What are you listening to right now ?

[slartibartfast]

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.

What are your tags for track 9 then. That seems to be the quietest track on my album.

[d6jg]

What are your tags for track 9 then. That seems to be the quietest track on my album.

[slartibartfast]

Strange. Your track peak is the same as for track 5 and the album peak but mine is only 0.597839 compared to an album peak of 0.957336.

[slartibartfast]

This my track 5


and this is track 9

[d6jg]

Unless you used exactly the same recording level as I did there are bound to be different RG values.

[slartibartfast]

Unless you used exactly the same recording level as I did there are bound to be different RG values.

If I increased the recording level it would have clipped though. I wouldn't expect all the tracks to have exactly the samee peak value either. It just seems odd that all of your track peaks are 0.999969 without using normalisation. I noticed some of my recent captures had the recording level set slightly too high and I know a couple of tracks clipped and those track peaks were 0.999969. These peaks are normally very short duration and probably inaudible but something to watch out for.

[d6jg]

One of my favourite Mike’s Davis albums. There are quite a few.

♪ Playing Concierto de Aranjuez by Miles Davis from Sketches of Spain (180g Vinyl) (1960) (Local • 595kbps VBR 16bit 44.1kHz FLC)

[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!

Apropos this longest track in my collection, I'm currently playing Sly and The Family Stone There's a Riot Goin' On - and the title track must be the shortest in my collection. It's a blank track but it clocks in at 4 seconds.



Robert

[slartibartfast]

♪ Playing Harem Scarem by Focus from Hamburger Concerto (Vinyl) (1974) (Local • 779kbps VBR 16bit 44.1kHz FLC)

[SlimChances]

Liked Focaus and some of Thjis Van Leer's classical recordings a lot
I have been playing this a couple of times, just lovely orchestration

[Saintade]

Listening to last Sundays Radcliffe & Maconie BBC Radio 6 show through my newly-installed 3rd party app for BBC Sounds Radio. It's a brilliant app. Thanks to Expectingtofly who have done a great job with it.

[slartibartfast]

The brother of a friend was (and still is I think) the drummer in a Cambridge band back in the late 80s and early 90s. During that time the guitarist from Katrina and the Waves would play with them as a side project when he wasn't busy with the Waves. This is before he wrote the Eurovision Song Contest winner 😀. When we went to see this band in a pub the other members of the Waves (no Katrina) joined the band for the final couple of songs with the drummer giving my friend's brother's drum kit a fair old thrashing during Wooly Bully 🤣

♪ Playing Going Down to Liverpool by Katrina And The Waves from Katrina And The Waves (Vinyl) (1985) (Local • 842kbps VBR 16bit 44.1kHz FLC)

[d6jg]

♪ Playing Strange Brew by Cream from Disraeli Gears (Deluxe Edition) (1967) (Local • 880kbps VBR 16bit 44.1kHz FLC)

[Grumpy Bob]

The new album from Yo La Tengo, This Stupid World, is pretty good. Shades of motorik in there, especially the first track. It's been getting some good reviews out there. I've been having it on rotation on my phone's Qobuz app.

Robert

[Grumpy Bob]

This morning I am playing Pärson Sound's eponymous album. Originally released in 2001, the tracks were recorded in the late 1960s. Pärson Sound eventually morphed into the better known Träd, Gräs & Stenar. Anyhow, it's a pleasant enough psych-drone type sound, quite heavy at times. A good start to the working day! It's just been re-released on triple vinyl and double CD formats, though I suspect the download from Bandcamp represents best value.

Robert