Jan 11, 2014, 16:26 pm
Hi, fellow pirates.
I've downloaded a lot of music from TPB along the years, and I mean a lot. I like classical music and jazz, mostly. The 50's were a golden age in the recording world, the best conductors and orchestras were in their peak. So a lot of the best recordings of classical music are in mono (stereo began in late fifties).
Over the years I began to notice a curious thing, all this recordings were ripped in stereo. One of my latest upload is in mono, is the first in the list:
http://thepiratebay.se/search/walter%20m...ied/0/99/0
The recording is from 1948, the other torrents are from another concert of the same work made in 1951 (in mono too). My rip is 149 MiB, the others are 290 MiB, they are ripped in stereo (double size).
This is not rare, on the contrary, is the norm. I have not seen yet one single mono recording properly ripped, this is, in mono. Why is that?
The other day in another thread one fellow pirate asked about ripping programs, and the first answer pointed towards EAC, "the best program".
Well, EAC is a piece of junk that can't rip mono. Of course, you must rip in secure mode (over an hour and a half to rip a cd), because it makes a "more perfect rip". All this is nonsense.
Why so many people use EAC, and tell others to do so?
Because EAC is mandatory in private sites.
EAC is not better than other programs, in fact, it is worse. I use Freerip for ripping CDs. It's a 2 MiB free program that can do things that the uber-awesome EAC can't, like rip mono CDs in mono.
EAC is mandatory in private sites not because it's a better program, but because of the log files. Private sites make rules, and those rules generate more rules, and people end up in a Kafka style environment.
There is no point in telling people in a public site erroneous things because of ill reasons of private sites.
To all those pro's of private sites that sometimes look down to this poor public sites and maybe are reading this, let's make an experiment.
Look for a rip of a mono recording (early fifties) in your private site, of classical or jazz music, or whatever you find. Play the file with VLC, go to codec properties, there you'll find that it's rip in stereo.
This nonsense reaches paroxysm when you see mono recordings ripped in "high definition" stereo.
If someone who reads this finds a mono recording ripped in mono (play the flac file with VLC and go to codec properties) please post the link here, I'm really curious. Thanks.
I've downloaded a lot of music from TPB along the years, and I mean a lot. I like classical music and jazz, mostly. The 50's were a golden age in the recording world, the best conductors and orchestras were in their peak. So a lot of the best recordings of classical music are in mono (stereo began in late fifties).
Over the years I began to notice a curious thing, all this recordings were ripped in stereo. One of my latest upload is in mono, is the first in the list:
http://thepiratebay.se/search/walter%20m...ied/0/99/0
The recording is from 1948, the other torrents are from another concert of the same work made in 1951 (in mono too). My rip is 149 MiB, the others are 290 MiB, they are ripped in stereo (double size).
This is not rare, on the contrary, is the norm. I have not seen yet one single mono recording properly ripped, this is, in mono. Why is that?
The other day in another thread one fellow pirate asked about ripping programs, and the first answer pointed towards EAC, "the best program".
Well, EAC is a piece of junk that can't rip mono. Of course, you must rip in secure mode (over an hour and a half to rip a cd), because it makes a "more perfect rip". All this is nonsense.
Why so many people use EAC, and tell others to do so?
Because EAC is mandatory in private sites.
EAC is not better than other programs, in fact, it is worse. I use Freerip for ripping CDs. It's a 2 MiB free program that can do things that the uber-awesome EAC can't, like rip mono CDs in mono.
EAC is mandatory in private sites not because it's a better program, but because of the log files. Private sites make rules, and those rules generate more rules, and people end up in a Kafka style environment.
There is no point in telling people in a public site erroneous things because of ill reasons of private sites.
To all those pro's of private sites that sometimes look down to this poor public sites and maybe are reading this, let's make an experiment.
Look for a rip of a mono recording (early fifties) in your private site, of classical or jazz music, or whatever you find. Play the file with VLC, go to codec properties, there you'll find that it's rip in stereo.
This nonsense reaches paroxysm when you see mono recordings ripped in "high definition" stereo.
If someone who reads this finds a mono recording ripped in mono (play the flac file with VLC and go to codec properties) please post the link here, I'm really curious. Thanks.