Uploaded April 2016 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
This music was sourced from a LaserDisc copy of "The Wizard," recorded via Audacity direct from the digital audio track via S/PDIF through an EIAJ optical connection between my Apple MacBook Pro and my Pioneer CLD-3070 LaserDisc Player. It has also been edited to remove Haley's laugh near the beginning of the song, which I was inspired to do after hearing FOX - KC's upload of the same song.
Because the original source is linear PCM with no lossy data compression (16-bit, 44.1kHz, stereo with a Dolby Surround matrix) recorded completely in the digital domain, it should sound better than other uploads of this song, usually sourced from analog video cassette, either the longitudinal track or from the AFM Hi-Fi track, or from rips of the 2.0 Dolby Digital track of the DVD-Video release.
Of course, the final quality of the sound in this upload will be dependent on the quality of YouTube's compression.
This music was sourced from a LaserDisc copy of "The Wizard," recorded via Audacity direct from the digital audio track via S/PDIF through an EIAJ optical connection between my Apple MacBook Pro and my Pioneer CLD-3070 LaserDisc Player. It has also been edited to remove Haley's laugh near the beginning of the song, which I was inspired to do after hearing FOX - KC's upload of the same song.
Because the original source is linear PCM with no lossy data compression (16-bit, 44.1kHz, stereo with a Dolby Surround matrix) recorded completely in the digital domain, it should sound better than other uploads of this song, usually sourced from analog video cassette, either the longitudinal track or from the AFM Hi-Fi track, or from rips of the 2.0 Dolby Digital track of the DVD-Video release.
Of course, the final quality of the sound in this upload will be dependent on the quality of YouTube's compression.
