Ah, good call Craig. I clicked on the EMI promo on front and selected one of the songs listed. Sure enough, 31 credits. Can't finish the Badi Assad album I was going through (on Verve), but I'm sure I can find something else.
I clicked on the emi promo, got the 31 credits for emi recordings. It is, however, a terrible interface for finding anything. I was hoping for some jazz titles, but there does not seem to be a "search by genre" function. Am I wrong?
I did run across Mozart Clarinet Concerto & Quintet by the Britten Quartet. Three tracks.
Indeed, I have burned 20 credits on Blue Note already today: Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, Thad Jones (actually, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis big band).
Yes, the search is dreadful. I have been searching for what I want on Amazon, then going to Guvera to DL. To get all tracks on Wayne Shorter's "Speak No Evil," I had to mix and match all the "1999 RVG" versions on this Guvera artist search page.
Guvera is starting to annoy me....I appreciate 31 downloads. Free is always accepted. However....not to be an ingrate:
Art Blakey -A Night At Birdland, Vol1 RVG, three tracks, it is 8 tracks on Amazon, and is only $3.68. Vol 2 is also short tracks, although not as cheap on Amazon. The announcement tracks are missing, but so are other tracks.
Plong42 - I've noticed that sometimes when things don't all fit on one page it just doesn't list everything. Try searching by title for the tracks that are missing.
Also, Guvera has a bad habit of deleting doubles of any track, even if it's on different albums - i.e., the greatest hits album might be complete, but then those hits are often missing from the listing for the original album that they appeared on.
You need to search by track name for the missing tracks,and then change the tags.
Maybe it's the Shorter specifically that's messed up, because here's the page for the RVG edition of "Mode for Joe": https://www.guvera.com/search?q=album_id:+%22724358090956%22 The title track is tagged as being on a comp, but it seems to be the same RVG remaster. Works fine, as long as they put all the tracks together.
Well I finally went back to guvera last night and thanks to the promos and some other old credits that had been sitting around I got Here Come the Warm Jets and Chairs Missing, plus finished up Scott 3 - those errors that were hanging me up before seem to have disappeared.
Now a fresh 31! I only wish I'd used up the 31 I had yesterday, but it took me most of an hour to use up what I did.
I used up my 31 credits on the XTC 2-disc singles collection, which happens to be 31 tracks. Then I logged in this morning to see a fresh 31. Yes, Guvera is a pain in the a$$, but I'll deal with it.
I'll go one further, here's part of the description for Fever on Amazon: "Kylie Minogue's sound has progressed again since the disco-inspired Light Years, plundering the retro style of post-disco electro from the late 1970s and showing what might have happened if Kraftwerk had produced Donna Summer or Chic."
I see no evidence that Guvera HQ pays any attention to what anyone is doing. The fact that there isn't a log listing what we've previously downloaded is ridiculous.
I think I need to snag that Massive Attack Singles Collection they have listed.
The fact that there isn't a log listing what we've previously downloaded is ridiculous.
Yah, they are never going to have any member features like that. The fact that DLs can magically appear, then disappear if you don't use them, is probably a good illustration of what we can expect from this site. You get in, look at an ad, DL your Katy Perry song, and nobody owes nobody nothing. And they're not pirates.
Today I have got 2 new Blue Notes, working on "Skylarking"...
There's another twist on "missing tracks": Street Hassle, a Lou Reed cover on Sparkle in the Rain (yep, I have it, and it's great) is completely missing from Guvera. Perhaps the copyright issues prevented its inclusion.
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Currently working my way through Relaxin' With the Miles Davis Quintet.
Craig
edit: The plot thickens...I see them under a Blue Note album I have been checking regularly, but not under an ECM album I just looked up.
Guess I'll get Pink Flag after all!
Craig
I did run across Mozart Clarinet Concerto & Quintet by the Britten Quartet. Three tracks.
Yes, the search is dreadful. I have been searching for what I want on Amazon, then going to Guvera to DL. To get all tracks on Wayne Shorter's "Speak No Evil," I had to mix and match all the "1999 RVG" versions on this Guvera artist search page.
Art Blakey -A Night At Birdland, Vol1 RVG, three tracks, it is 8 tracks on Amazon, and is only $3.68. Vol 2 is also short tracks, although not as cheap on Amazon. The announcement tracks are missing, but so are other tracks.
Wayne Shorter - Soothsayer on Guvera has five tracks, but on Amazon has seven tracks.
Those are the first two I tried, I wonder how many albums are incomplete?
Craig
You need to search by track name for the missing tracks,and then change the tags.
See this page: https://www.guvera.com/search?q=album_id:+%225099996529850%22 I think the 2 tracks you are missing are there.
Maybe it's the Shorter specifically that's messed up, because here's the page for the RVG edition of "Mode for Joe": https://www.guvera.com/search?q=album_id:+%22724358090956%22 The title track is tagged as being on a comp, but it seems to be the same RVG remaster. Works fine, as long as they put all the tracks together.
That HAS to be a glitch.
Craig
Now a fresh 31! I only wish I'd used up the 31 I had yesterday, but it took me most of an hour to use up what I did.
New Order imitated Kraftwerk on Power, Corruption and Lies. Kylie Minogue covered Blue Monday. Two degrees!
I think I need to snag that Massive Attack Singles Collection they have listed.
Craig
Yah, they are never going to have any member features like that. The fact that DLs can magically appear, then disappear if you don't use them, is probably a good illustration of what we can expect from this site. You get in, look at an ad, DL your Katy Perry song, and nobody owes nobody nothing. And they're not pirates.
Today I have got 2 new Blue Notes, working on "Skylarking"...