Concert Vault: Free live recordings on your iPhone
The free ConcertVault iPhone app gives you streaming access to hundreds of live recordings.
Wolfgang's Vault is an online archive containing hundreds of high-quality concert recordings, mostly from big classic-rock artists like The Who and U2, but with a few newer artists, such as The Walkmen, thrown in as well. (Here's a complete list of performers whose recordings are available on the service.)
Last month, Wolfgang released an updated version of its much-lauded free iPhone application, Concert Vault, which gives you access to these amazing shows directly from your iPhone or iPod Touch.
The update adds a couple minor features, including a list of featured concerts--helpful for keeping track of shows that have been recently added to the vault--and fixes some reported problems with stuttering and stalling.
I've been listening to the Who's 1973 performances of "Quadrophenia" over a 3G connection for the last half hour, and so far, the app--and the band--are both performing flawlessly. This is a worthy update to a must-have download for live music fans.
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Another good source is the Live Music Archive at archive.org
list of artists here:
http://www.archive.org/browse.php?collection=etree&field=/metadata/creator
choose the artist, find a show, and hit stream in the file list or select individual tracks below in the grid.
- by big.mouth October 16, 2009 10:01 AM PDT
- A friend turned me onto this some time back. It's an incredible resource.
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