[Sonoton Authentic Series] SAS 003 - Authentic Polynesia Vol. 1

[MCMan]

Does anyone happen to have a copy of SAS 003? A lot of its music was heard at one point or another in SpongeBob SquarePants, with quite a few of the tracks also present on the later SAS 050 - Authentic Polynesia 1 - Hawaii & Tonga. Some, like Chief Taravana and Hawaiian Holiday, are exclusive to this album in question. Thanks in advance.

[Tanilktronomia]

I do have the missing tracks, however not the full album

Farewell To The Islands: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19m7IjLRRCAAdVFAB3LjY5KUSB8t9EPgn/view?usp=sharing

Chief Taravana: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-t_qx9Nbta8ehQ5qXOwa1gZ3v9rsOF-Y/view?usp=sharing

Hawaiian Holiday: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18xgnjQ5vAgyOlIeSxD1SvYgff4wvLr13/view?usp=sharing

[kosmiksoul]

I've checked Soulseek and both albums are available 320 kbps (SAS 003 and SAS 050).

There is one user (TheDarkPrince) who has access to the FLAC. I've asked about downloading and if you don't have something of his whish list he won't give you access. He has been a really unpleasant person when I've asked for the download. He answered and immediately banned me...

Best of luck.

[tonyc1971]

I can help you out with this one.  Enjoy !

SAS 003 - Kapono Beamer - Authentic Polynesia Vol. 1, Hawaii & Tahiti [FLAC]
http$://mega.nz/folder/W5d1FYhB#wG9u856e0qLFVmPBy_ynxg

[Tanilktronomia]

where did you get that

[Tanilktronomia]

I can help you out with this one.  Enjoy !

SAS 003 - Kapono Beamer - Authentic Polynesia Vol. 1, Hawaii & Tahiti [FLAC]
http$://mega.nz/folder/W5d1FYhB#wG9u856e0qLFVmPBy_ynxg

The Spectrogram for 4 are under 21khz making this fake

[C0NN1E]

I can help you out with this one.  Enjoy !

SAS 003 - Kapono Beamer - Authentic Polynesia Vol. 1, Hawaii & Tahiti [FLAC]
http$://mega.nz/folder/W5d1FYhB#wG9u856e0qLFVmPBy_ynxg

The Spectrogram for 4 are under 21khz making this fake

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Just because it's under 22 kHz doesn't automatically means it's fake. Sheesh. Sometimes certain frequencies weren't captured. Doesn't mean it isn't lossless. Besides, you should be thankful you got a rip anyway

[tonyc1971]

where did you get that

This was on SoulSeek.  Take it or leave it, I don’t care

[0xCIRRUS]

I can help you out with this one.  Enjoy !

SAS 003 - Kapono Beamer - Authentic Polynesia Vol. 1, Hawaii & Tahiti [FLAC]
http$://mega.nz/folder/W5d1FYhB#wG9u856e0qLFVmPBy_ynxg

The Spectrogram for 4 are under 21khz making this fake

...
Just because it's under 22 kHz doesn't automatically means it's fake. Sheesh. Sometimes certain frequencies weren't captured. Doesn't mean it isn't lossless. Besides, you should be thankful you got a rip anyway

This rip is virtually the exact same to one particular mp3 rip floating around for presumably years. The only difference being that there was a bit of volume compression, normalization, and noise filtering. The FLAC has the same crackles and pops as the mp3 rip.

Of course, the way its recorded is sometimes a factor in deciding whether something is truly lossless or not, but I don't exactly see any startling differences between the first two tracks in the first image. There is, however, a noticeable difference using a different rip of the same track (hint: higher frequency response!).




From these observations, Tanilktronomia is right to suspect that the FLAC provided is not actually lossless, but rather a lossy-to-lossless conversion passed off as lossless.

I will continue to wait for an actual lossless rip to be posted.