Edit:OK, both senspace links are down. I have re-upped to mediafire.

My friend was lucky enough to get a copy of the Jubei Ninpucho OST (which is a fancy way of saying the Ninja Scroll Movie OST). This rare OST can easily cost you $60+, at least on Amazon anyway.


Here's the link:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?h9ddinyxgzt

And since we're on the topic of Ninja Scroll, I have the Ninja Scroll TV OST that I got from Galbadia hotel.

Here's the link:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ndgqyubmnum

Thanks a lot godfist, I haven't seen the Ninja Scroll movie soundtrack anywhere!

Thank you. A great movie, but I never see the tv serie. It is good as the movie ?

BTW, the soundtrack's covers :

Arg ! Why did you compressed the album in stereo instead of join-stereo (LAME usage (http://lame.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/lame/lame/USAGE)) ? :(

Please use join-stereo and variable bitrate if possible. It permitting to avoid bad quality encoding sound at that low bitrate.

An example on an ideal command line for lame 3.96 (the one I use myself) : -b 32 -m j -h -p -V 2 -F -q 1 --priority 2

Yes I was thinking of re-uploading the soundtrack at a better bitrate. But exactly what is stereo vs joint stereo? I know in audacity you can have 1 channel or 2 channel stereo. And I'm using your basic Nero ripping software here, nothing fancy. So if you could point me to lame 3.96 (er wait that's just the lame encoding dll right...what is the actual program?) I would be happy to use it. As for those complicated command line arguments...I know my way around dos pretty good but I know nothing of the technical intricacies of mp3 encoding. But I'll try your command line parameters once I get the program.

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll do what I can :).

Oh hrm I see a sticky thread about encoding in lossless format. Maybe that would help me :/. I am sorry I didn't see that thread sooner.

Thanks Godfist, much appreciated :D Ninja Scroll is one of THE best anime movies out there!!

Oh hrm I see a sticky thread about encoding in lossless format. Maybe that would help me :/. I am sorry I didn't see that thread sooner.I recommend to use the freeware Exact Audio Copy (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/) to rip your audio cd (in secure mode without cache, see the doc or better, search for a tutorial about it). It can rip to WAV (for later compression), or directly compress after the rip, in a choosen format (FLAC, MP3, MPC, ...)

To compress the tracks, I guess mp3 format using join-stereo and a variable bitrate in quality 1 or 2 should be enough for almost everybody. You can made it using the compiled LAME (it containing both DLL and EXE) : http://www.exe64.com/mirror/rarewares/lame3.97.zip
edit: I didn't tested it yet myself. If you need the 3.96 for some reasons, I can post it, since I've lost the origin's url.

I using myself the executable and the command line (instead of the DLL) to compress the WAVs after the rip, but it is just a choice matter I guess. (I have some bad feeling about the dll, but I forgot why)

There are documents inside which explain I guess the difference between join and stereo :




JOINT STEREO is the default mode for stereo files with fixed bitrates of
128 kbps or less. At higher fixed bitrates, the default is stereo.
For VBR encoding, jstereo is the default for VBR_q >4, and stereo
is the default for VBR_q <=4. You can override all of these defaults
by specifing the mode on the command line.

jstereo means the encoder can use (on a frame by frame bases) either
regular stereo (just encode left and right channels independently)
or mid/side stereo. In mid/side stereo, the mid (L+R) and side (L-R)
channels are encoded, and more bits are allocated to the mid channel
than the side channel. This will effectively increase the bandwidth
if the signal does not have too much stereo separation.
Unfortunately, it didn't containing the part where it says that JS can be used everytime and recommended instead of STEREO. I lost that document.

I think that I should write some tutorial about it, someday.
Hope this help.

edit2:
Quick starting tutorial for EAC : (I agree it excepted the part of Compression Option)
http://www.nightmedia.net/docs/convertmp3.html

The ultimate guide about EAC (I guess) :
http://roozster.info/eac/total.htm

The link doesn't seem to work for me. Can someone re-up please?

Sendspace is down at the moment

Actually, I took byblo's advice, and made another rip of the OST in Variable Bit Rate up to 320kbps and in Joint Stereo, so I will make another thread with the reuploaded OST link momentarily. Thanks for the advice byblo :).

Glad it was useful :) I can't wait for the release :D

My friend was lucky enough to get a copy of the Jubei Ninpucho OST (which is a fancy way of saying the Ninja Scroll Movie OST). This rare OST ...

Just a heads up, the file is no longer available.

OK. Thanks for the heads up there. I will upload when possible.

Well I re-uploaded it today actually. :) I found another copy of the OST on my Sendspace account and put the working link in my 1st post. Enjoy.

Heads up, both are down.