Porcupine Tree's "Fear Of A Blank Planet" is Coming - Again, Deluxe Box Set w Blu Ray

[Neil Hannah]

There are also people still in this world, who loves the physical thing and holding the whole in their hands, reading the linernotes, smells the paper, love the artwork etc, and total not interested in downloading or listen via streaming platforms. I am one of them

Well said bud.
Got mine today, smells great. Will listen tonight

 

[tlake6659]

Wonder why he remastered the 5.1 mix on this and not In Absentia and Deadwing. Those albums definitely needed remastering more than Fear of a Blank Planet. Those 5.1 mixes are way too dynamically compressed.

 

[sjcorne]

He didn’t have the pre-mastered files for those 5.1’s, since they were done at Elliot Scheiner’s studio.

 

[J. PUPSTER]

A little surprise on the blu-ray. Both Fear of a Blank Planet and Nil Recurring have two 5.1 mixes, 2007 & 2024. I have had a chance to listen closely and determine the differences,

So, when ripping the disc how to determine which is which?

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I don't have my copy yet; but I'm thinking if you rip via MakeMKV and then see if the chapters are broken out separately, one can sometimes see the titles in the Windows preview frame of the resulting MKVs, or play each in VLC (if that makes sense?)

 

[Aggrajag]

A little surprise on the blu-ray. Both Fear of a Blank Planet and Nil Recurring have two 5.1 mixes, 2007 & 2024. I have had a chance to listen closely and determine the differences,

So, when ripping the disc how to determine which is which?

I play it in VLC, select the options you require (album, audio format etc.) and once it's actually playing go into the Title menu options and you can see which title or audio track is ticked. The title doesn't always match the physical disc track (it doesn't on this set for example) but the audio tracks do seem to.

 

[SomethingAnything]

There are also people still in this world, who loves the physical thing and holding the whole in their hands, reading the linernotes, smells the paper, love the artwork etc, and total not interested in downloading or listen via streaming platforms. I am one of them

I can't own/afford everything I want to hear. So streaming helps with that. This being in classic 5.1 (therefore not on Tidal), and such a brilliant album to boot -- PT's best in my opinion -- helped with my decision to buy this one.

 

[SomethingAnything]

By the way, for those in Oz, it's currently $170.46 and free deliv. A good price, using BS as a benchmark.

BS would likely have been cheaper or similar if it had not been for the label's instruction to still sell to OS buyers as if they were still paying the UK VAT (that is, two prices, one for UK buyers, another for the rest of the world). So I feel I've at least outwitted the cheating label.

 

[Zepfan]

The 2024 mastering of the surround mixes is the default stream when you rip the blu-ray with MakeMKV.

The DR is as follows:

FOABP - 2024 Master DR13
FOABP - 2007 Master DR11

Nil Recurring - 2024 Master DR10
Nil Recurring - 2007 Master DR8

I used MMH to confirm those numbers.