I've only had three discs "go bad" on me in the last five or six years (FSM's Body Heat and Intrada's Black Hole/Black Cauldron).
Great! Now I have to check my copies grrrr
In all cases, the audio was overlaid with a Goldsmith-style "electronic woodchipper" DIT-DIT-DIT sound before the discs became totally unplayable. It only happened with disc #1 of Body Heat. Thankfully, I was able to get a replacement disc for Body Heat direct from FSM, was able to re-buy The Black Cauldron for $10 and a fellow FSM'er gave their their used copy of The Black Hole for free.
I've only had three discs "go bad" on me in the last five or six years (FSM's Body Heat and Intrada's Black Hole/Black Cauldron).
Wow! Black Hole was affected too? Regarding other recent discs supposedly going rotten, I recall a post or two about FSM's Outland about 5 years ago. Have anyone TRULY had problems with Outland?
Aside from the notorious PDO pressings that bronzed (I think I had mostly or exclusively JOS CDs, which they replaced), I've only had two CDs fail – the MCA The Ten Commandments and the FSM Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (which subsequently I replaced with the Intrada and LLL releases, happily).
There was no obvious reason these failed when the CDs all around them played just fine. (Some people are aghast that I have to – for space reasons – keep some less-played CDs in my attic, but I've never had one of those fail.) I've also never had a CD-R fail. Or anything in a digi-pak. Sometimes, it seems it's just random.
and to find out all the double ,triple, quadruple dips (Masters of the Universe, Night Crossing, Bandolero, Planet of the apes anyone ?)
and differrent interpretations/rerecordings
just digitized the "100 years of film music" series form BMG /RCA Red Seal the Tiomkin Disc including 55 days at peking, oh my ... the overture is played so slow ( 5:18 compared to Dimitris original version with 2:55 ) it loses all of its energy and meaning....
but at the same time the cd made you want more form Tiomkins Cyrano de Bergerac
Tiomkin is, for sure, difficult to play.. luckly we have the superb Tadlow Rerecordings giving justice to Tiomkins music)
just digitized the "100 years of film music" series form BMG /RCA Red Seal the Tiomkin Disc including 55 days at peking, oh my ... the overture is played so slow ( 5:18 compared to Dimitris original version with 2:55 ) it loses all of its energy and meaning....
The Film Noir suites (Deutsch, Steiner, Waxman, Hollander, conducted by William Stromberg) is the only CD from this series that I think was worthwhile.
Yes... Intrada's "Black Cauldron" is full of clicks now... unfortunately I had not ripped it lossless but at 320kbps.
"Phantom Menace" still looks and plays fine. I've updated it in my library to lossless format.
"Body Heat" disc 1 is ok in the score part, but some of the source music at the end of the disc now has some clicks... I gess it is the beginning of the problem.
Yes... Intrada's "Black Cauldron" is full of clicks now... unfortunately I had not ripped it lossless but at 320kbps.
"Phantom Menace" still looks and plays fine. I've updated it in my library to lossless format.
"Body Heat" disc 1 is ok in the score part, but some of the source music at the end of the disc now has some clicks... I gess it is the beginning of the problem.
How is it that discs produced within the last 12 years are rotting already? Cheap materials, bad pressings, etc?
This is part of the reason I digitize every soundtrack I buy the moment I get it in the mail. I do not wait. It goes onto my laptop and then every few months I update my external hard drive adding in all of the new soundtracks or other pieces of music I've since added to my files.
For some folks with collections spanning before the modern laptop age I understand that's not as easy as a task. But anything that's come out since 2009 when I started collecting? Right to my laptop and then external hard drives too. The CDs at this point are just for display. My Bose speakers are set up to my laptop and the soundtracks/songs I love the most are also on my iphone where I take with me everywhere. I hook that up to my car on drives or just crank music in my headphones if I am walking or at work.
but all should check the double disc with this kind of foam inlays, its was a problem with my original Star WArs 2CD too, but the disc are still playable.
