On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 11:21 +0200, Egor Sanin wrote: > On 10/1/14, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 10:54 +0200, Egor Sanin wrote: > >> I get the feeling at times, when getting music > >> from torrents and such, that not all files > >> claiming to be flac are actually lossless. > > How do you get the impression? > > I get this impression by an unreliable method called intuition, and I > am wondering if there exists a reliable method that I can use to > confirm or refute this intuition. I heard all kinds of sold reissued recordings. Seemingly I didn't heard a loudness war remaster, but seemingly I heard CDs produced with vinyl record equalization. "Intuition" that something goes wrong, is something I can understand, but what does cause the common bad sound quality is quasi impossible to say, we just can imagine. Most common seem to be recordings were the loudness mix gets completely out of control, if this happens the industry tries to calm down customers with lies about accidents when doing the digital recordings. In the LAU and/or LAD mailing list archives are some examples. IIRC The Red Hot Chilly Peppers sold a broken recording and I once had the Rock for Light and the I against I from the Bad Brains, seemingly the CD was produced from a vinyl equalization master or something similar. The German Wiki about loudness war mentions the remastered versions of Something from The Beatles. Audio quality is out of style, for good reasons I _can't_ work as audio/video engineer anymore, the evolution that happened within the last decades is emotional unbearable. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
