HDtracks 96/24 Ultimate Download Experience

[Peter314]

A hotmail account works for me.

[Mnyb]

So you didn't need any special 'American' email address for the account at HDTracks? I already registered a paypal account today, wanted to do that for a while now...

Nope, they even have my correct home address ? they look the other way sssh.

[Nonreality]

If you have dbpoweramp reference version you can convert the files to 24/48. Use the batch convert and just choose to convert them again to flac and add the dsp resample and choose 48. Before you do this you should start the dbpoweramp config and go to the last tab and set commercial quality resampling. Works great and then it doesn't have to be done on the fly for the SB3 or duet. Not sure about the boom.

[quietdragon]

If you have dbpoweramp reference version you can convert the files to 24/48.

A pleasant surprise:

Thank you for downloading HDtracks 96/24 Ultimate Download Experience. ... As a token of our appreciation for giving us a listen, here is a discount code that you can enter during the checkout process for 20% off your next order.

I tagged these tracks with a 96/24 prefix to avoid selecting them during automatic playlist generation.

I used the following script template on my media server to make 44.1kHz tracks. It's great to have DRM free media.

% flac -d -o infile.wav infile.flac
% ssrc_hp --twopass --rate 44100 --bits 16 --dither 1 --pdf 1 1 infile.wav outfile.wav
% flac -P 32768 -8 -V -o outfile.flac outfile.wav
% metaflac --export-tags-to=- infile.flac | metaflac --remove-all-tags --import-tags-from=- outfile.flac
% rm infile.wav outfile.wav

% GENRE=$(metaflac --show-tag=GENRE outfile.flac)
% GENRE=${GENRE#96/24 }
% metaflac --remove-tag=GENRE --set-tag="$GENRE" outfile.flac

Now to go make use of my coupon.

[signor_rossi]

I am now happily downloading two Marta Gomez albums. I couldn't resist her voice and she will also remind me to finally learn Spanish too, which I have wanted to for a long time now.
I will probably use foobar2000 to downsample the tracks, or is 'ssrc_hp' better, quietdragon?

SignorRossi.

EDIT: Arghhh, I forgot about the promo code (I downloaded the free sample tracks with another email address).

[Teus de Jong]

So you didn't need any special 'American' email address for the account at HDTracks?

No. Works perfectly with my normal e-mail address.

Teus

[bhaagensen]

I really like the 1. track and it also sounds vicked to me. If you know more about "The Snow Maiden" please consider posting in the new thread I started here:

http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...791#post410791

Bjorn

[quietdragon]

I will probably use foobar2000 to downsample the tracks, or is 'ssrc_hp' better, quietdragon?

I don't know. To be sure you probably need to try both and see which you think is better sounding to your ears.

I used ssrc mostly because of the good feedback I've read about it, and that I wanted a command line tool to run on my Linux based media server.

[quietdragon]

I am now happily downloading two Marta Gomez albums. I couldn't resist her voice ...

Yeah, that's such a gorgeous sounding track.

Which other Marta Gomez albums did you download?

Are the tracks as good as the one on the sampler?

[signor_rossi]

Yeah, that's such a gorgeous sounding track.

Which other Marta Gomez albums did you download?

Are the tracks as good as the one on the sampler?

There are only two albums , 'Cantos De Agua Dulce' and 'Entre Cada Palabra'. For a proper opinion on the other tracks I might have to listen more to them, but both albums are quite entertaing and have great rhythm (I am generally a fan of such pleasant female voices Marta Gomez certainly has). You can also preview the tracks. I could post my final verdict later in a new thread in the 'Music' subforum.

SignorRossi.