hey,

i've been listening to Norah Jones for some days now, one particular album
which i've d/l some ages ago. it came as ape/cue package.

and everytime when i listened to it i got abit cocky about some parts
which sounded crappy for an ape encoded cd.

today it sounded that cocky, like having mp3 artefacts on some places (highs/voices)
that i had to use aucdtect and the tool told me the following:

x:\>aucdtect -m0 cdimage.wav
auCDtect: CD records authenticity detector, version 0.8.2
Copyright © 2004 Oleg Berngardt. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2004 Alexander Djourik. All rights reserved.
------------------------------------------------------------
Processing file: [CDImage.wav]
Data analysis: [100%]
------------------------------------------------------------
This track looks like MPEG with probability 95%


this does mean it was an mp3 before, or not?

if so, i am very pissed off cos i already storaged it onto dvd..

on the other side, back then i hadn't had the audio hardware/equip i have now,
thus i couldn't hear it back then ..

so what do you think?

Decode a piece of the APE to WAV and do a frequency analysis in Audacity. If you see a lowpass, you'll know what you have.

I don't consider the quality of illegal downloads something to get pissed off about.

Quality of legally bought CDs is another matter.

i am pissed off because of the wasted dvd space not about the fact
that i had downloaded some crap

ok done that on 3 different songs of the album.

it looks like a lowpass, yeah. the last frequency is at about 16-18khz with a dB of -73 to -103 or so.

so that means i have a transcode of an mp3 album, right ?

In all liklihood, yes.

Was there a log file included with the original files? Just curious.

Off Topic:

In the early days of Hydrogenaudio.org the answer to questions like these would be the suggestion simply to re-rip the files from your own original CD...

I think you should buy the original CD instead of downloading supposedly lossless CD images.

yes there was, here it is:



surprisingly the ape file is only 208mb big ?!



try before buy?? ..

i am no leecher or so. i also have lot's of originals.
back then i never heard anythign than sunrise of norah jones..

As various members have already stated, discussion regarding illegally gained material is frowned upon here.

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