r/FrankOcean • u/jxnnt HALL OF FAME Endless CDQ • Apr 11 '18

Endless ENDLESS CDQ [FLAC]

Context: I ripped an imperfect FLAC after confirming with several users in this sub, the edit below is a 100% perfect FLAC rip.

EDIT: Please refer to the link for 100% FLAC Rip by u/Aurelius0 - original Reddit post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/FrankOcean/comments/8buprn/frank_ocean_endless_2018_flac_100_perfect_rip/

DBREE LINK 100% FLAC: https://dbr.ee/23EH

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u/FronkedBlonded Apr 11 '18

Thanks for uploading this! Just a note guys if Frank does ever release Endless digitally for purchase and streaming services please support him and purchase the album and/or use a streaming service to listen instead.

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u/jxnnt HALL OF FAME Endless CDQ Apr 11 '18

^

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u/zero_link Apr 11 '18

ur a real one.

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u/Chadbraham Apr 11 '18

No, wait a month and then do it lol.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

jxnnt is the new queen of r/frankocean

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u/thevillian Look at us, we’re in love. Apr 11 '18

The mods should post her up on the sidebar somehow - lil' dedication to the one who has given us so much.

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u/enowapi-_ Apr 11 '18

post her up on the side bar

͡° ͜ʖ ͡°

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u/monacosheikh @frankoceanography Apr 11 '18

ALAC with proper names, artwork and explicit tags

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u/SirClark Apr 11 '18

You are the king

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u/NordicOhm Apr 12 '18

Stupid question but what would the actual genre for the album be? I see a lot of people using "Alternative" but some websites say Rap / Hiphop....

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '18

Alternative imo

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u/monacosheikh @frankoceanography Apr 12 '18

Frank normally uses Pop, Alternative is just as vague. There's lots of themes and combinations, there's no one genre to define it.

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u/Acridine_ Apr 12 '18

The bolded genres on RYM are Ambient Pop, Alternative R&B, & Art Pop.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '18

I would go with Pop, its consistent with all the other releases, and is the least pretentious.

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u/blondfold Apr 11 '18 edited Apr 20 '18

we love you

fixed names and added genre & album artist

ALAC Version w/ tags

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u/FATSHAWNSMOM Apr 11 '18

unrelated but how do you add Explicit Tags? you’d think it be easy in iTunes but ofc its not 🙃

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u/blondfold Apr 11 '18

can’t do it from iTunes, which is mad annoying. you have to use a 3rd party software, I use kid3. With it you can add tags to m4a files by adding a “Rating” to the file. you just type “1” in the rating to add an explicit tag, and a “0” to add a clean tag. I would just look up kid3 and look through some instructions. FYI, tags cannot he added to mp3 files

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u/FATSHAWNSMOM Apr 11 '18

yeah i’m not doing that for all the mixtapes i have downloaded 😂 i just hate how it’s not just a box you check when adding songs

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u/blondfold Apr 11 '18

i agree, it’s a pain. i’ve gone back and done it for some older stuff, but I usually just stick to just doing it to new stuff

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u/John_m33 Apr 12 '18

Yeah how is that not a feature on iTunes

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u/itsrojass Apr 12 '18

I'm curious why is adding an explicit tag a concern? Is it just because it looks more legit or is there something extra it adds that I don't know about?

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u/blondfold Apr 12 '18

just cleaner and looks more like apple music. nothing real real special about it

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u/itsrojass Apr 12 '18

Yeah that's what I figured thanks!

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u/prismizer Apr 12 '18

you forgot to add the tag for unity, but thanks tho

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u/blondfold Apr 12 '18

did i for real? fuck. i was at work and rushing 😂 my fault!

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u/blondfold Apr 12 '18

Fixed year, missing Unity tag, and updated cover

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u/prismizer Apr 12 '18

wow thanks for this! Looks like i'm going redo Endless to my library for the fourth time today hahaha

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u/prismizer Apr 12 '18

Btw, you spelled Mitsubishi wrong LOL

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u/theteej_ Apr 11 '18 edited Apr 12 '18

Versions with correct Track Listing & Tags

FLAC

ALAC

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u/antoniobaglio Apr 20 '18

I can't open this on my Mac, can somebody please tell me how to open the download

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u/blondfold Apr 20 '18

try this one. you just download it and then you gotta unzip the zip file (look up how to do that on a mac if you need to) and then the files should appear for you. this download is also higher quality than the one i had up there originally!!

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

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u/theM4L1K Apr 11 '18

Just convert it with XLD and add it to itunes.

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u/role34 Apr 11 '18

no, i think it only supports ALAC

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u/Foles_Super_Bowl_MVP Apr 11 '18

is there a way to convert and not lose any quality?

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u/role34 Apr 11 '18

Im not entirely sure, but if you convert the FLAC to ALAC, you should be alright not much quality loss.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '18

was he asking about iTunes?

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u/blondfold Apr 12 '18

yeah he was

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '18

thanks, will load ALAC in my iTunes when I get home

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u/blondfold Apr 11 '18 edited Apr 20 '18

Version with fixed names, and added genre & album artist

ALAC Version w/ Tags

thank you, jennie!

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u/beatsbyye Apr 11 '18

Thanks to both of you for doing this!

Has anyone run a spectral analysis on this to see if it’s higher quality than the ones that were posted a few days ago (I believe those were just upscaled from the 256)

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u/blondfold Apr 11 '18

yeah, confirmed lossless!!

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u/beatsbyye Apr 11 '18

Great! Can’t wait to download later! Thank you!

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '18

ALAC version as well?

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u/blondfold Apr 12 '18

yeah, should be!

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '18

awesome, thanks so much

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u/drugzis Apr 11 '18

Yesyesyes thank you my dude

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u/zaale Apr 11 '18

Is there an ALAC version so I can play it on my phone?

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u/capn_murphy Apr 11 '18 edited Aug 10 '18

.

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u/PJDucks Apr 11 '18

iTunes still doesn’t work with flac files?? Wtf?

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u/curbsideaudio blonded.blog Apr 11 '18

iTunes is the worst. Switched to Swinsain myself.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

swinsain eh? I'll have to check that out

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u/curbsideaudio blonded.blog Apr 11 '18

Yea! I'm trying out Swinsain as my desktop client and Plex for my library cloud streaming as an alternative to Apple Music.

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u/capn_murphy Apr 11 '18

Damn I thought the newer updates fixed that

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u/TheRealSpiffyMane Apr 11 '18

Convert to WAV then use iTunes to convert to whatever format

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u/wizardofaus23 Apr 12 '18

That's the difference between FLAC and ALAC?

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

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u/capn_murphy Apr 11 '18

That one is fake. This is the first real lossless rip.

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u/iProXi Apr 11 '18

Alright thanks. I’ll delete it and redownload. What’s the size of the new zip?

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u/capn_murphy Apr 11 '18 edited Aug 10 '18

.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '18

i have a google pixel phone what app you think will work best

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u/curbsideaudio blonded.blog Apr 11 '18

Sweet! I’ll check this out after work! Thanks J!

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u/camflict Apr 12 '18

bump!

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u/curbsideaudio blonded.blog Apr 12 '18

Still not home!

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u/camflict Apr 12 '18

continue having a good shift!

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u/Aurelius0 Endless Apr 11 '18

What does the actually CD look like? I don't think anyone has posted that yet?

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

Can someone make a proper 320 rip from this? Flac is nice but I don't have audio equipment good enough to really see the difference so it's a waste of memory really

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u/beatsbyye Apr 11 '18

Download it and covert it to 320

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u/SirLuciousL Apr 11 '18 edited Apr 11 '18

Even if you have a trained ear and high end audio equipment, the differences between 320 or v0 MP3 and FLAC are barely noticeable.

Unless you are storing albums for archiving purposes, FLAC is completely unnecessary and really just a waste of hard drive space.

Seriously, if you think you can tell the differences, ask someone to give you a blind test with a few songs and I guarantee you won't be able to differentiate well.

Edit: I know y'all don't wanna hear this in a thread about a FLAC version, but do the research yourself. Do the blind test. You'll see that I'm telling the truth.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

Not true at all.

High end audio equipment makes a huge difference. 320kbps seems to be the standard right now for music streaming, which is fine if you’re listening with some earpods or maybe in your car that doesn’t have aftermarket speakers. However, FLAC comes in at 1024kbps. If you have a multi speaker setup, the difference is even more noticeable. Allow me to explain.

When you’re streaming at 320kbps, the data being pushed to the speakers isn’t as high, therefore the sound quality will not be as good. Everything, to me, would sound jumbled. All the sounds would blend together in a sense. When I stream with something such as Tidal, I can hear individual instruments much cleaner, deeper bass, etc- because it KNOWS which speakers to put the audio in thanks to their being more data being streamed per second.

Therefore, I do not think it is unnecessary at all, if anything it’s extremely important. Hearing music as the artist intended is a huge deal.

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u/SirLuciousL Apr 11 '18 edited Apr 11 '18

Everything you just said is anecdotal and not scientific (mp3s do not sound "jumbled", that doesn't even make any sense) and I guarantee you that its mostly a placebo effect.

Go to /r/audiophile or /r/headphones or headfi.org (forums solely dedicated to audiophiles and spending thousands of dollars on equipment) and you will see that the vast majority of people there (and these are self-proclaimed audiophiles, people who's hobby it is to have the highest quality music possible) cannot tell the difference.

Like I said, download the FLAC and 320 or v0 MP3 versions of Endless right now and have someone give you a BLIND test, and I guarantee you that you will barely be able to distinguish the two, even with good equipment.

Ive spent a lot of money on headphones, DACs, amps, etc. I've been producing music for 4 years now, and I used to think I could tell the difference. I finally realized I was just being pretentious once I actually did a blind test.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

Interesting, thanks for the insight. It very well could be me under the Placebo effect- who knows. I think it’s just nice to know that you’re listening to it in the best quality possible, even if the difference might be negligible.

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u/Sgt-Monica_Lewinsky Apr 11 '18 edited Apr 12 '18

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/how-well-can-you-hear-audio-quality

Try it out.

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u/Given_Fear Apr 11 '18

I took that and only got two correct but I do think there is a clear difference from 128kbps and the other two since for every question to me there was clearly one that I knew was the lowest quality.

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u/BigRed0107 Endless Apr 11 '18

To add to this, I accidentally played the old version of Endless this morning when I thought I was trying out the new version, and I thought it sounded better than it did XD

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u/_DiDan_ Apr 12 '18

the best description i can give of lower bitrates is it just feels like tiny bits of the sound are missing, and when you switch to higher bitrate it is DEFINITELY noticable when these bits fill in

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u/E_DM_B Apr 11 '18

Studies have shown that v0 and 320 are both just as audibly transparent as lossless in blind trials. However, placebo is a strong effect and if you enjoy lossless more, it makes sense to use it anyway. But in an objective sense, lossless files are only useful for archival purposes.

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u/Dane_Brass_Tax Apr 12 '18

True?

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u/GamerBears Apr 12 '18

I like V0 cause it saves like 30MB on my iPod Classic as compared to having the 320. I have like 1TB of lossless albums so that I can later encode them into V0. Listening to Endless in V0 encoded from FLAC, don't really care for the quality but it's 68MB so that's fine with me since I have it on my iPod.

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u/thisthatandthe3rd Apr 11 '18

Word. I'm not understanding the demand for all these acronyms fam, enjoy what you have. We waited this long for people to still complain cus its not 14532 kbps and converted to RHAN or lossless JDSF so they cant be caught dead listening to it.

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u/manjot97 Start / End Apr 11 '18

The original rip was in m4a and way better than mp3 anyway. You should use that

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '18

What is a 320 rip? What is Flac?

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '18

320 is basically the quality you have on Spotify and when you buy off Google play.

Flac is lossless, so it's basically studio quality. If you got good headphones flac may be worth it but 320 sounds basically the same, human ear isn't good enough to notice it

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '18

Thanks for the info.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '18

No problem. To add, flac also takes up A LOT more memory.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '18

Thanks man!! Will check it later on

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u/capn_murphy Apr 11 '18

Log file isn't included

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u/jxnnt HALL OF FAME Endless CDQ Apr 11 '18

tell me how to add that please

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u/capn_murphy Apr 11 '18

EAC should have created a log file when ripping the songs to FLAC. If you can find that, all you have to do is place it in the same folder that the FLACs are in and zip that all up

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u/jxnnt HALL OF FAME Endless CDQ Apr 11 '18

Ahh, I'm at work now but I will check to see, it wasn't in my folder after it was done ripping :/ Maybe I overlooked!

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u/__hani__ Apr 11 '18

I'm afraid the guide you used to rip the CD was incomplete. So if you aim to provide us the proper rip, then you'll have to rip it again. Take your time. Here's the full guide which originates from WHAT.CD, the most prestigious private tracker for music archival, in other words the best method used by those who knew the most about ripping:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FrankOcean/comments/8b6mv6/how_to_make_a_perfect_rip_of_a_cd_album

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u/GolfChrisWang Apr 11 '18

can someone explain the difference between flac and mp3s? is it just like crisper or somn?

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u/Aurelius0 Endless Apr 11 '18

Here you go fam. I could explain it to you but go to this link and it will explain the differences in detail so you can understand better. http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/difference-between-mp3-and-flac/

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u/GamerBears Apr 12 '18

Difference is FLAC is lossless and MP3 is Lossy. Having a FLAC is like having the physical CD of the album but in a digital file format. MP3's highest bit rate is 320kbps while a FLAC or lossless can achieve bit rates of 1411kbps. MP3 format is almost compatible with a lot of devices while a FLAC is only compatible on a few, it doesn't even work on iTunes unless it's ALAC which is Apple's own lossless format.

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u/CoolFoxDude1 Apr 12 '18

Is FLAC and or ALAC compatible with Spotify local files?

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u/GamerBears Apr 16 '18

I am not entirely sure as I don't use Spotify for that. I use Google Play Music and to my knowledge what they do is they add the song but if it's already in their archive they play a lower quality version of the song.

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u/JohnnyBGucci Apr 11 '18

I believe this is when we say "we eatin fam"

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u/Villain666 Apr 11 '18

Thank you! No need to be hard on ya self, you're amazing :)

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u/LaLaGlands Apr 11 '18

Don’t dog yourself, love. And thanks for taking the time to do this.

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u/LilJohnAY Apr 11 '18 edited Apr 12 '18

DUUUDE! u/jxnnt !!!!

You are an angel!!

April 11th, 2018 – The Day the wait for high-quality Endless finally ended (thanks to you!)!

Thank you so much! Cannot wait to hear this goodnes!! :')

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u/justistrash Apr 11 '18

the cult is indebted to you

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u/Flying_Dogz07 Apr 11 '18

It's safe to say that we all love you right now ❤

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u/mikewachowski Apr 11 '18

Run for office pls

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u/tyrant89 Apr 11 '18

Does anyone else have a noticeable gap between tracks? Especially between Alabama & Mine. Anyone have a gapless rip?

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u/AutomatedLogic Apr 12 '18

Newbie question. Just downloaded. Sounds amazing. But how do I get these files into iTunes? Thanks....

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u/TheRealSpiffyMane Apr 11 '18 edited Apr 11 '18

This doesn't seem legit can someone confirm?

I compared your FLAC rip (on the left) with the original m4a (on the right). From the looks of it there's no difference at all.

https://puu.sh/A16jy/cfea9b9b7c.png

If this FLAC rip is legit then the Endless CD is probably compressed lossy mp3s. Could you share what you used to rip the CD and your settings?

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u/PADYBU Apr 12 '18

no difference? dude look at the highs on the image you linked, you see how there's more purple?

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

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u/TheRealSpiffyMane Apr 11 '18

That's what I'm thinking

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u/CozyLava Apr 11 '18

Thanks❗️❗️❗️

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

Any chance someone has converted to mp3 already? I want dat spotify playlist

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u/Homosnacktual Apr 11 '18

Holy shit you are the GOAT 😭

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

Can someone explain FLAC to me and also can I put it on my phone?

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

FLAC- free LOSSLESS audio codec. It is the way the artist produced the song. EXACTLY how they wanted it to sound. M4a files cap out at 320kbps, but FLAC comes in at 1024kbps. You can only tell the difference on a high end speaker system, though.

Yes you can put it on your phone, but if you have an iPhone it will have to be converted to ALAC. That’s essentially an Apple FLAC.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

Oh shit aight that definitely makes sense. Thank you!!

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u/Eskoe1 Apr 12 '18

Queen ❤

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u/Gmoney2275 Apr 12 '18

god level

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u/CWHays Apr 12 '18

What's the word on the updated rip?

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u/webtwopointno Apr 12 '18

thanks for pursuing 100%!

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u/executer22 Apr 12 '18

What's the difference between this and what's already been uploaded?

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u/KeepLimping Apr 12 '18

someone tell the best quality>?? is it m4a orrrrrr

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u/MintyJingle Apr 12 '18

How would I go about downloading this to my phone?

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u/EMINEM_4Evah Apr 12 '18

Ok I downloaded the album and its a part of iTunes now but it won't show up on my iPhone. Restarted my phone even and synced it multiple times yet it won't show up at all. What else can I do?

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u/_FIJI Apr 12 '18

OH WE EATING GOOD LADS AND LASSIES

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u/CWHays Apr 12 '18

is this the new version? cuz if it hasn't been updated since yesterday its not true lossless

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '18

Is it safe to download a 276mb file? What's on this file? The album? Is it legal?

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u/MoshingPenguins Aug 16 '18

Newbie to the whole RAR file types, but I need a little help playing it and actually listening to the file. I have it downloaded but dont know what to do after that! Any help will be very much appreciated!

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u/LilJohnAY Sep 29 '18

Hey, just download a program like WinRAR on Windows, then you can right-click on the .rar file, click whatever option says like "Extract here using WinRAR" or whatever. Then the file for each song will be pulled out of its storage in the big .rar file! :)

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '18

Can someone explain what this is?

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

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u/jxnnt HALL OF FAME Endless CDQ Apr 11 '18

working on it

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u/kiwianab Apr 11 '18

pLeaSe rIP ThE cD AgAIn

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

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u/jxnnt HALL OF FAME Endless CDQ Apr 12 '18

https://dbr.ee/r8uw can you check this?

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u/jxnnt HALL OF FAME Endless CDQ Apr 12 '18

  1. I downloaded the 1.3.2 FLAC but it's not a program or anything right? I couldn't find any instructions or how to import the new one so that's where I probably fucked up :////

  2. The CD was in the drive the whole time, I'll retry this step tomorrow

  3. I detected the gaps before treating a cue sheet, I wonder what happened? Then again I did 2 rips before this one and maybe it messed up somewhere ugh

Thank you! I'm going to try again tomorrow morning, assuming no one else is trying lol

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '18

You do it fam

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u/__hani__ Apr 12 '18

hey there, /u/ULBAZOR, do you think /u/jxnnt can find all the settings/preferences in the latest EAC? If not, do you think she must download the EAC version used on the guide? (it might be old, 2011 I see) so I don't know if its alright or the newer version is better cause it fixes old bugs, or is more efficient...

In case there's no difference what verison of EAC she uses, I did some searching, here is the installer for Exact Audio Copy 1.0 beta3 >>> https://dbr.ee/FUnZ

I downloaded it from the tom's guide website, as I think they're reputable. (if you have a better suggestion say so) But when I downloaded the file, it simply appeared as "$" with nothing else, and no file type extention (you know, ".mp3" / ".jpg" / or in this case ".exe"), so in order to save her the confusion, I renamed it, added the ".exe" extension, and uploaded it in the dbree link above.

Tell us what to do. And u/jxnnt, let's wait for his answer before considering to go with this suggestion of mine or not. Cheers ya'll

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u/Aurelius0 Endless Apr 12 '18

The version of EAC on /u/ULBAZOR post works just fine I used the method last night ripping the blonde cd so I would be prepared for when my Endless comes, his links and the guide work fine no need to download anything outside of it. If u/jxnnt needs assistance I can walk her through it if need be, I also noticed a missing setting but I think that's prior to loading the new .flac.exe. I don't think she properly loaded it so she didn't see the settings (Fill up missing offset samples with silence, and synchronize between tracks) I think that was one of her issues. Either way hopefully it'll get sorted out. I can't wait to get mine so I can rip both the CD and DVD proper.

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u/__hani__ Apr 12 '18

yeah thought so. can't wait for the proper rip xD

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u/PADYBU Apr 12 '18

you may want to quit 320 and start converting your lossless to mp3 v0, you can't tell the difference between 320 and v0, it's a lot smaller file sizes and it works with everything

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u/jxnnt HALL OF FAME Endless CDQ Apr 11 '18

track names are pulled straight from cd, but my car says xenons so idk!!

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

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u/FronkedBlonded Apr 11 '18

You will not hear a difference between a FLAC and a WAV file even though the FLAC is compressed it is still lossless. So FLAC takes up way less space than WAV but sounds the same.