Community
etree.org is organized by people who love music, in collaboration with archivists and historians.
etree.org consists of four related parts: a wiki, a database, a distribution mechanism, and a community space. First, db.etree.org consists of a large database of performance data for thousands of artists – who played what, where, when, and with whom -- as well as lists of lossless filesets of “trade-friendly” artists like the Grateful Dead, Phish and many, many others, who permit their fans to record and copy their concert performances. Where appropriate, these resources are linked to the Internet Archive's Live Music Archive collection, often known as the LMA or “Llama”. The advantage of a central database of lossless filesets is that collectors and historians can quickly determine what fileset they have received, and read community feedback about the accuracy, quality and other characteristics of the recording. Gone are the days of reviewing multiple cassette tapes looking for the best copy of the same recording.
The etree wiki was put in place around 2001 because the main etree.org page was no longer regularly updated. Although initially met with abundant cynicism, this new technology proved its worth, and as of 2007 is a thriving, successful wiki.
db.etree.org was created by Tom Anderson to keep track of shows he owned without the need of entering the setlist for each newly acquired show. He created toma.dhs.org in August 1999 and made the site multi-user in November. An etree domain was granted in January 2000. The origins of sources tracked at db.etree.org lie in handwritten lists maintained by Greg and Diana Hamilton. (The addition of MD5 checksums as an organizing mechanism came later.) These were imported into db.etree in July 2000 and a new section was created on the site that lets anyone become a volunteer to track sources for any trade friendly band.
bt.etree.org is a BitTorrent tracker that has replaced the old network of FTP servers. bt.etree.org allows db.etree.org users to torrent filesets of trade-friendly artists for community members to download and enjoy. The copying of recordings by non-trade-friendly artists is not permitted. More than 30,000 lossless filesets have been torrented, and these recordings, each now in the possession of dozens or hundreds of people, will be preserved for future generations. Announcements of newly added torrents may be obtained by subscribing to the mailing list at mail.etree.org.
Community involvement and support are provided by http://forums.etree.org
People who directly support the etree.org community include IT and database administrators, mailing list administrators, and countless others who seed lossless filesets to bt.etree.org, or who add performance data to db.etree.org. etree.org is truly a community effort and without the support of all involved, it simply would not exist.
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