Please don't send us Word-format trading lists by e-mail.
Word tends to generate huge files, which far too easily overload our already busy mailboxes. A Word .doc file is also a virus risk, so we don't accept such files from strangers, including perfectly well-intentioned music traders!
Excel files are no use either, as we don't have spreadsheet software.
We prefer to receive trading lists as plain, unformatted text; either as the body of an e-mail, or as an attached text (.txt) file.
Please include a typed setlist.
In most cases, we'll be so familiar with an artist's work that each track can be recognised immediately. Sometimes, we're unsure of the correct track titles, especially for instrumentals or artists less well known, so please always provide a typed tracklist for each CD-R. It's also just plain annoying to have to hunt for tracklists!
We trade in CD Audio format only, not .shn format.
However, this certainly doesn't mean we offer or accept anything less than perfect copies of the source discs - we take great care to introduce no flaws when extracting (in EAC) and burning CD-Rs, and if any accidents do occur (as has happened once in the last two years), we send replacements as soon as we know, at our own expense. We obviously expect the same in return.
Please avoid Traxdata discs
For some reason we've repeatedly had problems with these CD-Rs; our PC's player & burner just seems to be incompatable with them, so we no longer accept them in trades, and if sent them for B&P trades, we do not accept liability for bad burns.
Several items are on tapes.
Though we're steadily upgrading them to CD-Rs, almost always by trading for new copies, several of our older items are currently stored on audio tapes. The transfer process is extremely slow, requiring up to three hours work per one hour of music; time we can rarely afford. Therefore, these items are not routinely available for trading.
It's always worth asking if there's one you'd particularly like, but we can't always accommodate such requests, and certainly not requests for several in the same trade!
As a rough guide, it is unlikely that we'd invest the time in upgrading recordings we wouldn't particularly wish to hear, such as poor-quality recordings or those of artists in which we are no longer interested. This particularly affects Fairport Convention and post-1975 Genesis.
We are no longer able to copy tapes to tapes.
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