Here is the new set, in glorious mp3 (320 et al, 585.0 MB); enjoy (and please, if you like it, buy yourself a copy and support the label, so we can get more)! Covers are included, but no booklet scans; no time for that, sorry.

(Also, sorry for no pic here, but I can't figure out how to do it - it seems anything over 3.6 kb is too big...).

For all you "flac-ers" out there, please do not ask for this in flac from me; I don't do flac, and all my music is in mp3. If flac is a must, you will have to wait for a fellow flac-er to upload it, but at least you can enjoy the music in the meantime.

https://mega.nz/#!8JhUGB4Y!z-7Qm4qt7hx3OIPuoBq8gZQpYoC4Lf20FgSBDD1ZQHI

Thank ya.

Huge thanks for this!!!!

Thanks, Bri-Bri!!

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Yay! Thanks! I plan on trying to buy it once I finish recovering from Christmas!

Thank you for your kind share.

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Thank you. I will get you tomorrow for Rep. I ran out for giving them out.

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this is beyond! many many thanks!

Thanks for sharing, that's very kind of you!

Thanks a Ton Looking Foward to This.

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Thx....

this is encoded in 48khz....

sooo... is it a good thing or a bad thing? The music sounds good to me....

Thx...

its not a bad thing per se....but a CD rip should be 44,1....DVDs and Blurays use 48khz

Does anybody know if CD rips should always be done with 44,1 khz, instead of 48khz?

Thanks for this!

A great BIG Thank YOU for getting this posted so quickly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks a lot, Bri-Bri! That's very kind of You.

Thank you!!!

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Thank you for your sharing, Bri-Bri

Hello, Bri-Bri. Incredible. What an incredible way to celebrate 50 years of "boldly going where no one has gone before." Thank you very much indeed for posting and sharing. Have a great weekend! Live long and prosper! \\//

Thank you, very much!!!

WOT??? WERE IS FALC??? NEED LOSELES YOU SUK!!!!111 ;)

Seriously, thanks Bri-Bri. I'm not actually planning to buy this one, despite being a massive fan of Star Trek - I bought the first one and although I found part of it I really liked, as a whole I didn't enjoy it... so it's good to have the opportunity to hear it now; who knows? Maybe I might end up buying it anyway! :)

Edit: I didn't remember McCarthy slipping in his rejected Main Theme into episode scores! But there it is, in "The Last Outpost"... Fascinating!

As for the 44.1khz vs 48khz question...

A CD rip should *always* be at 44.1khz - ALWAYS. Depending on how it's done and other factors of circumstance, upsampling to 48khz can effect sound quality ranging from not at all through to catastrophically. All resampling algorithms are not born equal. In cases of FLAC or VBR encodes, it will bloat filesizes, and in the case of CBR encodes, waste a percentage of the available bitrate encoding frequencies that aren't present on the recording leading to overall fractionally poorer quality. In this case, "not at all" was the impact.

CD audio is 44.1khz at 16 bit resolution. It cannot physically be any higher. That's the CD spec.

I'm sure that OP didn't do something silly on purpose so I wonder why people need to get all indignant and start shouting about how useless and terrible this rip is and what an idiot OP is.

It has problems, but I think the best way to deal with this is to politely address them to the original poster - mindful of his kindness in offering the upload FOR FREE... :)

Does anybody know if CD rips should always be done with 44,1 khz, instead of 48khz?I second tangotreats' comments. http://i1243.photobucket.com/albums/gg548/dsphipps100/thumb.gif

Standard CD audio is 44.1 kHz at 16 bits. Anybody who posts anything higher either got it from a source other than a standard CD (always a possibility) or they artificially ramped it up, which wouldn't be much different than taking a 320 kbps mp3 file and forcing a sound editor to save it at a higher bit rate even though it's really not going to help the sound quality one iota.

If you like, you can do some more reading up on it right here...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_Digital_Audio

Thanks for the clarifications in this matter, tango and bob, that was helpful. Nevertheless, even if this upload doesn't meet this common standard for CD rips, speaking for myself, I am enjoying this music tremendously and couldn't detect any sonic defencies in the score so far. So again: many thanks to the OP for sharing this for free!

Thanks for sharing this. With the 50th anniversary, it's going to be a busy year for Trek.

I have reset my rip settings (just went with the "highest quality" setting to begin with) in the advanced settings. Thanks for the info (I'm not re-ripping the set though;)).

Thanks! :)

Out of nothing but pure noseyness, would you be prepared to tell me what software are you using to rip, please?

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Thanks for the clarifications in this matter, tango and bob, that was helpful. Nevertheless, even if this upload doesn't meet this common standard for CD rips, speaking for myself, I am enjoying this music tremendously and couldn't detect any sonic defencies in the score so far. So again: many thanks to the OP for sharing this for free!

In real terms, the differences in sound quality are likely to be completely inaudible. It's just a matter of getting things "right".

If a resampler is working properly it won't cause any harm. Pouring a pint of milk into a two pint bottle doesn't harm the milk or the bottle, it just wastes space. Mathematically it's a little more complicated than that (44100 doesn't go into 48000 exactly) but in the end, we're talking about differences in sound quality that are so minute they barely even exist. :)

I'm very grateful for the upload and afraid I may end up buying this thing after all... Jay Chattaway's scores are really superb!

iTunes.

Thnk you!!!

Does anybody know if CD rips should always be done with 44,1 khz, instead of 48khz?


Yes

Thanks!

Thank you for the upload.

Thank you

Thanks for sharing!!

Hey Bri-Bri, as promised I just have you a Rep. Live Long and Prosper and May the Force Be with you, my friend.

Thanks a ton for this!