Steven Wilson 2016 Porcupine Tree Delerium Years Masters — Hi-Res Downloads?

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JediJoker

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Hi Steven,

As more and more of your 2016 Delerium Years masters become available on CD—first On The Sunday of Life and Signify, now Stars Die—I become more and more interested in picking them up. Like you, I've grown disenchanted with the Loudness War and I'm delighted you decided to go back once more to restore some lost dynamics to these albums. I do hope they are all released on CD eventually because they deserve to be in print. However, seeing as I have already collected all of the previous remix/remasters of these albums on Snapper/Kscope CDs and have been happy with the content and packaging for years, I'm not too keen on buying them again in a physical format (including vinyl—which I don't collect—despite what looks like incredible new artwork; your attention to packaging is not lost on me). Given that you made Insurgentes available for hi-res download, I am hopeful that these albums will get the same treatment.

Will the new 2016 Delerium Years masters be available in hi-res?
 
I see the Hi-Res files are available in 24/44.1 only. Guess it was the best with what Wilson could work with then?

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It appears that Up the Downstair has tracks combined into 3 sometimes 4 files. I take it that it's a double LP huh?

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It appears that Up the Downstair has tracks combined into 3 sometimes 4 files. I take it that it's a double LP huh?
Yeah, it's a shame about the minimal track listing. I suppose it would only be a matter of adjusting a cue sheet generated from the last CD released, but what a pain.
 
I'm happy to report that the 24/44.1 Voyage 34, Up The Downstair, and Staircase Infinities are now up for purchase at 7digital in the U.S. UTD is still tracked into vinyl sides, unfortunately. I'll upload a cue sheet once I have one worked out. Hopefully, the other remasters will follow suit in due time.

EDIT: Here's a cue sheet that works for me.

TITLE "Up The Downstair"PERFORMER "Porcupine Tree"
REM GENRE "Rock"
REM DATE "1993"
REM DISCNUMBER 1
REM TOTALDISCS 1
REM DISCID A00B750A
REM REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN -8.32 dB
REM REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_PEAK 1.000000
FILE "Up The Downstair.aiff" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "What You Are Listening To…"
PERFORMER "Porcupine Tree"
SONGWRITER "Steven Wilson"
ISRC GBBNB0508701
REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN -0.71 dB
REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 0.964661
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Synesthesia"
PERFORMER "Porcupine Tree"
SONGWRITER "Steven Wilson"
ISRC GBBNB0508702
REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN -7.53 dB
REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 1.000000
INDEX 01 00:57:63
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE "Monuments Burn Into Moments"
PERFORMER "Porcupine Tree"
SONGWRITER "Steven Wilson"
ISRC GBBNB0508703
REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN 7.67 dB
REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 0.203369
INDEX 01 06:14:00
TRACK 04 AUDIO
TITLE "Always Never"
PERFORMER "Porcupine Tree"
SONGWRITER "Steven Wilson"
ISRC GBBNB0508704
REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN -8.83 dB
REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 1.000000
INDEX 01 06:36:20
TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE "Up The Downstair"
PERFORMER "Porcupine Tree"
SONGWRITER "Steven Wilson"
ISRC GBBNB0508705
REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN -6.65 dB
REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 1.000000
INDEX 01 13:48:23
TRACK 06 AUDIO
TITLE "Not Beautiful Anymore"
PERFORMER "Porcupine Tree"
SONGWRITER "Steven Wilson"
ISRC GBBNB0508706
REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN -9.76 dB
REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 1.000000
INDEX 01 24:02:53
TRACK 07 AUDIO
TITLE "Siren"
PERFORMER "Porcupine Tree"
SONGWRITER "Steven Wilson"
ISRC GBBNB0508707
REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN 4.67 dB
REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 0.297089
INDEX 01 27:29:72
TRACK 08 AUDIO
TITLE "Small Fish"
PERFORMER "Porcupine Tree"
SONGWRITER "Steven Wilson"
ISRC GBBNB0508708
REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN -7.30 dB
REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 1.000000
INDEX 01 28:26:54
TRACK 09 AUDIO
TITLE "Burning Sky"
PERFORMER "Porcupine Tree"
SONGWRITER "Steven Wilson"
ISRC GBBNB0508709
REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN -8.59 dB
REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 1.000000
INDEX 01 31:11:70
TRACK 10 AUDIO
TITLE "Fadeaway"
PERFORMER "Porcupine Tree"
SONGWRITER "Steven Wilson"
ISRC GBBNB0508710
REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN -7.99 dB
REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 1.000000
INDEX 01 42:54:59
 
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