Audio Files Help
There are MP3 files available to download on most of the pages dedicated to the individual bands. These are generally at the bottom of each page. You can just click the relevant link (normally it's just the song name) to open the link to the MP3, this should open a "MP3 Player" in your browser and the MP3 should automatically download, you can see the progress of the download by the horizontal bar filling up as the file downloads. There should be a little "play" button on the MP3 player that you can click to play the file.
I have a DSL connection, and the files all download so fast, it is almost like a streaming file. If you want to continue browsing the site whilst you listen to the music, you can right click (or control click on a Mac) on the links to the MP3's and choose, "open file in new window", or if your browser supports tabbed browsing, you can select "open link in new tab". You can also download the files by right clicking (or control clicking on a Mac), and close "save link as", chose the location on your hard drive you want to save the files, and then select "save". You can then keep the files on your own computer and even play the songs on your iPod. Whatever will they think of next.
The newer MP3s have been encoded at 160kbs and some of the newest material is encoded at 192kbs (VBR). We did some work on the original audio to improve it and it seemed a shame to encode the files too tightly and lose quality again. This will of course, lead to slightly longer download times. The older files were encoded at 128kbs.
We may slowly over time de hiss and improve the audio of some of the more precious recordings. Ian Cargill, Kirkcaldy Bands resident audio restoration genious, is workking through some of the material, restoring the audio. Nationwide's Dusty Bedrooms, The Twist's Strangefruit Tape and all of Davie Brown's Ghost Train material have been restored, more to come.
The newest source material that was used to make the MP3's is 17 years old, many of them were made from dodgy old tapes recorded in noisy bars on knocked about cassette recorders - so please don't adjust your computers!