what's up with the songs on tranceaddict lately? "beams of gaia", as well as "godd" and "be with me" have totally screwed up beginnings. either they click or have the beginning cut off. i also found some errors in mp3 files - "club quake", "autumn tactics", PvD hr xxl (part 2) ... sometimes i'm even forced to decode and reencode some mp3's to fix the errors. oh, lest you not forget the dumonde song which sounds like it was encoded with crappy xing @ 128 kbps and not FhG @ 192 ... a small note to the people who sample from vinyl (i doubt anyone is reading, but hey...) - please, leave at least half a second of silence at the beginning because encoders do strange and ugly stuff. and check your audio gear because there are many songs that have that nasty hum because of poor grounding (or ground loops).

honestly, does anyone actually listen to the songs before putting them online? i'm very, very dissapointed.

I think that is a bit harsh, anyway this was really more of a case of sending your complaint straight to swamper, using the feedback system

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If you think you can do better then rip them yourself and upload them to me.

Otherwise don't download them.

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"In a world of illusion you only see what you feel"

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Originally posted by Swamper If you think you can do better then rip them yourself and upload them to me. Otherwise don't download them.

sorry, i didn't mean to be rude. it's just that i find it dissapointing to discover clicks and skips at the end of a great song (as all on this site are), and i've just spent two hours downloading it on my poor 56k modem... it's not fun. kudos to the entire TA team for keeping the site up, but i really think it would help a lot if someone could prelisten the songs before posting them and say "the sound quality is blah-blah-blah, there is a slight sync error at 6:17, there is a click at the beginning" ... naah, i overdid it yet again. sorry.

Swamp, i think he wants u to make him stop dling...

Sub, uve gotta get 1 thing straight: those ppl put those songs up WITHOUT being asked for, they ask NOTHING in return, ofcourse u can point out bad quality, but not like this!!!

if it was up to me, id imprison u

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Originally posted by Gekhous Swamp, i think he wants u to make him stop dling...

that would be nice, yes - i download every single from the site, which has a very negative effect on my phone bill

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Sub, uve gotta get 1 thing straight: those ppl put those songs up WITHOUT being asked for, they ask NOTHING in return, ofcourse u can point out bad quality, but not like this!!!

how, then? i admit my reaction was a bit inappropriate (suits me right, never write e-mails or post to forums and newsgroups when you're angry) ...

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if it was up to me, id imprison u

i've got soap on a rope, i think i'm safe even in that scenario


btw, does TA accept only new songs and vinyl rips? i've got some good ol' goa trance which i wouldn't mind sharing - then again, i've never seen a goa song on TA, so i don't know if people would like it

When you find clicks and strange sounds in a song (which I haven`t had in a long time and especially not here) there is a method of "repairing" them.

Search for a programm called "uncook", run the mp3 through this programm and the mp3s will be repaired. Search on the net for it, works like a charme. I have an old version of it (uncook 95), so I don`t know if it runs under Win2000 or XP but if you don`t find it on the net I could send it to you.

Just pm.

Cheers

Sir. Lunchalot

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Oh yeah, uncook works really well

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Originally posted by Sir. Lunchalot Search for a programm called "uncook", run the mp3 through this programm and the mp3s will be repaired.

unfortunately, uncook only has an effect on mp3's that were affected by the nasty CRLF bug in an old version of ... what was it? netscape 4.x? it's basically useless nowadays.

thanks for your help, though, every advice is appreciated

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honestly, does anyone actually listen to the songs before putting them online? i'm very, very dissapointed.

It was that line that got to me - I spend a ZILLION hours listening to music weeding out the crap - that comment assumed I posted stuff without ever having listened to it first...

Nothing that's ever been posted was only heard by me ONCE, but rather, MULTIPLE times.

And yea, it's just me, there's no team - sure there are some key individuals who send me some songs (and their tastes are similar to mine) and others who provide server space for you to all download from - but other than that - it's my ears that bleed while I listen to some stuff you don't even want to imagine.

Just so ya know....

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Why soo harsh...when you come to a site like this u cant complain about quality! the songs are great and a lot of work has been put into getting those songs on the internet. This is all done because swamper is really didecated and carez for his visitors and members. He doesnt charge anything, only has like 1 banner...
Give him a break...shit happens...
peace... take carez

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Move one, move all...
Move physically, and move emotionally"

Well yonow that everyone else appreciates the great work you do on the site, and in here. This forum is really running well now, cant wait for the new server

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