How complete is your film music collection?
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I also have much more music I can listen to the rest of my life. In earlier days scores often were on heavy rotation but nowadays hardly. I even have stuff laying around I bought but not have listened to…
John Cacavas AIRPORT 1975
It’s also available as download gladly. I think I have an old LP rip of it, should listen to it again (see above ;-)).
I also have much more music I can listen to the rest of my life. In earlier days scores often were on heavy rotation but nowadays hardly. I even have stuff laying around I bought but not have listened to…
Yes, there was a turning point at some time. When I first started listening to music, obviously I knew every LP and every CD inside out… nowadays, I always have a considerable portion in my collection that is still “undiscovered country”, so I have access to new music even if I could never go into a store or stream anything ever again. I often picked up several CDs and once, but only listened to one or two of them, because I sometimes bought CDs that were a good deal, but weren’t exactly in the mood for it at that time. And in recent years, there were quite a few classical music boxed set released, like the recent DG Shostakovich set (which I bought as a download) or the Boulez boxed set. I mean, I really like Boulez, but he’s all spice, so I don’t feel like listening to all 13 CDs in a row… will take me at least a year or two or three to have listened to all of that.
John Cacavas AIRPORT 1975
It’s also available as download gladly. I think I have an old LP rip of it, should listen to it again (see above ;-)).
Yes, I know it’s available as download. I have a Qobuz subscription, so I can listen to it any time: https://www.qobuz.com/nl-nl/album/airport-1975-john-cacavas/0060253775702
I would also consider buying a download, but it seems rather expensive at full price (for what it is; the 50 year old soundtrack in 16bit/44,1kHz without booklet); I was somewhat hoping LLL would release it after they released AIRPORT 1977 from the same composer.
I would also consider buying a download, but it seems rather expensive at full price (for what it is; the 50 year old soundtrack in 16bit/44,1kHz without booklet); I was somewhat hoping LLL would release it after they released AIRPORT 1977 from the same composer.
qobuz is often more expensive than others. I often look on 7digital first therefore. Just looked, in this case it is 15,59 vs 13,59 – I think with qobuz subscription you get it for a little less, right? – but I saw downloads on qobuz go for nearly two times as much)
Who knows, maybe LLL will release it expanded as well at some time. There is no AIPORT left except the original unless I am mistaken? Schifrin’s unreleased STARFLIGHT ONE would thematically fit though 😉
Qobuz caters more to the classical and jazz people has sometimes great sales, and subscribers get lots of discounts on high-res albums, like this 19 CD set in high-resolution from Deutsche Gramophon for €10,99 (https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/shostakovich-symphonies-concertos-lady-macbeth-nelsons-13726, https://www.qobuz.com/de-de/album/shostakovich-symphonies-concertos-lady-macbeth-of-mtsensk-district-andris-nelsons-baiba-skride-boston-symphony-orchestra-yo-yo-ma-yuja-wang/zwc6i9kxp8iaa). I bought that last year, and the recordings (what I have listened to so far, which is just a few symphonies) are excellent. And you find lots of such great deals at Qobuz, which is why it is the streaming service I subscribe to.
However, the Cacavas AIRPORT 1975 album is not on sale, and costs as much as a full price new CD would cost, which is why so far I have not picked it up.
Strange… I thought I did write a reply to this.
You did but somehow the spam system had the opinion to put it on pending for review. Probably because of all the links. I approved it now as you can see.
However, the Cacavas AIRPORT 1975 album is not on sale, and costs as much as a full price new CD would cost, which is why so far I have not picked it up.
qobuz with € 15,59 and 7digital with € 13,59 are both a little more expensive downloads (they got more expensive anyway). But nowwhere what a LLL CD would cost. A single LLL CD costs around € 28 over here.
Of course I only looked at standard CD quality lossless and not HiRes. I like to buy lossless unless it is way too expensive. But I really don’t care for HiRes as I actually cannot even hear the difference to good MP3/MP4 anyway and HiRes my system and also ears probably just swallow…
The thing with high-res is, as a subscriber you get great deals on high-res releases (which of course include CD and MP3 quality) on Qobuz, but if a release is not high-res, you have to wait for a sale or pay without a discount. So that makes higher resolution downloads quite often the cheapest option for me.
Years ago, we did some sound quality comparison with MP3 and CD sound (via FLAC), and I remember the differences were clearly audible, though not immediately obvious and not the same for all music styles. It was most noticeable in music that used few acoustic instruments, so stuff like very natural sounding chamber music, piano recitals, some jazz recordings (especially with cymbals). The difference became less noticeable with orchestral and pop music, perhaps because when there are fewer instruments, it allows to focus on certain sounds. I’ve never done that with high-res vs. CD sound, and I doubt I personally would hear the difference (if the mastering is identical, which it sometimes isn’t).
The majority of my music is from my own ripped CDs anyway, and there are digital downloads, of those quite a few are higher resolution, so I have music from 16bit/44,1kHz up to 24bit/192kHz. If I get to pay €8 for a high-res release from Qobuz (often with booklet), I choose that over paying €16 for the CD.Interesting in my tests such artifacts were most audible the more complex music is and especially orchestra and especially strings. But that only applied only to lower res MP3s (or AACs) like 128kbps. If they are at 256 or 320kbps I am not sure I think I hear a difference.
On lots of pop music (charts stuff) it all does not matter that much since that often is dynamically “compressed to death” anyway.
I also rip lossless at CD quality, in Apple Lossless since I am on Mac. But that’s basically a FLAC derivate.
I’m on Windows and for legacy reasons also use ALAC. I started back in 2013 to convert some of my CDs for my car and phone, and realized quickly that to get the most of it, I’d have to streamline tagging and I only ever wanted to do this once. So I decided on lossless format ALAC, because I started with iTunes. That way, I’d have 1:1 bit-perfect copies of the music. I still use iTunes to “curate” the music.
When I buy digital downloads (or rip CDs, now mostly with EAC, since I have noticed that iTunes is a terribly unreliable ripper) I convert them to ALAC as well.
A couple of years ago, I considered converting my collection to FLAC, since that’s more native to Windows and Android, but I found since all my devices, and my home stereo play ALAC anyway, so I couldn’t think of any practical advantages to switch formats, so I still use ALAC. As you said, for all intents and purposes, the two formats are basically just the same anyway, just one is more Apple, one is more Windows/Linux. 🙂I also still use “iTunes” (it’s called simply “Music” now on macOS since they limited it to music now). I looked around and I didn’t find – at least for Mac – any alternative that let’s you manage a collection as conveniently and with custom playlists and such. Lots of player are just very limited. For inbetween quick lisitening I either play single files directly via the Finder or use VLC.
(or rip CDs, now mostly with EAC, since I have noticed that iTunes is a terribly unreliable ripper)
It can work well but I also use another tool named XLD (X Lossless Decoder). I also use lossless because if I do that work of importing I want to do it properly once 😉
For Windows at least, there are a few alternatives, like Foobar2000 and especially MusicBee, which feels like an iTunes on steroids, as it can do pretty much everything iTunes can and then some. Plus it handles both FLAC and ALAC files. I very much like and also use MusicBee and it does some things I enjoy that iTunes can’t do, most importantly multiple genres.
Originally, I ripped with iTunes, but when I checked my ripped collection with AccurateRip a few years later, I found that several CDs I had ripped had considerable errors that iTunes didn’t report them. EAC is much better at these corrections, if EAC detects an error while ripping, it reads the sectors again until it either can read them or it flags them in a report; as far as I know that’s true for XLD as well.
My HP laptop is not hooked up to my home stereo though (or any speakers really, just the built in speakers), so I never use these programs to listen to music, just to tag and curate my music collection.
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