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Which version/release of ICBYD are you talking about?

Every release. I remember the good old days of OiNK and what.cd and ICBYD was ”flagged” as being lossy, so I assume it’s baked into the original master? I could have a look at the spectrals myself but can’t be bothered to start the computer right now.

one of the secret messages is that he doesn't even care, actually

Hmm never heard about that for ICBYD. Lossy formats weren't really a big thing back in 1995 IIRC. I did remember reading that when they were trying to scrounge up gracks for 26 Mixes For Cash that they had to use some lossy formats for a few of the tracks.

given the varying dates on the tracklist, there may be a mix of lossy/lossless sources if anything. spectrals are super easy in audacity these days so i'll check it when at my desk.

related: a short while ago i dug up an mp3 copy of this album from a cd-r i made years ago. these mp3s were very slightly slower than the flacs i have now (i tried to invert them to see the difference) and i cannot explain why. i'm pretty sure they're both CD rips. could this have happened at Sire? or did some teenager think it would be funny to change the speed of each track by one or two seconds?

  On 3/14/2020 at 7:23 PM, hijexx said:

Hmm never heard about that for ICBYD. Lossy formats weren't really a big thing back in 1995 IIRC. I did remember reading that when they were trying to scrounge up gracks for 26 Mixes For Cash that they had to use some lossy formats for a few of the tracks.

RE: lossy formats for 26 Mixes... - that was because they couldn't source even commercial material for some of the remixes - WARP reached out to me and others to see if we had the Gavin Byers remix, David Bowie, etc.

They were in a rush because another label was trying to release a compilation of exactly what 26 Mixes eventually became

ICBYD was released 25 years ago today

Man time flies

damn

not that i was around when the album released but time flies for sure

  On 3/13/2020 at 8:45 PM, jejunum said:

Every release. I remember the good old days of OiNK and what.cd and ICBYD was ”flagged” as being lossy, so I assume it’s baked into the original master? I could have a look at the spectrals myself but can’t be bothered to start the computer right now.

That's just silly. That's like saying the original release was based on a lossy rip of a non-existing album. Or rather, RDJ ripped his own tunes lossy. And used those to put on an album. Euh....no!?

Maybe oink/what.cd flagged lossy because those were lossy rips of the album? Unless they flagged FLACs lossy as well. In that case it could mean they were considered transcodes of lossy rips. Which would be silly as well, as they should have been deleted right away.

You're lossy

Well FLAC you. 

  On 4/24/2020 at 4:35 PM, hijexx said:

ICBYD was released 25 years ago today

Man time flies

 

Still caring because we can

Night

Cock

Wonder if it's being flagged as lossy because he mentioned recording to DAT players at slower speeds to get more length out of the tape which would explain the loss of higher frequencies. It was probably "lossy" since it's creation.

Puck

Prick

Did you know that wet tip hen ax is an acronym for Apheex Ttwin?

MOOKID is an anagram for MI DOOK

  On 4/24/2020 at 9:46 PM, hijexx said:

MOOKID is an anagram for MI DOOK

Moo = Cow,  Kid = Boy

  On 4/24/2020 at 9:00 PM, garbage_burner said:

Wonder if it's being flagged as lossy because he mentioned recording to DAT players at slower speeds to get more length out of the tape which would explain the loss of higher frequencies. It was probably "lossy" since it's creation.

I think the whole thing was recorded to 32 kHz DAT so rolls off steeply at 16 kHz. Which would look similar to the typical shelf in MP3 encodes and bad (lossy to lossless) transcodes.

This example is technically not lossy compression, but it could have been flagged as an "approved lossy" release on those dead private trackers regardless, as a way of saying: we're aware that the spectrals look funny, but this is how it was officially released (and not the result of a bad transcode or someone ripping their CD-R burned from MP3s) so don't bother trying to trump this upload with a better digital source.

cow cud is a twin

if you analyse the song title you can see that cow cud = twin 

who is aphex then?

alberto starts with an a

aphex starts with an a

alberto balsalm = aphex

cow cud is = twin

aphex twin is a band confirmed

  On 4/25/2020 at 4:37 PM, manmower said:

I think the whole thing was recorded to 32 kHz DAT so rolls off steeply at 16 kHz. Which would look similar to the typical shelf in MP3 encodes and bad (lossy to lossless) transcodes.
This example is technically not lossy compression, but it could have been flagged as an "approved lossy" release on those dead private trackers regardless, as a way of saying: we're aware that the spectrals look funny, but this is how it was officially released (and not the result of a bad transcode or someone ripping their CD-R burned from MP3s) so don't bother trying to trump this upload with a better digital source.

re 16k cutoff: i just happened to have rhubarb open with a spectral, and it turns out loads of tracks from saw2 not only cut off above roughly 16kHz, but also have a thin bar of noise/background hum going along that region all the way thru. my rips are from the warp CD.

plus, stone in focus on the bleep store has two of these bars, going side by side! (jesus what is my life coming to...)

Yeah makes sense, DAT slow is 32khz/12bit which gives you a 16khz nyquist limit.

And that 12bit flavor sort of gives it a SP-1200 vibe