Topic: Transfer of master cassette to minidisc

[pepper]

 My brother has been getting rid of all of his cassettes and has transfered his metallica reading festival 97 aud master to md.At the moment im not sure what mode he recorded it in ( lp/lp2 etc ) when transferring it to minidisc.If it was recorded to the md in lp/lp2 mode would that still be acceptable to transfer to pc,save as wav/flac and then trade/torrent the recording.Sadly he doesnt have the master cassette anymore which is what i asked him for in the first place,so this is the next best thing.As far as i know( but cant be 100%) this is the only complete recording of metallica from the festival,as the pro shot video isnt the complete set.
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[morst]

If that's the best you guys have, then I'd say go for it. If there's a chance that the master could show up, maybe hold off, but if that's it, then do it. The folks who want it will appreciate it, and everyone else doesn't matter.

[andromedanwarmachine]

Thats interesting...

I wouldn't say it'll be worth going for a FLAC transfer but WAV definitely.

How do you not know what format it's in at the moment? If you just load it, the Absolute Time will tell you what it's been done in...

Sometimes you've got to make the best of the footage you've got!!

JimP

[JasonSobel]

I wouldn't say it'll be worth going for a FLAC transfer but WAV definitely.

that doesn't make any sense.  If it's worthwhile to transfer it to a computer as a WAV file, then no reason not to FLAC it.  The audio data in a FLAC file is identical to the original WAV file.

and I agree with morst, if MD is the best you've got, then go ahead an transfer it.

[sunjan]

Buy/borrow an MD deck with S/PDIF out, to avoid using the DAC in your MD deck going analog out.

[andromedanwarmachine]

Hey JasonSobel...

sorry about that- showing my ignorance there...!

I thought that the info in both WAV & FLAC was the same, but that WAV was more associated with transfer on into compression formats where as FLAC is associated more with pristine non-compression Hi-bit rate scenarios...

JimP

[fmaderjr]

My brother has been getting rid of all of his cassettes and has transfered his metallica reading festival 97 aud master to md.At the moment im not sure what mode he recorded it in ( lp/lp2 etc ) when transferring it to minidisc.

What a shame. I hope he didn't use LP2. I'm not particular (I can't hear a difference between MD SP & Wave) but even to me LP2 sounds truly terrible. I would never use LP either, but you have to listen harder to hear its deficiencies.

[morst]

Buy/borrow an MD deck with S/PDIF out, to avoid using the DAC in your MD deck going analog out.

YES for sure on the digital transfer. Whatever injustice was done to the bits already does not need to be compounded by analog transfer.

To help clarify, WAV & FLAC carry the same data. WAV is a native audio format, FLAC is the losslessly compressed version which is suitable for distribution due to its smaller filesize and built-in checksum fingerprints.