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Can't remember that, but the memory is one of the first things to go Back in the day, in the usenet sounds.mp3 groups in the mid to late 90s - 128kb/s was considered absolute luxury!! There was no Broadband (at least not in the UK) With the speakers that we used then it was next to impossible to hear whether a CD had been ripped at a higher rate that 128kb/sec, and for mono tracks ie. most 50s and 60s music it was general to rip at 64kb/sec mono. It was only at the beginning of this century that 192kb/sec started appearing regularly. When I rip nowadays I rip at 320kb/sec - but that's only to keep downloaders happy; on my computer's "Creative" I can't hear a difference. A helluva lotta karaoke discs until recently were mono as well Must agree, I do prefer Zoom and it's my go to, but he is careless with his lyrics missing "Any way the wind goes" from the end of Bohemian rhapsody was carelessness of the highest order - and they have a large number of other lyric errors, like most companies they get Roger Miller's "King of the Road" line "Short but too big or round" (ie they've been stepped on) substituting 'around' rather than 'or round' Yep agree about that, general old age for me, but my diabetes is causing me probs right now - have a second eye welfare check next week because the normal one couldn't see behind my cataracts which are not getting better. So, your other two eyes are OK then ?? <GBFG> AGREED !!!!

W What amazes me is that they fake everything, but when the people do it its wrong?????????

One thing I will add is that there is no such thing as labelling things perfectly. We will all want something slightly different to be perfect for us (As long as the basic info is correct for a start). As I just mentioned, myself and BJ clash when it comes to perfect tagging. That is fine. BJ's way will be perfect for BJ and my way is better suited to me. It just means each one of us can find things as quickly as possible I suppose. But at any rate, I think the MEGA share is on a whole new level to any other large collection. Once people get used to batch-tagging, they can change things they don't like pretty easily. I have R.E.M. but some may want REM. I have TLC, but some may want T.L.C. Who knows?! **(The way I settled on these was to google the band and see what the name of the band was stylised as)** That is the reason I left everything unzipped. It makes things like this easier to edit. Lee.

By "The group" I mean that I don't feel like I am doing all of this "collecting" alone. I feel I gotta have them all, but when I share files with the group, I want them to be labeled perfectly and with good working files. Don't want to be sharing crap files. I believe we all like being able to get rare, hard to find songs, even if we may have to relabel or redu the music track. I have been collecting these since I switched from hard disc to mp3+g in 2004. I appreciate all that "the group" does, and Leenew, you are and integral part of making me want to be better. It is great that we can share this music and that we try to help each other. Keep up the good work, everyone.

By "this group" I guess you mean "me" lol Don't worry, the more I check through my scrubbed and tidied collection, I still find stuff that isn't perfect. (It came about as I added extra manufacturers after I had done the complete sweep of the whole set). It is impossible to keep it perfect - unless I do 2 or 3 more full sweeps, which fills me with dread at the moment..... I am pretty happy with what I have done and I hope it helps some dedicated KJs out there. I know it won't be for everybody (I binned most of the vocal tracks - and BJ detests some of my tagging lol) But I just got a bit disappointed when I saw my favourite manufacturer was mainly 128K files. The modern stuff is better, like you say - ZPCP seems to get better over time. Maybe I could do a spreadsheet? then everybody could look at what albums are at what bitrate - and if they have a better one then upload it, and I will swap them into the MEGA share. In theory that will mean we can get the best files that everybody has all in one place. Maybe it is too much to ask? and like you said - not everybody is a filename psychopath like me I haven't mentioned it before, but a big driver in all of this is my eyes. I need things to be as clear as possible 'cos I can't see that well at the minute. I am awaiting my third eye operation shortly...... You gotta do what you gotta do... Lee.

Upon doing some checking, most of mine are 128. With the exception of what I have from the Zoom Pop Chart Picks ( ZPCP xxx ) Series. I didn't check all of them, but what I did were either 192 or 320. You are welcome to do what you will with these, hopefully they serve you well. As I look at them, I'm not happy with the way I have them labeled at this time. This group is making me work too hard at cleaning up my drive. I will share them here as soon as they finish uploading to MEGA

Brenda Lee- Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody from KSK [Hidden Content]

Thank you @mikep1 and @sacot1 for assisting with the missing VH discs.

your missing VH65,VH67#13Missing,VH69 mikep1 [Hidden Content]

Found this an interesting read - Hong Kong Karaoke

As promised, here is what I have from Harris Studios Karaoke. [Hidden Content] There are a few missing discs so if anyone has them, please feel free to share, it would be much appreciated. - ADNA

To add onto this, I have 3 "special" albums as well. [Hidden Content] - ADNA

I noticed as I was uploading these that I need to go in and clean some of these files up (rename & zip). Here is the link to my Big Hits Karaoke ( BHK xxx ) files: [Hidden Content] Here is the link to my Big Hitz ( BH xxxx ) files: [Hidden Content] Do as you need and enjoy!