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11-01-2009

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Remastered Beatles CD's

I assume that anyone who might care already knows that The Beatles catalog has been remastered and is currently available in two boxsets, one in Mono and the other in Stereo. I have both boxsets. I also have several other sets of Beatles CD's including the original official issues and several bootleg series. I even still have several vinyl albums.

I must give very high marks to the packaging. The mono's are like tiny replicas of the original vinyl releases including inserts for the white album and Sgt Pepper. The Stereo versions are mostly newly created trifolds with some new booklets. The Stereo boxset is twice the size of the Mono boxset. Some attention was paid to the labels on the actual CD's as well. The earlier albums have Parlophone labels, and the later albums have the green Apple label. One exception is Magical Mystery Tour which has the rainbow Capitol label. One fumble is with the Stereo Let It Be (there is no mono Let It Be). At least in the USA, Let It Be was released on vinyl with a red Apple label. The Russian bootlegs got this right. Too bad these official CD's did not. Still, as I said, very high marks for packaging.

Extra's? Well here we have a problem. A very few extras are present and this suggests that the folks who developed the sets must at least be acquainted with the concept. But the extras are pathetic. It would have been better to have no extras at all. The only real extras are some very short videos on the Stereo CD's. We need to use a computer to view them. But they have been all consolidated onto a DVD that is available with the Stereo boxset. The best extras I have encountered are on the Purple Chick bootlegs, but PC went too far with some of them. I am disappointed with the lack of extras on these new remasters

Nothing was remixed on these sets, they were simply remastered. The original official CD's had mono only versions of the first 4 albums. This decision was made by George Martin. Then Sir George made a second contribution to the original CD releases: he remixed Help and Rubber Soul. Opinions can vary, but my opinion is that he ruined the first 6 albums with this meddling. Here, the first 4 stereo CD's are the actual stereo. Help and Rubber Soul are still the stupid remixes. But the original Stereo mixes are on the Mono CD's. (Don't ask me why.) So by buying both boxsets, I now have great Stereo versions of the first 6 albums. The rest of the albums sound a little bit better than the original CD's, but is the first 6 that are really the reason to buy these sets. Even the remastering missed some opportunities though. Most high end CD players can display the song title if it is stored on the CD because CD's have a litle Table of Contents. These CD's only show up as "Track 1", etc. They couldn't be bothered to type in the name of the tracks during the mastering process. And why are they only on CD? Why not a special set on SACD or even Blu-Ray Audio? This would have been a great job in 1987, but in 2009, it is a pedestrian effort.

Overall I give the sets a C grade compared to the original set which gets an F. They took a step in the right direction but they still have a ways to go.

As I said this my opinion. I would be interested if anyone else has a different view.

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Mixin::ExtraFields::Driver::HashGuts(3pm)		User Contributed Perl Documentation		 Mixin::ExtraFields::Driver::HashGuts(3pm)

NAME

       Mixin::ExtraFields::Driver::HashGuts - store extras in a hashy object's guts

VERSION

       version 0.008

SYNOPSIS

	 package Your::HashBased::Class;

	 use Mixin::ExtraFields -fields => { driver => 'HashGuts' };

DESCRIPTION

       This driver class implements an extremely simple storage mechanism: extras are stored on the object on which the mixed-in methods are
       called.	By default, they are stored under the key returned by the "default_has_key" method, but this can be changed by providing a
       "hash_key" argument to the driver configuration, like so:

	 use Mixin::ExtraFields -fields => {
	   driver => { class => 'HashGuts', hash_key => "SomethingWicked" }
	 };

METHODS

       In addition to the methods required by Mixin::ExtraFields::Driver, the following methods are provided:

   hash_key
	 my $key = $driver->hash_key;

       This method returns the key where the driver will store its extras.

   default_hash_key
       If no "hash_key" argument is given for the driver, this method is called during driver initialization.  It will return a unique string to
       be used as the hash key.

   storage
       This method returns the hashref of storage used for extras.  Individual objects get weak references to their id within this hashref.

   storage_for
	 my $stash = $driver->storage_for($object, $id);

       This method returns the hashref to use to store extras for the given object and id.  This hashref is stored on both the hash-based object
       (in its "hash_key" entry) and on the driver (in the entry for $id in its "storage" hash).

       All objects with the same id should end up with the same hash in their "hash_key" field.  None of these references are weakened, which
       means two things:  first, even if all objects with a given id go out of scope, future objects with that id will retain the original extras;
       secondly, memory used to store extras is never reclaimed.  If this is a problem, use a more sophisticated driver.

AUTHOR

       This code was written by Ricardo SIGNES.  His code in 2006 was sponsored by Listbox.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright (C) 2006, Ricardo SIGNES.  This code is free software, and is available under the same terms as perl itself.

perl v5.10.1							    2010-01-19				 Mixin::ExtraFields::Driver::HashGuts(3pm)