Edoardo Bennato - La Torre di Babele (1976) [FLAC] TNT Village

.: Album Data :.

Artist: Edoardo Bennato
Album Title: La Torre di Babele
Year: 1976
Genre: Folk/Rock
Label: Ricordi SRML 6190
Discs: 1
Tracks: 10
Length: 41:05

.: Tracklist :.

1. La Torre di Babele
2. Venderò
3. EAA
4. Franz È il Mio Nome
5. Ma Chi È
6. Viva la Guerra
7. Cantautore
8. Quante Brave Persone
9. Fandango
10. Cantautore 'Ma Non È Giusto'

.: Rip Data :.

Codec: FLAC
Compression: Best (8)
Encoder: EAC
Average Bitrate: 797 Kbps
Covers: 600 DPI Scans (Front, Inside, CD Label, Back)
Dimension: 285,9 MB Songs, 16,1 MB Scans

.: Creation Process :.

OS used: Arch Linux x64
Date of creation: 2015.10.14

Downloaded .rar archive containing whole album in ape format with .cue sheet, ripping log and scans from aMule (ripper unknown). Extracted everything.

Front cover was created from scan using GIMP: done a 90° clockwise rotation and cutted the rear partand the folding traces in the front part. Then the canvas was simmetrically adjusted to make a square image: cut 13 pixels from the top and 13 from the bottom. Saved in .jpg with quality=90 (default).

Splitted with shnsplit using the following command:

shnsplit -f CDImage.cue -t '%n. %t' -o ape CDImage.ape

File 00. pregap.ape was deleted.

.ape files were decompressed to their original .wav form, and .wav files were compressed to .flac with higher compression using the original codecs. The codec was then losslessly changed. I used the following script:

#!/bin/bash
IFS=$''
for f in *.ape; do
f="${f%.*}"
mac "$f".ape "$f".wav -d
rm "$f".ape
flac -8 "$f.wav"
rm "$f".wav
done

Then .flac files were tagged using EasyTag.

Lyrics, got from bennato.net, have been written in LaTeX without front-end, directly with text editor Scite, and compiled with pdflatex. Lyrics of the tenth song were not on the site, but were a piece of the sixth song's lyrics, so they were added manually.

.torrent file was created with Deluge.