Looking For Movie Audio Commentaries?
Are you a movie audio commentary fan? They are enjoyable when the right people are doing them for all of the trivia and making-of information that can gained concerning the films discussed. I’m a huge archiver of them with an archive of Total Titles = 12,578 (Total Tracks = 15,286) at this time (continuously growing almost daily). They originate from laserdiscs, DVDs and Blu-rays released all over the world (only English language tracks). Sure, not all commentaries are great, but it is up to the listener for judging that. Like a good audio book, you don't need to really watch the movie in order to enjoy one. I used to have a long standing bi-monthly updated thread on the unfortunately now defunct tehparadox website (under the name “Vrexcl”). Now I share them via e-mail with any and all fans, especially those that are still in touch from Paradox. I do end-of-the-month e-mail list updates of newly acquired tracks, either sent from various contributors or obtained by myself from discs or websites (like Rarelust.com or scene-rls.net/category/movies). Another reason I haven’t created a website devoted to them again or found another forum is that it’s expensive to put nearly all of my archive on some storage locker site like Dropbox, Mediafire or Nitroflare. So now I just upload desired tracks to Dropbox, give the download links in a reply e-mail and ask the individual to let me know when they are downloaded so that I can delete them to clear space. You can contact me for a copy of my Word document archive lists at [email protected]. I’ll also share my “Wanted” list as well, for all of the tracks I seek from various films already out on disc or coming soon. Moderation is the key though when requesting. Don’t go crazy. Look through and see what you would like, but keep it to around 12 at a time. It might take a day or two to send everything you desire since there are lot of archived tracks which are from 2010 to late-2013s. If desired title is from back then, I need to check it out for hiss removal and volume/bass balancing in order to bring it up-to-date. The vast majority of commentaries are recorded in improper room setups, so some are just bad in noise, while others are near perfect. As for sharing tracks, I prefer them in .ac3 or .mka format (either from already done online sources or direct stream demux off the actual DVD or Blu-ray disc) with all the needed information about them given, i.e. year, edition the track is from (Standard/Collector's/Limited/Special), world region (R1/R2/R4) and who is heard in the audio. Alright, hope to hear from you with requested tracks. Commentary fans unite!
P.S. I don’t mind if you use the tracks on your own website or blog, just as long as you give credit to me as your original commentary source link.