Reuben - Music guru?

[algev]

Hi Reuben (or to anyone else who can point me in the right direction)
I'm a whisker away from signing up but I want to avoid getting into trouble on Day1. I've been reading the advice on public v private trackers. My real interest is music - sacd, dts, 5.1, surround, whatever it might be labelled as. I've had a look at IPT and they seem really very good for movies and a/v generally, but don't have much in the way of multi-channel music (one sacd offering - Titanic soundtrack- not exactly my idea of audio heaven). The dreaded Demonoid does quite well for sacd and dts but I've read the advice. So, having seen (I'm sure somewhere in the forum) you described as a movie guru, I wondered if you might also be a music guru and could recommend any private trackers specialising in audio content with an emphasis perhaps also on muti-channel audio.

Best regards.

[Reuben]

I'm not a music guru but I think Schade might be able to shed some light.

what.cd and waffles.fm are popular

[algev]

Hi Reuben
Thank you for taking the time to reply. Hopefully Schade will see this thread and offer some advice. Thanks again.

Best regards.

[Schadenfreude]

I'm not familiar with the music formats you mentioned such as sacd, dts, 5.1, etc. (V0 MP3 or FLAC is as high as I go) but I did poke around a bit at what.cd and yeah they do have a fair bit of those. I will require more information if I'm to do a more detailed search.

Why don't you give me a handful of titles to search for and I'll see what turns up and you'll be able to gauge what.cd's selection from the results.

P/S: Since when did Reuben achieve the esteemed honorific of Movie Guru? I'd rather fancy myself worthier of that rank! 

[Reuben]

Lol true I'm no movie buff

[algev]

Hi Schade
Thank you for your reply and apologies for the delay in mine. Been up to the proverbials in busy. I've written a summary - not trying to teach 'grandmother to suck eggs' but if it helps anyone then that's a bonus. It's rough and ready but here goes.


sacd: Super Audio CD (muti-channel audio streams, surround sound)


5.1: left, centre, right, surround left, surround right speaker channels, plus subwoofer.
7.1: as 5.1 plus surround back right and surround back left.


Some Examples of Multi-channel Source Modes

Dolby True-HD: provides up to 7.1 full channel at 96kHz, 24bit resolution, with potentially no losses in the compression process. Data rates can be up to 18Mbps.

Dolby Digital 5.1: most commonly used sound format for DVD video. Sources deliver sound with five discrete full-range channels.

DTS 5.1: less common than Dolby Digital but probably has the edge. Five full range channels plus subwoofer.

Dolby Pro Logic IIx: decoder allows the processor to produce seven outputs from a two or multi-channel source.

DTS neo 6: provides up to six full-band channels of decoding from stereo material.

Strictly speaking, Pro Logic IIx and DTS neo 6 are two-channel source modes capable of producing multi-channel audio streams. 'dolby' trademark of Dolby Laboratories; 'dts' trademark of DTS, Inc.



A quick search at Amazon for 'sacd' throws up a fair range of classical and modern. I recently bought Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms and the difference between the multichannel and stereo versions has to be heard to be believed. Same for Bryan Ferry - Avalon, and Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto, and so on. The music is so much richer and definitely has that 'extra dimension' feel.

But the reason I mentioned the dreaded Demonoid is that some clever audiophiles have been upmixing albums from stereo sources and uploading them, search on 'dts' and you get albums like Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses; there's hundreds of 'em, way too many to give a real flavour of the range..

A private tracker offering these goodies would definitely be audio heaven. I'm not being lazy and will put in the searching/surfing time; I just thought that you guys might have pretty good tabs on what's out there. BolehVPN just seems very supportive all round.

I'm sure I read a reference to you being a movie gure Reuben. I'm obviously wrong but I can't now find the forum reference. If I should find it then I'll update.

Thanks for your time guys, best regards.

[Schadenfreude]

what.cd should have some of the high-end music formats you're searching for, but I'm fresh out of invites so you'll have to get in some other way. Seeding and keeping a good ratio there is a bitch though, especially since the premium stuff you want are massive in size and often poorly-seeded. Best of luck! 

[algev]

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I'll check out what.cd and I note your comments about ratios, but seems like a good start point.

Thanks again.