The Smithereens – Beauty And Sadness (1983)

The Smithereens’ debut EP, originally released in a tiny run on a small New York indie in 1983, sounds like a dry run for the far superior full-length debut, 1986’s Especially for You…

by Stewart Mason, AMG, allmusic

Tracklist:

01. Beauty And Sadness (03:29)
02. Some Other Guy (02:46)
03. Tracy’s World (04:01)
04. Much Too Much (02:22)

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 1 from 15. November 2010

EAC extraction logfile from 29. March 2011, 2:46

The Smithereens / Beauty And Sadness

Used drive : ATAPI DVD D DH16D3S Adapter: 0 ID: 2

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 896 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:Program Files (x86)Exact Audio CopyFlacflac.exe
Additional command line options : -V -8 -T “artist=%a” -T “title=%t” -T “album=%g” -T “date=%y” -T “tracknumber=%n” -T “genre=%m” %s

TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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1 | 0:00.00 | 3:29.15 | 0 | 15689
2 | 3:29.15 | 2:46.45 | 15690 | 28184
3 | 6:15.60 | 4:01.25 | 28185 | 46284
4 | 10:17.10 | 2:22.67 | 46285 | 57001

Track 1

Filename C:UsersPublicSmithereens, The – Beauty And Sadness (1983)Smithereens, The – Beauty And Sadness (1983) – flac1. Beauty And Sadness.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:02.00

Peak level 91.3 %
Extraction speed 1.5 X
Track quality 99.9 %
Test CRC EC1E2E56
Copy CRC EC1E2E56
Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 3) [08B2C6B5], AccurateRip returned [B97B51C0]
Copy OK

Track 2

Filename C:UsersPublicSmithereens, The – Beauty And Sadness (1983)Smithereens, The – Beauty And Sadness (1983) – flac2. Some Other Guy.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:01.73

Peak level 90.3 %
Extraction speed 1.9 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 2FCC8468
Copy CRC 2FCC8468
Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 3) [E52629FB], AccurateRip returned [00A0CF1F]
Copy OK

Track 3

Filename C:UsersPublicSmithereens, The – Beauty And Sadness (1983)Smithereens, The – Beauty And Sadness (1983) – flac3. Tracy’s World.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:01.04

Peak level 98.9 %
Extraction speed 2.1 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 263382DE
Copy CRC 263382DE
Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 3) [4B3C9AD1], AccurateRip returned [D8AA17AB]
Copy OK

Track 4

Filename C:UsersPublicSmithereens, The – Beauty And Sadness (1983)Smithereens, The – Beauty And Sadness (1983) – flac4. Much Too Much.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:01.57

Peak level 92.9 %
Extraction speed 2.1 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 7D2DDCD1
Copy CRC 7D2DDCD1
Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 3) [0C8858C2], AccurateRip returned [81D31FE9]
Copy OK

No tracks could be verified as accurate
You may have a different pressing from the one(s) in the database

No errors occurred

End of status report

[CUETools log; Date: 13.08.2021 20:25:38; Version: 2.1.4]
[AccurateRip ID: 00023eda-0008f166-2702f804] found.
Track [ CRC | V2 ] Status
01 [08b2c6b5|a6ad75c2] (0+0/8) No match
02 [e52629fb|dba9c874] (0+0/8) No match
03 [4b3c9ad1|724d2976] (0+0/8) No match
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01 [b97b51c0] (3/8) Accurately ripped
02 [00a0cf1f] (3/8) Accurately ripped
03 [d8aa17ab] (3/8) Accurately ripped
04 [81d31fe9] (3/8) Accurately ripped

Track Peak [ CRC32 ] [W/O NULL] [ LOG ]
– 98,9 [C51E8469] [6902D99B]
01 91,3 [EC1E2E56] [D8194ABE] CRC32
02 90,3 [2FCC8468] [CCF04E28] CRC32
03 98,9 [263382DE] [E3A03B10] CRC32
04 92,9 [7D2DDCD1] [932019E9] CRC32

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