer an easy solution to the problem.
Windows Media Player and most other media players, have no problem with a 24 bit wav file, provided your soundcard can handle 24 bit/96 kHz audio.
Anyway, I'm glad that you liked the music and can appreciate the sound quality. To answer you're question, that's only a trio playing. Charlie Hunter plays an eight string guitar and plays the bass part on his guitar, plus he makes the guitar sound like some type of keyboard instrument half the time. Pretty wild, uh.
OK, I have a dumb question. Without a more "conventional" copy such as 16-bit to compare it to ... you see where I'm going with this.
BTW, thanks for the link.
It's no trouble to run the 24-bit file through an audio editor and save it as a 16-bit, 44.1 wav.
Audacity is a good, free audio editor if you don't have one:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/