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The HD Tracks Blue Note store.

Don't get me wrong, I love the FLAC format and am in the process of making secure rips of my entire collection, but FLAC downloads can only ever get me interested if they are 24-bit 96kHz or 192kHz. And why do these HD Tracks downloads have to be so pricey? Also, HD Tracks not selling their wares to people outside of one country (in this case the U.S.A.) brings to mind the horror of DVD/Blu-ray region coding. A real pain in the ass if you live in a small country like The Netherlands where you will have to be content with mostly shitty releases produced for the local market. At least now we have the freedom of choice to import any CD release we fancy.

My eyesight isn't what it used to be. Could you print that a little bigger for us old guys? I'd prefer a braille card by snail mail. And my CDs over almost any download.

Night Owl Early Bird A Lark Ascending

Shaken, but not emotionally stirred?

From Lion (10.7) on OS X is only available as a download through the App Store. Since you own either Lion or Mountain Lion (10.8) you should probably be able to download a .dmg file through the App Store for free and use this to make a USB install drive if you wish.

I could, but I need to retain the capacity to do a clean install of OS X 10.6. USB flash drives make for a much more convenient installation medium anyway.

Than you are more fortunate then me in that respect. I had to make a USB installation drive from an earlier image I made of the OS X 10.6 DVD.

He would still have to pay those high USPS overseas rates. True. But the good news is the re-issues would come to him in the CD format. He said he wasn't legally allowed to buy them where he is. Oh sorry, you were responding to my post about HD Tracks? Those are 192khz 24 bit FLAC files, remastered by Alan Yoshida who also did the Audio Wave xrcd24 series. This kind of situation involving downloads is my nightmare for the future. There are some interesting titles like Out To Lunch, Speak No Evil, and Unity.

The wave of the future is that people outside the U.S. can't legally purchase the HD Tracks Blue Note remasters and will have to make do with some nice MP3s.

Today I compared the Impulse! Originals and SHM-CD of Live At Birdland and Meditations by making secure rips of track 1 with XLD and looking at the log files. The Japanese and Originals Birdland have the same CRC32 hash number and AccurateRip signatures and so must be identical. I suspected as much by listening. The Japanese and Originals Meditations are not identical, and do not sound the same to me either. The Japanese and Hip-O Select Sun Ship also seem to have differing log files (seem because the Hip-O rip is not my own), and sound different. Perhaps a bit off topic. Edit: Also identical are Live at the Village Vanguard and Crescent. Also different Transition (Hip-O not my rip).

He can't read the DVD. His MAC locks up. I've tried three different times. Macs are known to have not so good DVD players. My three year old iMac has been refusing some commercially released DVDs for some time now, DVD-Rs are even more of a problem. CDs are a different matter and all but one disc of my colection can be read by my iMac.

The Japanese BNLT 999 series counts 33 entries.

Why not use some private filesharing service?

That disc must have been one of the last batch to be released with copy protection. I stopped buying EU Blue Notes for some 5 years when the scheme was introduced, although I was given Joe Lovano's I'm All For You as a present. It's funny the April Fool's Day thread linked to above should mention that disc, because I found the sound on that particular disc was affected. When listened to on headphones my copy displayed an assortment of tiny digital pops and clicks not part of Motian's drumming. The errors were perfectly reproducible on multiple CD players. Years later I imported a copy of the disc from the US and it had none of these artifacts.

So the new policy of Amazon.com of pre-collecting import duties on orders with Expedited shipping (or higher) to the E.U. is a consequence of the changes U.S. Postal Service implemented?

Internet forums and comment sections seem to bring out the worst in a lot of people (not accusing Scott Dolan here ).

Can they be relied upon to use quality packaging materials for the Mosaic sets?

The only Abercrombie album I have is Gateway's Homecoming (apart from Joe Lovano's Landmarks). How would you grade Abercrombie's sound on that (those)?

Reggie Workman - Summit Conference

You have to do this every time you place a new order. Shipping methods are otherwise remembered except for this option. So if you forget, you're f-ed.. And check upfront what the limit for importing a gifted item is in your country. Because the total amount is correctly displayed on the customs declaration.

CDJapan, that's right. You can make them send the items as a gift so you can put more CDs in one order/shipment (to avoid taxes).

How long did yours take to arrive. Still waiting for a shipping notice a week later. I went on to my account and the status was "back ordered". Not impressed so far. HDwow still advertises the set for $15.99 with 7-10 days for shipping. Nothing about being a back ordered product. I ordered the same day as cloninmce and just received a shipping notice. It is now once again listed as in stock for the same price, $15.99 or €11.99 through their EU sites.

M. Emmet Walsh Ridley Scott Johnny English