Uberstandard Music

[kevoid]

If you are tired of looking for music and you find is **** quality, then you might be interested in Uberstandard music.

It is a strict set of rules for people to follow while ripping and encoding. Most of the uber mp3s (some oggs) are located on two DC Hubs. To gain access to these plentiful resources you would have to rip 5 uber quality albums for Scooby's and 20 for Chris' server.

If you don't want to be part of the DC community you can submit your rips (if you follow the guide) to http://www.peerweb.tk/ at [email protected]

I have already made 81 releases on the Peer Web page. You have to have Shareaza with G2 enabled to download the files off of Peer Web.

If you would like to know more please visit these pages:

http://www.ubershare.com/
http://www.peerweb.tk/
http://www.chrismyden.com/
http://www.scoobyserve.com/

[notbob]

fuck that

rip it however you want and name it however you want

if someone else doesn't like it they can buy the disc and rip and name it themselves

[grab_grab_the_haddock]

the problem with everyone naming and ripping the way they want is that you get a free for all where everyone rips to the lowest common denominator - and you end up with kazaa.

some rules are useful, but it depends what your prepared to put up with to get the kind of quality you want. uberstandard rules are not for everyone, and thats undertsandable, but these hubs do serve a purpose - if you go to all the trouble of ripping to a high standard then its usefuyl to be able to trade with people who also have high standards.

and kevoid youve only got the url for two of the uber hubs there - the two smallest ones, the original ubernet hub is alot bigger than both of these.

[Sephiroth]

Not another "uberstandard" thread this is like the 4th one in the past few weeks.

The problem with "ubstandard" is that its too exclusive to only a few networks and its too complicated because you have to follow the strict set of rules. Even though i believe EAC is open source and if "uberstandard" is really serious then they ought to make a modified verison of EAC to just rip to Uberstandard files, add "Uberstandard" to the end of the file name and get them on all the file sharing networks.

Just making alot of posts here which this isnt a billboard and telling people to do it when they are probably hard to find or you have to bend over backwards to get them isnt going to work.

[nasrules]

ditto wot seph said

[Borgster]

ok im kind of clueless about uberstandard music. what exactly is it?

[grab_grab_the_haddock]

@nas - you dont half spam the forums with a load of useless shit.

@borg - ubermusic is mp3 ripped to the highest possible standard using exact audio copy and lame. Some people think this is going a little too far, but it does guarantee your getting a well ripped full album with no missing tracks/ fakes/ silences etc etc

[Borgster]

thanks, kazaa should have this if mp3's were not limited to a bitrate of 128.

[cmyden]

@Sephiroth: Just to clarify, EAC is not open source.

[blury]

I have always used EAC to rip my CD's as WAV.
Then I use Multi frontend to encode them to MPC (Musepack):
--quality 8

I do not care for ID3'ing or naming them a certain way.
So I don't qualify for Uberstandard...big whoop. I qualify for MY standard :upside

[notbob]

Originally posted by blury
I have always used EAC to rip my CD's as WAV.
Then I use Multi frontend to encode them to MPC (Musepack):
--quality 8

I do not care for ID3'ing or naming them a certain way.
So I don't qualify for Uberstandard...big whoop. I qualify for MY standard :upside

exactly--these files are on YOUR hard drive as long as they meet YOUR standards, who cares?

if someone else doesn't like the way you do things, they don't need to take your files

as I have said many many times--what do you want for nothing? be glad someone is letting you have what they paid for and spent time ripping

[kevoid]

Originally posted by Sephiroth
Not another "uberstandard" thread this is like the 4th one in the past few weeks.

The problem with "ubstandard" is that its too exclusive to only a few networks and its too complicated because you have to follow the strict set of rules. Even though i believe EAC is open source and if "uberstandard" is really serious then they ought to make a modified verison of EAC to just rip to Uberstandard files, add "Uberstandard" to the end of the file name and get them on all the file sharing networks.

Just making alot of posts here which this isnt a billboard and telling people to do it when they are probably hard to find or you have to bend over backwards to get them isnt going to work.

Maybe if you weren't such a G2 hater you'd see that Peerweb has lots of Uberstandard rips and they're available on G2.

[Sephiroth]

Originally posted by kevoid
Maybe if you weren't such a G2 hater you'd see that Peerweb has lots of Uberstandard rips and they're available on G2.

Maybe if you werent so narrowminded then you would know that there are other networks also.

Im not going to bend over backwards to get "uberstandard" when there are plenty of good quality files with plentyful sources allready avaible.

I probably was thinking of a different program then... Anyways for it to take off then it has to lose the narrowmindedness and be easier to make or else many people myself are included are quite content with whats out there now.

[mr-g]

Gotta agree with Sephiroth and Turtlehead - I'd rather get an old Steppenwolf or Youngbloods or RARE Hendrix album @ 160 (and the list goes on and on) then a new release ripped perfectly (?) with EAC. Screw that shit. See you in the hub Turtlehead.

[notbob]

he hates my favorite p2p too--i won't let it ruin my day or anything

he is right about some things--making too many rules and making it too exclusive
a)too narrow of a user base
b)big turn off to all but the most anal retentive mp3 snobs
c)there are a lot more casual rippers than anal retentive mp3 snobs
d)there are people like me who think EAC is a piece of shit (along with others who like audiograbber or musicmatch or dartpro or soundforge or whatever the hell they like and don't think your or chris mydens opinion is important enough to make them switch to something new)

[Ken17625]

I don't know, I guess i'm just a big fan of CDex myself. I don't really care for EAC. I got to say, for me, its a no thank you to the "Uberstandard".

[Nothingface5384]

your all very right..great idea...yea would be better to spead around all networks rather then 2..and yes notbob guess your right can be elusive but so can dc heh...any ways to get to the point....great idea...rule/standards are good..but being too strict isnt..i dont like eac..i uses dbpoweramp w/ crc check sums and rip and lable the way i feel like too....most my rips are 192CBR mp3 if not 320 -32 vbr..but w/e

[HansG]

I've adopted the Uberstandard for ripping my CDs but I really hate the track naming scheme and I hate ID-tags. So I still don't qualitfy for Uberstandard, but at least my mp3s are in perfect quality!

Even if you don't care about the Uberstandard, I think the combination of EAC + Lame alt preset standard is a great one.

It doesn't mean that I won't pick up 160/192 mp3s from Kazaa/Blubster though.