UMG Labels, Encoding, and casual insults

BigD-BluezBigD-Bluez
edited March 2011 in General
Per BT's suggestion about UMG which mirrored a recent thought of mine , regarding encoding (otherwise known as slipping in the Fraunhofer), here are some handy starting points -

general UMG page

Universal Music Group labels

Fontana Distribution - a subsidiary which handles distribution for, as I recently came to discover, Eagle Rock (US), amongst others including Telarc. I'm fairly certain I encountered some Telarc downloads at some point since all this started but I'll have to do some research as to their nature.

Best news I can personally vouch for - Rounder Records releases do not seem to have been affected, and the newer drops are in LAME encoding.
Thus far the couple of post 1/15/11 UMG downloads I've tried (promised to be in LAME) have been in LAME. If anyone comes up with anything different please post.

Comments

  • mommiomommio
    Did you jazz lovers see this post?
  • Bad ThoughtsBad Thoughts
    edited March 2011
    Telarc, which is distributes by Concord, disappeared for a while. However, my download of Eric Bibb's Booker's Guitar didn't reveal any data that would suggest it was ripped with Fraunhofer.

    ETA: Wanderer showed up for Sony. Jazzshrink showed up for UMG. They are not one and the same, but they might stand together in line at the same business hotel buffets.

    Apologies to Jazzmine. amclark set me straight.
  • amclark2amclark2
    I think you mean Jazzshrink. jazzmine's been around for a while and doesn't comment much. back when I first started I used to love jazzmine's lists of long tracks. they're not very useful anymore.
  • jonahpwlljonahpwll
    No need to apologize to jazzmine. That guy is a douche. That, or a teenager hacked his account. You want to talk about buffet lines, jazzmine and frankiepop.
  • jonahpwlljonahpwll
    Did you jazz lovers see this post?

    Yeah, just put a few things on there. Usually I stop at emusers first, but Tuesday mornings it's always emu that sees the sunrise.
  • kargatronkargatron
    I think I've seen evidence that frankiepop and jazzmine are the same person - I once saw jazzmine say "I" in a thread of insulting posts from frankiepop, as if he mistakenly was logged into the jazzmine account but didn't notice. Dunno if that's conclusive, but it looked to me like a "slip". In any case, "both" frequently act like assholes, f'pop much more often of course.
  • amclark2amclark2
    jazzmine lists an address as 40.18 N, 76.18, which comes out in some central Pennsylvania place, while frankiepop lists "pencilvania."
  • BigD-BluezBigD-Bluez
    BT, reviewing the Telarc label collection, there were a couple I know I've sampled but probably not since the UMG drop - will review at home. Would be nice to find the pre-UMG releases still present in their LAME encoding form, as has been the case, so far, with Rounder.
  • jonahpwlljonahpwll
    Eh, sorry, I did cause a detour, didn't I?

    I'm okay with the mods deleting my posts to clean the thread up and get it back to its original purpose.
  • BigD-BluezBigD-Bluez
    No sweat, dude. It's not what I would call in need of cleaning up, and after all, now it qualifies as original purpose.
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