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Is this CD what it appears? No - it's one of over 100 fakes, concocted in what is the most amazing musical fraud ever perpetrated.
In February 2007, Pristine Audio, in conjunction with Gramophone magazine, unearthed something quite unprecedented in the world of classical music. Here we present our findings:
The PADA Player is very simple to operate - simply click on any title to hear that recording. Here is a clickable guide which shows what all of the player's controls do:
1. Playlist Selection
Click to switch between playlists - the selection will depend on your subscription. The current playlist is shown on the right.
2. Player controls: left
Button 1: Play/Pause toggle - in either mode streaming and caching continues Button 2: Go back - jump to previous recording Button 3: Go forward - jump to next recording Time - shows current playback time Playbar - shows play position & amount cached - play position is draggable
3. Player controls: right
Button 1: Link button - Regular: shows webpage for this work / Exclusives: download MP3 Button 2: Mute - mutes audio output while playback continues Volume - playback volume control
4. Playlist controls
Highlighted bar - Lit up when mouse hovers over a selection - click to play recording Scrollbar - drag to scroll up and down playlist
5. Playlist view toggle
Click on change to to switch between alphabetical listings by performer or by composer.
TIP: Clicking on the cover artwork in the Now Playing screen also allows you to either open the website page for that recording (Regular view) or download the MP3 (Exclusives view) in the same way as the circled buttons (4) and the down arrow (3).
Pristine Classical - bringing you DRM-free historic classical FLAC and MP3 download music since 2005
XR: all FLAC
All our XR-remastered recordings are available in both MP3 and FLAC format