"I'm a Big Sister..." thread.

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This one seems to blend better from one song to the next, and the quality of the music is pretty great. Definetely could go for more stuff like this...I think it's up there with the last one in terms of quality. But the 160 kbps makes me angry...why can't we even get 192 again, if not even better?

But good stuff, regardless!

[Liam]

Do you think that last piece involves Gabriel Yared? It doesn't sound like their usual style and I know that Yared is a pianist, which, to the best of my knowledge, neither Rick or Karl are.

[mmm skyscraper]

I like it. If they put this and LBT together it would be about as long as AHDO and probably just as good.

I would buy this as a cd release.

Personally, the 160k doesn't matter. I think the 96k radio broadcast sounds ok. It took me 3 hours 3 min and 40 sec to download, so the higher birate would have just taken longer. Now maybe if they left the slideshow off it wouldn't have been so bad . The joys of 56k.

LBT - UWR-0500003-1
P4E - UWR-0500004-1
TOKYO CD - UWR-0500007-3
I'm a Big Sister... - UWR-0600013-1

on my PFE track the ID3v2 tag lists it as track #2, so maybe the cat number and track number do not match. I don't have LBT on this computer, does anyone have its track #?

so we're missing 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 (or we have Factory numbering and some of these are stationary and statues)

Too many technical issues with the slideshow. The audio works, but I can't the pictures yet. Oh well.

[TheBang]

Originally Posted by mmm skyscraper

Too many technical issues with the slideshow. The audio works, but I can't the pictures yet. Oh well.

The video is encoded in H.264, and thus, requires QuickTime 7 in order to play back.

[big screen satellite]

Originally Posted by TheBang

The video is encoded in H.264, and thus, requires QuickTime 7 in order to play back.

yeah - upgrade ya cheapskates

[King of Snake]

ooh, christmas time
So apparently this release was not in fact gonna be more harder stuff, but even more chilled. Enjoying this so far, not quite as much as the last one but good, and it'll probably grow on me.
The 160 kbps/48 Khz thing is really weird though. I'm not one who can tell the difference but it sure is a strange choice of format, especially since the previous ones were better quality.

[TheBang]

Originally Posted by big screen satellite

yeah - upgrade ya cheapskates

They'd have to be HUGE cheapskates, considering QuickTime is free.

Not that I want to contribute to the bitrate debate, but the 2 videos are practically identical. The codecs are the same (H.264/AAC), and the only difference is the container (QuickTime vs. MPEG-4). Because iPods, QuickTime, and iTunes can play H.264/AAC in either container, it was really only necessary to include one of the videos (either one). That could have saved 10 MB in the archive size which perhaps could have gone to a 192 Kbps MP3.

[stimpee]

Originally Posted by BeautifulBurnout

Maybe the whole purpose was to make it difficult to burn to CD, so people couldn't bootleg it and sell it on eBay/Japanese Yahoo/whatever?

Its still very easily possible to burn it to CD but that would result in a loss of quality, because CDs use 44.1khz and this audio uses 48khz.

Originally Posted by TheBang

They'd have to be HUGE cheapskates, considering QuickTime is free.

PC users who don't with to install Quicktime 7 can choose to install QuicktimeAlternative which isnt as CPU/memory intensive as the Apple player and doesnt continously bug you to upgrade to Quicktime Pro. The benefits and download link are listed on the URL above.

Originally Posted by TheBang

Not that I want to contribute to the bitrate debate, but the 2 videos are practically identical. The codecs are the same (H.264/AAC), and the only difference is the container (QuickTime vs. MPEG-4). Because iPods, QuickTime, and iTunes can play H.264/AAC in either container, it was really only necessary to include one of the videos (either one). That could have saved 10 MB in the archive size which perhaps could have gone to a 192 Kbps MP3.

If Underworld's service provider is charging them for bandwidth usage then reducing the archive size by 10mb per download makes a bigger difference than the upgrade to 192kbps/44.1khz.

[Mike]

Originally Posted by Liam

Do you think that last piece involves Gabriel Yared? It doesn't sound like their usual style and I know that Yared is a pianist, which, to the best of my knowledge, neither Rick or Karl are.

I heard that they have a small pianist

[stauff]

Nice. I like this chilled stuff.

Does anyone speak Japanese? UW have been putting in a few spoken Japanese bits recently. In the piece at about 22:30, the girl says 「俺のせいじゃない」 or "ore no sei ja nai". This is a fairly masculine phrase, so it seems weird to hear a woman saying it

Just thought I'd mention.

- Matthew