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• If people were to have used a program such as Tunebite or Dairiusoft or use a sound recording editor/recorder program such as Audacity or Adobe Audition, they could have kept their SpiralFrog music. In reply to: "SpiralFrog dogged by DRM issues, unhappy investors"

  May 28, 2009

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• catalog reissues
  In fact, there a lot of times that they reissue the same album on CD again and again, adding bonus tracks, liner notes and the other frills, while not necessarily improving the sound quality. In my opinion and that of the majority of true audiophiles, a situation where an early CD era CD sounds better than some of the comps issued later on in spite of the labeling hyping that the later CD is "Digitally Remastered For Improved Sound Quality" is the 1985 "From The Original Master Tapes" CD by Buddy Holly actually sounding better than the compilations that came out in the mid 1990s. In fact, Erick Labson did a 2 CD "Buddy Holly Collection" in 1993, the mastering is so compressed and limited it actually sounds like crap while "From The Original Master Tapes" sounds very clear and lifelike due to the excellent remastering done by Steve Hoffman, who would later become known for remastering the DCC gold discs, at MCA in 1985. Erick Labson did the more recent remasters of "The Chirping Crickets" and the self-titled Buddy Holly album and those reissues actually sound better than "Collection," and the 2 CD "Gold" collection" which is a retitled reissue of "The Buddy Holly Collection" actually was remastered from scratch and is reported by many, including audiophiles, to actually sound better than the previous version of the 2 CD set and it's cheaper as well.
  
  There are some original albums that do get reissued over and over and over again on nearly every format that gets introduced even several times on the same format in both standard and audiophile pressings, even many with bonus tracks, liner notes, due to them being cash cows of the labels and/or are audiophile favorites including many Pink Floyd albums, especially Dark Side of The Moon, The Wall and Wish You Were Here, Time Out by Dave Brubeck, Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus by Vince Guaraldi, Charlie Brown Christmas by Vince Guaraldi, the CCR catalog, many Miles Davis albums, Hank Williams' catalog, Patsy Cline's catalog, Johnny Cash's catalog, many Bob Dylan albums, The Moody Blues' classic 7 albums, Harry Belafonte At Carnegie Hall, the Steely Dan catalog, The Doors catalog, The Who catalog, and others while there are some artists who's catalog for the most part hasn't gotten remastered since the 1980s including the Beatles (with some exceptions), the majority of the ELO catalog in the US, etc. and others get issued by every budget label in the world due to the recordings constantly being licensed, other albums having never been on CD or they have came and went on CD and at times do sell for huge sums on eBay, others get limited edition reissue on Rhino Handmade and Hip-O Select where they press a limited number of usually 2,00-5,000 copies and once they are sold, they usually don't get reissued again, unless companies such as import labels, Collectors' Choice Music, Collectables, Varese Vintage, Wounded Bird, etc. license the albums and reissue them. Others get their first time on CD appearances on these 3rd party licensed labels and in the case of 50 years old and older recordings, they are often imported from the UK illegally unless they sign some distribution deal with a company such as KOCH, as if the recording is 50 years old or older, then it is in the public domain. As of 2005, the key Cameo-Parkway recordings got reissued on CD legally for the first time in a boxed set on ABKCO and best of comps of 7 of the most notable artists on Cameo-Parkway which are ? and The Mysterians, Chubby Checker, Dee Dee Sharp, The Orlons, The Tymes, Bobby Rydell, and the Dovells. The Dave Clark Five catalog is also not available on CD due to Dave's extremely high licensing fees of his catalog although EMI UK issued the single disc best of "Glad All Over Again" and Hollywood Records issued the 2 CD "History of Dave Clark Five" but these are out of print and end up selling for high sums on eBay. All CDs of the original albums are pirates dubbed from vinyl. Before the recent ABKCO reissues of Cameo-Parkway, all CDs were pirates dubbed from vinyl.

  November 14, 2005

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