We backed up my SoundCloud to Archive.org and you can too

I am a big consumer of online multimedia and as the editor and publisher of POCHO I regularly embed video and audio files.

The videos I feature are usually served by YouTube and Vimeo, and audio files mostly come from SoundCloud. I've never spent much time contemplating SoundCloud's business model -- I just thought of them as an audio YouTube analog.

Now it turns out SoundCloud is having cash flow problems and may not be around much longer. As far is POCHO is concerned this is no big deal --- creaters gonna create anyhow -- but as a SoundCloud creator myself I need to consider where my audio files will live if SoundCloud shuts down.

Thankfully my old friend Tom Higgins was a step ahead of me and put a shell script up on GitHub that you can use to move your files from SoundCloud to a nice new home on Archive.org.

Thanks, Tom!

Steeleye Span Live at the Main Point: GAUDETE

This is one of my favorite Christmas carols -- the Latin hymn GAUDETE (rejoice). Check out Steeleye Span -- a cappella, baby -- at the Main Point in December 1972. From a live radio concert remote broadcast I produced for WMMR. Merry Christmas!

Jackson Browne Live 1975: These Days

 

Jackson Browne and David Lindley perform These Days at the Main Point in Bryn Mawr, PA September 7, 1975. Produced for WMMR by Dennis Wilen.

Jackson Browne Live 1975: Jamaica Say You Will

 

Jackson Browne and David Lindley live at the Main Point in Bryn Mawr PA on September 7, 1972 with JAMAICA SAY YOU WILL. Produced and engineered for WMMR by Dennis Wilen.

Jackson Browne Live 1975: Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies/Take It Easy

 

Jackson Browne (guitar) and David Lindley (fiddle) open the September 7, 1975 show at the Main Point in Bryn Mawr, PA with a medley of the traditional Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies and JB's hit Take It Easy. Live concert produced and engineered for WMMR by Dennis Wilen.

Jackson Browne Live 1975: Before the Deluge

 

Jackson Browne and David Lindley live at the Main Point, Bryn Mawr, PA, September 7, 1975. Live concert remote broadcast produced and engineered for WMMR by Dennis Wilen.

Steeleye Span Live 1972: Cam' Ye O'er Frae France?

 

Steeleye Span performs Cam Ye O'er Frae France? a song about the (failed) Jacobite Scottish Catholic rebellion against the Protestant throne and the war's loser, Bonnie Prince Charlie. Broadcast live in concert from the Main Point in Bryn Mawr PA and produced for WMMR by Dennis Wilen. December 1972.

Jackson Browne Live at the Main Point: For Everyman

 

Jackson Browne and David Lindley perform For Everyman in a live show broadcast from the Main Point in Bryn Mawr, PA, September 7, 1975. Produced and engineered for WMMR by Dennis Wilen.

Jackson Browne Live 1975: For A Dancer

Jackson Browne (piano) and David Lindley (violin) live at the Main Point in Bryn Mawr, PA September 7, 1975. The live remote concert broadcast was produced and engineered by me, Dennis Wilen, for WMMR, The Radio Station.

WMMR's Gene Shay introduces the Jackson Browne broadcast

I didn't remember I engineered this live concert remote broadcast until I listened to Gene Shay's introduction.

It was a Sunday night (I just checked -- September 7, 1975) which means my Jackson Browne radio concert pre-empted part of Gene's Sunday night folk show on our station, WMMR.

Thanks for the intro, old friend!

Jackson Browne Live 1975: Song for Adam

"Well, it wouldn't be a set from me if it didn't have at least ... one song about death and despair..."-- JB, 2007

Jackson Browne and David Lindley live at Main Point, Bryn Mawr, PA. 9/7/1975. Produced for WMMR by Dennis Wilen.

Jackson Browne Live 1975: Mohammed's Radio

Don't it want to make you rock 'n' roll, all night long -- Mohammed's Radio!

 Jackson Browne and David Lindley live at the Main Point in Bryn Mawr, PA. September 7, 1975.

  Produced and transmitted live for WMMR by Dennis Wilen.

Jackson Browne Live 1975: Werewolves of London

Did you hear about the gent that ran amuck in Kent?

Jackson Browne and David Lindley live at the Main Point 9/7/1975 in a WMMR radio concert produced by Dennis Wilen. Jackson introduces a song by a friend -- up-and-coming songwriter Warren Zevon.

Typographical error in "album art" by me!

Jackson Browne Live 1975 'You Asshole You' NSFW

Produced by Dennis Wilen for WMMR, Philadelphia.