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[Gweilo]

Contact - Carl Sagan
https://audiobookbay.lu/abss/contact-carl-sagan/

Numerous reports missing chapter 24.
Will delete.

Reviewed all torrents for this book.
We have 9.
Three narrators:
Laurel Lefkow (American)
Jodie Foster (Abridged)
Arthur Blake (English)
 
Also different formats.

Details below.
Will delete 4 as indicated for bad file, no seeds or duplication.

Note that we have some from 2011 still well seeded.
So never discount old torrents, and don't duplicate; just help reseed unless you have a quite different version.



https://audiobookbay.lu/abss/contact-carl-sagan-2/
Carl Sagan - Contact  Shared by:izzyforeal  Laurel Lefkow Posted: 24 Mar 2026 Format: M4B / Bitrate: 64 Kbps File Size: 429.71 MBs

https://audiobookbay.lu/abss/contact-carl-sagan/
Contact - Carl Sagan Shared by:WolvenBolt Laurel Lefkow Posted: 5 Jun 2025 Format: M4B / Bitrate: ? File Size: 904.41 MBs
-- bad file
TO DELETE

https://audiobookbay.lu/abss/contacet-narr-jodie-foster-carl-sagan/ 
Contact [narr. Jodie Foster] - Carl Sagan Shared by:ComGetMe Contact [narr. Jodie Foster] - Carl Sagan Posted: 27 Jul 2019 Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 128 Kbps File Size: 254.14 MBs
(Read by Jodie Foster)
SEEDED

https://audiobookbay.lu/abss/cuontact-carl-sagan-6/                 
Contact - Carl Sagan Shared by:martin88 Posted: 24 Dec 2011 Format: ? / Bitrate: ? File Size: 305.45 MBs
READ BY  Laurel Lefkow 
SEEDED  chapterised MP3

https://audiobookbay.lu/abss/contgact-carl-sagan-5/                 
Contact - Carl Sagan Shared by:martin88 Posted: 10 Dec 2011 Format: MP3 / Bitrate: Variable File Size: 375.1 MBs
(Read by Arthur Blake) 
55% seed
TO DELETE

https://audiobookbay.lu/abss/cojntact-carl-sagan-4/                 
Contact - Carl Sagan Shared by:martin88 Posted: 10 Dec 2011 Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 256 Kbps File Size: 510.23 MBs
(Read by Jodie Foster).mp3 510.23 MBs
SEEDED

https://audiobookbay.lu/abss/contactw-carl-sagan-3/                 
Contact - Carl Sagan Shared by:martin88 Posted: 5 Dec 2011 Format: ? / Bitrate: ? File Size: 304.41 MBs
Read by Laurel Lefkow
ODCD rip by peterg23
-- No seeds
TO DELETE

https://audiobookbay.lu/abss/contawct-carl-sagan-2/                 
Contact - Carl Sagan Shared by:programa Posted: 20 May 2011 Format: MP3 / Bitrate: ? File Size: 373.52 MBs
Read by Arthur Blake
-- Duplicate (same hash) as #1
TO DELETE

https://audiobookbay.lu/abss/contadct-carl-sagan/                   
Contact - Carl Sagan Shared by:martin88 Posted: 20 May 2011 Format: MP3 / Bitrate: Variable File Size: 373.52 MBs
Read by Arthur Blake
SEEDED

[graysonallen]

The izzyforreal torrent was made from a super low quality cassette rip. The chapters in the M4B are just each side of each cassette tape, complete with "Side 2, Side 3, etc." and lots of dead air. Definitely not an upgrade. It sounds pretty bad.

The wolvenbolt one is indeed missing the last chapter. No great loss, since it looks like it's just a high bitrate transcode (144kbps mono) of some lower quality mp3s (frequency cutoff is a little above 8 kHz). The metadata is also corrupt. Stripping it reveals the file's missing the last 18 minutes it thinks it has (that last chapter). It does sound WAY better than the izzyforreal version, though.

I didn't look at the mp3s. I imagine they're the source of the wolvenbolt M4B.

[Ants261]

So, after all that.  Is there a decent complete version of the Laurel Lefkow narration?

[Gweilo]

So, after all that.  Is there a decent complete version of the Laurel Lefkow narration?

Several MP3 versions.
https://audiobookbay.lu/abss/cuontact-carl-sagan-6/
One of Martin 88's ones from 2011. Probably the best.

The Arthur Blake readings are quite different, with a posh British accent.

[Ants261]

Okay.  So do we need me to post a new rip?  Or is what is available good enough?

[Gweilo]

Okay.  So do we need me to post a new rip?  Or is what is available good enough?

Don't think there is a need.

[Ants261]

Okay.  No worries.