Author Topic: Does anyone have high quality CD rips of KPM Archives series in lossless  (Read 1583 times)

BlackwatchPlaid

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The music you shared with me was alright, thank you for sharing, but still the quality is slightly compressed. I'm looking for WAV files in best quality and recently I realised that APM Music doesn't give you that.

If it was from CD, as is very likely, it will be at 44.1kHz. Most digital downloads nowadays are 48kHz as they can copy at a higher resolution from master tapes. CD quality is generally OK.

I appreciate you sharing these, but I researched how CD rips work and these aren’t true CD rips. A real audio CD contains only the audio tracks. It won’t include extra files like text documents or code, it won’t have track names, and it won’t contain metadata because audio CDs don’t store that information. If anyone else has the CD collection, please rip them a share it.

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I appreciate you sharing these, but I researched how CD rips work and these aren’t true CD rips. A real audio CD contains only the audio tracks. It won’t include extra files like text documents or code, it won’t have track names, and it won’t contain metadata because audio CDs don’t store that information. If anyone else has the CD collection, please rip them a share it.
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It is clear from your post and the fact that you had to research how a CD works that you are new to all of this. The audio files we extract from an Audio CD usually have a generic name which does not describe what it contains. On my Apple Mac they appear, for example, as "01 Audio Track.aiff". Obviously it would be difficult to identify individual tracks in a collection if they all contained the same name. So, during the ripping process it is usual to add more information in the form of Metadata to each of the ripped files so they can be more easily identified. This is called tagging. It is also at this stage that one decides what format to save the file in; WAV, FLAC, MP3 etc.

Hence none of the CD rips you will find shared on this forum, or perhaps anywhere on the Internet, will be the raw data taken directly from a CD. But that doesn't mean they are not true representations of the audio data contained on the CD. So, unless there is someone out there whose collection consists of just the original files from an Audio CD I'm afraid your quest is like searching for gold at the end of a rainbow.

Oh, and incidentally whilst a CD does not contain Metadata there is an extension of what is called the Red Book standard (the standard by which CDs are manufactured) which is called CD-Text. This can contain information including the title, performer, composer and genre of a track. Most modern CD and DVD players are capable of displaying this information while the disc is playing.

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The music you shared with me was alright, thank you for sharing, but still the quality is slightly compressed. I'm looking for WAV files in best quality and recently I realised that APM Music doesn't give you that.

If it was from CD, as is very likely, it will be at 44.1kHz. Most digital downloads nowadays are 48kHz as they can copy at a higher resolution from master tapes. CD quality is generally OK.

I appreciate you sharing these, but I researched how CD rips work and these aren’t true CD rips. A real audio CD contains only the audio tracks. It won’t include extra files like text documents or code, it won’t have track names, and it won’t contain metadata because audio CDs don’t store that information. If anyone else has the CD collection, please rip them a share it.

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I appreciate you sharing these, but I researched how CD rips work and these aren’t true CD rips. A real audio CD contains only the audio tracks. It won’t include extra files like text documents or code, it won’t have track names, and it won’t contain metadata because audio CDs don’t store that information. If anyone else has the CD collection, please rip them a share it.
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I appreciate you sharing these, but I researched how CD rips work and these aren’t true CD rips. A real audio CD contains only the audio tracks. It won’t include extra files like text documents or code, it won’t have track names, and it won’t contain metadata because audio CDs don’t store that information. If anyone else has the CD collection, please rip them a share it.
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Christopher-2010

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Gosh I seemed to have missed all the drama on this topic while I was asleep. So, sorry I'm late to this party! I'm always fascinated by the determination of those who have a flawed understanding of audio formats to try to convince us that lossless formats are anything but. As I mentioned in my post above a WAV file is merely a container not a guarantee of high quality audio. What if one was to convert a 128kbps MP3 file to WAV? Would that improve the quality of the audio? Of course not. It's a bit like saying you want to buy a car so long as it's red! A red Ford is not the same as a Ferrari.

As @ChunYinZi has explained often the tracks one obtains direct from the library web sites are not as perfect as their equivalent releases on CD. The human ear can only pick up frequencies within a certain range. The CD format at 44100Hz is more than adequate. Of course if one is an audio professional carrying out a multitude of edits it often suits them to have a higher frequency rate to minimise any quality loss. Though any loss would not be noticeable to the human ear.

May I ask @Christopher-2010 why it matters so much to you that the files you are after should be of such a high quality that the average human ear would not notice the difference? Also I'm puzzled by your reference to someone on YouTube uploading uncompressed audio files. Surely all audio on YouTube is compressed isn't it to satisfy streaming bandwidth requirements.

At the end of the day surely what this forum is about is the enjoyment of music. I have a large number of albums in MP3 format which I've collected over the years and still enjoy listening to them. I certainly wouldn't delete them all just because they don't meet the higher standards we seem to be obsessed with nowadays.

End of rant!

For those who would appreciate FLAC copies of the KPM Archive albums 1-10 you'll find them here ==> pixeldrain.com/l/RM3Dymzp


Amen and thanks!

Thank you for sharing these albums, I'm keeping them now. If you have anything else I need please share it with me. 😊🙏