Welcome back, aescalle. I knew you would show up for the operation; and congratulations on the new Dracula release by VS. Finally you can rest in peace! :D
bollemanneke: you're not alone in complaining about the volume correction. It would be great for us that they disabled it for this occasion, although I understand how it's useful for the typical radio listening in noisy environments. The player of the official website uses the regular AAC stream, and tunein.com actually connects us to the official MP3 stream (the browser addon Video DownloadHelper / Details will show it). Is it possible that you switched just in time to a passage where the problem was not so obvious? I downloaded a fragment of both in parallel and didn't notice differences of volume limiting or compression between them, only that MP3 was half a dB quieter overall.
The mobile "HD" stream is still AAC 192 kbps, which compared to AAC/48kbps or MP3/128kbps is a welcome improvement, even though they keep the cut-off at 15 kHz. It looks like all the variants are encoded from the same volume-corrected and lowpass'ed source, and this is far from optimal, but that's what's available. Now, it would be surprising that nobody was interested in marketing the professional recording of an event where two legendary names of orchestral music meet again after 20 years. In 2017 we had Keith Lockhart and BBC Concert Orchestra at the same venue and they had a luxurious coverage by BBC, and I hope something good will come up in the future. The members attending the concert may tell us if there are cameras and microphones that hint a release someday. Meanwhile, I'm crossing fingers and toes for that alternate source, mr_merrick.
Classic FM announced the broadcast will last three hours, from 7 to 10 PM of Friday 26th (London time, UTC+1), so we can expect a complete concert with a long intermission for John's break, and lots of filler stuff. I'd suggest those who will record it and might experience any cut in the audio (I've been told about occasional troubles of this kind), to not delete the files until a continuous version is shared.
And a cool idea just landed on my brain: why don't we meet at the forum chatroom (
http://forums.ffshrine.org/forumdisplay.php?f=77) for the concert? Maybe some of the attendants can pop in for a while too!
Just saw, via jwfan, the programme at RAH website (
https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2018/an-evening-with-john-williams-in-concert/):
Excerpts from Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Three Selections from Harry Potter
- Hedwig�s Theme
- Fawkes the Phoenix
- Harry�s Wondrous World
End Titles from Dracula
Adventures on Earth from E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
~ Interval ~
Superman March
A Child�s Tale: Suite from The BFG
Theme from Jurassic Park
Theme from Schindler�s List (Carmine Lauri, soloist)
Three Selections from Star Wars
- The Imperial March
followed by the European premiere of
- Han Solo & the Princess
- Throne Room & Finale
There are 6 "european" pieces out of 13: 3 Potter, Dracula, BFG, Schindler's List.