Pink Floyd - Careful With These Tracks (Live 1969)

What's the point converting MP3 to FLAC? You just tripled the size of the download, that's all.

I have a very small number of things that I keep as FLAC files that started off as MP3 and here's why:

I have "remastered" a few things to suit my own personal tastes and sometimes all I have to start with are MP3s. I encode the final result to FLAC because re-encoding them back to MP3 would do even more damage than the original encoding to MP3 did. I then note it somewhere (usually in the folder name) that it is from a lossy source and continue the search for a true lossless version.

I'm not saying that that's the case with this release but that is why I do it.

OK, fair enough. If you have modified the sources, it makes no sense converting back to mp3.

Did you made "Adriano Celentano - C'è Sempre Un Motivo (2004)" and "Santana - Santana 1969 (24K + Gold Columbia CK 64212)", also from MP3???
If yes this 2 is last what I downloaded from you.
Do you understand you are keeping us for kind of idiots with your fake flac, made from MP3?

First of all, don't panic! )

My previous (and future) post are 100% lossless and are ripped from original CDs without any modifications (unless stated otherwise). Supplied EAC and Audiochecker logs guarantee it.

This *particular* post is very special because FLAC was the only option available to me. What was I to do? Converting it back into MP3 would do more damage, as rocknrollsteve noticed. This album is a very rare thing and I hope you are enjoying it as it is.

BTW, thanks for watching my blog!

I religiously follow your blog- you provide some of the finest uploads on avaxhome.
I was just puzzled why you would convert mp3 to flac.
Did you, like rocknrollsteve mentioned, do some additional processing on the mp3 source?
Or did you just directly convert the mp3 to flac?
If it is the latter, it seems pointless. If it is the former, what did you change?

Well no mater what something recorded in Mothers, Birmingham, UK. is worth having. Just about everyone who was well known played some amazing sets there and I sadly miss the atmosphere which was once generated there. Just can't figure out why I never did any taping there!

@iceman: thank you! )) But you didn't get the point.

These tracks *already* was in FLAC, with the remark <<This is lossy sourced but this is the best that has ever been available to date>>. See info.txt inside for more details. I just checked, renamed, added some stuff like playlist, and uploaded them for you.

OK- I get it now.

I do hope my post did not cloud the issue or give anyone the wrong idea. I have only seen these files listed as "lossy sourced" FLAC files as well. Why this is I have no idea but one possible scenario would be:

A person comes across someone who has the master reels and is allowed to make a copy. If they make a copy with, say, a mini-disc recorder the results could very well appear as being lossy in an analysis as mini-disc was/is a lossy format...at least that's my understanding...someone please correct me if I am wrong.

Anyway...who cares? This is a mighty fine release and while I myself would LOVE a truly lossless version of this set, I am first and foremost a Pink Floyd fan and I'm pleased beyond words to have this in any format and in any bit rate. As the saying goes...I'd rather hear good music crappy than crappy music good.

As far as stfine's posts go, I have grabbed a few of them and have complete confidence that they are exactly what he says they are. If he says it's a truly lossless post then that's good enough for me. Rock on, dude!

Запинали. Запинали... Спасибо, stfine!

thank you

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This looks great. Totally unexpected. Thanks for sharing!