Billy May - Sorta May (1955) - VINYL - 24-bit/96kHz plus CD-compatible format

Posted By: eharmonica

Billy May - Sorta May (1955) - VINYL
Vinyl rip in 24-bit/96kHz | FLAC (5% Recovery) | m3u's, md5 checksum, no cue or log (vinyl) | RS + FileFactory
395 MB (24/96) or 150 MB redbook | Artwork | Rock | 1982

An early LP from one of the great arrangers. You will like it.

Found this in one of the $1 bins somewhere. The sticker on the cover says "M-", suffice to say that it is not, but is does have a beautiful Capitol turquoise label. Since I like Billy May's style, I thought I'd give it a whirl. I've got one more to come sometime in the next year or sooner :-)


This is availabe on CD as a two-fer ($30 on Amazon) where one reviewer claims that it is re-processed into stereo. Recorded in 1954, I'd be a bit dubious about anything claiming to be stereo from that era.



01 - Thou Swell.flac
02 - Blues In The Night.flac
03 - Chicago.flac
04 - All You Want to Do Is Dance.flac
05 - You Go To My Head.flac
06 - Soon.flac
07 - In A Persian Market.flac
08 - Just One Of Those Things.flac
09 - You're The Top.flac
10 - The Donkey Serenade.flac
11 - Deep Purple.flac
12 - They Didn't Believe Me.flac







No music was harmed in the making of this vinyl rip.





This is what I do in general. Not every step is done for all rips:
LP > Rega P1 with Ortofon Super 30 > TC-750LC > E-Mu 0202 > Adobe Audition 3 (AA) @ 96kHz 32bit float > Manual click removal in AA > Click Repair set @ 20 > AA used to balance L/R > (for MONO: Equalizer (from the ClickRepair guy) used to combine L+R >) AA to split tracks, fade in/out, and for manual click removal >

for 24bit: use AA to truncate the 32bit file >
for 16bit: Izoptope RX Advanced to resample the 32bit file to 44.1kHz > and then to dither to`16bit using MBIT+ >

All > Trader's Little Helper to FLAC and (for 16bit: sector align if necessary, pad) > MP3 Tagger to edit tags.

"16bit" = 16bit at 44.1kHz
"24bit" = 24bit at 96kHz



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