Linkin Park Live Guide - Abbreviations
*Please Note*: Due to size limitations, I was forced to abbreviate a few tour dates on the tour pages. For example, in 2007, you will see the 20.10.2007 date in Sydney which has the tour name as "Aus. and N.Z. Tour". This is because I was unable to fit the information onto one line without it running to the next, so I was forced to abbreviate a few dates. This applies to approximately one date in 2000, three dates in 2003, one date in 2004, eleven dates in 2007, a few dates in 2008, one Fort Minor date, and four Chester Bennington dates.
*PLEASE NOTE THAT LPLIVE DOES NOT HOST ANY RECORDINGS OF SHOWS. WE ONLY PROVIDE INFO AND SAMPLES.*
Color Chart:
Red - On the tour year pages, red is used to indicate a canceled tour date. See the page about the show for more info on it. I was unable to put (CANCELED) on the tour page due to space limitations, so this was the next best thing to do.
Red - On the individual show pages, red is used to note that a recording of a show is 'unconfirmed'
Green - On the individual show pages, green is used to note that a recording of a show is 'confirmed'
Blue - Rescheduled tour date. See the page about the show for more info on it. I was unable to put (RESCHEDULED) on the tour page due to space limitations, so this was the next best thing to do.
Black - On the tour year pages, black is used to indicate that a recording exists for the show. However, please note that we will not 'blacken' a show if the only source is the Live Audio Soundboard Recording. We will put them in the source info of course but this is mainly to keep track of audience and proshot recordings.
Grey - All other shows that do not have audience or pro recordings are shown in grey.
Recording Acronyms:
Audience recording - AUD
Recording from soundboard - SBD
Unknown source - ?
Recording from radio broadcast - FMR
Recording from webcast - WEB
Proshot video - PRO
Quality acronyms:
.mp3 / .mp4 / .wma / .aac - compressed audio files
lossless - a term referring to and used when digital recordings are transferred decompressed, allowing the audio to sound exactly as it was recorded; it is an exact copy of the audio and does not remove any information from the audio stream
.FLAC - 'Free Lossless Audio Codec' - the most popular 'format' of lossless audio
.SHN - another very popular form of lossless audio
.wav - another popular form of lossless audio; it is the format in which most recorders record audio in
Other vocabulary:
FM - Radio broadcast
MD - Minidisc, a Sony trademark that is NOT Minidisk, Mini Disk or Mini Disc
CD - compact disc
CD-R - compact disc recordable
DAT - a recording device by Sony, popular in the 80s and 90s, one of the first 'digital' recorders, as opposed to 'analog' recorders
.MPEG - condensed video file (similar to mp3 in audio)
.AVI - another form of condensed video
.VOB - decompressed video file (very very similar to 'lossless' in audio. it is the format in which DVDs are in; it's the highest quality video available)
Show page guide:
Source 1: Audio/Video (Source)
Taper: Name
Quality: A/B/C/D/F
Time: hour/minutes
Format: mp3 or flac or what
Comments: comments on the recording itself
Show Notes:
-Notes about the show itself and how the band performed. Example: It was the first time blahblah song was debuted. It was the only show where Chester changed the lyrics to blahblah song with "examplehere" instead of "anotherexamplehere".
Other Notes:
-Info about if the show was mislabeled or something. This is just random other information, like when the recording first surfaced or something like that.