Jademalo Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 I figure by now someone has ahold of a copy, and if you're willing I'd quite like for you to do a little test for me. There are a couple of FLAC versions of the album hovering around, and it looks like the CD has been partially mastered in MPEG for some horrific reason. Some tracks come up as CDDA, some as MPEG. If possible, could someone who has the CD run Audiochecker using the source "Tracks from Audio CD" with the actual CD in the drive, and then pastebin me the log? I'm extremely curious, and I'm also very worried that the album has been mastered terribly. Here is a link to audiochecker; http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Audiochecker-Download-43293.html Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWLover Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Don't know if you've got your answer yet, but here's what I get when running the regular EU (Dutch) CD through Audiochecker: 01 AIMH - Error, could not qualify the source of the track 02 Magic - 100% CDDA 03 Ink - 95% MPEG 04 True Love - 95% MPEG 05 Midnight - 100% CDDA 06 Another's Arms - 95% MPEG 07 Oceans - 100% CDDA 08 A Sky Full Of Stars - 100% CDDA 09 O - 100% CDDA So yeah, it definitely looks like something weird happened in the mastering stage... but would they really have been so careless to use MPEG-versions by accident, or would it have some kind of reasoning behind it (maybe they like the more 'compressed' sound MPEG encoding gives)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jademalo Posted May 17, 2014 Author Share Posted May 17, 2014 Thanks a lot for that, that is absolutely astonishing. It mostly matches up with the version I had, except one track of mine was 87% CDDA. I can't fathom it, why would anyone want the MPEG sound... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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