pixie_twinkle 44 Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I only just found out that John Barry's amazing score to The Black Hole (previously only available on vinyl) is available to download from i-tunes for $9.90. I just downloaded it this evening and it sounds great. I've been after a CD-quality copy of this for about 20 years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 859 Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 You're many months behind. It was released this past January.There should be a thread somewhere on this message board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 2,924 Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 Well,is it the 128k version.I think the MASK version sounds better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 44 Posted October 25, 2007 Author Share Posted October 25, 2007 Ok sorry! I only just found it by accident! There was a link on the Wikepedia page on Disney. I assumed someone probably already posted the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 2,924 Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 Yep,a DRM ridden 128k digital version of black HoleOr did they bump up the bitrate now??K.M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 44 Posted October 25, 2007 Author Share Posted October 25, 2007 I'm not sure how to check. It sounded fine on my computer speakers, but I'm just burning a copy to CD to play on my good speakers. I'll let you know how it sounds.EDIT: Just listening through it now. It's not bad at all, but it's definitely lacking fullness and depth. According to the Disney entry on Wikepedia there's rumours of a possible official CD release sometime soon. Who knows... In the meantime I'm happy enough with this i-tunes version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 1,394 Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 Yep,a DRM ridden 128k digital version of black HoleI believe it's still 128k, yes, though I really haven't been very disappointed with the sound quality of iTunes' downloads. AAC is a step up from mp3, and there are few albums during which the compression bothers me. (I'd still rather buy a CD, though...) The DRM is easily circumnavigated by burning the music to a disc and then re-importing from the disc in the format of your choice, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker 5 Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 The DRM is easily circumnavigated by burning the music to a disc and then re-importing from the disc in the format of your choice, though.Unless you are re-encoding with a lossless codec, you are losing more data when you transcode.Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 1,394 Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 Unless you are re-encoding with a lossless codec, you are losing more data when you transcode.True. That's why I transcode to WAV. I usually don't bother with the burn-and-reimport technique unless I'm planning to edit the music, in which case I need a WAV or mp3 file for Audacity. So I simply import the CD's contents as WAV files, then take the WAVs out of my iTunes library, leaving them on my hard drive so I can edit them while the original AACs stay in iTunes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 2,924 Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 128k AAC's on PC speakers doesn't sound bad,but with headphones it seems a little compressed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 5,520 Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 True. That's why I transcode to WAV.FLAC takes half the space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 44 Posted October 26, 2007 Author Share Posted October 26, 2007 flac... wav... I'm all confused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 1,394 Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 FLAC takes half the space.But Audacity can't open FLAC files, and I rarely have any reason to break out of the DRM's iron cage except when I want to edit music for myself. And my iPod can't take FLACs, either, I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker 5 Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 No, but it will play Apple Lossless, which is about half the size of a wav file.Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 1,394 Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 No, but it will play Apple Lossless, which is about half the size of a wav file.But Audacity won't take ALAC files, either. Basically, I can only import WAV or mp3 files into Audacity, I believe. Since the iTunes downloads are originally 128k AACs, I need to convert them to either WAVs or mp3s in order to edit with them. As we've already established, transcoding to mp3 would just be stupid, so transcoding to WAV is my only option. We're going in logic circles here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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