Library Music Themes
General Sharing & Discussion => The Non-Library Library => Topic started by: TheRetroElevator on May 01, 2023, 09:18:49 PM
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The title speaks for itself. This album is a wonderful example of Soviet Easy Listening with the most delicate orchestral music, elegant & exquisite arrangements from a great Soviet composer Alexey Mazhukov and Vocal Ensemble "VIO-66" ("ВИО-66" in Russian).
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AJFCJaWh0Diws87j9xTL9mKWSKZtAWkntKzJYI5FAHjRY1ZD53yqhm9vIyl1rdKZaPkRa6AYMquxOisouNhwwDWX9hL6fDNB-_ZOEKqvJzZtC69sDupVICL3dDous-TlE7FZyp9SvoOOiRi9rgJi4rxgKl5Z=w256-h256-s-no)
Artist: ВИО-66 [VIO-66)
Album: Музыка Для Отдыха [Music For Recreation]
Year: 1967
Label: Мелодия [Melodiya]
Cat#: С 01519-20
Genre: Easy Listening
File Format: FLAC; Stereo; 24 Bit; 96000 Hz
Download Link: mega.nz/folder/uqxyVKoY#xCDfNM-Xqs0GAK-Mgqt7OQ
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A lovely easy listening album. Thank you for sharing TheRetroElevator. But, and please don't take this the wrong way, do you not think that 24 bit/96KHz is slight overkill?
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But, and please don't take this the wrong way, do you not think that 24 bit/96KHz is slight overkill?
Well, gotta get the maximum out of those grooves.
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Thanks ! :)
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Well, gotta get the maximum out of those grooves.
LOL
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96000 Hz of goodness. Great sounding rip, thank you!
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Thank you TheRetroElevator!
Wonderful record!
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Thanks for this one as well...great record!
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Thank you TRE
I am trying to listen to it with VLC (on a MacBook M1Max) and it keeps bumping like there's an issue with buffer size.
This might be due to the 96 kHz sample rate
Would anyone be able to help me with the right setting? Thks
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I am trying to listen to it with VLC (on a MacBook M1Max) and it keeps bumping like there's an issue with buffer size.
This might be due to the 96 kHz sample rate
Try using such programs as foobar2000 or Pineplayer. With these apps you can change sample rate of recording while you listen.
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The Pine app works fine!
Have you used it to convert WAV to FLAC? Do you know anything about their conversion algorithm?
Thank you TRE
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Have you used it to convert WAV to FLAC? Do you know anything about their conversion algorithm?
Unfortunately, I cannot provide any details on this.
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Thank you TRE
I am trying to listen to it with VLC (on a MacBook M1Max) and it keeps bumping like there's an issue with buffer size.
This might be due to the 96 kHz sample rate
Would anyone be able to help me with the right setting? Thks
With acknowledgement/apologies to TheRetroElevator here it is in 16bit/44.1kHz FLAC.
pixeldrain.com/u/JgejMsK2
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... I am trying to listen to it with VLC (on a MacBook M1Max) and it keeps bumping like there's an issue with buffer size.
This might be due to the 96 kHz sample rate ...
I've just made a few test runs with VLC and foobar2000 and different buffer size settings.
On Windows I'm having the same problem as you are with the VIO-66 album. VLC keeps skipping, even when I increase buffer size from the default 1000 ms to 5000 ms. (How to change buffer size? Go to Preferences > select "Show settings" -- "All" > select "Input / Codecs" > scroll down to section "Advanced".)
Foobar plays the files just fine, even with a buffer of 1000 ms.
When I play a standard CD file (16 bits, 44.1 kHz) with VLC I still get a skip now and then, but it isn't nearly as bad as with the 24/96 files.
When I check the codec info with VLC (Tools > Codec information) there is nothing (!) for the CD files, and for the VIO-66 the info states that the file has 96 kHz sampling rate (correct!) and 32 bits per sample (incorrect!).
FLAC does not encode 32 bits per sample.
I conclude that VLC has bugs in the decoding process that cause the skipping.
What does this tell us?
(1) VLC is not a music player. It's a video player. As very few videos will have a 24/96 soundtrack, they did not test that use case.
(2) A dedicated music player should be used to play back audio files.
This "Music for recreation" album is quite lovely, TheRetroElevator!
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A lovely easy listening album. Thank you for sharing TheRetroElevator. But, and please don't take this the wrong way, do you not think that 24 bit/96KHz is slight overkill?
The sound of one track goes up to 45 kHz. Therefore you need to sample with at least 96 kHz to encode it. Therefore the sampling rate used cannot technically be qualified as overkill. Whether your stereo is capable of reproducing this is another question.
(The answer is: very likely not. Stereo systems that can reproduce sound up to 50 kHz are in a price range that few people will afford.)
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With acknowledgement/apologies to TheRetroElevator here it is in 16bit/44.1kHz FLAC.
pixeldrain.com/u/JgejMsK2
Thanks buddy!
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@likedeeler thank you, I always appreciate your nerdy and valuable investigations:)
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I've just made a few test runs with VLC and foobar2000 and different buffer size settings...
Thank you for your detailed analysis!
For those who are interested in technical information on digitization of this record:
Playback device: Revox B790
Preamplifier: Clearaudio Phonostage NPV2
ADC: FireWire Audiophile
Digitizer application: Sound Forge 7
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You've got a Revox B790? Fab!
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Dope 8]
(https://www.turntableneedles.com/assets/images/eprod/revox/thum/B-790_______________-B-GE1-921-REV.jpg)
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A lovely easy listening album. Thank you for sharing TheRetroElevator. But, and please don't take this the wrong way, do you not think that 24 bit/96KHz is slight overkill?
The sound of one track goes up to 45 kHz. Therefore you need to sample with at least 96 kHz to encode it. Therefore the sampling rate used cannot technically be qualified as overkill. Whether your stereo is capable of reproducing this is another question.
(The answer is: very likely it's incapable. Stereo systems that can reproduce sound up to 50 kHz are in a price range that few people will afford.)
Also even if one could afford a stereo system that could reproduce sound up to 50kHz surely the limitation is that the human ear can only hear sounds up to 20kHz. So 96kHz would not be audible to the average (note average!) human and would just annoy the hell out of the local canine population.
That said I was brought up with 78rpm and later regular vinyl records. So for me even mp3 is a great leap forward. And before anyone says anything, my hearing is still very acute and, yes, I can hear the difference between lossy and lossless files. :)
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Dope 8]
(https://www.turntableneedles.com/assets/images/eprod/revox/thum/B-790_______________-B-GE1-921-REV.jpg)
Lovely deck BTW.
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Many thanks
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I had this album in mp3 version, thanks for the good rip!
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Thank you, Retro Elevator!
@nidostar: I personally use freac to convert WAV or 96 kHz files to 16/48 FLAC. I think my personal hearing stops around 11 kHz, so I would likely not notice anything above 22 kHz encoding.