As a consumer of this kind of (mostly-unavailable commercially) material, I have collected some great mpegs. Back in the day storage limits on servers may have caused long videos to be split, but in 2025 (actually, it is currently 2028, 3 years later) we generally prefer the whole kit 'n kaboodle. The only exception I would make is if it was a multi-band thing, then I would split the individual sets up. I have The Ultimate Revenge concert with Exodus, Slayer, and Venom and it is presented as one single media file, but the running time is less than two hours so it's not too rediculis, neither is any of the live sets of Pink Floyd The Wall over the decades, by either PF or Roger Waters, which is only ever about 90 minutes anyways. But I would hate to split the back from the front. I remember 15 years ago I found Portishead Live at the Roseland and some kook chopped it in half with a dull spoon. I think I owned it on DVD anyways but wanted it for traveling playback. I had to join the two parts together and still remember how in Something like all day-day show like Us Festival, Rock In Rio, or the Freddy Mercury Tribute Concert is best split up into sections. Other than examples like that, I prefer single files for long concerts.
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Do you have the 1983 Rock Against Reagan show in D.C., by chance?
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Fullmetal Archivist
If I have a show to upload that's stupid long, should I split it or nah?
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