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« on: November 20, 2025, 05:08:19 AM »

There is a new upload of "The Secret History - Donna Tartt"
https://audiobookbay.lu/abss/the-secret-history-donna-tartt

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Quote from: benjytudor
November 20th, 2025
New upload, purchased by myself, not the previous one up here. I know there were problems with the previous uploads. I hadn’t listened to the previous copy with the glitches, and I haven’t gone through this one yet to listen.

If he or anyone else has listened to the complete book, please advise here if there are any glitches.
Previous versions have had reports of static and distortion.

5 Nov 2023  https://audiobookbay.lu/abss/ythe-secret-history-donna-tartt/
Quote from: DrKickflip13
October 26th, 2024
Just a heads up - there are a number of issues with the audio. Thankfully they’re not too often. The worst example, there will be a faint static that creeps over the narrating, then quickly escalates to an extremely loud humming + static. It was actually a bit of a jump scare both times, and definitely not an intended addition to the audio.
There’s also random skipping around and “jumbling” as if someone hit fast forward at times.


20 Aug 2011  https://audiobookbay.lu/abss/thep-secret-history-donna-tartt/
Quote from: ell
February 25th, 2014
Some of the files in this torrent seems to be broken. Some parts are generelly glitchy, sometimes a second or so is skipped ahead, but now I’ve reached a part where several minutes won’t play and are altogether skipped (the last few minutes of part 13). I’ve tried repairing the files but haven’t yet been successful. ;___;



If the new one is good, the old ones can be deleted.

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« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2025, 02:20:28 AM »

I tried the 2011 version, but seems unseeded.
The 2023 MP3 version is well seeded.

But it has the same glitches as reported on the 2011, so apparently the same files.

In part 13, the last 7 minutes, from 43:14 to 50:36 are missing.
Looking at the binary, that is a string of zeroes.
So someone did not complete a previous torrent, it was missing at least one piece, but presented it as complete.
And aside from missing bits, the quality is very poor. A hum in the background all the way through. Seems an analog recording, maybe a 50/60 Hz hum on a speaker cable. Anyway, the MP3s are crap.

The new M4B rip has clean sound, seems complete -- total is 14 minutes longer for a start.
A chapterised digital rip.

So the MP3 torrents will be deleted.

But sadly, the author, who narrated this, is not a great narrator. Serviceable, but that's all.


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