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Mar 7, 2012 - 11:37 AM
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MattyT
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Unfortunately I think the download sold by Amazon was poorly encoded to MP3. There is a strange wavering quality to the volume level of certain elements in the lower dynamic range. Listen to the first 30 seconds of 'Barsoom Is The Prize' on headphones and you'll hear a great example, but I heard it crop up in many places throughout the album.
I have encountered this same issue once before with bought MP3s-- it was when eMusic went live with a huge catalog addition of Universal titles. People quickly noticed the new Universal offerings sounded weird, especially on choral and solo piano music. It turned out that while the bit rate was fine, eMusic had encoded the MP3s with an outdated codec (Frauenhofer instead of LAME), and, much more damagingly, had done so with the fastest encoding settings. I think something similar happened here. It sounds the same to my ears. The bitrate is high but something is very off.
The score is great! But these files suck. And I say that as someone who happily listens to MP3s all the time.
This happens every time I've downloaded an MP3 from a Disney release. Captain America had the same wavering quality to it, Tangled had it, Christmas Carol had it. Whatever they are doing to encode the music, it's always off. I stopped buying the Mp3 version of Disney scores because of this. I would rather rip the physical CD with a higher bitrate and lose the wavering quality. There were times when listening to the scores in headphones it sounded like they were under water.
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I really don't mind them myself; I think they're kinda funny.
I hate to be a sour grape, but in what mindset is something like "Carter They Come, Carter They Fall" funny? It seems to try to be funny, but in the end it's just a thoughtless pun.
It makes me yearn for the days of John Williams and "The [blank] Scene."
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I don't mind playful track titles but it does bug when the title gives you NO idea what scene the music accompanies.
"It's like I'm sayin'."
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Here is the tracklist: IF JERRY GOLDSMITH WROTE IT
1. Main Title (7:39)
2. Carter Arrival (4:25)
3. No Gravity (1:20)
4. Barsoom (2:56)
5. The Pursuit (5:34)
6. The Temple (3:25)
7. Zodanga (4:02)
8. The Blue Light (4:13)
9. The Fight (3:55)
10. The Truth Revealed (3:06)
11. A Warning (4:04)
12. The Apes (2:36)
13. The Challenge (2:23)
14. The Prize (4:29)
15. Helium Fight (4:34)
16. Just You Wait (2:07)
17. The Revelation (1:19)
18. Epilogue (3:13)
19. Finale/End Title (8:53)
TOTAL TIME: 74:13
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Here is the tracklist: IF JERRY GOLDSMITH WROTE IT
1. Main Title (7:39)
2. Carter Arrival (4:25)
3. No Gravity (1:20)
4. Barsoom (2:56)
5. The Pursuit (5:34)
6. The Temple (3:25)
7. Zodanga (4:02)
8. The Blue Light (4:13)
9. The Fight (3:55)
10. The Truth Revealed (3:06)
11. A Warning (4:04)
12. The Apes (2:36)
13. The Challenge (2:23)
14. The Prize (4:29)
15. Helium Fight (4:34)
16. Just You Wait (2:07)
17. The Revelation (1:19)
18. Epilogue (3:13)
19. Finale/End Title (8:53)
TOTAL TIME: 74:13
You forgot First Flight, Final Fight, A New Friend and A Free Ride. 
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