What are you listening to right now ?

[slartibartfast]

My FLAC copy has a different Kbps !!

What level of FLAC compression do you choose? I captured mine at 24/96 then converted to 16/44.1 level 5 FLAC after removing the obvious clicks.

[d6jg]

What level of FLAC compression do you choose? I captured mine at 24/96 then converted to 16/44.1 level 5 FLAC after removing the obvious clicks.

Level 5 but the capture was direct to 16:44.1

[slartibartfast]

Level 5 but the capture was direct to 16:44.1

This is track 5 info

[RonM]

Indeed so it is now redigitised 🤣. I have seen many reviews complaining about the "thin" sound quality and blaming it on the digital recording. It sounds fine to me.

Cooder's Bop Till You Drop is one of my favorite albums. It was in fact recorded completely digitally, not to analog tape and then digitized, so there shouldn't be any analog files that can be re-digitized. I've loved the album from the first listen and have never really understood the issues people claim. But for years Cooder made it known he wasn't too pleased with the final product. Favorites - Little Sister and the instrumental I Think It's Going To Work Out Fine. This was about the time that I was listening a lot to Ike and Tina Turner's River Deep Mountain High, and they had a vocal version of Work Out Fine, I enjoyed playing them back to back, or at least CD after CD (much harder to play tracks back to back, back in the day).

[slartibartfast]

Cooder's Bop Till You Drop is one of my favorite albums. It was in fact recorded completely digitally, not to analog tape and then digitized, so there shouldn't be any analog files that can be re-digitized. I've loved the album from the first listen and have never really understood the issues people claim. But for years Cooder made it known he wasn't too pleased with the final product. Favorites - Little Sister and the instrumental I Think It's Going To Work Out Fine. This was about the time that I was listening a lot to Ike and Tina Turner's River Deep Mountain High, and they had a vocal version of Work Out Fine, I enjoyed playing them back to back, or at least CD after CD (much harder to play tracks back to back, back in the day).

In my case it is redigitised because I did a needle drop of the vinyl 😀

[Grumpy Bob]

Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band - Safe As Milk (1967) Just to follow on from recent Ry Cooder posts, this was one of Cooder's earlier appearances on record. I'm a long time listener to Captain Beefheart, having started with the magnificent Trout Mask Replica about a decade or so after its release, backtracking to the earlier LPs and forward including the 'tragic band' era and Beefheart's return to form.

[Grumpy Bob]

Playing the longest track in my music collection. La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela - The Well-Tuned Piano in the Magenta Lights: “87 V 10 6:43:00 PM — 87 V 11 1:07:45 AM NYC”. It's 6h25m01s long, and I rarely play it all the way through!

[slartibartfast]

Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band - Safe As Milk (1967) Just to follow on from recent Ry Cooder posts, this was one of Cooder's earlier appearances on record. I'm a long time listener to Captain Beefheart, having started with the magnificent Trout Mask Replica about a decade or so after its release, backtracking to the earlier LPs and forward including the 'tragic band' era and Beefheart's return to form.

I saw Beefheart live at Loughborough Uni during his tour promoting "Doc At The Radar Station". One of the weirdest concerts I have ever seen, in a good way 😀. I found a bootleg recording of the concert on Dimeadozen and you hear the sound of plastic beer "glasses" on the floor being kicked in between tracks at times. That sound was a constant at all concerts in the Student's Union building 🤣

[slartibartfast]

My FLAC copy has a different Kbps !!

This has started to bother me for some reason. I can only think it is down to the amplitude of the waveform. I played the same track from Tidal which was 800kbps compared to my 741kbps. The Tidal track was louder than mine with replaygain turned off.

[castalla]

I saw Beefheart live at Loughborough Uni during his tour promoting "Doc At The Radar Station". One of the weirdest concerts I have ever seen, in a good way 😀. I found a bootleg recording of the concert on Dimeadozen and you hear the sound of plastic beer "glasses" on the floor being kicked in between tracks at times. That sound was a constant at all concerts in the Student's Union building 🤣

How about a theme covering 'Bands at the Union'?

Here's two I recall (date is only approximate!) :

The Kinks - 1968 Newcastle Uni

Wings - 1971 Birmingham Uni

[d6jg]

This has started to bother me for some reason. I can only think it is down to the amplitude of the waveform. I played the same track from Tidal which was 800kbps compared to my 741kbps. The Tidal track was louder than mine with replaygain turned off.

It could easily be the volume setting at the ADC stage. As you know I use VinylStudio which has a setting for digital in to effectively set the volume at optimum level. There is no such option in Audacity that I’m aware of where the recording level is manually set

[slartibartfast]

It could easily be the volume setting at the ADC stage. As you know I use VinylStudio which has a setting for digital in to effectively set the volume at optimum level. There is no such option in Audacity that I’m aware of where the recording level is manually set

If you use replaygain can you check all the values for that track. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the peaks on the Tidal version are clipped. I noticed some minor clicks on some of my tracks which I am tracking down one by one. I wouldn't normally bother but the rest of it is so quiet they are annoying me 😀

[d6jg]

If you use replaygain can you check all the values for that track. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the peaks on the Tidal version are clipped. I noticed some minor clicks on some of my tracks which I am tracking down one by one. I wouldn't normally bother but the rest of it is so quiet they are annoying me 😀

[slartibartfast]

That probably explains it then. My figures are very different. Does Vinyl Studio normalise each track separately? My highest peak is track 3 followed by track 1 but track 5 has a lower peak than both of them.

[d6jg]

That probably explains it then. My figures are very different. Does Vinyl Studio normalise each track separately? My highest peak is track 3 followed by track 1 but track 5 has a lower peak than both of them.

VinylStudio can do “normalisation” but I don’t use it. My RG tags come from Foobar2000 which I use as a post processor after Flacs have been created.