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Thread started 01/13/15 4:40pm

wilsoqp

Prince's Itunes Catalog is being REMASTERED!

They have also added the Graffiti Bridge Soundtrack and the Love Symbol Album.

All Licensed Under The NPG Copyrights!

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Reply #1 posted 01/13/15 4:58pm

TheKid94

How do you know it's being remastered?!

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Reply #2 posted 01/13/15 5:07pm

steakfinger

He doesn't know.

The rights to his masters were given back to him by Warners. The copyright info on iTunes has been changed to reflect that. It has nothing to do with remasters. We've all heard that some of the albums are getting remastered. This is not related to that.

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Reply #3 posted 01/13/15 6:30pm

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Well, hopefully the sound will be normalized across everything. Nothing hurts the ears more than jammin' to "The Cross", then having "P Control" blast your ear drum out.

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Reply #4 posted 01/13/15 6:39pm

terrig

wilsoqp said:

They have also added the Graffiti Bridge Soundtrack and the Love Symbol Album.

All Licensed Under The NPG Copyrights!

i'm psyched there's more being added to itunes....yayyyy!

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Reply #5 posted 01/13/15 7:02pm

KingSausage

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billymeade said:

Well, hopefully the sound will be normalized across everything. Nothing hurts the ears more than jammin' to "The Cross", then having "P Control" blast your ear drum out.




RIGHT?! I hate that. Fucking hate it.
"Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
-Eugene Tackleberry
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Reply #6 posted 01/13/15 8:46pm

stillwaiting

billymeade said:

Well, hopefully the sound will be normalized across everything. Nothing hurts the ears more than jammin' to "The Cross", then having "P Control" blast your ear drum out.

It likely will simply be dumbed down extra loud over compressed files that we could make on our own by simply raising the sound levels. I'm terrible with this sort of thing, but at least I can make a somewhat louder but not too loud version of the Black Album for my own listening experience. This Itunes thing will probably just be the original versions way too loud with distortion.

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Reply #7 posted 01/14/15 2:02am

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The album that bugs me the most for its "quietness" is Lovesexy...

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #8 posted 01/14/15 2:47am

fnksoul

wilsoqp said:

They have also added the Graffiti Bridge Soundtrack and the Love Symbol Album.

All Licensed Under The NPG Copyrights!



That just tells you that NPG now own the licencing now, not they are being remastered.

Regardless if they are or not anyway, iTunes only deals in a weak Bitrate quality rather than Lossless or 320 mp3.


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Reply #9 posted 01/14/15 3:01am

Angelsoncrack

purplethunder3121 said:

The album that bugs me the most for its "quietness" is Lovesexy...

^^^^^ I go from listening to that album with the volume really loud, and then to another album and nearly blast my ear drum out because i forgot the voume was so high.

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Reply #10 posted 01/14/15 2:06pm

Doozer

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How / where is there any indication whatsoever of these tracks being REMASTERED?

Check out The Mountains and the Sea, a Prince podcast by yours truly and my wife. More info at https://www.facebook.com/TMATSPodcast/
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Reply #11 posted 01/14/15 2:10pm

Doozer

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fnksoul said:

Regardless if they are or not anyway, iTunes only deals in a weak Bitrate quality rather than Lossless or 320 mp3.


Not true re: "weak bitrate."

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True, iTunes does not sell lossless tracks. But what they do sell (256 kbps AAC) sounds better than 320 kbps mp3s. There are plenty of articles online that explain this in detail.

Check out The Mountains and the Sea, a Prince podcast by yours truly and my wife. More info at https://www.facebook.com/TMATSPodcast/
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Reply #12 posted 01/14/15 3:30pm

NouveauDance

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billymeade said:

Well, hopefully the sound will be normalized across everything. Nothing hurts the ears more than jammin' to "The Cross", then having "P Control" blast your ear drum out.

lol Princetruth.

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Reply #13 posted 01/14/15 3:35pm

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NouveauDance said:

billymeade said:

Well, hopefully the sound will be normalized across everything. Nothing hurts the ears more than jammin' to "The Cross", then having "P Control" blast your ear drum out.

lol Princetruth.

That's funny--to this day I've never heard the Gold Experience on head phones; I've always blasted it on old fashioned stereo speakers. lol

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

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Reply #14 posted 01/15/15 10:20am

KCOOLMUZIQ

npgmUSICpUBLISHING Is making prince MEGA rich!!

eye will ALWAYS think of prince like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. eye mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that prince wasn't of this earth, eye would not have been that surprised. R.I.P. prince
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Reply #15 posted 01/15/15 4:11pm

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KCOOLMUZIQ said:

npgmUSICpUBLISHING Is making prince MEGA rich!!

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Reply #16 posted 01/15/15 5:43pm

dandan

KingSausage said:

billymeade said:

Well, hopefully the sound will be normalized across everything. Nothing hurts the ears more than jammin' to "The Cross", then having "P Control" blast your ear drum out.

RIGHT?! I hate that. Fucking hate it.


P Control is too compressed. Itunes has a built in normalizer for when you make playlists with songs from different albums. Never tried it myself but it might be worth a try.

I got two sides... and they're both friends.
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Reply #17 posted 01/16/15 1:49pm

databank

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wilsoqp said:

They have also added the Graffiti Bridge Soundtrack and the Love Symbol Album.

All Licensed Under The NPG Copyrights!

There is no relation whatsoever between Prince's back catalogue being on iTunes, the copyright notice reflecting the rights reversal and anything being remastered. This thread is sheer nonsense and its title is misleading.

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Reply #18 posted 01/16/15 2:11pm

Giovanni777

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purplethunder3121 said:

The album that bugs me the most for its "quietness" is Lovesexy...

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Are you talking about the CD? The vinyl album is perfect.

"He's a musician's musician..."
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Reply #19 posted 01/16/15 2:19pm

KCOOLMUZIQ

Meanwhile back @ the ranch, prince is still STACKING UP the pile of cash in his MEGA bank account!. From his newly formed NPGMUZIQPUBLISHINGCOMPANY. Don't HATE! Congratulate.. biggrin

eye will ALWAYS think of prince like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. eye mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that prince wasn't of this earth, eye would not have been that surprised. R.I.P. prince
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Reply #20 posted 01/17/15 11:06am

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[Edited 1/18/15 9:11am]

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we all need 2 b friends"
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Reply #21 posted 01/20/15 8:18am

Askani

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billymeade said:

Well, hopefully the sound will be normalized across everything. Nothing hurts the ears more than jammin' to "The Cross", then having "P Control" blast your ear drum out.




Get yourself a copy of iVolume, if you're an iTunes user. It takes iTunes' soundcheck function and makes it actually work.
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Reply #22 posted 01/20/15 9:03am

Gohi

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Meanwhile back @ the ranch, prince is still STACKING UP the pile of cash in his MEGA bank account!. From his newly formed NPGMUZIQPUBLISHINGCOMPANY. Don't HATE! Congratulate.. biggrin

Are you a fan of his music or his bank account?

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