Product Details

• Published on: 2009-05-12
• Released on: 2009-05-12
• Running time: 2014 seconds

Customer Reviews

GREAT Music - but bad sound errors!!
This is probably the best free sampler album I've downloaded so far - it has great classics like Count Basie's April in Paris, A Nightengale Sang in Berkeley square, and more. Just some awesome jazz in a great package.

BUT - there's a catch. Either the mp3's are poorly ripped and encoded, or there are clicks intentionally added to the recording to, I don't know, make it sound like an old dusty vinyl record, or because the songs are free? Hope not.

Given that no respectable recording artist, engineer, or music lover would add pops into the mix for effect, I'm guessing the mp3 encoding or CD ripping process went bad here. Amazon please fix this! It's a great set of songs, but the clicks and pops are unacceptable.

Unwanted clicking sound
The songs all have a clicking sound as though they were ripped from scratchy record. Very distracting. Hope this can be corrected and re-uploaded into Amazo's MP3 database.

NR Plugin needed!
The masters of many old recordings are lost or unusable, so recording tracks from good condition vinyl is the only recourse. I've done it many times. However, you need to use a noise plugin such as Peak's "SoundSoap Pro" to filter out the clicks, pops and other artifacts. Surely this company could have afforded the $500 for such a plugin. Very bad press for the company and ruined an otherwise nice collection.