How can I avoid vinyl rips on Soulseek? (gregtech.eu)

submitted 6 days ago by lena@gregtech.eu to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I use Lidarr (with Soulseek, via the Tubifarry plugin) to automatically download music for me and even though I've put lp and vinyl into the "must not contain" field on my release profile, I still notice the occasional vinyl rip in my library. God I hate vinyl rips. Is there anything more I can do to avoid them?

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[-] BeefAndPoultry@lemmus.org 6 points 5 days ago

Old music doesn't get re-recorded for digital releases, they pull it from the original master again, which is better and more authentic than vinyl.

I mean if you went to a concert would you want them to add hiss and pop to the performance so it sounds more like vinyl? Lol

[-] blitzen@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's seldom that simple. Much of the time with older music, a good clean vinyl rip can sound much better than a poorly mastered early digital transfer (like is often the case with first CD releases of albums first released in the 60s).

I'm with you and OP that poor rips do indeed sound bad (like spotting a bad toupee), but I wouldn't discount all vinyl rips out of hand. For example, I much prefer my PBTHAL rips of the original mono vinyl releases of the Beatles albums to even the modern remasters.

[-] BeefAndPoultry@lemmus.org 1 points 5 days ago

I guess botched remasters aside lol, there isn't really a limit to how poorly something can be done

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