It’s been a few years since BioMedia Project has seen consistent updates. Why is that? Well, we’ve continued to receive contributions from the community. But the need to migrate to a completely new site manually, combined with general Life Stuff for me (emily!) has made it hard to keep up. Y’know what though? I’m tired of being the bottleneck on this!
So, let’s see about getting all the stuff that’s been waiting in the ‘BMP Backlog’ public and visible on the website. Wish me luck!
BIONICLE Greatest
Today we have something that’s been waiting to go for FAR too long. BIONICLE Greatest is a music CD anonymously shared with Black Six, who in turn provided a CD rip plus scans of the paper inserts to BioMedia Project. This is a compilation album of all the singles from 2005-2008. We don’t know if this was ever intended for a retail release or not.
While there’s nothing truly new here, the art in the insert is pretty and evocative, and the music is all higher-quality than the web-released versions we’ve had up to now! It sounds just a little bit more like you’re in the room with the All Insane Kids.
Thanks to wynter for assisting with this release.
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EAC log where? Shame that we do not have lossless rip of the CD… 🙁
I understand your frustration! Trust me when I say thought was put into this aspect, and these MP3s are lossless compared to the source.
The audio is audibly crispier yet still, MP3s are not lossless. FLAC or WAV would store the files in their source quality and would not degrade with every re-export as MP3s. Just for the archiving save, lossless is the way to go, MP3 or other compressed format is just for compactness (saving space on SD card or whatever).
Can you please explain more about what this is exactly. It definitely did not come from a properly-authored CD (i.e. a disc with WAV files). “Face Me” is the exact same file as was posted to Bionicle.com in 2007 (do a phase inversion test). I think some guy just burned the web MP3s to disc in 2009 and passed it around the office.
Well since this has proper printing, I would guess that it is just some test print instead of a real deal… Wonder whether the real CD wav master files were ever issued…
While the source files are MP3, there are now download options for the disc image itself added to the page!
We also have disk images of the physical CD, but the spectrogram shows it was made from MP3 files. If a truly lossless export exists, it has not yet appeared.