I downloaded the WAV pack for Lotusflow3r, and I had some serious issues with the download.

1st: The folder structure made it look like it was coming from Itunes or something when I unzipped the folder. I had a MACOSX folder and a WAVE folder. Weird. I am running Vista for Business.

2nd: The music would not play in Windows Media Player, VLC, Foobar2000, Media Monkey, or even Audacity. The software would complain that the files were corrupt. Then, NONE of my non-Lotusflow3r music files would work. I rebooted, re-unzipped the music, and had the same issue.

3rd: Following another reboot and using the same 2nd batch of zipped files, I was then able to listen to Lotusflow3r in Windows Media Player, but the sound quality was horrible. I checked to see if I was boosting in any equalizer, but I was not. I had all effects/enhancements turned off. This was the same for all the other players too.


So I just wanted to check and see if this is a unique experience or if others had this problem. I plan on either re-downloading the WAV pack for Lotusflow3r, and trying the MPLSSound pack later 2night to see if there was a problem with the downloadables at that time (the Chocolate Box and Bria vids were down when I got Lotusflow3r), or just directly emailing the site admin to work out the issues right away.


K thx

Dauphin said:

chances are the files were compressed with flac or something... macintosh people continue to act like windows shouldnt exist, but want to sell to windows users none the less

cheers!
~svn seven

No, I downloaded all three albums on .wav and burnt them to CD. Sound's quite good on a good system.

I use Vista too but didn't unzip the files. Just dragged the folder to the desktop. It must do the same, I think

Here's a tip that might help some people out who are having trouble with the .WAV files. I am using Vista and I downloaded them just fine and was able to burn CD's from them. However, my MP3 players which also playes WAV's wouldn't recognize them. So I took the CD's that I had burned from the WAV's and used Exact Audio Copy to rerip the WAV files and those play in my MP3 player just fine.

Downloaded fine, sounded fantastic, burnt to CD without issues.

Everyones PC is different though, perhaps something else was going on but the files are fine.

No problems whatsoever with mine. No idea what could have caused you to have those problems unless there had been some issue during the download process. Often, re-downloading can solve it but without sitting in front of your PC and seeing the issues for myself, it's hard to tell!

Hope you get it fixed soon enough though. I really don't think there's an issue with the actual files as we'd all have the same problems. But something is clearly wrong for some members.....
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Dauphin said:

This is probably so it's compatible for Mac and PC users, so not that weird.

Dauphin said:

Where do you have your volume slider set for windows media player? I ask this because depending on your hardware and other sound settings, things might be getting over amplified and seriously clipped. If all of your volume sliders are at max for media player, overall system sound and wave file sound, then it's quite likely to be the problem.

I actually have this myself and it's solved quite easily by just setting the media player volume slider to half its maximum level. Hope this helps.

Thanks for the posts!

Turns out, today was my "Run Symantec scans," "Defrag," and "Get Java/Adobe Flash/Windows" updates. It was killing my computer, causing all sorts of issues. Now that I'm at home and everything is playing just fine.

Dauphin said:

Change your OS to Linux.
Delete th MACOSX folder.
Rename the WAVE folder to the album name.


Rebooting is a windows solution.
If the files unzipped without error your system is very uneliable if none of the named programs play simple WAV files.
Please upgrade to Linux.


Over here the sound quality is fine.
Upgrade your speakers, soundcard and OS, please.

[quote]So I just wanted to check and see if this is a unique experience or if others had this problem. I plan on either re-downloading the WAV pack for Lotusflow3r, and trying the MPLSSound pack later 2night to see if there was a problem with the downloadables at that time (the Chocolate Box and Bria vids were down when I got Lotusflow3r), or just directly emailing the site admin to work out the issues right away./quote]
You mean that these 'issues' are not april fools things?
Man, if the files are over 400 megs each, the exact numbers are elsewhere on the org, and unzip without error, you should have the exact same audio that Prince put up on the site via Scott.
If the WAVs won't play, if it sounds bad it is most probably not Prince's fault.
It might be something on your system which as it reads, you have not yet mastered.

No sound issues here - the WAV files sound pristine. Something is either wrong in your playback or converting process.

People are downloading the same files, so if there were problems someone would've mentioned them.

The only file issues so far were with MPLSound in the first few days (the ZIP file was corrupt) and the fact that some of the MP3s aren't tagged.