The Deadhead Archives

James Whittenburg

About this app

Listen to your favorite Deadhead shows from uploads to the Internet Archive.

Player features include:

* Caching of year and set data locally for quick reuse
* Soundboards are shown in blue
* Now with ratings from the Internet Archive

Be aware that this app uses data.

Please send me feature requests so I can make this app better for all.


Credits:

All of the files this app links to are sourced from the Internet Archive. Please visit their web site at http://archive.org

Legal:

The Deadhead Archives strictly adheres to the stipulations stated below:
STATEMENT TO MP3 SITE OPERATORS


The Grateful Dead and our managing organizations have long encouraged the purely noncommercial exchange of music taped at our concerts and those of our individual members. That a new medium of distribution has arisen - digital audio files being traded over the Internet - does not change our policy in this regard.

Our stipulations regarding digital distribution are merely extensions of those long-standing principles and they are as follow:

• No commercial gain may be sought by websites offering digital files of our music, whether through advertising, exploiting databases compiled from their traffic, or any other means.

• All participants in such digital exchange acknowledge and respect the copyrights of the performers, writers and publishers of the music.

• This notice should be clearly posted on all sites engaged in this activity.

• We reserve the ability to withdraw our sanction of noncommercial digital music should circumstances arise that compromise our ability to protect and steward the integrity of our work.

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Grateful Dead Sanctions Free MP3 Music Format

Decision Follows Action Against Commercial Web Site

MILL VALLEY, Calif., May 11, PRNewswire

In a major policy initiative by one of the nation's most enduring musical groups, the Grateful Dead will, under strict guidelines prohibiting commercial use, allow free Internet downloads of live performances taped by their fans via the popular but controversial MP3 format, the group's attorney, Eric Doney, announced today.

Doney, a partner in the firm of Donahue, Gallagher, Woods & Wood, said the Grateful Dead is believed to be one of the first major bands to adopt a policy that essentially endorses free MP3 music, a format some members of the recording industry have strongly condemned.

The decision follows several weeks of discussion and review by the surviving members of the Grateful Dead and includes strict and non negotiable guidelines, Doney said. Furthermore, the announcement follows recent dispute with the owners of a web site that posted MP3 files of Grateful Dead live recordings for free download but received revenues from banner advertisements.

"The members of the Grateful Dead feel this decision is important and far reaching for both the band and their fans," Doney said. "This MP3 policy continues the band's long tradition of allowing free access to and trading of live recordings of their music and ensures that fans are not left with outmoded technology.

"At the same time, the strict guidelines protect the Grateful Dead against the very real threat of pirated intellectual property posed by the trading and possible sale of MP3 files via the Internet."

Under the guidelines, any web site owner is free to post copies of the group's live recordings made by fans as MP3 encoded files but may not derive any form of revenues from the endeavor, Doney said. This means web site operators may not charge for downloads, may not solicit any form of advertising, may not post any type of banner advertisements and may not sell email addresses or other data about fans downloading Grateful Dead music.

Only live recordings are sanctioned by this initiative, Doney said. The Grateful Dead will continue to aggressively prosecute any web site operators or any other businesses trafficking in Grateful Dead studio recordings, which are protected under U.S. copyright laws, Doney said.

Ratings and reviews

I love this app and use it all the time. I would definitely suggest this app if you love The Grateful dead. The new update bundles together all of the songs from the same show so you get duplicate tracks it really sucks because the shows aren't seamless and you have to skip to each track you want so it doesn't play the same songs over and over. If they fix this the app will be good again

Great app! Many recordings are available for most shows. You can also filter out audience recordings. If you're a soundboards only person, you can choose your preference. Having this access to Live Grateful Dead shows on my phone and tablet is mind blowing for this old Deadhead. I was a big tape collector back in the 80s, so having this ability feels like I'm in a Jetsons episode. Now, this is my kind of technology. Thank you to whoever is responsible!

Edit: lately I usually can't get through a whole show without the app crashing. This app works way better before the recent update. Now it doesn't save my history anymore, whenever I close the app and open it back up I can't go right back to whatever show I was on, it won't show me what show I'm on, I like to listen to it chronological order but the app won't keep track of that for me anymore.

What's new

I am continuing to work on the issues everyone has reported, as well as suggestions I am receiving. Thank you for patience while I add back the missing features.

Items fixed or added in this release:
Fixed the issue with duplicate songs and shows.
Changed sort order on History screen.
Added an exit option on the menu.