Here's a message from a friend I downloaded this for: "The Mayer tape is awesome. Tell your buddy that he did an amazing job!"

I have asked an LMA Admin to looking into the problem with the VBR ZIP file. Hopefully it gets sorted out shortly. In the meantime, you can download the individual MP3 files - they are fine.

Update Feb. 27: the VBR zip file issue seems to be sorted out - the file should work fine for you now.

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Here is the link to the Michael Franti & Spearhead opening set.

http://www.archive.org/details/mfs2010-02-24.ca11.flac16

This is about how to set up Firefox's DownThemAll plugin to automatically download lossless audio files and their metadata from archive.org, without downloading any other types of file:
First, you need two things - you need to have Mozilla's Firefox browser, then you need to go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201 and install the DownThemAll! plugin. From there, follow these steps to configure the plugin:
Go to a show you want to download from archive.org, right click on an empty part of the page and select "DownThemAll!" in the context menu.
In the bottom right corner of the window that pops up, click "Preferences".
Click the "Filters" button at the top of the new window.
If you've already tried unsuccessfully to change your filters, click the "Restore default settings" button to start with a clean slate.
Click "Add New Filter". You'll see a new filter labeled "New Filter" highlighted in blue in the upper window
Make sure you keep "New Filter" highlighted for the following. In the "Caption" window type "Lossless", in the "Filtered Extensions" window type or copy and paste the following (minus the quotes): "/.(?:shn|flac|md5|ffp|st5|cfp|txt)$/i" exactly.
Click OK.
Check the new "Lossless" box and make sure all the other boxes are unchecked. You'll notice all the flac or shn files are queued for download as well as the metadata, but nothing else. Select a download folder for your files and then click "Start!"
From then on, whenever you want to download a show, just right click on an empty part of the page, select "DownThemAll!" from the menu, choose or create a download folder and then click "Start!" That's it!
These steps WORK! If they don't work for you, you haven't followed the instructions to the letter. Read through them and try again.

I've downloaded the mp3s, but I get an error when I try to unzip the folder. Why is this? And how might I successfully download the file?

Thank you so much for recording this. The show last night was fantastic. I'm already looking forward to the next time he comes around. I have seen him many times, and last night ranks in the top 2 shows that I have ever seen. Thank you again!!

~Mizz

btw: Any chance that the opening set was recorded as well? Thank You!!