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Mastering the meaning of mastering and "original master recording" in the digital age

by Bearcat M. Şándor

Folks, I've got music ripped to my hard drive (hybrid wavpack for the curious), and i'm a little obsessive about my tagging. I've got a 'mastering' tag wherein i put the name of the mastering engineer and whether or not the track is an "original master recording". These original master recordings are usually DCC, Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs or Audio Fidelity labels. So now i'm staring at the rest of my collection wondering what to put in there. These original master recording discs are older (20+ years) when mastering was analog. My questions are: Most recent CDs were mastered digitally, therefore is the original master equivalent (at least in quality) to the CD i own? At about what year did most CDs become digitally mastered, rendering original master recordings moot, if they are? I *swear* i remember buying CDs when they came out and they used to tell you how things were mastered. Didn't they used to indicate AAD, ADD, DDD for (recording, editing, mastering)? Why did they stop doing this? Is there any way to tell/reasonably guess if a CD has been digitally mastered without those codes? Thanks, -- Bearcat M. Şándor Feline Soul Systems Voice: 872.CAT.SOUL (872.228.7685) Fax: 406.235.7070 Jabber/xmpp/gtalk/email: bearcat(a)feline-soul.net MSN: bearcatsandor(a)hotmail.com Yahoo: bearcatsandor AIM: bearcatmsandor My public pgp key is included for verification of my identity

12 years, 7 months

Re: [LAU] MICROSOFT HIRED THESE PEOPLE TO SABOTAGE OPEN SOURCE

by Ralf Mardorf

Please, continue at d-community-offtopic(a)lists.alioth.debian.org only! On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 04:49 +0000, Dirk wrote: > http://i.imgur.com/6Oja0bm.png > https://boards.4chan.org/g/res/32881623 First of all, I forwarded this to a list, where one of those persons is subscribed. This is the OP: Dirk <yqlsxepzrclk(a)mailinator.com> So no real name and picture of this guy. Sure, I've got another point of view myself and don't like those changes for Linux too, for example, when ever possible I try to get outdated versions of GIMP and there are many changes and new policies I don't like. I also don't like many members of the community, but we are humans with different worldviews and even if other people don't tolerate your or my world view, we should tolerate others and not do the same. Denunciation by email to an open list is absolutely unacceptable, for several reasons, e.g. people could have the same name, or look very similar. Your claim suffers from missing evidences! Even if this should be meant as a joke, it could excited people. Even if this should be mean serious, while being the truth, this isn't the way civilized people act. If "MICROSOFT HIRED PEOPLE TO SABOTAGE OPEN SOURCE", then we should talk about it, without witch-hunting. At least fr me it's not important who are those people, for me it's important to know more about this issue. Are there any evidences for your claim? I don't like many changes, because some changes make Linux closer to Windows, but I use Linux to be far away from Windows. Why should Microsoft hire people to make Linux more like Windows? I don't do research about this topic myself, it seems t be a conspiracy theory and not worth the hassle. This is the chance for you Dirk, to undergird your hard claim. Btw. IMO this belongs to http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic if we should continue without witch-hunting. Including the witch-hunting it belongs to /dev/null. Please, continue at d-community-offtopic(a)lists.alioth.debian.org only!

12 years, 7 months

Skype won't work though JACK plugin

by Joel Roth

Hi list, Redirecting the ALSA default device to JACK seems to be well-traveled territory,[1,2] nevertheless, I'm not getting all the behaviors I'd like. Flash works, but Skype doesn't, and surprisingly Ecasound doesn't do well either (an interesting data point although hardly a problem.) Perhaps Skype is trying to work via /dev/dsp? I'm curious if anyone else is getting better results. Here are my test results: aplay test.wav # plays! aplay -D default test.wav # plays! mplayer -ao alsa:default test.wav # plays! mplayer -ao alsa test.wav # plays! ecasound -i test.wav -o alsa # weird noise after several seconds delay ecasound -i test.wav -o alsa,default # weird noise after several seconds delay Flash/Firefox # plays! skype # "problem with audio playback" I'm running JACK like this: jackd -d alsa -d hw:0,0 -r 44100 -H And I'm using this asoundrc: pcm.!default { type plug slave { pcm "jack" } } pcm.jack { type jack playback_ports { 0 system:playback_1 1 system:playback_2 } capture_ports { 0 system:capture_1 1 system:capture_2 } } Regards, Joel -- Joel Roth

12 years, 7 months

Phasex configuration

by Ralf Mardorf

Hallo, is it possible to save and/or load the configuration of Phasex? When a script start it, using a manually edited configuration by phasex -c $song_path/share/phasex.cfg the configuration will be overwritten with the default values. phasex-0.14.97 x86_64 Regards, Ralf

12 years, 7 months

Ardour3: selecting the rest of a track

by jonetsu＠teksavvy.com

Hello, See attached. Is there a way to select everything after the reading point (the red line) ? There is a selection option (right-clicking on that track) that exactly sounds like it, but it acts on all tracks and, it does not select only after the reading point. I'd like to delete everything after that line - is this the way to do it ? - thanks.

12 years, 7 months

Ardour3: hiding/showing groups

by jonetsu＠teksavvy.com

Hello all, I've browsed the Ardour3 on-line manual 'Tracks and Bus groups' and although it mentions that operations can be made on hidden groups, it does not tell how to hide/show groups. At least not in there. Once a group of tracks is created, right-clicking on the group's 'tab' at the far left of the editor does not yield any option to hide it. I'd like to use that to cleanly make several sketches inside one session, each group of tracks being a sketch. How are groups hidden and then showed again ? - thanks.

12 years, 7 months

Re: [LAU] Somebody here using: Phasex configuration

by Len Ovens

On Sun, April 7, 2013 8:26 am, Len Ovens wrote: > It seems what has happened is that the save dialog under "file" is the > same as under "patch". In other words the preferences dialog changes > things but does not save it and the save feature under "file" which IMO > should save the preferences, saves the patch instead. Probably the > developer has just copied the the same values over and never changed to > the right ones... or just hasn't got that far yet. Editing .phasex/phasex.cfg seems to work. The file is very easy to read and change. From reading the release notes on the developers page, it appears he expects it to auto save. I now have phasex starting with the light theme and a 9 point font. -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net

12 years, 7 months

Ardour: does not create in specified directory

by jonetsu＠teksavvy.com

Hello, This is Ardour 1:2.8.14-1 (Linux Mint x86_64). I have now created three new sessions, and at first I thought I did somethign wrong, but now after creating another one I see that the specified directory I indicate for a new session in the opening dialog shown when Ardour starts was rightly chosen from the directory dialog box but still, the session was created in the home directory instead. A simple file-creation test in the specified directory is OK: % touch test % ll test -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 0 avr 6 08:27 test % mkdir Test drwxrwxr-x 2 user user 4096 avr 6 08:29 Test/ Is this a bug in that version of Ardour or is there something else ? Creation of new sessions like this has always worked in the past. Thanks.

12 years, 7 months

ABX test invite

by Peder Hedlund

In view of the recent debate regarding the alledged "crappiness" of MP3 I thought it would be fun to see if the LAU society can tell lame (v3.99.4) MP3s from the original. Everyone is invited to download the testfiles from http://www.musikhuset.org/~peder/AxelF.zip , see if you can ABX them and post the result. There's one original WAV file and then 3 MP3s of various bitrates, which have all been converted back to WAV. The 165 MP3 was created using "-V4", the 124 "-V6" and the 108 "-V8 --resample 44.1" (since it wanted to make a 24 kHz file otherwise). - Peder

12 years, 7 months

Nano-Basket python version issue fixed

by Ralf Mardorf

Hi :) some days ago somebody from this list mentioned that Nano-Basket never worked. It always worked for me, but today I got an issue for my new Arch Linux. I could solve it, perhaps Roy or somebody with access to the git could update Nano-Basket, assumed it should be an issue for many distros. [rocketmouse@archlinux Nano-Basket]$ pacman -Q python python2 pygtk python2-pyalsa python 3.3.0-3 python2 2.7.3-4 pygtk 2.24.0-3 python2-pyalsa 1.0.26-2 [rocketmouse@archlinux Nano-Basket]$ diff nano_basket_main.py nano_basket_main.py.original 1c1 < #!/usr/bin/env python2 --- > #!/usr/bin/env python [rocketmouse@archlinux Nano-Basket]$ ./nano_basket_main.py.original Traceback (most recent call last): File "./nano_basket_main.py.original", line 23, in <module> from nano_basket_gui import * File "/usr/src/Nano-Basket/nano_basket_gui.py", line 23, in <module> import pygtk ImportError: No module named 'pygtk' [rocketmouse@archlinux Nano-Basket]$ ./nano_basket_main.py and the GUI started :), until now not tested if it works ;). Regards, Ralf

12 years, 7 months

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