maiki
August 20, 2020, 4:19am
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Continuing the discussion from In the beginning… a filesystem :
I’m about to dump these MP3 files, so I thought we’d give the first track a listen to see if we can hear the difference. The Opus was converted from the FLAC.
Oh, dur, I’ve got to allow music upload extensions, one sec…
maiki
August 20, 2020, 4:48am
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And now my net connection is spotty. Okay, better luck next time!
maiki
August 31, 2020, 8:53pm
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I ended up making 192k opus files from the flac, they sound great.
This release has a pretty neat background story, where Sasha moved BT across an ocean and bought a computer to produce the album.
But my favorite part is I got to learn about Christ of the Abyss - Wikipedia , the subject of the cover art.
Christ of the Abyss (Italian: Il Cristo degli Abissi) is a submerged bronze statue of Jesus Christ by Guido Galletti [it], the original cast of which is located in the Mediterranean Sea, off San Fruttuoso, between Camogli and Portofino on the Italian Riviera. Various other casts of the statue are located in other places worldwide, in underwater locations, churches and museums.[citation needed]
The original clay positive, minus the arms, was located in a foundry in 1993. The arms were later fou...