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Yello - Non-Album Songs

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Yello - Non-Album Songs

Postby 01101001 » Sat Aug 06, 2022 3:22 am

Yello - Non-Album Songs

https://www.discogs.com/release/3912515 ... lbum-Songs

This unofficial collection has been around for over a decade. Since it
was compiled from various sources, you can expect some issues. The
biggest problem is that many/most of the tracks have been upsampled
from lossy sources as per Lossless Audio Checker. Anyhoo, here are the
files as I found them, warts and all.

links removed

969mb

password: pswd
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Re: Yello - Non-Album Songs

Postby AJWAVE » Sat Aug 06, 2022 8:35 am

It's a shame that more than 16 songs in this compilation are 128 kbps mp3s. Even some are hard to get in lossless versions like "Topaz (Insect Mix)" that includes the sound at the end of the track, the extended version of "Andy" or the X-Press2's 7th Movement Mix of "I Want You Back".
Are you going to start screwing over Redo like you screwed over MSK with your endless requests? what an idiot you turned out to be MATT
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Re: Yello - Non-Album Songs

Postby Passing_Stranger » Sun Aug 07, 2022 2:43 am

AJWAVE wrote:It's a shame that more than 16 songs in this compilation are 128 kbps mp3s. Even some are hard to get in lossless versions like "Topaz (Insect Mix)" that includes the sound at the end of the track, the extended version of "Andy" or the X-Press2's 7th Movement Mix of "I Want You Back".

Can you please post the full list of upconverted tracks, if possible?
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Re: Yello - Non-Album Songs

Postby 80rulez » Sun Aug 07, 2022 7:37 am

Passing_Stranger wrote:Can you please post the full list of upconverted tracks, if possible?


Just checked them for you, these tracks are all upscaled:
CD 01: 1-02, 1-03, 1-04, 1-05, 1-08, 1-09, 1-10, 1-11, 1-12, 1-13, 1-14, 1-16, 1-20
CD-02: 2-02, 2-04, 2-05, 2-07, 2-08, 2-09, 2-10, 2-11, 2-12, 2-13, 2-14, 2-16, 2-17, 2-18

Anyway, thanks for the upload.
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Re: Yello - Non-Album Songs

Postby PKPN » Sun Aug 07, 2022 10:37 am

Those automatic checkers are mainly looking for a dearth of frequency content above 16 kHz, but it's normal for some songs to just be recorded without much up there to begin with. In a hi-res spectrogram it's easy to see the difference (for MP3 you're also looking for 29-millisecond "specks & holes", not just a cutoff). I use Adobe Audition which is IMHO has gold standard of spectrograms, very fast and tweakable. So here are some corrections to the list based on my observations:

  • 1-07 (I.T. Splash) is a combination from 2 sources. The first 2:02 is lossless, the remainder (starting with the maniacal laugh) is from MP3.
  • 1-10 (Smirak's Train) is lossless.
  • 1-11 (Thrill Wave) is lossless.
  • 2-15 (A New Culture Is Born) is from MP3 but has been further processed to add hiss and harmonic distortion (possibly by recording it to cassette and playing it back).
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Re: Yello - Non-Album Songs

Postby Passing_Stranger » Sun Aug 07, 2022 3:22 pm

Guys, thank you very much, most interesting. Nice to see not all of it is mp3-derived, though the scale of faultiness is somewhat unexpected.
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Re: Yello - Non-Album Songs

Postby 80rulez » Tue Aug 09, 2022 3:07 am

PKPN wrote:Those automatic checkers are mainly looking for a dearth of frequency content above 16 kHz, but it's normal for some songs to just be recorded without much up there to begin with. In a hi-res spectrogram it's easy to see the difference (for MP3 you're also looking for 29-millisecond "specks & holes", not just a cutoff). I use Adobe Audition which is IMHO has gold standard of spectrograms, very fast and tweakable. So here are some corrections to the list based on my observations:

  • 1-07 (I.T. Splash) is a combination from 2 sources. The first 2:02 is lossless, the remainder (starting with the maniacal laugh) is from MP3.
  • 1-10 (Smirak's Train) is lossless.
  • 1-11 (Thrill Wave) is lossless.
  • 2-15 (A New Culture Is Born) is from MP3 but has been further processed to add hiss and harmonic distortion (possibly by recording it to cassette and playing it back).


Thanks PKPN. This is exactly the benefit of joining message board. You learn from someone (like you) who have advance knowledge that most of us don't know. Cheers.
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Re: Yello - Non-Album Songs

Postby Rissan » Thu Aug 11, 2022 12:28 am

Is it possible to share this one through wetransfer or Mega.nz

The bloody thing refuses to download completely for quite some days now.
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Re: Yello - Non-Album Songs

Postby 01101001 » Fri Aug 12, 2022 1:02 am

try here:

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Re: Yello - Non-Album Songs

Postby Rissan » Fri Aug 12, 2022 1:07 am



wow that took me just over a minute to download. thanks so much.
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Re: Yello - Non-Album Songs

Postby 01101001 » Fri Aug 12, 2022 3:57 am

that took me just over a minute to download


good to hear :D

thanks so much


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