The Intermezzi Music Library has hand selected material from the golden age of 1970s and 1980s Italian Production Music. We offer some of the finest Vintage Library music from Original Master Recordings from different Italian publishers vaults, hunting down and uncovering rare and obscure recordings originally released exclusively for use in film, radio and television production.
Curated by writer and music supervisor David Hollander ("Black Dynamite") and music publisher and record producer Lorenzo Fabrizi (Sonor Music Editions), this dizzying array of Obscure Pop, Jazz-Funk beats, hot grooves, and refined cinematic Lounge and Easy Listening moods can be used anytime the lush and smooth sounds of vintage library music are needed.
So glad there's still someone who shares rare and beautiful stuff for the sake of sharing with others and not just to strade like a merchant :)
Dear Greta, my comment was not aimed at this blog and its activities per se, I'm sorry if there was any ambiguity on this.So glad there's still someone who shares rare and beautiful stuff for the sake of sharing with others and not just to strade like a merchant :)
a_pylon, I don't get you. It sounds odd, to say it gently.
Is there anybody here aimed to something different from the pleasure of sharing and spreading music and love for it? It's the nature of the forum itself. Where your thought comes from?
If APM is licensing upconverted MP3s then they are the dicks, not me.I was not saying you're the dick, but just asking, cause I trust your knowledge about sound quality.
Never heard of this before, thanks for posting about them, BW.
.... but jeez, why bother with these at all? The vinyl rips sound much better. Haven't seen "Friendship", but the others have made the rounds, I believe.
That these are in such poor condition doesn't surprise me in the least knowing Lorenzo Fabrizi's name is on here, he's always been a lazy hack.
But anyway, about the music of I MARC 4 and all the Library stuff currently represented in the US territory by APM through Intermezzi label, everything has been transfered from the original tapes (when possible) and then digitally and professionally remastered. I invite you to get the music through digital stores or Spotify / SoundCloud channels and have a listen with your ears:First of all, downloading anything through spotify or soundcloud is going to result in a lossy file. Soundcloud transcodes your uploads to 128kbps MP3. Spotify transcodes your uploads to ogg vorbis 320kbps.
https://open.spotify.com/user/bastard_grooves/playlist/3M5FKJggRE2NocgXE0LzRV?si=5eKgtr-ERD2WrZQxwdDJGA
https://soundcloud.com/armagideon-times/sets/sonor-music-editions-library
General
Complete name : Bruno Battisti D'Amario - 'TRASPARENZE' - 1973 dreamy BOSSA & LOUNGE Italian Library SCORE_325521044 - Armagideon Times.mp3
Format : MPEG Audio
File size : 9.96 MiB
Duration : 10 min 52 s
Overall bit rate mode : Constant
Overall bit rate : 128 kb/s
Writing library : LAME3.99r
Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Format settings : Joint stereo / MS Stereo
Duration : 10 min 52 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 kHz
Frame rate : 38.281 FPS (1152 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 9.96 MiB (100%)
Writing library : LAME3.99r
Encoding settings : -m j -V 4 -q 3 -lowpass 17 -b 128
But anyway, about the music of I MARC 4 and all the Library stuff currently represented in the US territory by APM through Intermezzi label, everything has been transfered from the original tapes (when possible) and then digitally and professionally remastered. I invite you to get the music through digital stores or Spotify / SoundCloud channels and have a listen with your ears:First of all, downloading anything through spotify or soundcloud is going to result in a lossy file. Soundcloud transcodes your uploads to 128kbps MP3. Spotify transcodes your uploads to ogg vorbis 320kbps.
https://open.spotify.com/user/bastard_grooves/playlist/3M5FKJggRE2NocgXE0LzRV?si=5eKgtr-ERD2WrZQxwdDJGA
https://soundcloud.com/armagideon-times/sets/sonor-music-editions-library
The files represented by the fourier transform graphs generated in Adobe Audition in this thread were downloaded directly from apmmusic.com in 16bit/48kHz .wav format. There was no transcoding done, they were simply losslessly compressed using the FLAC codec. The result shows a signature pattern usually seen in lossy MPEG psychoacoustic filtering, a hard lowpass cutoff filter of 16kHz. I did not phony up this graph. This is the exact spectrum fourier transform graph from MEZ_MEZ_0005_00101_Paperino_Soldato_APM.wav downloaded directly from apmmusic.com/albums/MEZ-0005
(https://i.imgur.com/lNbNR0t.png) (https://i.imgur.com/yfFZDr7.png)
^^ You can click the image for a full size graph.
Being a representative of the results of this "work", maybe you can explain why this happened. Did you involve a lossy step in the remastering process? Was there ever a .mp3 file involved in any step along the way? If so, do you need a refresher course in what lossy music is and what MPEG codecs do to frequencies and lossless audio and why you shouldn't use .mp3 files as source material?
Listening with your ears is a great thing to promote people do, but it is also a great diversion tactic to distract from your mistakes.
EDIT: Just for shits and giggles, I took you up on your suggestion and went to the soundcloud link you provided. Here is the result.General
Complete name : Bruno Battisti D'Amario - 'TRASPARENZE' - 1973 dreamy BOSSA & LOUNGE Italian Library SCORE_325521044 - Armagideon Times.mp3
Format : MPEG Audio
File size : 9.96 MiB
Duration : 10 min 52 s
Overall bit rate mode : Constant
Overall bit rate : 128 kb/s
Writing library : LAME3.99r
Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Format settings : Joint stereo / MS Stereo
Duration : 10 min 52 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 kHz
Frame rate : 38.281 FPS (1152 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 9.96 MiB (100%)
Writing library : LAME3.99r
Encoding settings : -m j -V 4 -q 3 -lowpass 17 -b 128
(https://i.imgur.com/UEyRd2R.png) (https://i.imgur.com/XSQJxRl.png)
^^ Again, click the image for full resolution.
@Sonor Music Editions:
So how you explain the frequencies cutoff at 16 khz? I never seen this in real lossless files! And I MUST know that: I also rip LP's at home sometimes and this never came across to me.
We all are humans, so sometimes mistakes can happen...
You haven't answered any of my concerns. If it's IMPOSSIBLE an mp3 has been used as a source, then it's IMPOSSIBLE that the final .wav file would look the way it does. But here we are, without explanations. I have nothing else to go on. At some point it WAS transcoded and the frequencies above 16kHz were FOREVER thrown away. Again, I have nothing else to go on besides the final file APM is distributing and your word it is not transcoded. The chasm between those two things is as of yet unexplained.
SoundCloud clips are already uploaded in 320kbps mp3s, you maybe should check our Bandcamp page: https://sonormusiceditions.bandcamp.com/
There shouldn't be transcodes for simple streaming.
Anyway, quoting shits and giggles you're talking about, it's IMPOSSIBLE that a mp3 has been used as source. Do you understand this? They wouldn't pass on the system, very easy...
There shouldn't be transcodes for simple streaming.
After telling this, here's my report: these files have been transfered from the original tapes many years ago (not by me of course), and during the years they suffered of various passages, they were previously passed on DAT, then on CDs and so on. So we probably loosed some quality due all this process and we also must consider that 20/25 years ago we couldn't benefit of the technology we have now about audio editing. So it probably happened that a killer denoize filter cut off the frequencies during the various transfers as the graphics are showing? That's the most likely scenario after a talk with the original engineer that managed these files.
Hello there all.I am a registered user on APM music and can download the unaltered wave files.
First of all, I need to clarify that only an APM Search registered user will have the ability to access and download lossless WAV, as well as AIFF, mp3 320 and mp3 128. Anyone not registered that is somehow ripping the music off the site will only have access to mp3 128, which is, of course, compressed for the purpose of quick streaming through the browser.
So, this point is very important: APM distributes the recordings for synchronization clients, and only registered users, using the music for synchronization, can access the full-quality WAVs.
After telling this, here's my report: these files have been transfered from the original tapes many years ago (not by me of course), and during the years they suffered of various passages, they were previously passed on DAT, then on CDs and so on. So we probably loosed some quality due all this process and we also must consider that 20/25 years ago we couldn't benefit of the technology we have now about audio editing. So it probably happened that a killer denoize filter cut off the frequencies during the various transfers as the graphics are showing? That's the most likely scenario after a talk with the original engineer that managed these files.