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The Latest Greatest B-Sides Thread • Page 46

Discussion in 'Music Forum' started by blistersoul61, Apr 11, 2016.

  1. mudville

    SPACE!

    Check your PM.
     
  2. blistersoul61

    It's a space station!

    Looking for Party Man by Peter Gabriel on the Virtuosity Soundtrack. Prefer FLAC or 320. Thanks!
     
  3. Sebejszczyn

    Newbie

  4. danacky

    Newbie

    Could I get a rip of this in Flac please
     
  5. Joint Attention

    Newbie

    If you want to send me the rip, I can run it through iTunes Match and see if it's still in their database. May be able to get a 256 AAC.
     
  6. silverjetz

    The Dude Abides

    Check the Ruskies - they have the Droids you're looking for..
     
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  7. blistersoul61

    It's a space station!

    Forgot about them. Got what I needed. Thank you sir.
     
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  8. Benjamin Lee

    Trusted

    Does anyone have "Once Again" by Fair? It was only released on a limited to 500 CD single and I've been desperately searching for it. haha
     
  9. blistersoul61

    It's a space station!


    Is this the Aaron Sprinkle band Fair? I was a huge Poor Old Lu fan and follow Aaron on Facebook. I may have some contacts if that is the band.
     
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  10. Benjamin Lee

    Trusted

    Yes! I would be forever grateful if you could get a decent mp3, or even a WAV or FLAC. Aaron's one my favorite musicians, and that's one of the only songs of his I don't have. It's a b-side from the first Fair record that I can't find anywhere.
     
  11. blistersoul61

    It's a space station!

    I posted on the POL page and linked it to Aaron and Scott Hunter. I will keep you posted.
     
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  12. Benjamin Lee

    Trusted

    Thank you so much. :-)
     
  13. cultmetfan Feb 16, 2017
    (Last edited: Feb 16, 2017)
    cultmetfan

    Regular

  14. cultmetfan

    Regular


    MEGA

    that's the mp4 that I originally bought.

    MEGA

    that's a flac rip of the track from the cd I burned.
     
  15. pooleboy

    The Moon Awaits

  16. Joint Attention

    Newbie

    Sorry, didn't match. Must not be in the iTunes database anymore.
     
  17. julz

    Regular

    Just so everyone is 100% on this, ripping a FLAC from a CD that was burned from an mp4 source is completely useless. FLAC is a lossless format, but it cannot create lossless files from an originally lossy file. In fact, this will only make the quality worse. Transcodes are a big reason why a lot of stuff from the early days of online digital music sounds terrible unless you can find a direct source, because people would transcode mp3 to mp3, or mp4 to mp3. Lossy to lossless is just as much of a transcode, bigger file size for no quality gain.
     
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  18. Joint Attention Feb 16, 2017
    (Last edited: Feb 16, 2017)
    Joint Attention

    Newbie

    No quality gain, but it should sound identical to the original mp4, no? Re-encoding it back to 128 kbps mp4 would make it sound even worse. Not a lot of other options for removing DRM anymore.

    I think that some of the tools for removing FairPlay DRM still work, but only if you still have a really old version of iTunes running somewhere.

    But I agree transcodes are the devil incarnate. If you search for an MP3 on Google these days, most of the results are YouTube rips, which is a real travesty. At best you are getting a transcode of a transcode.
     
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  19. cultmetfan

    Regular

    Seeing as it was only available as a mp4 file in the first place struck me as odd as why they wanted it as a flac file anyway.
    I just did as I was asked. No problem if it's of no use to you. I'll delete the link.
     
  20. blistersoul61

    It's a space station!


    Looks like someone has the MP3 on Discogs and the best it was released was 192 kbps

    https://www.discogs.com/Therapy-Polar-Bear-Rock-You-Monkeys/release/966415
     
  21. silverjetz Feb 17, 2017
    (Last edited: Feb 17, 2017)
    silverjetz

    The Dude Abides

    been slammed the last week so only now getting back to the threads..

    yeah, there was a 24 bit flac on W.CD back in the day, but I just checked both & it looks like Blister's 256 kbps version is *most* likely just downsampled from that rip.

    Yup - Jack is the king for releasing music in exclusive formats - just check out the Triple Decker her put out a few yrs back - nuckin' futz..
     
  22. silverjetz

    The Dude Abides

    Not really - as all the 1's & 0's are all out of whack between the various encode/decode steps..

    Totally agree - never upsample a lossy file, as it won't sound any better in the end and YT rips are just a freakin' joke. Don't know why people would bother to do that, vs just tracking down the native source file..

    OK - putting away my soapbox now, as I'm done w/the audiosnob old man rant :)
     
  23. silverjetz Feb 17, 2017
    (Last edited: Feb 17, 2017)
    silverjetz

    The Dude Abides

    Any Catherine Wheel fans here? Looking to upgrade some of my b-sides & get some others that I'd had back in the day on physical CD's, but since lost in a B&E 15 yrs ago..

    Thx!
     
  24. blistersoul61

    It's a space station!

    Well bleep, I am sure I got mine from What.cd back in the day. Thanks for the information, old man!
     
  25. Joint Attention

    Newbie

    Any chance you can upload that FLAC? Would love to get it the best quality available.