Depeche Mode Live Wiki:About

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We strive to provide as much information as possible about Depeche Mode's extensive live career which spans over three decades and counting. To a lesser extent, we serve the highest quality recordings available to download, free of charge. We are also slowly populating the wiki with all circulating recordings, audio and video, from every tour. We would be glad to digitize and share any Depeche Mode (and solo members') recordings you may have of any quality, both here on the wiki and DIME, whether the recording is on audio cassette, DAT, MiniDisc or PAL & NTSC (S)VHS; see Contributing for more information. We invite anybody to help contribute, whether it be with information or recordings! If you are interested in the equipment at our disposal for transferring recordings, please see the Equipment page.

This site was partially inspired by Reflecting In The Chrome, an archival site of live recordings for Nine Inch Nails run by Ryan Jonik. Many thanks to Ryan for his terrific archive and for lending his insight into running an archive. Also thanks for his contribution of a Sony MDS-S707 MiniDisc deck!

Thanks to Ronny for helping to initially populate the wiki and for contributing site artwork, ticket scans, and general help with cleaning up images. Also thanks to Angelinda for her massive and continuous contributions to the Interviews section.

This project is dedicated to the memory of Ryan Mayer (LilKing22 on DIME), who passed away much too soon on July 9, 2014. I hope he rests in peace, enjoying all of the best Depeche Mode live recordings he could ever want.

The Depeche Mode Live Wiki is hosted on a Digital Ocean VPS. If you are interested in using Digital Ocean to host your own website or service, I would appreciate it if you signed up using this referral link as I will receive a $10 credit which is used toward my hosting costs. You will also receive $10 credit via this link. The torrent seedbox and stream server is hosted by BuyVM for a very reasonable price.

Torrent tracker software is provided by opentracker. Some utilities used to assist in my workflow of preparing and adding recordings to the wiki were coded by qaisjp. Immense thanks to Qais for making this task infinitely easier!

We take security very seriously, which is why the entire site is accessed over an encrypted, secure connection following the latest standards and best configuration practices. This site earns an A+ rating at Qualys SSL Labs.