Just A Minute

For those of you who are keeping up with the JAM UPGRADE PROJECT, I now have found 364 upgraded episodes - and I have many more series to process.

Fortunately, as the series progress and the recording quality improves, there are fewer good upgrades so the project will accelerate and I will then be able to upload the upgrades.

It's slow going because with TS editions I have to check that the BBC hasn't chopped and mixed subjects up, so each existing episode needs to be compared with its potential upgrade at several places to see that the subjects are right.

Many JAM TS episodes are unedited, but some series are. It's these exceptions that are the pain to detect and deal with!

And it's hard to choose "better" quality simply based on file size.. Several bad-audio episodes have been converted to false stereo or mixed up to higher resolution, so files are bigger, but not acoustically better.

When I finally upload the upgrades, I will rely on you good folk to check whether any "hybrid" TS episodes have sneaked in and corrupted the purity of the JAM. I'm applying new version numbers to the upgrades, so it will be easy to roll back to previous good versions.

Remember folks: always keep your original files!

Only 6,087 files to go...

Mark