Download all nine of Beethoven's symphonies legit in mp3 format. #9 OUT NOW!!!

[sxr7171]

Originally posted by: Wedge1
funboy42, thank you for this thread :thumbsup:

swarmster, thank you for taking the time to upload and share (and i should thank Financialist at FW for guiding you to YSI).

Kaervak thank you for taking the time to upload and share as well.

mjhvball, thank you for setting up what appears to be your own site for downloading.

Very generous of you all !!

....and also thanks to
swifty for offering to make a server for this,

aktse for heads up on 6,

forkd for the heads up on 7,

artecnical for the heads up on 8.

Thanks to all who pitched in to help or offered to do so. I'm glad this thread kept going because for some reason I am late coming.

I downloaded 3 of them early today and I thoroughly enjoyed them so I had to get the rest. Don't let the 128kb encoding fool you. The quality is good. I'm listening to them through WinAmp 2.91 and a great plugin called Sound Solution 1.31b ( it requires a lot from the CPU, but it has improved my muisc listening immensely )

Great freebie!

Are you not going to thank mzkhadir for the comedy?

 

[eyeguy]

why not post them as torrents?

 

[PhoenixOrion]

awesome! thanks. i have all 9 symphonies.

 

[lsman]

Thanks.

 

[Jawo]

Thanks!!! I have been wanting to get Beethoven's symphonies in their entirety for a long time....Thanks a whole bunch to everyone who helped!

 

[kwo]

Wunderbar!

One of the greatest posts....thanks funboy and all those who facilitated alternate hosting/downloading!

 

[funboy6942]

Originally posted by: kwo
Wunderbar!

One of the greatest posts....thanks funboy and all those who facilitated alternate hosting/downloading!

NP I am glad to see one of my posts do some good for once and not get craped on, oh wait it did and the stuff I linked was free

But anyway I am just thrilled I got the music as well, found the link and was able to give to you all. And I am thrilled and happy that all came together to keep this up for everyone to keep getting when the first part was pulled and then to put it up when the site was slow. This is what anandtech is about and even with all the crap I get around here I am still happy to be part of it

 

[Wedge1]

Originally posted by: sxr7171
Are you not going to thank mzkhadir for the comedy?

Apparently he hasn't read this thread since posting his advice, so I don't know if he was serious or not. If he was serious, somebody should give him a heads up so he won't make the same blunder again. If he was joking, well, the joke is on those who took him seriously.

 

[Muse]

Is there any information as to the performances. IOW, stuff like what orchestra, what conductor, date and location of performance, the chorus singing the 9th... stuff like that? Thanks.

Edit: I started playing the 1st and am getting an extensive introduction. Seems the answers to the above is basically:

BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor

All performed over a weekend in Manchester, England, made available for download by the BBC.

I'm listening to the 1st right now. Sounds like a decent enough performance.

 

[Muse]

I figure I'll not want to hear those introductions than once. You can cut off that introduction from the MP3's with a freeware utility called MP3 Trackmaker 1.2, which I've been using for years. You can get it here.

Edit: The utility is very easy to use. I use it with Winamp. Open the utility, choose the MP3 to work on and start playing it in Winamp. Choose a save-to directory for your new MP3's, and choose a name for your new file(s). When you come to a point in the MP3 where you want to create a break, press the button that saves the position. If you don't think you got the place right, remove the saved position and rewind Winamp to just before the position you want and wait for the position to come around again (back arrow is good for that - I have it set to go back 10 seconds in Winamp). When you have the position right (or several - this utility can break your MP3 into several pieces, if you want), press the button to create the tracks and a few seconds later it's done. You can then rename the created files. I just did all 9 symphonies in about 15 minutes, breaking up each file into files like:

Symphony 1 Intro.mp3
Symphony 1.mp3
etc.

This version doesn't support VBR MP3's, though.

All 9 symphonies, including the introductions come to 333 MB.

 

[Farmer]

wow nice.

 

[astranger]

Thanks so much!

Symphony 1 and 4 could not be downloaded for me.

Any chance of someone up'ing them again somewhere?

 

[daveshel]

Nice. Thanks.

 

[XNice]

thnx, 600kb/s.... u da man op.

 

[mjhvball]

I just checked the website I set up for people to download the symphonies and found out it has been suspended. I guess Wan Planet didn't like me doing that. I will see if I can get it back up this weekend.

 

[cronos]

thanks for the update! :thumbsup:

 

[thefamoustraders]

Originally posted by: funboy42
WOW first off this has to be some sort of anandtech record to have over 12,000 lookers in under 3 weeks! I know this is a personal record for anything I have ever listed and I feel all warm inside like yellow. I am happy all the farms have come together to make the ideas of one turtle come to pass in the head lights of life. Thanks to all that joined and welcome to the party. Drinks will continue to be served till 4 am at which that time Mikes hard lemonade will be called mellow red Ive got blisters on me fingers!

Linkage for the upper class. Which I guess you could of bought this or have so I dont see why you need it but its your kind of thing and like this music so I link it anyway.

Besides it free and you cant beat free
And obviously not all 9 are there to download yet, just 1-5 for now, so check back and they will all be there eventually.

You snoozed now you loosed. 1&3 are no longer up fo' grabs Keep checking for the 6-9 soon though by the end of this month BUT DONT take your time to DL it! I think AT has done made the bbc mad or upset they even put it up.

And yet andother edit People please take a joke, I wasnt meaning any of what I wrote about the upper class snobs, I too like this music as well as the stuck up snooty upper class. If I didnt like you or the music I would never of posted this
Nah really you rich people are all right in my book, taste good on toast [/b]

Originally posted by: swarmster
Reupped them all. These should stay up until the BBC has the rest available

Symphony 1
Symphony 2
Symphony 3
Symphony 4
Symphony 5

Bump: done

Originally posted by: Kaervak
Yousendit.com links for 6, 7 & 8.

Symphony 6
Symphony 7
Symphony 8

Originally posted by: Kaervak
Ok, finally got Symphony 9 downloaded. Reminded me of my 33.6 days. Anyway, here's the Yousendit.com link.

Symphony 9

TYTYTY funboy42 & everyone who helped! Greatly appriciated! Damn forums taking all my time ....pffff

 

[Tiamat]

Thanks once again!!

 

[eyeguy]

how does yousendit give away all that bandwith? 557 kb/sec....

 

[Supafreak]

Would anyone with symphonies 1-5 be willing to FTP upload em to my server for me? If so, PM me



Thanks in advance.

Freak

 

[patj]

I am so pitiful!!

I beg for access to 1-5

Pleeeease!!???

(all posted links for the first 5 expired)

patj

 

[funboy6942]

I have them all of course but no way to give them out. I am sorry.

 

[patj]

:shocked:

OH!
The humanity!!!!!

 

[Solarium]

I've searched everywhere for this download but failed miserably Can anyone host #1-5 for a few hours if possible just for the few of us who wanted it badly? Thanks

 

[ACCORD MAN]

The 1st symphony, rehosted :

http://rapidshare.de/files/2365520/symphony1_beethoven_radio3.mp3.html