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Does anybody know any non Lana song similar to Fine China? I love how slow, epic, depressing, cinematic, classical it sounds. The strings are perfect and her voice sounds so bitterweet, yet strong and painful. My favorite song by her ever.

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can anyone explain where the version of flipside that’s 5:23 with that weird intro came from?

the version i have is 5:10 without the intro

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30 minutes ago, keps2013 said:

can anyone explain where the version of flipside that’s 5:23 with that weird intro came from?

the version i have is 5:10 without the intro

The weird intro is actually just a slowed down, reversed audio of the guitar loop. Surprise!

This isn't confirmed or anything but I believe it's there to prevent copyright detection. The function of adding it means that it extends the track duration which foils auto-detection based on track duration, and additionally distorts the sound so that YouTube (or whatever site hosted) doesn't detect it.

This isn't as common now but when YouTube first became a thing it used to just automatically delete all tracks that were copyrighted, and then there was a big shift on legislation that allowed tracks to be used if they weren't monetised and the label allowed it or if it was for educational or personal use. Because of this taking a while to kick in, a lot of albums that came out during the 2010s with bonus regionally locked tracks that were shared on YouTube often used these wacky methods to bypass detection so they could all be enjoyed. For example, I don't know if it was intentionally done on Fine China but there is a like some 'traffic' sound effects that play which would be there to avoid detection. Other tracks have like a minute of silence before they start, some songs like Prom Song change pitch etc. The Flipside on YouTube that runs for 5:23 is also slightly slowed down to draw it out a little more - it's subtle but still enough to be noticable. 

So why does this end up randomly on audio files? Potentially whoever was sharing these files just ripped it high quality off YouTube and just did the rounds bundled up with the rest of the CD. I'd guess that any audio files are capped at 320kps. The 5:10 version with no intro is the official, real version. 

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what’s the highest kbps we have AKA in? i might’ve just found it on an ancient mp3 downloading website with 320kbps. just wondering before i buy it and there’s literally a download of it somewhere LOL

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2 minutes ago, bigspender said:

what’s the highest kbps we have AKA in? i might’ve just found it on an ancient mp3 downloading website with 320kbps. just wondering before i buy it and there’s literally a download of it somewhere LOL

 

the highest confirmed quality we have is 256kbps

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6 minutes ago, Surf Noir said:

 

the highest confirmed quality we have is 256kbps

very interesting… let me buy it and spec it to see if it differs from 256 to see if it’s real 

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2 minutes ago, bigspender said:

itunes only has 256 when you buy it 

 

1 minute ago, Surf Noir said:

 

the itunes quality is 256kps, the version of the album i got from @That Venice Bitch's masterpost was actually from somebody who bought the album in 2010!

 

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oop well ok

 

hoping the spec is real 320 then :raven:

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does anybody know what that rick nowels atmospheric sound that you can hear in every born to die? or if anyone has the sound isolated and clean? 

it's the sound at 0:04 in MDM

but you can hear it in every born to die song too

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isn’t it emile haynie’s loon? or something like that. the fans have a specific name for it but idk, someone will correct me lol

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