2025-05-17 Getting SFJAZZ recordings
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Something I just saw on fedi: The SFJAZZ Historical Archive has a ton
of material online.

From my bookmarks, there is a command line tool to access the
Internet Archive. I installed it via my package manager:

    sudo apt install internetarchive

Let's give it a try:

    ia download casfjazz_000163

This downloads a bunch of files including two M4A files that I can
play.

Download all the files:

    ia download --search 'collection:sfjazz' --glob="*.m4a"

Beware, though: With about 750 items and each item being about 250MB,
that'll take about 190GB of disk space and a significant amount of
time.

Some exploration: When I look online for Zakir Hussein, I get 11
items.

    ia download --search 'collection:sfjazz' --glob="*.m4a"

To list the files (I'm using fish):

    for item in (ia search 'collection:sfjazz zakir' --itemlist); ia list $item; end

Notice that there are hits for MP3 files, M4A files, FLAC files, WAV
files, etc. That's a lot of wasted space!

For parallel download:

    ia search 'collection:sfjazz zakir' --itemlist | parallel 'ia download {} --glob="*.m4a"'

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