List of Blu-Rays that have Authoring Errors

[M-K]

Especially when gapless playback is musically required, gaps in between are bothering. But there may be other issues. Please report. Thanks.

Artist	Album	Year	Which Audio Tracks	Example / Comment	Replacement available?
Devin Townsend	PowerNerd	2024	Atmos Track only	Prominent Gap between 2 and 3. And many more.	No, not yet.

 

[Werno]

Is there a way to enter right into your table/spreadsheet? Or are you proposing to update it as folks add things here? Either way I'd rename your 'Which Audio Tracks' category to 'Which Audio Streams'- and maybe say 'Description' instead of 'Example', where you'd maybe mention specific tracks. But it's your chart.

By way of example, or description, I'd cite the Zappa 'Waka/Wazoo' bluray for the huge volume disparity between the looping menu music (the existence of which is already a defect in my book) and the actual content. Crank it at your own risk, because after the last notes die away the menu soundtrack will erupt again and shoot your woofers across the room. Then there's the flickering...

 

[SomethingAnything]

Is there a way to enter right into your table/spreadsheet? Or are you proposing to update it as folks add things here? Either way I'd rename your 'Which Audio Tracks' category to 'Which Audio Streams'- and maybe say 'Description' instead of 'Example', where you'd maybe mention specific tracks. But it's your chart.

By way of example, or description, I'd cite the Zappa 'Waka/Wazoo' bluray for the huge volume disparity between the looping menu music (the existence of which is already a defect in my book) and the actual content. Crank it at your own risk, because after the last notes die away the menu soundtrack will erupt again and shoot your woofers across the room. Then there's the flickering...

Yes, The Zappa one immediately came to mind when I saw this thread. I didn't buy it because of this reported glitch, as it sounded like something that would annoy me to the point where I wouldn't play it.

I would like to add, sadly, the two recent Fish blurays. The booksets are excellent in so many ways, but the authoring on both can be quite glitchy, with the screen image blanking out completely at different times when you start playing, especially if you navigate around while playing.

In the table, replacements are not always available, especially not for authoring errors, the subject of this thread, as opposed to an audio playback error. I suggest instead, that it be titled something like Confirmed Replacement or Other Fix. In relation to Fish, the fix is to switch to a different audio during play (e.g. from Atmos to stereo), then back again (not easy when your screen is blank), which usually brings the screen image up ... and to of course not navigate during play in the first place which is when the screen mostly blanks out.