Anyone get 'bad' versions of songs/albums? - Page 3

acenason · 07-26-2007, 04:01 PM

Actually what happened is that I posted it here first, and then realized that the thread would get more traffic and hopefully responses in the main section of the bored, and posted it. Wasn't sure if I could/needed to delete this one.

Ace

Nightfly · 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by acenason

Actually what happened is that I posted it here first, and then realized that the thread would get more traffic and hopefully responses in the main section of the bored, and posted it. Wasn't sure if I could/needed to delete this one.

Ace

Thank you acenason...No problem..but now that you know the site better
you now know where your question will get a better response

Habylab · 08-02-2007, 12:41 PM

on topic, some songs have had noticabley poor quality, can't remember the songs though!
lol i ove when threads go off topic

solaris · **OE -** 08-02-2007, 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Habylab

on topic, some songs have had noticabley poor quality, can't remember the songs though!
lol i ove when threads go off topic

OE encoded - not OEX, I take it?

Habylab · 08-02-2007, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by solaris

OE encoded - not OEX, I take it?

what do you mean?

solaris · **Once upon a time -** 08-02-2007, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Habylab

what do you mean?

Now a days all new albums, which are added, are OEX. That means that (they get all the albums from a trusted distributor and) you can choose your own fileformat and bitrate, if you switch to Expert Mode, when you order the tracks.

It wasn't always like this. Once people could provide albums to AllOfMP3 (and they would get some money in their account in return) and some of those albums were (probably) just 128 kbps MP3 files converted to Wave before uploading. And when you got one of those converted back to for instance 192 MP3 and onto your computer, you could definitely hear it.

Habylab · 08-02-2007, 02:09 PM

i use alltunes so i guess it is OEX...

RedSmurf · 02:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Habylab

i use alltunes so i guess it is OEX...

No, it doesn't work that way. You can see if an album is OE or OEX in AllTunes by looking under its title. If it says "OE", it means that AOM3 only has the album in a 384kbps MP3 format, and that you can only get transcodings of that format. OEX means they have a lossless copy of the album, so you get the same quality as when you would have ripped the album yourself, and you can also order in lossless formats. The problem with OE seems to be that not all the source material was at full 384kbps quality.

chrismayna · **no problem -** 10-25-2007, 01:40 AM

having downloaded more than a few I can say I have not had a skipping or quality issue ... my tunes sound GREAT

MP3junk1E · 11-11-2007, 12:10 PM

Some songs are corrupted during the MP3 encoding process. This happens very rarely, perhaps with one in several hundred songs.

The way around it is to download a FLAC encoded version of the problematic song. The FLAC versions are always perfect, as far as I've seen.

• Use the FLAC front-end application to convert the FLAC to WAV format.
• Use RazorLAME to convert the WAV to MP3.
• Use MP3Tag to put the tag info in the file, including album art.

Selecting the FLAC download format opens other choices you don't normally see, including 384Kbps MP3, which is the original source format of all their music. Oddly, if you go back to downloading 320Kbps or low MP3s, the extra options disappear, until you next select FLAC for a download.