The Concert-Split Project

Using Concert-Split

First things first, find a concert that you're interested in splitting. You can browse & download Audacity Label files via the GitHub interface. The concerts, listed below, are ready to split.

Now, watch the three minute screencast, at right, to get started.

If you don't see a concert you want to split, help us out. Contribute to the project by suggesting the concert.

Note: It looks your web browser isn't running JavaScript. Downloading the Audacity Label files for the following concerts requires JavaScript.

• 2014-07-28 - Aoife O'Donovan - Newport Folk Festival
• 2014-07-28 - Nickel Creek - Newport Folk Festival
• 2014-07-27 - Jenny Lewis - Newport Folk Festival
• 2012-08-17 - The Tallest Man On Earth - Newport Folk Festival
• 2012-08-17 - Wye Oak - 930 Club
• 2012-08-17 - Dirty Projectors - 930 Club
• 2012-07-28 - First Aid Kit - Newport Folk Festival
• 2011-11-01 - St. Vincent - 930 Club
• 2011-08-02 - Bon Iver - 930 Club
• 2011-08-01 - The Civil Wars - Newport Folk Festival
• 2011-07-30 - The Decemberists - Newport Folk Festival
• 2011-07-05 - Blind Boys of Alabama
• 2011-06-27 - The Civil Wars
• 2011-06-20 - The Decemberists
• 2011-03-11 - Wye Oak - In Concert
• 2010-10-03 - The Tallest Man On Earth - 930 Club
• 2010-08-01 - Punch Brothers - Newport Folk Festival
• 2009-10-15 - Moby - Live In Berlin
• 2009-08-01 - Avett Brothers - Newport Folk Festival
• 2009-05-28 - 'Dark Was The Night' - From Radio City Music Hall
• 2008-09-05 - Radiohead - Live In Concert
• 2007-09-29 - Iron and Wine - In Concert

Required Tools

• The Audacity audio editor
• That's it :-)

Contributing to the project

There are three basic steps to getting a song listed in the Concert-Split Project & you can get involved at whatever level you like.

1. Submit a concert: If there's a concert that you'd like to be able to split, but which isn't listed above, please create a new issue for the request. It's helpful if you include a link to the Podcast where the MP3 can be legally downloaded, and a link to a list of songs performed in the concert.
2. Collect set timestamps: Once an issue has been submitted for a concert, we need to determine the beginning and end times for each track. I do this by opening the concert in Audacity while keeping the Set List in a text editor. Note that the NPR podcasts add an extra advertisement to the front of each track, so I always download my concert audio directly from the NRP Music website so that everyone's timestamps line up. Then, I listen through the concert & mark down the end times for each song, as well as times for each intermission or lul in the concert. Once you've saved timestamps for each track, submit the full Set List as a comment on the appropriate GitHub issue.
3. Generate the Audacity Label file: Now, simply plug the track names & timestamps into Audacity. Open the concert audio, then click Tracks > Edit Labels and enter a label for each track. Finally go to File > Export Labels to save the lable file. If you get the Audacity label file to me (sorry, the GitHub Issue tracker doesn't support attachments), I'll post it to the Project ASAP.

If you're a git user user, you can also fork the project, then follow the same steps above. Once you, commit a new set list or audacity labels, and send me a pull request. Please never add audio files, original or split, to this project. The project is intended to only contain set lists & audacity label files.