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WCCO-FM Star Wars Stereo Simulcast Reel to Reel Recording (Released)

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This reel to reel tape was purchased on ebay and was advertised as being a audio only recording of Star Wars broadcast over Minnesota radio station WCCO-FM. The recording is not complete as it only runs thirty minutes and there is no way to prove if it actually is a copy recorded from a radio broadcast. The only thing that really stands out is the music at the beginning that fades into the 20th Century Fox fanfare.

Note: I don’t know if it is a fault of the tape or my reel to reel player, but the audio plays back at an extremely high rate. I fixed this in audacity by decreasing the speed by 48% as decreasing it by 50% made it sound to slow.

File info:
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec
File size : 146 MiB
Duration : 30mn 32s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 667 Kbps

Audio
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec
Duration : 30mn 32s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 667 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 146 MiB (100%)
Writing library : libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)

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Hello.

Many thanks for your post. Interesting find. Download link says no longer active. Is this true? Any way to reactivate?

Best regards. Joel

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Yes, please.... I am from Minnesota where WCCO rasdio is, so this would mean a ton. Please re-up

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Tasjo said:


Note: I don't know if it is a fault of the tape or my reel to reel player, but the audio plays back at an extremely high rate. I fixed this in audacity by decreasing the speed by 48% as decreasing it by 50% made it sound too slow.

Reel To Reel players have several recording/playback speeds - typically, single speed home machines play and record at 3 3/4 IPS (Inches Per Second), but higher quality ones had a 7 1/2 IPS option - and professional ones use 15 IPS. 

 

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 this would mean a ton.

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