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ExittheLemming
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It's perfectly fine to base purchasing decisions on whatever audio fidelity you can get by whatever legal means is available but for me, I think it detrimental to the artist to base a published review (positive or negative) without using the highest possible fidelity version available of the recording. In most instances this can be obtained for precisely zero cash as a CD from a Public Lending Library.
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nick_h_nz
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And yet, many record labels and bands will not release physical media for review prior to release meaning many published reviews are from streaming, so clearly they are not as worried about this being detrimental as you are, As for the highest possible fidelity, well that is up for debate, and has been for years. CDs have the capacity and potential for higher fidelity as, and with a far greater dynamic range than, vinyl - yet some people will still prefer to listen to (and review) the LP version. Lossless streaming and downloads exist, and are equal fidelity to CD. You seem needlessly stuck in the past, but then I’m sure I look just as stubborn about some of my ideas from the outside. We all, thankfully, see (and hear) the world differently, so I’m not really judging you. If that’s what works for you, then by all means stick to it! But for many people, there’s really nothing wrong (or detrimental) at all in listening to, or reviewing from, streaming. |
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ExittheLemming
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Fair comment. If I seem stuck in the past it's probably because I'm a cantankerous 58 year old Scot who struggles to get his balding head around how music is consumed in 2020. For me reviewing at anything less than 1411kbps is like visiting a poorly lit art gallery and hoping I can take a sneaky piccy of one of the exhibits with a low resolution camera
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SteveG
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I'm with ExitTheLemming on this one. I wouldn't review an album from an inferior audio source. But for those that do it would be helpful for them to state exactly where a particular piece of music was sourced from.
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nick_h_nz
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Inferior is subjective, though. The only way this would be helpful is if every review stated what source it came from, without claiming it to be superior or inferior. 🤷🏻♂️ |
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SteveG
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Edited by SteveG - December 23 2020 at 06:45 |
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nick_h_nz
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Sure, but if that’s the case, then you don’t need to state the source. My point is that, objectively, if all things are produced to their potential, then an LP is an inferior source compared to lossless streaming. But I suspect that even were that the case, ExitTheLemming would still think the stream was the inferior source. Hence why it becomes subjective, irrelevant of any “real” objectivity. As you say, it is far more simple than that. Regardless of the source, if it sounds like crap, say so. 🤗 |
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Isn't this thread for reporting inappropriate ratings? Much as I'm enjoying this back and forth it should move elsewhere.
From my perspective while I understand that financially no big deal to listen to Opeth's or Dream Theaters entire discography on Spotify I still struggle to understand why you'd do it if you worked out 4 or 5 albums in that the artist offered nothing you like. You'd really put yourself through the whole discography just to be able to add a one star rating? I still find it somewhat unbelievable versus someone just clicking every album unheard.
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bartymj
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Wow. Pretty condescending. Way to make people feel welcome here. Petty arithmetic aside - you brought money into it by the way - if an artist decides to supply their work to what is the most popular music service around currently, then they're clearly happy with people listening to it and reviewing it at that level of quality - I believe you're right and its 320kbps. Quite laughably my full time career is as an acoustic & vibration engineer for a car company, I spend way too long talking about the subjecitvity of sound quality to give two hoots about it in my personal life. And back at uni doing something else, because its S#*t and I hate it :-) Suggest we all just accept that any kind of rating is subjective and that people are allowed to have different ipinions and ways of doing things?
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ExittheLemming
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No-one is inferring that the audio by virtue of being streamed is somehow indicative of the sound quality. I don't have any subscriptions to services like Spotify but I doubt any such services out there can stream at 1411kbps (although with touted Hi Res Audio offerings from Amazon, Primephonic, Qobuz and Tidal this may change but it will come at a commensurate price for the consumer) I purchase a lot of downloadable music in FLAC format which is lossless and am happy to consider such a format suitable for the purposes of reviewing an album so I don't consider myself in thrall to physical media
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nick_h_nz
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Yes, and I considered not arguing here, as potentially inappropriate. However, there was a suggestion (whether by implication or inference) that ratings are inappropriate if they come from an “inferior” source. For that reason alone, I felt it appropriate to counter the argument. Because it would be a very slippery slope to start upon. If one reviewer has given ratings for every album in a discography, without accompanying reviews, then we should not assume that they are not accurate if they are all low, it’s because they were listened to streaming (which, if they did listen to them, would be likely). In the original example, where everything is given a blanket 1 star, it’s more likely to be abuse (though not necessarily so), and Occam’s Razor is probably the way to go. Bump it on the head, and be down with it. But say there is a discography where everything is a mix of 1 and 2 stars? What then? Is it abuse? It could well be sometime that has gone through a discography, and found that nothing is particularly to their taste, but some have more merit than others. Is it abuse of the rating system? I don’t believe so. Thus the argument. Because we can’t assume that someone is incapable of coming to a conclusion of how they feel about an album because they have chosen to stream it. Just my opinion, of course. |
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With you 100% there.
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Ian
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ExittheLemming
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Irrespective of source material, the ability to rate without review was originally designed to facilitate non-English speaking PA members being able to contribute to the site. We all might agree this a laudable intention. It wasn't designed to allow individuals clearly too lazy to get out the bath for a pee to have the admins waste time second guessing their intentions with blanket low and high ratings across entire swathes of discographies. If you have posted on these forums even just once, there is really no excuse for a ratings only review. Too busy to write a review? get off the forum pilgrim. The criteria for what constitutes a permissible review is incredibly indulgent i.e as long as you don't actually slander or defame it usually gets published. The site is fueled by articulated opinion not the petty arithmetic of a sports league table.
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nick_h_nz
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I can’t pretend to know all about the statistics behind music, and I’m not going to pretend to care. I can tell what sounds good to me, and streaming can definitely be no worse than CD, depending where one streams. Tidal is known for streaming FLAC and for having CD qualify sound (although obviously what device you listen to either the stream or the CD makes a difference). As for expensive, Tidal is always having special offers, so as long as you are happy to make up new email addresses as required, you can take advantage of free months, or the present deal for four months premium access for £4. So, that’s £4 to listen to the whole Opeth discography at CD quality....
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dougmcauliffe
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http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=65222
people can't even wait for the album to come out to rating bomb it with 1 star ratings
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dougmcauliffe
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http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=20306
anyone else feel this account is a little suspicious? Maybe not particularly rule breaking but that is an obscene amount of 1 star ratings. |
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progaardvark
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^I just found one where every single rating was 1-star, several hundred of them:
Normally I don't look for this kind of stuff, but the recent addition of the band Temple Garden immediately having a one-star rating seemed kind of harsh for a band's first time on PA. So, I clicked on the user who gave them that and found that nothing on this site apparently deserves more than one star. Why even come here then and spend all that time doing that?? |
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SteveG
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Unbelievable. Some people must really have no life or serious emotional issues. Very sad.
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