bblackwood wrote on Mon, 22 August 2005 06:04 |
Ronny wrote on Mon, 22 August 2005 01:16 | I've FTP'd hundreds of songs receiving and sending and never had any problems with data corruption. I've had them cut off during the transfer many times, resumed from where it stopped but once it says transfer complete, all data has been intact. I'll bet the plant screwed up and are blaming the client and he is blaming you.
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I'd say it's more likely a problem occurring during initial extraction from the master...
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I agree it's much more likely that mistakes would happen with the client if he was dealing with a reputable plant, however for that to happen, the client would have to have not listened to the copy that he sent to the plant. How many people are going to spend weeks or months tracking and mixing a cd's worth of songs, spend a thou or so for mastering, DAE the tunes himself and not listen to the newly created copy that he's going to send to the plant? It's possible of course that he didn't listen, but much more common for the client to listen. Had that been done and a mistake found at that time he would have likely notified Ben, or if he made a mistake on the DAE, it would show up on the new cd after listening. He also said Asian plant, where quality control may be spotty at best and the only people in the chain that don't typically audible check the cd to be pressed from, are the plants. It's a hard call for sure, but not easy for me to rule out the quality of an Asian plant.
Bottom line you need to get the sign off, or at least an e-mail that has the clients approval.