Since I first emailed Tim about the Oompah Hour several years ago I finally got around to playing it! Yay! Been playing it on Sunday afternoons, today being the second. I am up to Oompah Hour #30.
Yes, I am mixing up my play list a bit. Where is a good source for old radio dramas? I've seen it discussed here a bit but don't have much of a recollection.
Well, my first thought for old radio dramas is https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio Huge selection there, but perhaps others can chime in on where to get the best quality versions (not saying that the Internet Archive doesn't have them, but there may be sites that only list the best quality versions, I don't know).
I know there's a guy on youtube that's been using some kinds and of AI tool to clean up poor quality old radio shows that really improves them.. Talked about it here before how he made some of the really trashed out Quiet Please episodes a lot more listenable. -
@richpowers Yeah that's the problem with some of these is the audio quality.
Most Suspense, Gunsmoke, Our Miss Brooks, Father Knows Best, Escape, inner Sanctum, Lights Out, Nightfall(CBC Canada) that I have are mostly good to OK but CBSRMT has a lot that is not acceptable audio quality.
When dowloading the 300+ episodes I have of CBSRMT I had to sample each one for a minute and weed out a few that were too bad. The others I have mentioned here that I have I could just download the whole playlists and didn't have to do that as audio is acceptable to good on most. Seems a lot of the CBSRMT ones were taken from on air from someones radio and that's why inconsistent audio quality.
I just got mine from youtube as I have the fast downloader and I could just take a complete playlist and let it download during the night and done in the morning. Large playlists with hundreds of episodes can take a while. Youtube also had the most episodes of each show in one playlist compared to some other sites. Every episode made in a series in some cases.
I don't know how much the audio quality would vary with different sites unless someone took the initiative to do some editing to better the audio. I think most of these came from the same archives. Nightfall, the CBC one, had the best audio quality of all that I have. I would rate that one at A. The others I have at B to C, E being the worst. CBSRMT was an E in a lot of cases but over 1000 episodes were made, more like 1300 or so, so you can get a decent playlist from the better ones.
Well, my first thought for old radio dramas is https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio Huge selection there, but perhaps others can chime in on where to get the best quality versions (not saying that the Internet Archive doesn't have them, but there may be sites that only list the best quality versions, I don't know).
I'm looking at some of these and they don't appear to be downloadable.
https://www.otrr.org/?c=library
From the Old Time Radio Researchers. You won't find any better quality (unless it's been AI enhanced). They've got a lot of the original transcription discs, and have rerecorded them as well.
Well, my first thought for old radio dramas is https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio Huge selection there, but perhaps others can chime in on where to get the best quality versions (not saying that the Internet Archive doesn't have them, but there may be sites that only list the best quality versions, I don't know).
I'm looking at some of these and they don't appear to be downloadable.
Scroll down the page with the episodes your interested in till you see something like this and then right click the mp3 link (or wav or whatever it's options may be) and save as .
