MY GIANT (unreleased score by Marc Shaiman) (lossless/FLAC)

A comedy from 1998 with Billy Crystal playing an out-of-work talent scout who is rescued from a car accident by a very tall man whom Crystal thinks he can turn into a Hollywood star. Crystal wrote and produced the film and, not surprisingly, used his favorite composer, Marc Shaiman. Shaiman wrote a score that is unmistakably his: some breezy jazz, a little big band, some tender ballads, and the typical Shaiman charm.

27 tracks totaling 50 minutes,
Good stereo sound. No dialog or sfx.
Tau Analyzer and EAC indicated all tracks on the disc to be lossless.
Disc was ripped to FLAC using XLD.

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LINK: https://1fichier.com/?px9rng4fiy

NOTE: This disc contains unreleased music. As of the upload date it had not be registered with the US Copyright Office. However, anyone with sufficient cause can request I remove the link by contacting me by PM or by entering a reply. Thank you.

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lossy if you ask me

lossy if you ask me

I will check again.

It doesn't look too bad actuallly, no cut-off. Then I compared it with the 320k version that has been floating around for years and they are identical.

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Lossless or not??? I checked the status of this disc again and Tau Analyzer does indicate it as lossless. I also have an Mp3 version of this score (320/44.1) and in Tau it definitely displays as lesser quality (though not a lot). I don't know if that guarantees my disc to be lossless, but it's apparently better than a damn good Mp3. Since I only use Tau, the most I can do is let you all know in my listings what that program indicates, but also welcome comments by those who use other programs that come up with different results. After all, Tau is not infallible, nor am I!

Yeah, maybe someone more experienced with this can clear this up.

OK, I downloaded this just of interest to check the lossless or not issue. And from what I can tell, it's definately 100 % lossless. No cutoff or anything like that it seems.

I uploaded a printscreen which show track 1, both as the original (left), and a converted 320kbit mp3 (right). The difference is obvious. (Have no idea how long this picture will be on that site though)

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The mp3 encoder I used might not be of the more recent date, so a newer, better one might do a higher quality (with less cutoff) encoding. Could be interesting to compare it with the mp3 FunnyML says he found to be identical.

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What program did you use for your comparison?----looks useful!

...but the overall spectrum was a little rougher, with "streaks" more pronounced, than the presumed lossless version.

I simply use Exact Audio Copy to look at the spectrum of the files. I've tried other programs, but I like that one the best, with its strong, clear colours.

Yea, I see that too sometimes, that the "black" colour shines through, kind of. It may be from some kind of lossy source, I don't know, but probably not from any regular lossy formats like for instance mp3 etc. That there's no cutoff in the frequensies doesn't necessarely mean it's not lossy of course I guess. If there's strange parts in the spectrum that look suspicious, with "black" parts that look unormal etc., it could be an indication it's lossy.

But in the cases where you kind of have that "diffuse", see-through overall (like with this, My Giant), as long as there's no clear cutoff etc., I've always considered it to be lossless. Or at least not from mp3, to put it that way.

I've too seen 320kbit mp3's with so small (high) cutoffs that you simply don't see it with just the spectral view. But if you in addition look at a "frequency analysis" (as it's called in EAC anyway), if there is any drop in the frequency range it's much easier to see it.

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