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Re: Any update on the soundtrack?
« Reply #75 on: October 26, 2009, 11:16:11 pm »
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Re: Any update on the soundtrack?
« Reply #76 on: October 27, 2009, 04:41:36 am »
That picture...so simple...so beautiful...
I tried not to think about it, but it only spread through everything I did...

Sing me to sleep..  ;)
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Re: Any update on the soundtrack?
« Reply #77 on: October 27, 2009, 07:40:23 am »
Yay~ Can't wait ^^
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Re: Any update on the soundtrack?
« Reply #78 on: October 27, 2009, 08:39:17 am »
I should have the discs by the 9th or earlier, but I'm not 100% sure yet.

Can't wait to see how they turned out.  8)

(hopefully good, otherwise I'll be broke lol)
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Re: Any update on the soundtrack?
« Reply #79 on: October 27, 2009, 11:40:42 am »
Sounds great!

So , eventually Alec has piles of discs, and he's sticking stamps to them..."this one goes to Canada, this one too, and this one, this goes to Finland, this goes to Germany..."  ;D

It's still obvious that it's your money which is burning there, not ours (yet, though  8)) so I kinda understand your concern. I'm not too sure what kind of rights and liabilities that company which makes the discs has, after all isnt it your "subcontractor" now...? You make it sound like sending skratched discs to the customer would be legal, and it sounds odd  ???

But well, as long as we can buy it and listen some Aquaria music, everything will be absolved.
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Re: Any update on the soundtrack?
« Reply #80 on: October 27, 2009, 01:14:56 pm »
Quote from: Vetehinen on October 27, 2009, 11:40:42 am
It's still obvious that it's your money which is burning there, not ours (yet, though  8)) so I kinda understand your concern. I'm not too sure what kind of rights and liabilities that company which makes the discs has, after all isnt it your "subcontractor" now...? You make it sound like sending skratched discs to the customer would be legal, and it sounds odd  ???

I'm not worried about them scratching the disc, but the way these places work is they take your masters and replicate it exactly as they are. That way if something goes wrong its your fault. (because you burned something incorrectly)

It turns out the rate at which you burn a cd and the type of cd (e.g. brand) determines which players it'll actually play on without skipping. The moral of the story is never burn anything at Max rate. I ended up using 8x, hopefully that will be good enough....
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Re: Any update on the soundtrack?
« Reply #81 on: October 27, 2009, 10:46:18 pm »
It's my understanding that the issue with the quality of the master is where we get the term "gold master," or "going gold" -- the high quality media they used to burn to for Release To Manufacturing happened to be golden in color.  (It might well have had gold foil in it, rather than aluminum.  Gold is extremely non-reactive, and in particular it does not oxidize easily.)  Or at least, that's what the old-timers at Microsoft told me when I was an intern there in 1999.  (These days, they just transmit a disk image, rather than sending a physical copy.)
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Re: Any update on the soundtrack?
« Reply #82 on: October 27, 2009, 11:01:23 pm »
Yeah, it would make millions of times more sense to me if the CD printing company/factory took a disk image. That way it wouldn't get damaged in transit, and the factory could burn at whatever the industry standard rate is. I wouldn't be freaked out at all if I could do that. I could just transfer my wav files to a disc image, listen to it a couple times and know it wouldn't get messed up.

OH WELL. A lot of companys are still catching up to current tech I guess.
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Re: Any update on the soundtrack?
« Reply #83 on: October 27, 2009, 11:43:17 pm »
Reliably creating an audio CD image is slightly more complicated than just putting in the WAV files; it's just that the most common WAV encoding happens to be the same as what's on CDs.  CDs use the RedBook standard, which is Stereo Signed 16-bit Pulse Code Modulation.  (That's the default for a WAV, but not every WAV is in it.  Though of course, these days, quite a few CD players actually know how to read data CDs that contain WAVs or MP3s.)  I used to do a bunch of work converting between audio formats -- I was working on speech recognition software, noise reduction to clean up audio so voices were clearer, etc...

In any case, I believe on a Mac you can create a CD image by using the Disk Utility to create a blank disk image, using appropriate options (Size to "177 MB (CD-ROM 8 cm)", Partitions to "CD/DVD", Image Format to "DVD/CD Master"), and then once you have your blank, pick it as the target for a burn from iTunes.  Subsequently you can burn unlimited copies from that image without having iTunes redo the process of encoding the audio and creating the headers with the track-break info.  (I may be mis-remembering exactly how that's accomplished, but I'm pretty sure it can be done...)
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Re: Any update on the soundtrack?
« Reply #84 on: October 27, 2009, 11:46:19 pm »
Yeah, its not hard. Most burning programs let you burn to image instead of disc.
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Re: Any update on the soundtrack?
« Reply #85 on: October 30, 2009, 02:00:33 pm »
Quote from: Alec on October 27, 2009, 08:39:17 am
I should have the discs by the 9th or earlier, but I'm not 100% sure yet.
What's about digital release date? ;P
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Re: Any update on the soundtrack?
« Reply #86 on: October 30, 2009, 02:25:00 pm »
Still, I do like how a company still likes to use tangible substances.
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Re: Any update on the soundtrack?
« Reply #87 on: November 09, 2009, 11:58:14 pm »
Quote from: Alec on October 27, 2009, 08:39:17 am
I should have the discs by the 9th or earlier, but I'm not 100% sure yet.

Can't wait to see how they turned out.  8)

(hopefully good, otherwise I'll be broke lol)

How's the batch of soundtrack discs coming along? It's already 10th November in Malaysia... Been eyeballing this page for updates since yesterday :P

In any case, looking forward to it, yo!!! :)
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Re: Any update on the soundtrack?
« Reply #88 on: November 10, 2009, 05:39:27 am »
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Re: Any update on the soundtrack?
« Reply #89 on: November 10, 2009, 05:53:43 am »
hot!
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