Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

  On 5/11/2015 at 4:40 PM, bitroast said:

it's true!!

having the tracks streamable (and downloadable.. in 128 hehe) is nice , by all means!!

but there really is something rather flat and fuzzy about the sc compressions and it's always instantly noticeable when listening to the 320s for the first time.

 

downloads, pls

It's a lower bitrate re-encoding of the original mp3 upload so it's not going to sound as good as it could, unfortunately. But no one could expect him to upload everything in .wav or .aif...

  On 5/11/2015 at 4:47 PM, cebec said:

 

  On 5/11/2015 at 4:40 PM, bitroast said:

it's true!!

having the tracks streamable (and downloadable.. in 128 hehe) is nice , by all means!!

but there really is something rather flat and fuzzy about the sc compressions and it's always instantly noticeable when listening to the 320s for the first time.

 

downloads, pls

 

It's a lower bitrate re-encoding of the original mp3 upload so it's not going to sound as good as it could, unfortunately. But no one could expect him to upload everything in .wav or .aif...

 

I recall that he did post a comment that he used VBR mp3s for some tracks because the internet was slow back in the day? or maybe small hard drive capacity? some1 pls confirm if I'm right

320s from original source are hardly distinguishable from the original source, though, unless you change the sampling rate to a lower one. I don't use FLAC because I don't hear the difference (tested with ABX tests). Your mileage may very though...

As for soundcloud 128s, I think they use an older version of LAME since with 3.99.5 I can easily make 128s sound better than that, and without the annoying drop-out thingies on hihats or noisy snare drums... Shame on you, SC

  On 5/11/2015 at 11:07 AM, Twelvetrees said:

Just pointing out that this thread is probably going to reach a million views. That's crazy.

Fuck that let's go for a million posts.

  On 5/11/2015 at 4:31 PM, very honest said:

yeah a lot of fogbeak's detail comes out in the 320

 

 

  On 5/11/2015 at 3:28 PM, Anchio Arch io Son Pittore said:

 

  On 5/11/2015 at 9:51 AM, Anchio Arch io Son Pittore said:

 

could someone tell me where that title 5 Mp2 is between other titles as it does not face them in soundloud... Thanks!

 

 

 

  On 5/11/2015 at 11:10 AM, Anchio Arch io Son Pittore said:

 

  On 5/11/2015 at 10:43 AM, triachus said:

 

  On 5/11/2015 at 10:24 AM, nicola said:

user18081971

 

18/08/1971

hey if you click that link you just posted it will take you to a soundcloud page run by none other than aphex twin himself believe it or not

 

he's been uploading unreleased tracks there, check it out

 

have you ever heard of this guy called aphex twin? he makes nice musics, sometimes with acid

 

you can play those tracks by pressing the big orange play buttons. after clicking the play buttons you can hear music if you have any speakers or headphones plugged in

 

Yes, but where is, chronologically, the title "5 Mp2" of this page soundcloud???

 

Someone can help me?

 

 

i dont have a file with that name. you sure its afx?

That one got renamed to 5. 36 clissold crescent [above the kitchen]

all of the most recent download-enabled tracks have frequency cutoffs around 15-16kHz so there's basically no difference between the streaming and download versions except the downloaded versions aren't bad transcodes... anyway nerdy stuff

  On 5/11/2015 at 5:51 PM, petina said:

all of the most recent download-enabled tracks have frequency cutoffs around 15-16kHz so there's basically no difference between the streaming and download versions except the downloaded versions aren't bad transcodes... anyway nerdy stuff

RDJ at some point used long play mode on his DATs (32 khz sampling rate, corresponds to 16khz freq response)

yeah I never noticed much difference but sometimes the noisy hihats and snares, ohh fuk

  On 5/11/2015 at 5:28 PM, nyr22 said:

 

  On 5/11/2015 at 4:31 PM, very honest said:

yeah a lot of fogbeak's detail comes out in the 320

 

 

  On 5/11/2015 at 3:28 PM, Anchio Arch io Son Pittore said:

 

  On 5/11/2015 at 9:51 AM, Anchio Arch io Son Pittore said:

 

could someone tell me where that title 5 Mp2 is between other titles as it does not face them in soundloud... Thanks!

 

 

 

  On 5/11/2015 at 11:10 AM, Anchio Arch io Son Pittore said:

 

  On 5/11/2015 at 10:43 AM, triachus said:

 

  On 5/11/2015 at 10:24 AM, nicola said:

user18081971

 

18/08/1971

hey if you click that link you just posted it will take you to a soundcloud page run by none other than aphex twin himself believe it or not

 

he's been uploading unreleased tracks there, check it out

 

have you ever heard of this guy called aphex twin? he makes nice musics, sometimes with acid

 

you can play those tracks by pressing the big orange play buttons. after clicking the play buttons you can hear music if you have any speakers or headphones plugged in

 

Yes, but where is, chronologically, the title "5 Mp2" of this page soundcloud???

 

Someone can help me?

 

 

i dont have a file with that name. you sure its afx?

 

That one got renamed to 5. 36 clissold crescent [above the kitchen]

 

Thanks Man! Cool! i love you! great, can delete it now!

I've been lurking around here for months now, so it's really beyond time to say hi and thanks to everyone in here for a really entertaining few months so far. I'm completely overwhelmed at the amount of new music and how to digest it and only when I went to think about making playlists did I realize just how much effort some people have put into tagging etc. Fair play to all of ye.

  On 5/11/2015 at 5:51 PM, petina said:

all of the most recent download-enabled tracks have frequency cutoffs around 15-16kHz so there's basically no difference between the streaming and download versions except the downloaded versions aren't bad transcodes... anyway nerdy stuff

So in other words there's "basically no difference between the streaming and download versions" except the streaming versions have additional generation losses that make them audibly worse than the MP3s he uploaded regardless of what their quality was.

  On 5/11/2015 at 5:58 PM, beatgunk1 said:

 

  On 5/11/2015 at 5:51 PM, petina said:

all of the most recent download-enabled tracks have frequency cutoffs around 15-16kHz so there's basically no difference between the streaming and download versions except the downloaded versions aren't bad transcodes... anyway nerdy stuff

 

RDJ at some point used long play mode on his DATs (32 khz sampling rate, corresponds to 16khz freq response)

yeah I never noticed much difference but sometimes the noisy hihats and snares, ohh fuk

 

i always thought dats were recorded at 48khz most of the time

  On 5/11/2015 at 12:39 PM, triachus said:

 

oh no

 

oh god no

 

not him

 

RICH DONT REPLY

RUN OUT OF YOUR HOUSE, DONT LOOK BACK

 

sini has locked on to you

hahah... exactly what i was thinking..

LOL@sini

Is it me, or wasn't RDJ's sarcasm-meter up to speed at that point in time?

Please tell me he used the tricksy double psychology option to sarcastically pretend to not understand what was going on.

  On 5/11/2015 at 8:21 PM, goDel said:

LOL@sini

 

Is it me, or wasn't RDJ's sarcasm-meter up to speed at that point in time?

 

Please tell me he used the tricksy double psychology option to sarcastically pretend to not understand what was going on.

Just his way of describing the sinimoticon

  On 5/11/2015 at 7:59 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

 

  On 5/11/2015 at 5:58 PM, beatgunk1 said:

 

  On 5/11/2015 at 5:51 PM, petina said:

all of the most recent download-enabled tracks have frequency cutoffs around 15-16kHz so there's basically no difference between the streaming and download versions except the downloaded versions aren't bad transcodes... anyway nerdy stuff

 

RDJ at some point used long play mode on his DATs (32 khz sampling rate, corresponds to 16khz freq response)

yeah I never noticed much difference but sometimes the noisy hihats and snares, ohh fuk

 

i always thought dats were recorded at 48khz most of the time

 

MOST of the time.

also don't forget that some tracks on SC were sourced from analog cassettes which also have a fairly low frequency response, and they age with time

  On 5/11/2015 at 6:34 PM, Brionic said:

I've been lurking around here for months now, so it's really beyond time to say hi and thanks to everyone in here for a really entertaining few months so far. I'm completely overwhelmed at the amount of new music and how to digest it and only when I went to think about making playlists did I realize just how much effort some people have put into tagging etc. Fair play to all of ye.

Welcome Irish fella.

  On 5/11/2015 at 8:21 PM, goDel said:

LOL@sini

 

Is it me, or wasn't RDJ's sarcasm-meter up to speed at that point in time?

 

Please tell me he used the tricksy double psychology option to sarcastically pretend to not understand what was going on.

I've seen alot of ways of making out RDJ "has got it" but this is a reach beyond, mate

im assuming people are aware of this?

http://www.vulture.com/2015/05/aphex-twin-puts-more-than-200-free-songs-online.html

not following this thread super super closely so forgive me if its a dupe

  On 5/11/2015 at 9:56 PM, nikisoko said:

im assuming people are aware of this?

http://www.vulture.com/2015/05/aphex-twin-puts-more-than-200-free-songs-online.html

 

not following this thread super super closely so forgive me if its a dupe

Wow. Incredible journalism job there. Complete and utter bullshit.

  On 5/11/2015 at 9:59 PM, Herr Jan said:

 

  On 5/11/2015 at 9:56 PM, nikisoko said:

im assuming people are aware of this?

http://www.vulture.com/2015/05/aphex-twin-puts-more-than-200-free-songs-online.html

 

not following this thread super super closely so forgive me if its a dupe

Wow. Incredible journalism job there. Complete and utter bullshit.

 

Those tracks are basically what this thread is about. The two hundred tracks are the ones on Soundcloud, not additional ones. Unless you just meant to point out that he (or someone) put them up on Mega...

Anyway, the thread is an interesting read. You can 'relive' the excitement WATMM had through the days.

  On 5/11/2015 at 9:59 PM, Herr Jan said:

 

  On 5/11/2015 at 9:56 PM, nikisoko said:

im assuming people are aware of this?

http://www.vulture.com/2015/05/aphex-twin-puts-more-than-200-free-songs-online.html

 

not following this thread super super closely so forgive me if its a dupe

Wow. Incredible journalism job there. Complete and utter bullshit.

 

i'm about to say something ultra contreversial here but do you guys ever get the sense that it's almost like....... journalists don't care about facts

Flol, that article.

man how nice of rich to make that zip for us

oh and the youtube playlist, so ninauploadz is his confirmed account?

  On 5/11/2015 at 10:16 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

 

  On 5/11/2015 at 9:59 PM, Herr Jan said:

 

  On 5/11/2015 at 9:56 PM, nikisoko said:

im assuming people are aware of this?

http://www.vulture.com/2015/05/aphex-twin-puts-more-than-200-free-songs-online.html

 

not following this thread super super closely so forgive me if its a dupe

Wow. Incredible journalism job there. Complete and utter bullshit.

 

i'm about to say something ultra contreversial here but do you guys ever get the sense that it's almost like....... journalists don't care about facts

 

lol

brb, going to thank cylob for putting his tracks on soulseek

I doubt RDJ uploaded that zip, but it is very well put together and worth a download. I've seen a few collections from soundcloud floating around on download sites and someone put time into this one.. which generally leans towards it not being RDJ at all. However it does have some nice artwork bundled with it and some other stuff I hadn't seen on SC.

by "not following this thread" i meant I'm not hanging on to every last word. I get the gist and have been following RDJs SC account since it went up. Anyway... maybe someone would benefit from that zip.

  On 5/11/2015 at 10:22 PM, baph said:

 

brb, going to thank cylob for putting his tracks on soulseek

 

haha