Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

The number of tracks seems to have corrected itself back down to 205 now. So 207 including the two deleted ones from the earlier dumps.

I also had trouble converting a couple of those tracks last night but did manage it in the end.

Can any Techie on here tell me the difference between converting them into mp3 versus a download button. Is there a difference in quality? Apologies for my ignorance.

  On 5/6/2015 at 2:54 PM, valleyinaire said:

Also, his neverending username changes are shitting all over my tagging system haha. Think I'm gonna just rename the album/playlist to 'Soundcloud Stuff'

 

i've got the album named 'user487363530' after the original name of the account, though rich did tag a few of the downloadable tracks as 'Sc' so that's another option

  On 5/6/2015 at 2:59 PM, CroydonCaptainJack said:

The number of tracks seems to have corrected itself back down to 205 now. So 207 including the two deleted ones from the earlier dumps.

I also had trouble converting a couple of those tracks last night but did manage it in the end.

Can any Techie on here tell me the difference between converting them into mp3 versus a download button. Is there a difference in quality? Apologies for my ignorance.

 

how are you "converting them into mp3"

  On 5/6/2015 at 2:59 PM, CroydonCaptainJack said:

The number of tracks seems to have corrected itself back down to 205 now. So 207 including the two deleted ones from the earlier dumps.

I also had trouble converting a couple of those tracks last night but did manage it in the end.

Can any Techie on here tell me the difference between converting them into mp3 versus a download button. Is there a difference in quality? Apologies for my ignorance.

Aphex uploads a track in whatever quality he encoded it in (mostly 320kbps, sometimes less). For streaming, soundcloud enables a 128kbps stream. If you use the download button you get what he uploaded (including his id3 tags) and when you rip them from the stream you get just the 128kbps stream.

 

Interesting that most of these tracks were encoded 15 years ago with (according to him) inferiour equipment. If he would release these tracks he said he would encode this again so the quality would be even better...

  On 5/6/2015 at 3:08 PM, Herr Jan said:

 

  On 5/6/2015 at 2:59 PM, CroydonCaptainJack said:

The number of tracks seems to have corrected itself back down to 205 now. So 207 including the two deleted ones from the earlier dumps.

I also had trouble converting a couple of those tracks last night but did manage it in the end.

Can any Techie on here tell me the difference between converting them into mp3 versus a download button. Is there a difference in quality? Apologies for my ignorance.

Aphex uploads a track in whatever quality he encoded it in (mostly 320kbps, sometimes less). For streaming, soundcloud enables a 128kbps stream. If you use the download button you get what he uploaded (including his id3 tags) and when you rip them from the stream you get just the 128kbps stream.

 

Interesting that most of these tracks were encoded 15 years ago with (according to him) inferiour equipment. If he would release these tracks he said he would encode this again so the quality would be even better...

 

even if these tunes were all in early Napster ulta compressed mp3 garbage quality I would eat em up like greasy pancakes on a sunday hangover brunch

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Aphex uploads a track in whatever quality he encoded it in (mostly 320kbps, sometimes less). For streaming, soundcloud enables a 128kbps stream. If you use the download button you get what he uploaded (including his id3 tags) and when you rip them from the stream you get just the 128kbps stream.

 

But if you have any 'Soundcloud Downloader' browser extensions, you'll get a 128kb Mp3 regardless

  On 5/6/2015 at 3:37 PM, leterel said:

 

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Aphex uploads a track in whatever quality he encoded it in (mostly 320kbps, sometimes less). For streaming, soundcloud enables a 128kbps stream. If you use the download button you get what he uploaded (including his id3 tags) and when you rip them from the stream you get just the 128kbps stream.

 

But if you have any 'Soundcloud Downloader' browser extensions, you'll get a 128kb Mp3 regardless

 

 

= ripping the stream.

Thanks for the answers chaps.

  On 5/6/2015 at 3:08 PM, Herr Jan said:

Interesting that most of these tracks were encoded 15 years ago with (according to him) inferiour equipment. If he would release these tracks he said he would encode this again so the quality would be even better...

eh source?

(without the undownloadable ones) there's about 150 of the tracks that have been ENCODED BY iTunes 12 (~2014)

and there's about 14 encoded with Soundjam (~2001), and earlier itunes versions left and right..

Edited May 6, 2015 by vincentvc

  On 5/6/2015 at 3:49 PM, vincentvc said:

 

  On 5/6/2015 at 3:08 PM, Herr Jan said:

Interesting that most of these tracks were encoded 15 years ago with (according to him) inferiour equipment. If he would release these tracks he said he would encode this again so the quality would be even better...

eh source?

(without the undownloadable ones) there's about 150 of the tracks that have been ENCODED BY iTunes 12 (~2014)

and there's about 14 encoded with Soundjam (~2001), and earlier itunes versions left and right..

 

 

From cassette to DAT, probably ripped to PC later? He did play out a lot from his laptop in livesets over the years so he must've had them for a while?

  On 5/6/2015 at 2:54 PM, valleyinaire said:

Would I be correct in saying that there are currently 32 tracks in this latest batch? (from Triple D to Cornish Spreek, and discounting the 'watery' dupe)

 

Just wanna make sure I'm up to date with everything.

 

Also, his neverending username changes are shitting all over my tagging system haha. Think I'm gonna just rename the album/playlist to 'Soundcloud Stuff'

One track was uploaded then deleted almost immediately yesterday . Don't know if it was reupped with a different name later. Did anyone manage to download it before it was removed?

 

Edit: It was called 21 scb.

Edited May 6, 2015 by psn

any idea which it was? one of them was his DMX krew remix that was previously released - it was prob that.

21 scb.

  On 5/6/2015 at 4:17 PM, psn said:

 

  On 5/6/2015 at 2:54 PM, valleyinaire said:

Would I be correct in saying that there are currently 32 tracks in this latest batch? (from Triple D to Cornish Spreek, and discounting the 'watery' dupe)

 

Just wanna make sure I'm up to date with everything.

 

Also, his neverending username changes are shitting all over my tagging system haha. Think I'm gonna just rename the album/playlist to 'Soundcloud Stuff'

One track was uploaded then deleted almost immediately yesterday . Don't know if it was reupped with a different name later. Did anyone manage to download it before it was removed?

 

Edit: It was called 21 scb.

 

 

it was watery big ez with a different name

straight otta cornwall

crazy mothafucka named aphax

from the gang called gingas with lotsa trax

  On 5/6/2015 at 4:49 PM, Cryptowen said:

straight otta cornwall

crazy mothafucka named aphax

from the gang called gingas with lotsa trax

 

bravo, sir

He updated his location. Apparently he may be in a similar mysterious Antarctic hole, now.

 

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread495433/pg1

 

Edited May 6, 2015 by cebec

Somewhere near the entrance to Agartha?

 

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/47brotherthebig/03files/Antarctica_Entrance_To_Agartha_Found.html

 

https://www.google.com/maps/place/66%C2%B036'12.7%22S+99%C2%B043'08.7%22E/@-66.6035306,99.7190861,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0

 

 

 

Edited May 6, 2015 by cebec

  On 5/6/2015 at 5:52 PM, cebec said:

He updated his location. Apparently he may be in a similar mysterious Antarctic hole, now.

 

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread495433/pg1

 

 

wow, a cave with ice at the mouth & worn ground where water has flowed. awesome acoustics though I bet. massive 'verb

This is the correct Maps URL:

 

https://goo.gl/maps/9N2VD

The account just disappeared.

Oh no.

dafuq just happend

A name change I am assuming (hoping)

I don't see any of my previous favorites listed anymore.