ANNOUNCE: Sheffield 2005-05-09 (Flac)

Same here...

sorry, my upload was ver slow last 6 hours
Now we go again for full speed !!!

greetings bokkepoot

Hang On!
FLAC is a compressed format...

Firstly, standard minidisc compression simply removes all of the inaudible information that is usually present on CDs, ie. it doesn't waste space!

Secondly, most of Sony's new machines record in ATRAC mode, which is a much better compression engine than MP3.

Third, MP3 is ok if you select a high bitrate like 320kb/s.
CD is, I believe, 174kb/s per channel???
(if I'm wrong please tell me)

SO. Bottom line basically though is that minidisc IS better quality than MP3.

take a look at the new ACC compression format: smaller files than MP3, but BETTER sound.

It's called progress....!!

Anyway, the recording is fantastic, so quit whinging.

thanks

i was at Sheffield so cant wait to hear this one
at 33% now so give it a few hours with a bit of luck
BIG THANKS FOR SHARING THIS ONE!!

pootle1 wrote:

Firstly, standard minidisc compression simply removes all of the inaudible information that is usually present on CDs, ie. it doesn't waste space!

Secondly, most of Sony's new machines record in ATRAC mode, which is a much better compression engine than MP3.

Third, MP3 is ok if you select a high bitrate like 320kb/s.
CD is, I believe, 174kb/s per channel???
(if I'm wrong please tell me)

SO. Bottom line basically though is that minidisc IS better quality than MP3.

The bitrate on a standard cd is around 1500kbit/s, which explains why 128kbit mp3s are 1/10 the size of cds...

The older Minidiscs were approximately 140MB in size, so they had a bitrate of approximately 320kbit.
But I was under the impression that the newer HD discs were 1GB in size, which would mean almost 100 minutes of cd quality sound. :/

HELP - how can i play these Flac files? Which player do i need? I have installed Winamp lite & I have the Windows Media Player 9.0
Can't play it on them :(
Do i have to burn them with Nero?

Smartie, you can download a codec for Winamp:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/flac/flac-1.1.0-win.zip?download

or if you want to burn the tracks you must download a FLAC plugin for Nero: http://neroplugins.cd-rw.org/

If you want to compress them to wav, use Flac Frontend: http://members.home.nl/w.speek/flac.htm

Thank you bokkepoot for this concert! :-)

hello.. first post ever... get me.

its very slow downloading still :-s

btw, best gig i've ever been to i think.. was just fantastic! especially the glitter ball, and was i the only one that got the joke when brian played 'on top of Buckingham palace'? Well i thought it humorous...

bokkepoot wrote:

He (the taper) reads also the topic here, all compliments can post for him :)

i also recorded some gigs on this tour and thought they were quiet good,but manchester is so much better,nearly perfect(i haven´t finished sheffield yet) and i would realy like to know which equipment
was used.congretulations for these great recordings
and please tell us what you use.

Thanks for this show. This is the first Queen+PR show i´ll get to listen to. I´m curious to hear how the songs sound played by them.

So info that may be useful for you:

An audio CD is digitally recorded at 44100 samples per second, each sample is given a 16 bit resolution. So when multiplying both number we get that each second of music of a (mono) track takes 705600 bits. If you multiply this by 2 (the number of channels in a stereo recording) you get 1411200 bits of information for one second of a stereo music track.
If you divide this by a typical encoding quality use d to create mp3 (128000 bits per second) you get:

1411200:128000 = 11,025

That means that each second of a stereo track in a n audio CD takes, approximately, eleven times more space in your hard disk than the corresponding mp3 (if it has been enconded @ 128kbps.) This compression is achieved at the cost of the attenuation of many of the frequencies that the human ear is not likely to hear. That´s why mp3 encoding is "lossy". Once you made that change you can´t take it back. Flac, on the contrary, is not lossy. When you uncompress a FLAC file, you get a wav file with each and every frequency of the original sound file which was compressed to make the FLAC file.

Well, hope this helps.
Bye!

Roblov.

thanks for sharing.

I'm glad it's a FLAC download instead of an mp3.

Me too, too bad it ain't the complete gig tho. But really thanks a lot to the recorder/sharer and also a thank you for you, bokkepoot!

I BAG YOU, PLEASE RESEED SOMEONE!!!!