American Top 40 episodes from the 80's (mp3?)

[defdave]

Hey guys. I'm new here obviously, but I've been scouring the internet looking for a place like this and finally found it!

I used to have a pretty decent collection of AT40 episodes from the 80's on my hard drive (recorded with ReplayAV and Freecorder).

But unfortunately I lost ALL of it when my new hard drive died (and I had just transferred all my AT40 shows to that new hard drive about a week earlier!)

So my question is...Is my only option just to attempt to rebuild my collection by re-recording online every weekend for the next few years? Or is there any other way I can get some AT40 80's episodes in mp3 (or wav or flac, etc) format?

Thanks in advance and I hope my question isn't out of line to ask here.

[defdave]

So I'm probably s.o.l. it looks like.

[GQ]

Apr 14, 2010 1:18:29 GMT -5 defdave said:

So I'm probably s.o.l. it looks like.

never say that, defdave!
send me email or im and maybe i can help some

[pizzzzza]

Apr 11, 2010 13:12:13 GMT -5 defdave said:

Hey guys. I'm new here obviously, but I've been scouring the internet looking for a place like this and finally found it!

I used to have a pretty decent collection of AT40 episodes from the 80's on my hard drive (recorded with ReplayAV and Freecorder).

But unfortunately I lost ALL of it when my new hard drive died (and I had just transferred all my AT40 shows to that new hard drive about a week earlier!)

So my question is...Is my only option just to attempt to rebuild my collection by re-recording online every weekend for the next few years? Or is there any other way I can get some AT40 80's episodes in mp3 (or wav or flac, etc) format?

Thanks in advance and I hope my question isn't out of line to ask here.

Dave - I'm really sorry to hear that! That's awful!

As far as what you should do now - I guess a combination of recording the shows (again) and/or looking online (Ebay, for example) for the AT 40 shows.

I've been recording online now for a few years, and believe it or not, have most of the shows from the 70s and 80s - just takes time.

Good Luck!

p.s. shoot me a private message...

[80sfreak]

actually almost had that happen to me too..but i was lucky enough to set my countdowns back.

i dont have tons of shows as I started recording last year thru XM and a few months ago thru online radio, but i got a bunch in case ur interested. let me know.

[defdave]

Thanks for the advice, pizzzzza. pm sent

Definitely interested in anything you have from our favorite decade, 80sfreak! I'll re-record everything again for the next few years if I must (and if they replay it all!), but definitely would appreciate any way to get episodes other ways that don't take years lol.

[pandy]

I have about 40 shows from the 80s - Most from vinyl w/original ads. 128-160Kbps format. Shoot me a message or mail. I may get your feet (back) on the ground and reach for the stars.

[at40caseyfan]

Hi defdave,

I hope that I saw your post in time. Something similar happened to me November of last year. My external hard drive died and I thought that I had lost everything.

The good news is that all may not be lost. You will have to do further research on this but you may need to purchase an external hard drive enclosure, remove your dead hard drive from your computer, and connect it to the proper external hard drive enclosure (from $25-$200). Your internal hard drive becomes an external hard drive. As a result, you may be able to recover all of your information and use the drive as a backup drive, etc.

In my case, Windows XP had completely stopped recognizing my drive since it was a dead drive. I did the above and all of my information was accessible again. I have been happy ever since.

Hope this helps.

[Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever]

External hard drives are actually nothing more than internal hard drives inside a case that allows the drive to connect via the USB and to be plugged into a power supply. Remove the case and you'll have an internal hard drive that can be connected to the computer just like the existing internal hard drive that contains your operating system (usually Microsoft Windows or the Mac equivalent). If you know how to add new hardware to your computer by opening it up, you can connect your former external hard drive (now an internal hard drive) to your computer and may find that your shows are intact and can be used as you did before.

Warning!!! Don't attempt to attach the former external hard drive to your computer unless you already know how to connect an internal hard drive and DO NOT REMOVE your existing internal hard drive that contains your operating system unless you know exactly what to do. (Doing so may render your computer unworkable) If you don't know how to do this, ask a friend who knows or take your computer to a repair location where there are people who can do it for you. I don't mean to be bossy but I tried to connect an internal hard drive before I had learned to do so properly and ended up having to spend lots of money to get my computer repaired. After that, I asked some one to teach how to do it the right way and can do so now.

[at40caseyfan]

Hi defdave,

caseyfan is absolutely 100% correct. Since my drive was an external drive and I kept it an external hard drive by using the external hard drive enclosure, I didn't have need to take as many precautions as I would have if I were wanted to change the external hard drive into an internal hard drive.

One should proceed with extreme caution and know exactly what to do when dealing with an internal hard drive because there is a high risk of rendering the computer unworkable and losing and/or destroying all data.

By the way, I considered transforming my external hard drive into an internal one by removing the case and connecting it to the computer but after researching found that the process was too risky and tricky. My top priority was recovering my information. You really have to know what you are doing, know someone who does, or pay someone who does which can get extremely expensive.

Be careful.

[analog80s70s]

I've got all my AT40 shows recorded as .wavs using my audio interface as a line in - line out device. All of those .wavs are backed up on now two external drives. External drives are so cheap there's just no reason not to back up to two (one backup for the backup). I just bought a USB 2.0 WD external 1TB drive for like $109. It's a bit slower than Firewire, but no big deal. Get some good backup software, fire it up, see you in the morning with a backed up drive. It's essential.