Kachha Dhaaga Options

[ANT6]

Jay i think Ghulam u/l again because they are cd quality..................just in case a member might have a poor quality version they now will have cd quality version

[Jay]

ANT u r right, but de most songs where already in cd quality. But I appreachied it Ghulam bhi .thnx

Jay

[unni]

It is unlikely that the Song Library will be updated again. All song file attachments will be cleaned out in course of time. Any repeat uploads will vanish and also the original ones. So Ghulam-bhai is in effect saying, "LAST CALL BEFORE....."

I had missed an old post with a request and am making amends here. In the process I also get to add tracks of "verses" sung by Rafi-sahab for "PYAASA":









This post has been edited by unni: Dec 7 2004, 07:34 AM

[ghulam]

thnx Ghulam bhai for these songs. bye they r all upload before, plz looke before uploading at the song libary. Chitra, do u have the link of the updated SL for him ?

thnx.

Jay

before uploading I asked..and akhter bhai said he wanted all of them

[Jay]

No prob Ghulam bhai shukriya ke aap paricipate kar rahe hai!
Shukyriya bhai.

Jay

[unni]

A perennial favourite is the classic from "KALA PAANI" tuned by S. D. Burman, "Chale Gaye Hum Bekhudi Mein Tumko Pukare".

Apparently the tune had not been composed specifically for this movie. Another site has featured the original Bengali song which had been composed and sung earlier by S. D. Burman.

I am uploading a section of SDB's original, and dovetailed it with the corresponding section of Rafi-sahab's rendering. It forms an interesting comparison.

One can imagine SDB teaching the song by singing the tune in Bengali, and Rafi-sahab picking up the tune and articulating it in the Urdu lines written by Majrooh Sultanpuri.

[unni]

[unni]

This post has been edited by unni: Dec 8 2004, 09:51 PM

[Akhtar]

Dear Unni,

Was looking for this. What is the KBPS rate ?

Thanks

Akhtar

[unni]

Dear Unni,

Was looking for this. What is the KBPS rate ?

Thanks

Akhtar

128 kbps.

[unni]

[unni]

(Mohd. Rafi & Suman Hemady)

[unni]

(Mohd. Rafi / Film: "AMAANAT" / Music: Ravi)

[Akhtar]

Unni ji Is it CD Quality ?

Akhtar

[unni]

If it means "copied from a CD"?: NO.

Is it at 128 kbps?: YES

What if someone converts a 16 kbps track to 320 kbps, does it become CD QUALITY: I don't know!

What if the original recording is of poor quality? What difference would kbps make?

What is CD QUALITY?

When used to record tracks from audio CDs (called "ripping" by MP3 folk), the two "CD-quality" options are 128Kbps and 160Kbps. Audio CDs use 1.4Mbps; thus, the 128Kbps rate requires roughly 11:1 compression—throwing away more than 90% of the original. (The highest quality offering, 160Kbps, represents a bit less than 9:1 compression.) Their "near-CD quality" option compresses at 18:1. (There’s a lower "FM-quality" rate as well.) The MusicMatch help file explicitly says that you shouldn’t hear any quality improvement by recording at higher than 160Kbps—or, really, 128Kbps. Pundits as John Dvorak have been quick to drop the "near" term and simply claim that MP3 at 128Kbps offers full CD quality. But then, so do the software makers, or at least some of them. A recent discussion in PC Magazine sneers at those extremist audiophiles who might want encoding rates higher than 96Kbps, which seems to say that this rate is good enough for any ordinary person. On the one hand, MP3 advocates are writing to Stereophile claiming that MP3 will do just fine when you use a 320Kbps or higher encoding rate--in other words, more than twice what's currently called CD-quality. On the other hand, you have writers sneering at those who think that they need anything more than 64Kbps.

Not all the marketed CD's of old music have been digitally re-mastered. A lot of them have just been copied from 78s and audio-tapes and converted to digital format.

I would suggest we just use the terminology "CD Rip" if copied from a CD, because "CD QUALITY" is a matter of interpretation and personal listening tastes.