Futurama Extended Theme

Lots of people here have probably downloaded the Futurama Extended Theme at http://www.nnyc.com/media/press_kit/ , right? It has a number of problems in its encoding. :-< Does anyone have or know where to get the original .WAV file? (Not a .WAV file made from the .MP3, that would be useless). Thanks.

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There are usually a couple of different versions on napster. Compare the file sizes to see if its a different version to yours.

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I got my Extended Remix from http://www.futurama.org/ and it works fine.

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That suffers from the same problems - it's in Joint Stereo and has flanging artifacts that were added in the encoding process. Listening to it with a surround sound system makes it _extremely_ obvious, while normal stereo speakers tend to hide flanging artifacts. :-<

"S. T. L." wrote in message news:[email]...

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It's generally a good idea to switch your stereo system to Acoustic or the equivalent when listening to regular music that does not contain surround information.

I have the extended MP3 and it doesn't have flanging effects, at least when listening to it on headphones or on a four-piece speaker system (though not through a surround receiver).

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<<It's generally a good idea to switch your stereo system to Acoustic or the equivalent when listening to regular music that does not contain surround information.>>

It shouldn't be that way. For anything that I've properly encoded myself, playing it on a surround system is perfectly fine. Normal audio CDs never contain surround information, yet a surround system works perfectly fine on them. Except, of course, when the recording has been degraded in the encoding process. I suspect it's the Joint Stereo used in the file and not so much the 128kbps. :-< Everyone should use 256 Stereo.

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When you say 'surround sound', how many channels do you mean? Regular audio CDs have at least two.

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Joint Stereo does not affect playback. It's just a method of encoding stereo sound information. What comes out the speakers is still regular stereo sound plus quantization noise (which is mostly inaudible). As far as 256 kbps, you can only tell the difference between MP3 encoding and CD audio if you do a side by side comparison (meaning you can dynamically switch between the two) on certain passages that contain lots of high frequency sounds like high hats.

The flanging effects you're talking about are created by different MP3 encoding algorithms, not Joint Stereo. Poorly written encoders create flanging effects.

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<<Joint Stereo does not affect playback. It's just a method of encoding stereo sound information.>>

Okay.

<<As far as 256 kbps, you can only tell the difference between MP3 encoding and CD audio if you do a side by side comparison (meaning you can dynamically switch between the two) on certain passages that contain lots of high frequency sounds like high hats.>>

Yes, finding a difference between 256 and CD is extremely rare/hard to do. But as for differences between 128 and CD, that's another story, and the Futurama Extended Theme is in 128. :-<

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With a good encoder, most people, myself included, cannot tell the difference between 128-kbps MP3 audio and CD unless they're doing a side-by-side comparison and have a particular type of sound to reference (high hats, for example).

If there's something glaringly wrong about what you hear, get another copy of the file. Yours sounds like it might be messed up.

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My file is only "messed up" in the sense that it was improperly encoded - I downloaded it from two different sources and they sound the same (bad).

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What's the file size on them?

One is 2744320; the other is 2744448 bytes (this is the real file size and not the space used, which depends on cluster size and the like). One is from The Futurama Outlet, the ...320 one, while the ...448 byte one was downloaded much earlier and is from what is now nnyc.com, if I remember correctly. I'll probably end up writing Christopher Tyng and asking him if I could have a copy of the original CD-quality song.