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There seems to be a playlist on YouTube with slightly better quality: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYn090EvNBcinpVcrKNmY... *EDIT:* There's also the CD version somewhere out there. Here's a Reddit post where someone ripped it (but didn't make it available): https://www.reddit.com/r/Neuromancer/comments/1gr7k4n/audiob...
There seems to be a playlist on YouTube with slightly better quality: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYn090EvNBcinpVcrKNmY... *EDIT:* There's also the CD version somewhere out there. Here's a Reddit post where someone ripped it (but didn't make it available): https://www.reddit.com/r/Neuromancer/comments/1gr7k4n/audiob...
In the article there is link to William Gibson, "No Maps for these Territories". That is broken. Is that somewhere else also?
Giblophile so encountered this years ago...definitely worth a watch.
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Agreed. With that being said, I meant that it was a stupid move from an archival POV.
Nah. Even at 128kbps for voice mp3 is completely transparent. Try an ABX sometime.
Trust me, I know very well that I would not be able to hear the difference in an ABX test, even with incredible equipment.
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Agreed. With that being said, I meant that it was a stupid move from an archival POV.
Is it though? Voice consumes so much less sonic bandwidth than music. I imagine the codec places extra emphasis on faithfully reproducing voices, since our brains are so wired to perceive them. A 256kbps spoken word recording is going to be a lot higher quality, comparatively, than a musical recording.
For whatever reason, if someone were interested in knowing exactly which bits were on the CDs, my copy wouldn't suffice.
Trust me, I know I wouldn't be able to hear the difference in an ABX test.
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I have the CD version, but I stupidly re-encoded it to something like 256kbps CBR MP3 back in 2012. Still, the fidelity is far greater than what was shared here. I can uploaded it somewhere if you'd like. Edit: Here you go: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MvEQd-V3Ma86XMnQYpCa... Please share this far & wide. I have a busy night ahead of me or I'd take the time to upload it to IA.
That's why like-minded HN users are here ;-) I uploaded your MP3s to Internet Archive for all to enjoy: https://archive.org/details/william-gibson-neuromancer-abrid...
Can you please edit the metadata to mention that it's from the CD?
I listened to Neuromancer on a long drive one time, and I will say that it's a wonderful book but not one that's particularly suited to the audiobook medium. It's hard to follow at times because it avoids a lot of big picture narrative and instead focuses on very small scale scenes of events happening within a broader story. It means that it can be confusing at times, as you are often as in the dark as the characters…
I've been reading Neuromancer, had it on my list for long time... But I just can't get through it. It moves slowly, the main character makes dumb choices (facepalm level), has a flat personality, sex is very male-centric and flat/unimaginative (but that is in most older scifi "here an interesting female with a loose sexual morale to spice up the story"). I stopped somewhere half way. Someone spoiled the plot so I kno…
It's tempting to write off Case's behavior as just a realistic portrayal of a washed up addict, but thematically there's a strong and likely intentional parallel between the way he's coming apart and the way one of the main AIs in the story is coming apart. If you add in Linda Lee and the other AI, what Gibson was trying to do becomes a lot clearer. I'm intentionally being vague to avoid spoilers.
JK I found it -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIDVvhy9Z0I