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		ShadowBanThis01 on April 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywo... It's still happening. Remember the Universal Music fire? The scope of the damage from that is still a subject of debate: https://variety.com/2020/music/news/universal-music-fire-arc... Even worse is that we have music labels intentionally and methodically destroying generations' worth of music with dynamic compression, making despicable "remasters" the only thing available to modern listeners. What happens to the originals? Is anyone tracking their provenance?

rightbyte on April 20, 2023 | [–]

My prime example of a toxic remaster is Star Wars.

ShadowBanThis01 on April 20, 2023 | | [–]

Mmmm, quite different because that's a movie, but yes that sucked too obviously.

ShadowBanThis01 on April 20, 2023 | [–]

Someone downvoted that? WTF?

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