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  OKman2008

  This could get more attention

  19 days ago

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  h0g3w3g

  The German language area can basically be divided with several lines. On one side, words are pronounced differently than on the other side.The Sankt Goar line divides spoken German between dat and das, wat and was & et and es.
  In the northern part, when people speak dialects or standard German with influences from their dialect, they will usually say dat (the neuter case and that), wat (what) and et (it). While south of the line, people will say das (the neuter case and that), was (what) and es (it). map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Dat-das-Isogloss.svg/800px-Dat-das-Isogloss.svg.png
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankt_Goar_line
  
  
  
  The other CDs in the CD wallet were just normal CDs of known bands like Depeche Mode, Helge Schneider (German comedian and musician), AC/DC, ABBA, Bee Gees, etc. that you can basically buy everywhere. So, nothing that someone copied themselves.
  
  
  I think at least the lead singer is the same for all seven songs. 
  
  
  It sounds like Titelnummer 4, 5, 7 have the same background singer.
  
  
  I am not sure about the background singer of Titelnummer 3 (The song this was originally about).
  
  
  Titelnummer 1 sounds like it has a different background singer than no. 4, 5 and 7.
  
  
  Titelnummer 2 also sounds like it has two background singers. ("I'll be with you." It sounds like first the main singers stop, then a first background singer, and then a second background singer.) 
  1:45-2:04
  
  
  
  Titelnummer 6 sounds like it could have two background singers. To me, it sounds like a woman and a man, but I could be wrong. 01:23 - 01:55

  ad995Mon, 08 Jan 2024 20:33

  He said he found the burnt CD in a CD wallet, so there may be other CDs in said wallet which contain the same song.

  johnnymetooMon, 08 Jan 2024 20:00

  @ad995:
  "It could be helpful if you looked in the CD wallet to check if there were any others that could contain this CD." - what do you mean by that? Can you rephrase your sentence?        
            
  "it sounds like the same person singing all the songs"            
  I marvelled about this too -- OP, du you think all the songs are by the same artist/band?            
              
  "north of the Sankt Goar line" what is this? Never heard of it :-/

  123 days ago

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  ad995

  He said he found the burnt CD in a CD wallet, so there may be other CDs in said wallet which contain the same song.

  johnnymetooMon, 08 Jan 2024 20:00

  @ad995:
  "It could be helpful if you looked in the CD wallet to check if there were any others that could contain this CD." - what do you mean by that? Can you rephrase your sentence?        
            
  "it sounds like the same person singing all the songs"            
  I marvelled about this too -- OP, du you think all the songs are by the same artist/band?            
              
  "north of the Sankt Goar line" what is this? Never heard of it :-/

  123 days ago

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  johnnymetoo

  @ad995:
  "It could be helpful if you looked in the CD wallet to check if there were any others that could contain this CD." - what do you mean by that? Can you rephrase your sentence?        
            
  "it sounds like the same person singing all the songs"            
  I marvelled about this too -- OP, du you think all the songs are by the same artist/band?            
              
  "north of the Sankt Goar line" what is this? Never heard of it :-/

  123 days ago

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  ad995

  When looking at the spectral, it seems as though this is not sourced from any YouTube uploads but from another CD. (https://i.postimg.cc/B6tVGyFv/image.png)
  When the audio is sourced from an mp3 or lossy format, there is usually a cutoff at around 20khz, but here there is not.
  It could be helpful if you looked in the CD wallet to check if there were any others that could contain this CD. 
  Since it sounds like the same person singing all the songs, so it could also be that she downloaded an album from the internet to burn to the CD.
  Considering the singer is most likely from a specific region (north of the Sankt Goar line), I think it is more probable that it is some sort of local band who your aunt owned a CD from.
  My father actually grew up very near where you described (a town in Rhineland-Palatinate), so I will ask him if he recognises any of the songs next time I see him.

  h0g3w3gSun, 07 Jan 2024 22:42

  I've ripped the songs as lossless FLAC files.
  
  Folder with the files:
  https://www.mediafire.com/folder/vl3x6s7epos69/Unbekanntes_Album_(07.01.2024_22-11-42)
  
  All songs in a zip:
  https://www.mediafire.com/file/tpk0tca3qyqs8mj/Unbekanntes_Album_%252807.01.2024_22-11-42%2529.zip/file

  ad995Sun, 07 Jan 2024 04:17

  Great!!! I recommend you rip these with windows media player to lossless flac if possible, because then we can tell if they are burnt from another CD or from a YouTube video by looking at the spectral.
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GhxgLDMZJXU

  h0g3w3gSun, 07 Jan 2024 02:55

  Update: I have found an unlabelled burnt CD in a CD Wallet in my mother's car. I think it might be the entire album. While the files on the CD don't have names, I was able to identify three songs as covers, three songs are eithre songs that the band made themselves, or I wasn't able to find them and one song is the counterfactual of “Smoke on the Water”. I think the singer is the same for all seven songs.
  
  01 Titelnummer 1 : Cover of "Locomotive Breath" by "Jethro Tull", 1971
  02 Titelnummer 2 : Unknown Song "If you are going"/"Take me with you [ Any day ](?)"
  
  03 Titelnummer 3 : counterfactual of “Smoke on the Water”/ "Dreck 'is im Wasser (?)"
  04 Titelnummer 4 : Cover of "Love of My Life" by The Brandos, 1994
  05 Titelnummer 5 : Unknown Song "Jeden Morgen (?)"
  
  06 Titelnummer 6 : Cover of "Diane" by Hüsker Dü, 1983
  07 Titelnummer 7 : Unknown Song "Nicht für (?)"
  
  
  
  Since I don't know the titles of the unknown songs, I just listened to the lyrics and thought that these could be the titles.
  
  
  https://www.mediafire.com/folder/bdbdiy7unf2iu/unkown+album
  
  
  
  I will try to transcribe the lyrics in the next few days.
  
  
  Three of the unknown songs are in accentfree German. Thus, I think it is likely that the singer's native language is German. The German of the background singer also sounds accentfree.
  In the German songs, es and das (it and the[neuter case]) are often replaced with et and dat. Because of this and the version of "smoke on the water" which is about the river Rhine I would say that the writer of the German songs comes from somewhere north of the Sankt Goar line (dat-das-Linie), most likely from somewhere in North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate or the Saarland.

  124 days ago

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  h0g3w3g

  I've ripped the songs as lossless FLAC files.
  
  Folder with the files:
  https://www.mediafire.com/folder/vl3x6s7epos69/Unbekanntes_Album_(07.01.2024_22-11-42)
  
  All songs in a zip:
  https://www.mediafire.com/file/tpk0tca3qyqs8mj/Unbekanntes_Album_%252807.01.2024_22-11-42%2529.zip/file

  ad995Sun, 07 Jan 2024 04:17

  Great!!! I recommend you rip these with windows media player to lossless flac if possible, because then we can tell if they are burnt from another CD or from a YouTube video by looking at the spectral.
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GhxgLDMZJXU

  h0g3w3gSun, 07 Jan 2024 02:55

  Update: I have found an unlabelled burnt CD in a CD Wallet in my mother's car. I think it might be the entire album. While the files on the CD don't have names, I was able to identify three songs as covers, three songs are eithre songs that the band made themselves, or I wasn't able to find them and one song is the counterfactual of “Smoke on the Water”. I think the singer is the same for all seven songs.
  
  01 Titelnummer 1 : Cover of "Locomotive Breath" by "Jethro Tull", 1971
  02 Titelnummer 2 : Unknown Song "If you are going"/"Take me with you [ Any day ](?)"
  
  03 Titelnummer 3 : counterfactual of “Smoke on the Water”/ "Dreck 'is im Wasser (?)"
  04 Titelnummer 4 : Cover of "Love of My Life" by The Brandos, 1994
  05 Titelnummer 5 : Unknown Song "Jeden Morgen (?)"
  
  06 Titelnummer 6 : Cover of "Diane" by Hüsker Dü, 1983
  07 Titelnummer 7 : Unknown Song "Nicht für (?)"
  
  
  
  Since I don't know the titles of the unknown songs, I just listened to the lyrics and thought that these could be the titles.
  
  
  https://www.mediafire.com/folder/bdbdiy7unf2iu/unkown+album
  
  
  
  I will try to transcribe the lyrics in the next few days.
  
  
  Three of the unknown songs are in accentfree German. Thus, I think it is likely that the singer's native language is German. The German of the background singer also sounds accentfree.
  In the German songs, es and das (it and the[neuter case]) are often replaced with et and dat. Because of this and the version of "smoke on the water" which is about the river Rhine I would say that the writer of the German songs comes from somewhere north of the Sankt Goar line (dat-das-Linie), most likely from somewhere in North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate or the Saarland.

  124 days ago

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  ad995

  Great!!! I recommend you rip these with windows media player to lossless flac if possible, because then we can tell if they are burnt from another CD or from a YouTube video by looking at the spectral.
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GhxgLDMZJXU

  h0g3w3gSun, 07 Jan 2024 02:55

  Update: I have found an unlabelled burnt CD in a CD Wallet in my mother's car. I think it might be the entire album. While the files on the CD don't have names, I was able to identify three songs as covers, three songs are eithre songs that the band made themselves, or I wasn't able to find them and one song is the counterfactual of “Smoke on the Water”. I think the singer is the same for all seven songs.
  
  01 Titelnummer 1 : Cover of "Locomotive Breath" by "Jethro Tull", 1971
  02 Titelnummer 2 : Unknown Song "If you are going"/"Take me with you [ Any day ](?)"
  
  03 Titelnummer 3 : counterfactual of “Smoke on the Water”/ "Dreck 'is im Wasser (?)"
  04 Titelnummer 4 : Cover of "Love of My Life" by The Brandos, 1994
  05 Titelnummer 5 : Unknown Song "Jeden Morgen (?)"
  
  06 Titelnummer 6 : Cover of "Diane" by Hüsker Dü, 1983
  07 Titelnummer 7 : Unknown Song "Nicht für (?)"
  
  
  
  Since I don't know the titles of the unknown songs, I just listened to the lyrics and thought that these could be the titles.
  
  
  https://www.mediafire.com/folder/bdbdiy7unf2iu/unkown+album
  
  
  
  I will try to transcribe the lyrics in the next few days.
  
  
  Three of the unknown songs are in accentfree German. Thus, I think it is likely that the singer's native language is German. The German of the background singer also sounds accentfree.
  In the German songs, es and das (it and the[neuter case]) are often replaced with et and dat. Because of this and the version of "smoke on the water" which is about the river Rhine I would say that the writer of the German songs comes from somewhere north of the Sankt Goar line (dat-das-Linie), most likely from somewhere in North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate or the Saarland.

  125 days ago

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  h0g3w3g

  Update: I have found an unlabelled burnt CD in a CD Wallet in my mother's car. I think it might be the entire album. While the files on the CD don't have names, I was able to identify three songs as covers, three songs are eithre songs that the band made themselves, or I wasn't able to find them and one song is the counterfactual of “Smoke on the Water”. I think the singer is the same for all seven songs.
  
  01 Titelnummer 1 : Cover of "Locomotive Breath" by "Jethro Tull", 1971
  02 Titelnummer 2 : Unknown Song "If you are going"/"Take me with you [ Any day ](?)"
  
  03 Titelnummer 3 : counterfactual of “Smoke on the Water”/ "Dreck 'is im Wasser (?)"
  04 Titelnummer 4 : Cover of "Love of My Life" by The Brandos, 1994
  05 Titelnummer 5 : Unknown Song "Jeden Morgen (?)"
  
  06 Titelnummer 6 : Cover of "Diane" by Hüsker Dü, 1983
  07 Titelnummer 7 : Unknown Song "Nicht für (?)"
  
  
  
  Since I don't know the titles of the unknown songs, I just listened to the lyrics and thought that these could be the titles.
  
  
  https://www.mediafire.com/folder/bdbdiy7unf2iu/unkown+album
  
  
  
  I will try to transcribe the lyrics in the next few days.
  
  
  Three of the unknown songs are in accentfree German. Thus, I think it is likely that the singer's native language is German. The German of the background singer also sounds accentfree.
  In the German songs, es and das (it and the[neuter case]) are often replaced with et and dat. Because of this and the version of "smoke on the water" which is about the river Rhine I would say that the writer of the German songs comes from somewhere north of the Sankt Goar line (dat-das-Linie), most likely from somewhere in North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate or the Saarland.

  125 days ago

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  ad995

  I think it could be the case that this was simply copied from one CD to another and was never put online. I have a few CDrs at home which I can't find any information about as well. I hope this isn't the case but it could be a possibility.

  h0g3w3gTue, 26 Dec 2023 00:11

  I think I copied the entire CD into a single folder, into which I usually copied all the music from those self-made mixtape CDs. I copied this song into my OneDrive because I wanted to have it as my phone's ringtone.
  However, I've since thrown away my old laptop because I stopped using it in 2015/2016.
  Because of this, I don't know what else came with the song, but I think it was other music files, but they included the names of the songs and the names of the bands.
  As I mentioned in the original description, I think I got the song and the CD it was on around 2010.
  
  
  I basically live next to the river, and the people from the Niederrhein still say it's dirty. I don't think that any sane person would swim in the Rhine. (excluding the Rhine in and near Switzerland.) 
  I think that it is unlikely that the song was recorded in the 1970s because it sounds too clean for the time. Considering that this is an unknown song, I think it is highly unlikely that the song was remastered. If I had to guess, I'd say it is from the mid-80s or the mid-2000s and was just spread via CD copies that people made themselves. Maybe it was just a demo.

  johnnymetooMon, 25 Dec 2023 10:30

  Although the CD might be from 2014 I think the song is much older, from the time the river Rhine was actually dirty and not save to swim. Baybe mid 70's (Smoke on the Water is from 1973) to beginning of the 80's, I'd say.

  137 days ago

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  h0g3w3g

  I think I copied the entire CD into a single folder, into which I usually copied all the music from those self-made mixtape CDs. I copied this song into my OneDrive because I wanted to have it as my phone's ringtone.
  However, I've since thrown away my old laptop because I stopped using it in 2015/2016.
  Because of this, I don't know what else came with the song, but I think it was other music files, but they included the names of the songs and the names of the bands.
  As I mentioned in the original description, I think I got the song and the CD it was on around 2010.
  
  
  I basically live next to the river, and the people from the Niederrhein still say it's dirty. I don't think that any sane person would swim in the Rhine. (excluding the Rhine in and near Switzerland.) 
  I think that it is unlikely that the song was recorded in the 1970s because it sounds too clean for the time. Considering that this is an unknown song, I think it is highly unlikely that the song was remastered. If I had to guess, I'd say it is from the mid-80s or the mid-2000s and was just spread via CD copies that people made themselves. Maybe it was just a demo.

  johnnymetooMon, 25 Dec 2023 10:30

  Although the CD might be from 2014 I think the song is much older, from the time the river Rhine was actually dirty and not save to swim. Baybe mid 70's (Smoke on the Water is from 1973) to beginning of the 80's, I'd say.

  137 days ago

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  h0g3w3g

  I think I copied the entire CD into a single folder, into which I usually copied all the music from those self-made mixtape CDs. I copied this song into my OneDrive because I wanted to have it as my phone's ringtone.
  However, I've since thrown away my old laptop because I stopped using it in 2015/2016.
  Because of this, I don't know what else came with the song, but I think it was other music files, but they included the names of the songs and the names of the bands.
  As I mentioned in the original description, I think I got the song and the CD it was on around 2010.

  ad995Mon, 25 Dec 2023 02:25

  It's fine, merry Christmas! Do you have any other songs from the CD? It could give an indication as to where and when the songs were sourced. (Like YouTube, another CD, etc.) Just the titles would be completely fine too.

  h0g3w3gSun, 24 Dec 2023 23:57

  Hello, I'm sorry for the late reply, but I've been celebrating Christmas today. Anyway, I've uploaded the audio file to Media Fire.
  https://www.mediafire.com/file/uwok1m0u830npzh/03_Titelnummer_3.wma/file

  ad995Sun, 24 Dec 2023 04:29

  Can you upload the original file to google drive or something similar please? I know a bit about CDs and may be able to help if I have the metadata :)

  h0g3w3gThu, 21 Dec 2023 02:32

  I uploaded the full version of the song to YouTube. https://youtu.be/TaNMsJMXmbg

  137 days ago

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  johnnymetoo

  "Do you have any other songs from the CD" -- yeah, this is an important question. What other songs were on that CD, h0g3w3g?

  138 days ago

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  johnnymetoo

  Although the CD might be from 2014 I think the song is much older, from the time the river Rhine was actually dirty and not save to swim. Baybe mid 70's (Smoke on the Water is from 1973) to beginning of the 80's, I'd say.

  138 days ago

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  ad995

  It's fine, merry Christmas! Do you have any other songs from the CD? It could give an indication as to where and when the songs were sourced. (Like YouTube, another CD, etc.) Just the titles would be completely fine too.

  h0g3w3gSun, 24 Dec 2023 23:57

  Hello, I'm sorry for the late reply, but I've been celebrating Christmas today. Anyway, I've uploaded the audio file to Media Fire.
  https://www.mediafire.com/file/uwok1m0u830npzh/03_Titelnummer_3.wma/file

  ad995Sun, 24 Dec 2023 04:29

  Can you upload the original file to google drive or something similar please? I know a bit about CDs and may be able to help if I have the metadata :)

  h0g3w3gThu, 21 Dec 2023 02:32

  I uploaded the full version of the song to YouTube. https://youtu.be/TaNMsJMXmbg

  138 days ago

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  h0g3w3g

  Hello, I'm sorry for the late reply, but I've been celebrating Christmas today. Anyway, I've uploaded the audio file to Media Fire.
  https://www.mediafire.com/file/uwok1m0u830npzh/03_Titelnummer_3.wma/file

  ad995Sun, 24 Dec 2023 04:29

  Can you upload the original file to google drive or something similar please? I know a bit about CDs and may be able to help if I have the metadata :)

  h0g3w3gThu, 21 Dec 2023 02:32

  I uploaded the full version of the song to YouTube. https://youtu.be/TaNMsJMXmbg

  138 days ago

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  ad995

  Can you upload the original file to google drive or something similar please? I know a bit about CDs and may be able to help if I have the metadata :)

  h0g3w3gThu, 21 Dec 2023 02:32

  I uploaded the full version of the song to YouTube. https://youtu.be/TaNMsJMXmbg

  139 days ago

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  h0g3w3g

  I uploaded the full version of the song to YouTube. https://youtu.be/TaNMsJMXmbg

  142 days ago

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