Submitted by Sativa on
FLAC
Reward for filling the request:
40
Request details:
Link (Discogs.com or other)*: https://www.cap-tain.com/shop
https://www.srrdb.com/release/details/VA_-_Captain_25_Years-READ_NFO-PROMO-3CD-2018-SOB
Catalog number *:
Year *: 2017
Seems Cap'tain cd's are now free gifts for events or gifts for purchase t-shirt on their webshop.
Many aren't on discogs, and there is not a lot of infos.
7 Comments
#1Sativa2024-08-06 07:36
I added a wrong link, sorry.
https://www.srrdb.com/release/details/VA_-_Captain_24_Years_READ_NFO-PROMO-2CD-2017-SOB
(Srrdb links are just for info, i'll create new requests for scene mp3 later if needed.)
#2thomasc2024-08-06 08:26
I only have MP3
#3djlightning2024-08-06 14:13
Action:
#4Borgild2024-09-11 22:35
Compared to VA_-_Captain_24_Years_READ_NFO-PROMO-2CD-2017-SOB tracks are kinda resorted here (thanks to gazillion of mixed untitled tracks):
SOB's CD1 ("Birthday", 28 tracks) = this upload's first 28 tracks in "Disc 1" folder
SOB's CD2 ("Retro Megamix", 50 tracks) = this upload's "Disc 2" folder (28 tracks) + remaining tracks 29-54 in "Disc 1" folder.
Extra 4 tracks at CD2 because some are splitted in 2 parts:
SOB's track 31 (2:11) = tracks 31+32 (1:26+0:44)
SOB's track 32 (0:53) = tracks 33+34 (0:26+0:27)
SOB's track 49 (3:48) = tracks 51+52 (2:25+1:23)
SOB's track 50 (1:49) = tracks 53+54 (1:07+0:42)
All cue timings are a bit different which makes me kinda doubt all these numerous rips by "Kain Morter" are actually correctly splitted by that "Medieval CUE Splitter" tool.
Also weird thing all flacs don't have MD5 checksum calculated (they all got it as 16 zeros) so wth they were encoded with? Can't confirm they were correctly encoded
#5Sativa2024-09-13 07:17
Here's a fixed version made with these flac and the SOB cue's:
(Flac integrity was ok, i didn't noticed issue about md5)
2 tracks with cuecheet's:
https://pixeldrain.com/u/2V7zRCQK
Full splitted (78 tracks):
https://pixeldrain.com/u/xuonGFHv
#6Borgild2024-09-13 15:42
If it doesn't seem that original disc was ripped and/or splitted properly then merging splitted tracks back even with proper tool (CUETools) won't magically restore original CD image. Also it's incorrect to just dump .cue that was generated when you merged those tracks back into image and replace it with SOB's .cue (and then, as an extra dubious step, split again for "proper"/matching SOB's 78-tracks' version). As I wrote before, the timings in these generated .cues are different from SOB's ones (tho ofc several frames' difference is hardly audible ofc).
There should be only 1 version of a cue (number of tracks, precise timings) if it was indeed generated by a CD riping tool, not self-made/edited, cuz it's just written/embeddied so via markings into CD structure itself. Question is who supplied the rip "as it is" and who decided to merge/split tracks on his own accord. Unless there're 2 different presses for this promo compilation (which is unlikely).
And that's why ripping logs are good - to avoid all this confusion and (ideally) get only that single rip that'd be completely identical to physical CD's contents
#7Sativa2024-09-13 22:13
I know this.
I would like to have all cd's rip matching the accuraterip db with a high level of confidence.
But sometime it's not possible, so a copy playing perfectly with a correct cue is ok.
Many cd's shared here arn't 100% accurate, but can be played as if they was.
The rip is from djlightning, but he said in another post he don't own these promo cd's.
The timings from SOB cue's matches this rip.
I don't know why the cue's generated with his rip have wrong timings.
He's the only one to know how it were extracted.