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Less than 100 units remaining at the US store (noted via shopping cart quantities, no official disclaimer posted) You can't go by that, as they may not have pressed the full amount.
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Oct 19, 2024 - 5:30 PM
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Landstander
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Interesting that there are people encountering problems ripping this CD, as it was the first time in a while a CD gave me trouble as well. I am ripping with EAC to ALAC, and I had to set EAC to disallow the CD player to slow down during ripping; I set it to the fixed speed of "20x". That worked for me. I did play THE OTHER as a CD in my hifi setup, it played fine there. Interesting. Is that found under "Drive Options"? When I look there, the only setting for Speed Selection is "Current." In EAC, it's under "EAC/Drive Options.../"Offset/Speed" There is a drop down menu (which usually says "current") and a checkbox "Allow speed reduction during extraction". This checkbox is normally checked (why not), but some drives slow down very, very much, but never speed up again after slowdown. This then leads to a CD rip taking days. I set the speed to "20x" (it says "current" if there is no disc inserted, but if you insert a disc, you usually see a number of speeds. I chose "20x" because it was fast, but not the maximum I could have chosen). So I set a fixed speed, and unchecked the box "Allow speed reduction during extraction". That worked for me. Came out as "accurately ripped/confirmed". You're a king among men. That got me to an accurate result. I still needed to try multiple drives and speed settings but I eventually got to a setting that worked. Thank you so much! I tried the same process on Sudden Death multiple, multiple times with only 4 tracks being verified as accurate but at least no errors occurred. I'll ask the question again, why is it only Varese discs that are this problematic? What is it about their production process that produces these types of reading and encoding problems? Intrada and LLL discs have had zero problems, ever.
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You're a king among men. That got me to an accurate result. I still needed to try multiple drives and speed settings but I eventually got to a setting that worked. Thank you so much! I'm happy that it worked for you as well! I tried the same process on Sudden Death multiple, multiple times with only 4 tracks being verified as accurate but at least no errors occurred. I'll ask the question again, why is it only Varese discs that are this problematic? What is it about their production process that produces these types of reading and encoding problems? Intrada and LLL discs have had zero problems, ever. In case of SUDDEN DEATH, I had not problems ripping it at all, and apparently neither had you. If EAC reported no errors, it means at least that EAC correctly ripped all the data from the CD. If AccurateRip could not confirm all tracks, that probably only means that there is not (yet) enough data in the database, after all, it's a NEW CD that just came onto the market. Standard EAC setting transfers ripping data once every 30 days to the database, so it will be a while before the data is there. When I ripped SUDDEN DEATH, I had no trouble ripping it at all, no errors occured, but no track could be verified, simply because the database didn't have the data yet.
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Jeez, what a headache with all this ripping nonsense. I just put the damned thing in the CD player and press play. Used to do that, but now I only play files anymore. Would not ever want to go back. (Well, I did go back and play THE OTHER as CD just to make sure it plays fine.)
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"Rip" van Winkle, after a long day of 'rip'-ping compact discs. [A&C might say he's Rip van Wanker]
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That is one of the all-time textbook examples of great film scoring to make you feel what the character is feeling. Can you even imagine a cue like that in today's droning, thumbing scoring? Because that's what you'd get, or that woman who wrote Joker playing two notes together on her cello. I'm finally listening to this beautiful new edition and this thought above came up to my mind as well. I am probably becoming too much of an old cantankerous fogey when it comes to current aesthetics of film scoring, but I cannot do anything but sigh whenever I face a brilliant example of expressive film scoring such as THE OTHER and realize how much things have changed. It was another era and it's not fair to compare apples with oranges, but it seems to me that something got lost in the last two decades when it comes to let music be a true expressive component in a motion picture, especially thrillers and stuff that deals with psychological nuances.
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