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Offline N.Maniac 64

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How should I offer 2 slightly higher quality songs of a 5-song CD?
« on: September 07, 2009, 07:23:05 PM »
First off, I must say that I currently cannot offer torrents since my ratio is below 1.0 (I can only upload at 36KB/s max >_< I'm slowly getting there though...). I just want clarification for future reference.

So I finally got my hands on a copy of Kotoko's Re-sublimity DVD (OP song to Kannazuki no Miko), and the first thing I did was check the audio.  Turns out it's a little bit higher quality than the CD version that's listed on here. (teeny bit more dynamic range, slightly higher samplerate, less or no analog clipping - <rant> ya know the loudness war really makes it a pain to get quality audio... </rant>)

Now I'm an audiophile and not really a videophile, so I plan on getting the FLAC audio rips out of the way first before I possibly offer the actual music videos.

Here's the issue though: there's only 2 of the 5 songs that are on the CD.  So how would I properly offer a torrent?  Should I offer the whole CD again but with the 2 better-quality songs, just offer stand-alone torrent that's just an audio rip of the DVD, or have the FLACs in the same torrent as the video torrent?

There's also the issue of volume.  The DVD versions have ~1.5 to 2 decibles of headroom compared to the "maxed out" CD versions (loudness war not helping...).  If I were to combine the DVD and CD versions, should I balance all the songs volume (like set their average to 89db), or leave them uneven and how they are?

Then there's the different samplerate issue.  The DVD versions are at 48KHz, while the CD is obviously 44.1KHz.  Is it alright to offer songs of different samplerate if their source was that?

This is the currently offered CD version:
http://bakabt.me/torrent/131429/Kannazuki_No_Miko_OP_ED_single_%28FLAC%29.html

EDIT: Oh, and this is quite minor, but for completeness sake should I include the short (~10 seconds) song played durning the geneon logo?  It sounds quite nice imo.
« Last Edit: September 07, 2009, 07:46:42 PM by N.Maniac 64 »

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Re: How should I offer 2 slightly higher quality songs of a 5-song CD?
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2009, 12:41:33 AM »
Loudness is not an issue if you use Replaygain/some other form of volume levelling.

I would say no, since you'd then be mixing sources.

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Re: How should I offer 2 slightly higher quality songs of a 5-song CD?
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2009, 02:03:10 AM »
I already know about replaygain, hence stating 89db (ReplayGain's default).

Um, you said no... but I was asking HOW I should offer, not whether I should or not.  Yes I know it's mixing sources, hence why I'm asking if I should just make a seperate torrent for them or what.  It'd be silly to not at least have a copy of it somehow since it's not currently offered and that BakaBT's policy is to have the best quality, which this is (currently).
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Re: How should I offer 2 slightly higher quality songs of a 5-song CD?
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2009, 02:13:59 AM »
I'd say just include the ripped audio in the same torrent as the music videos. We'd rather keep soundtrack rips as soundtrack rips, instead of mixing audio from other sources in.

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Re: How should I offer 2 slightly higher quality songs of a 5-song CD?
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2009, 02:18:49 AM »
Alright, that's cool.  An issue I could see arising though is that people may look at the CD torrent without knowing there's 2 songs of higher quality in the DVD rip...

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Re: How should I offer 2 slightly higher quality songs of a 5-song CD?
« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2009, 02:24:23 AM »
Um, you said no... but I was asking HOW I should offer, not whether I should or not.
1) you can't anyway.
2) it doesn't matter if you can, because we can still reject it.

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Re: How should I offer 2 slightly higher quality songs of a 5-song CD?
« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2009, 02:29:48 AM »
Alright, that's cool.  An issue I could see arising though is that people may look at the CD torrent without knowing there's 2 songs of higher quality in the DVD rip...
Just add "(with audio rips)" to the torrent title, anyone searching for it should be able to find it.

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Re: How should I offer 2 slightly higher quality songs of a 5-song CD?
« Reply #7 on: September 08, 2009, 02:32:56 AM »
Um, you said no... but I was asking HOW I should offer, not whether I should or not.
1) you can't anyway.
2) it doesn't matter if you can, because we can still reject it.
Well that's a pessimistic view now. :/

Yes I can't now, but I plan to once I can.  Is it so wrong to ask it now in preperation?  I still haven't really done much (or anything at all) with DVD ripping and video encoding, so I need to get that squared away and prepare myself, and in order to do that I needed to have a plan what I was even going to offer.

As so what if it gets rejected?  I could either try again with mentioned corrections or if there's nothing to correct, oh well?  How can I know if I don't try?

Just add "(with audio rips)" to the torrent title, anyone searching for it should be able to find it.
Now that's more positive thinking :P