[Five]

Originally Posted by xequence

Since it was 132Kbps atrac3 and was encoded to lossless, would people really want a lossless file with lossy information in it? And if they encoded the lossless (with lossy in it) to lossy, it would be a transcode.

So basically, the quality is only as good as a low bitrate (132) lossy file, but it takes up the space of a lossless file.

Just wondering, I hope I dont sound rude or anything.

And a little offtopic, but Five, that looks like Adobe Audition, but the spectral frequency display looks more blury then mine. Odd.

since mds are used a lot for stealth recordings that otherwise wouldn't exist, they are allowed at etree/dime/ttd/jtt/bc/zomb/etc/etc and were also allowed at STG back in the day. it is also very difficult to get a direct digital transfer, so many are done thru some sort of analog input. there is no way to extract the atrac tracks in their original lossy format with the small filesize (correct me if I'm wrong about this), so FLAC is the best we can do with it. I really despise the sound of these klind of recordings personally, and recently upgraded my old md recorder to hi-md because it is like a "good" mp3 at the best of times, and at low quality settings is worse than an average 128kbps mp3.

Originally Posted by niiru

would people want it? it's the only source of the show and as good as it's going to get, so possibly. when i seed it, it will be labeled as such. hopefully one day another recording will turn up (it's been three years, so it's not very likely, but you never know)..

really depends on how popular the band is, if its been three years and the seeder hasn't shared it from the master then you have somewhat of a rare recording that the serious fans (very serious fans) might want to get a hold of. Since there is nothing better, I would feel free to share it but would also make it clear in the announce that the quality is really awful and is recommended only for the most serious of fans.

I actually have worse recordings than this in my collection, when its the only source you've gotta just thank your lucky stars that a tape exists at all!