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Star Wars Prequels/Original Trilogy: The Complete Scores (Released) — Page 22

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Rather than GM go through every single track and do this just for your sake, wouldn't it be easier if you just got some free music editing software like Audacity and did it yourself? That way you could get it just how you want it.

And on a side note, I personally have never noticed these repeated notes and I use iTunes. Maybe it's something going wrong on your end.

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DarthBo said:

I have no idea what you mean with "they overlap", because as far as I can hear, each track is just fine. Can you give an example of a bad transition?

What exactly does "gapless mode" do?

I'm guessing it overlaps tracks, to hide the usual 2 silent seconds that are added to the beginning and end of mp3s.

Just get the flac versions and/or disable "gapless mode"

Gapless playback just means that there is 0 seconds of silence rather than 2.  Most albums I have would sound terrible with 2 second pauses between tracks (Abbey Road, Dark Side of the Moon/The Wall/any Pink Floyd really, or anything where one track is supposed to "flow" into the next).  It doesn't overlap tracks, it just doesn't pause between them.  If there is silence built into the audio track itself, the silence will still be there.

By default iTunes adds 2 seconds of silence between tracks because that's the standard for some retarded reason, but when you tell iTunes that a song or set of songs are "part of a gapless album" (checkbox in the "Get Info" menu under "Options"), then it gets rid of the pause.  I set every single song in my library as "part of a gapless album," even if the original CD has 2 seconds of silence, just in case.  I've never had a problem with it, and on albums that do have one track flow into the next it's (obviously) worth the little extra effort.

What he's saying is that, somehow, the end of one track will repeat at the beginning of the next, instead of one ending and the next beginning.  I think it might be a problem with his copy, though, because I'm sure everyone else would have noticed something so drastically wrong as well.

What I thought he meant at first was that there's silence built into the beginning and end of each track, in the waveform itself, making true gapless playback impossible, which would make more sense.  But if each track has an ending and the next a beginning, and they don't flow into each other as if it's one song anyway, I don't see it as a huge issue.  But apparently this isn't what he meant.

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I agree, I haven't noticed this repeat at all. 

Octorox, try downloading whatever set you're having problems with again and see if it gets resolved.

How are the new cues coming along GM?

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Hey... sorry about the issues your having. I'm not sure I or anyone here truly understands what you mean but if it is what we think it is, then when you get the new set, I think that any issues you're having will be resolved.

 

Right now, I had to stop working on the set for about two days as I moved to Texas. I'm not sure I mentioned that I was doing that lol... but I'm here now... and my computer is set up and with only a minor damage to my LCD screen (sadness) I'm gonna get back to work. I suppose that for 14 hours bouncing around in a car, it's not that bad.

 

I hope to have more of the set done by tonight. I listened to my star wars scores on the way here... only got to Han Solo being placed in Carbonite (then the zune's battery died) lol... but I was practically here anyway so I have some ideas on things to fix.

 

Right now there's not much to say except I'm working on Episode I. I had nearly finished Disc 1 before I left so that's about where I stand right now.

 

Will let you know


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Sweet really looking forward to these new sets cant wait

 

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All right. I've figured it out. The music doesn't overlap. There is just 2 seconds of silence between the tracks. Sorry for confusing everyone, it seemed like the music was repeating to me. I guess I'll just have to cut out the silence myself.

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Octorox, would it help you at all if I made a track per disc... IE: had all the tracks placed into a single file hour or so long file?


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I think that would be a mistake - the whole 2-seconds-of-silence thing isn't that big of a deal IMO, it can be fixed by anone who is bothered by it.

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I could do both I mean... have the option... I wouldn't completely undo what I've done for this... but If he wanted that, I could manage to make something just fo rhim I mean


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Yea, really can't wait! Will you be uploading them as you go, i.e. movie by movie, or all in one big update? Good luck, I can't imagine what a task it must be.

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I'll be redoing all of them... as I deem fit. The more recent additions won't need as much work.

 

I'll try to upload them as I go...


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An extra long track would be very cool. But don't think you need to do it jut for me lol.

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A fair amount of unreleased AOTC music found its way into TFU and I'm guessing GM is going about trying to encorporate those snipets into his set.

I'm attempting to make an AOTC Complete Recordings set that contains the official release, the score as William's intended it and then a complete score, and am currently in the process of including the new TFU material myself. Mine differs from GM's in that I'm trying to present the music as it is played in the film i.e. with all the Burtt edits included (I know...shoot me now).

One of the most unpleasurable edits I did was trying to reconstruct the conveyor belt music used in the film from about 15 different tracks from TPM and AOTC... Burtt well and truly hacked away at that music!

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Beatho said:

... i.e. with all the Burtt edits included (I know...shoot me now).

 

 ...No comment.

Lol !

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I'm not sure... I'm still digging through files...

 

I've unfortunately had to hold off on this for the moment... Suffice it to say my computer is not doing well.

I've always had the issue with it not wanting to play video games and crashing... but it would seem that the mother board I have (I built the computer with help from some more computer savy friends) has a tendency to set things on fire... yea...

 

And right now it's running at a critically hot temperture... so I'm trying not to leave it on long... and not do too many labor intensive things until I can get it checked and possibly buy a new motherboard which could be by the end of this week, need be.

 

But I am still doing the set... I just don't want to risk looseing everything right now... not to mention I'm wanting to build up my ability to write and produce my own music... which is what caught me onto this. I wanted to be sure my computer could handle it...and things came to light so...

 

Lets just say when your computer is running at nearly 200 degees farenheit, there's soemthing to be worried about lol!

 

I'll keep you all posted


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Alright... a little news... I spoke to my brother whom I trust much more than anoyne when it comes to computers (he's only been building and programming them since the 80's lol!)

 

Anyway, he looked up the manual for the motherboard I have (would never have thought of that) and VERY CLEARLY... it states that the Northbridge has a tendency to overheat and will cause the system to lock up... I forget the term he gave but EXACTLY what my computer does.

 

It states a fan MUST be placed over it to keep it cool... So that it my duty today... to find a fan that sufficiently sucks... air off the northbridge... which may also include having to build some aparatus to hold it in place and a tube for it to suck the air off the MB with... oye!

But yea... fire hazard...eek...

 

So I'm going to do that today-now in fact... a LOT cheaper than getting a brand new mother board lol...


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...Well good luck with building that contraption, hopefully you'll be back on track with a nice cool motherboard soon.

And in response to JediMasterFisher, yea actually it does have a little of that music, but only about 25 seconds of it, then it transitions into ROTS Sidious music.

And yea, including all the Burtt edits may be painful to put together, but being able to have the score as it was writen and the final edit played next to each other does make you appreciate just how amazing Williams' music is and how severely wrong sound designers can be. Also it's nice to have a complete de-SFX score of the film.

By the way, GM, is the music you're trawling through from TFU good quality at all? Because the rips I have are mainly pretty bad quality with a lot of crackling throughout the tracks. It makes it very hard to clean them up and make any use out of them.

Just curious if there was another better quality rip floating around out there.

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yes and no. It depends on where the rip originated. Better game systems had better quality music files but some didn't have as great...

 

It is 10 degrees cooler... and stable there... I think I'll have to be happy with 177 F over 188 lol!


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