Artist: Traxtorm Gangstaz Allied Title: The Hardest Label: Traxtorm Records Cat.No: TRAX0088 Quality: FLAC Year: 2011 01. The Hardest 02. The Hardest (TRSE Creature Remix)
Is this REALLY lossless? Or just converted from mp3 to flac?
I think this is a "fake" FLAC? Cause, what source would have been used to make a FLAC? The original studio files?
here is the fake source
http://www.corebay.com/31-07-12-ZS-Traxtorm-Gangstaz-Allied-The-Hardest-TRAX0088-WEB-2011-t131172
For all we know, the source is WAV, converted to FLAC. Which seems possible, which makes is more or less lossless. Right..?
a) There's simply no fooking profit to bother with upscales (just to own leech-folk with free stuff, lol?). Especially with SRG's 320kbps WEB around.
b) You just figured out what VBR is and now you all of a sudden playing pro blaming this FLAC is fake?
Actually it's quite uncommon for some not-so-recent (properly ripped, electronic/hardcore) CD-compilations to NOT have such tracks that have spectrograms not quite evenly "colored" and completely hitting "up" all the way to the frequency limit of 22 kHz (for a typical CD with 44,1 kHz sampling rate). Some earlier CD-tracks back from '90s were quite obviously written even from a vinyl source...
Yes, here's some sort of "soft" frequency cap @ ~21 kHz (btw, ideal human ear can't hear those higher than 20 kHz and u r not supposed to be much concerned with high frequencies' quality/fidelity in *core music anyways) but it's not by some malefic intent of a poster or even a WEB shop. Simply because if it was a fake (upscaled from MP3) there couldn't be more information than in its MP3 "source" – and in case of 320 kbps MP3 default lowpass filter settings (for modern builds of most common MP3 encoder named LAME) cut ALL frequencies higher than 20,5 kHz.
Here's comparison of track #1' spectrograms from SRG (MP3 320 kbps) and this FLAC:
http://www.screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/138382
... so please, get a clue.
c) 1gabba just mirrors posts @ corebay.com.
In this FLAC release case corebay.com just mirrors posts @ lossless-music.org.
So if you need TRAX 0069-0099 releases; full DT6, ROTSP and (almost) full TRSE labels - head directly there (while ZS links last) and say thanks to this gracious guy named 124875 that shared with loads of cool stuff in top quality with everyone.
Btw, does anyone know when LOSSLESS WEB source will be add to scene rules? There is one way to prove that it's really LOSSLESS: just print PP or other payment processors receip and take photo of it with group name. That receipt contains artist and album names, website address and price that is obviously higher for LOSSLESS files.