Berlin Philharmonic, October 1938…
Bad series title and cover but great freaking music. Such good sound too!! DR of 16…turn it up!!
Billy Butler’s cover of Night Life led me to the definitive version of Willie Nelson’s song. I do love Ray Price. BTW, just how many great Willie Nelson covers are there? To me, one of the definitive ways to judge musical greatness.
Seems to me The Beatles are fading into history (didn’t think that was possible). David Bowie, Led Zepplin, The Rolling Stones, even AC/DC carry more cache to the modern music fan…but how many great Beatles covers are there? So many. I would love to build a list of them. Jazz artists seem to gravitate towards them.
Picked this up on eBay for a good buck. Understandably non-returnable. Three of the discs, 11, 17 & 18 have dozens of rip errors. I use dBpoweramp to rip. Over 1/2 of all the files on those three discs have unrecoverable errors. Tried CUETools, EAC, CUERipper. Nothing works or fixes the files.
Going to be difficult to find replacements without buying another entire set. Ahhhhh. Tried a shady web sites allFLAC.com (figured I already paid for the discs so it’s not stealing) but that didn’t work. Won’t take a pre-paid credit card (bank rejects overseas IPs). I can buy mp3s from Amazon but that doesn’t match the lossless FLAC files I have for everything else. Looking at library’s. Standford in CA has it. Hum…Chicago to San Francisco…flight would be more then another box. Going to keep looking for a replacement for the 18 or so bad songs to complete the collection.
All of the discs in this set are great, but disc 1 is epic.
Louis Armstrong “The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions 1935-1946” Mosaic #243
amsco15 saidLooking at library’s. Standford in CA has it. Hum…Chicago to San Francisco…flight would be more then another box. Going to keep looking for a replacement for the 18 or so bad songs to complete the collection.
My father gets books all across the nation via inter-library loan. I wonder if you could get the Cole box in a similar fashion?
Do the files with errors have any issue with sound? Redbook is replete with data redundancy. Additionally, even dozens of individual sample errors can be acoustically transparent. While I prefer perfect, I have learned to let go when it makes no practical difference.
Lonson and Elk,
Thanks for the tips. No I haven’t listened to the faulty discs. There were up to 140 segment errors in a single song. Way more than I typically see.
I honestly try not to get too nuts about this stuff but I’m having a hard time with this one (seriously considering buying a second box). Another approach, I actually found the discs on-line in the Chicago Public Library system. Of-course all three discs are scattered across three libraries from one end of the city to the other. Also, I’m not a city resident and would have to ask my Son-in-law to help. I think if requested, they would send to a single library… Having a hard time letting go of this one.
I understand, especially as this has got to be a great set.
Funkadelic self-titled first LP, expanded cd.
Incredible album, I forgot how great it is.
George Clinton Funkadelic. Yes, great music!!
Regarding the Nat King Cole set, I’m happy to report that it looks like I have two solutions!! We have a dark internet savvy kid that works in my company. He said he found all three discs in FLAC format along with a CRC checksum file. I also received an email back from Mosaic. They offered to burn 3 CDRs for a very small fee to replace the three bad discs. A very generous offer which I will happy utilize. Whichever of the two solutions work best, I’ll keep. 
Good news on the Cole.
Right now I’m listening to the 24/192 version on the Japanese Blu-ray Audio disc of Herbie Hancock’s “Maiden Voyage.” Sounds fantastic.
RCA Living Stereo, Fritz Reiner and CSO, "Spain" SACD (Analog Productions)
After a six week wait I finally got this Blu-ray Disc. Boy, was it worth the wait, sounds fantastic. Since I am a season ticket holder to the DSO I am very familiar with the hall and they did a pretty good job of capturing it. Only issue is it seems skewed to the left channel, a little balance adjustment fixed that. The DMP did take a little longer to read the disc, but once it started playing it played flawlessly. Of course the display didn’t change from Track 1, but not a serious issue.
" Of course the display didn’t change from Track 1, but not a serious issue."
Can I select individual works or do I have to listen to the whole disc?
Fun!
I like Leonard Slatkin.
I performed once with Copland as the conductor for the evening. A pain in the butt.
Seems like a lot of posts are missing in this thread. about 27 days worth? Since the heading change was made in the previous software?