If you want to send me the rip, I can run it through iTunes Match and see if it's still in their database. May be able to get a 256 AAC.
Does anyone have "Once Again" by Fair? It was only released on a limited to 500 CD single and I've been desperately searching for it. haha
Is this the Aaron Sprinkle band Fair? I was a huge Poor Old Lu fan and follow Aaron on Facebook. I may have some contacts if that is the band.
Yes! I would be forever grateful if you could get a decent mp3, or even a WAV or FLAC. Aaron's one my favorite musicians, and that's one of the only songs of his I don't have. It's a b-side from the first Fair record that I can't find anywhere.
MEGA that's the mp4 that I originally bought. MEGA that's a flac rip of the track from the cd I burned.
Just so everyone is 100% on this, ripping a FLAC from a CD that was burned from an mp4 source is completely useless. FLAC is a lossless format, but it cannot create lossless files from an originally lossy file. In fact, this will only make the quality worse. Transcodes are a big reason why a lot of stuff from the early days of online digital music sounds terrible unless you can find a direct source, because people would transcode mp3 to mp3, or mp4 to mp3. Lossy to lossless is just as much of a transcode, bigger file size for no quality gain.
No quality gain, but it should sound identical to the original mp4, no? Re-encoding it back to 128 kbps mp4 would make it sound even worse. Not a lot of other options for removing DRM anymore. I think that some of the tools for removing FairPlay DRM still work, but only if you still have a really old version of iTunes running somewhere. But I agree transcodes are the devil incarnate. If you search for an MP3 on Google these days, most of the results are YouTube rips, which is a real travesty. At best you are getting a transcode of a transcode.
Seeing as it was only available as a mp4 file in the first place struck me as odd as why they wanted it as a flac file anyway. I just did as I was asked. No problem if it's of no use to you. I'll delete the link.
Looks like someone has the MP3 on Discogs and the best it was released was 192 kbps https://www.discogs.com/Therapy-Polar-Bear-Rock-You-Monkeys/release/966415
been slammed the last week so only now getting back to the threads.. yeah, there was a 24 bit flac on W.CD back in the day, but I just checked both & it looks like Blister's 256 kbps version is *most* likely just downsampled from that rip. Yup - Jack is the king for releasing music in exclusive formats - just check out the Triple Decker her put out a few yrs back - nuckin' futz..
Not really - as all the 1's & 0's are all out of whack between the various encode/decode steps.. Totally agree - never upsample a lossy file, as it won't sound any better in the end and YT rips are just a freakin' joke. Don't know why people would bother to do that, vs just tracking down the native source file.. OK - putting away my soapbox now, as I'm done w/the audiosnob old man rant :)
Any Catherine Wheel fans here? Looking to upgrade some of my b-sides & get some others that I'd had back in the day on physical CD's, but since lost in a B&E 15 yrs ago.. Thx!