Well, most of the time, when audio that can't be remixed[1] is usually because whichever audio engineer was in the studio and did the mix-down and/or whoever di

Well, most of the time, when audio that can't be remixed[1] is usually because whichever audio engineer was in the studio and did the mix-down and/or whoever did the mastering afterwards lost the tapes. Mixing down to stereo from a thirty different takes of a dozen different audio tracks is inherently going to be a little lossy. It's sort of like cutting up the first draft of a novel, where the author presumably has made some editorial decision. I'm with you and actively avoid any remote SaaS for this reason, discussed at length here[2]. I don't care about the recurring fees, I'll pay them no problem as long as I can run the binary locally, so I can hedge against the acquire-hire-kill by AppleGoogTwit. When that happens not only do I risk losing data, but I risk losing a tool I depend on within my workflow. If my data has even a remote chance of being locked into a specific platform, i.e., if I can't host it Atlassian style[3], I'm not going to use it. This could rapidly turn into a bunch of mini-App Store instances -- where good apps and/or information disappear on a whim of the developer because they're tired of working on an Angular base. Not only does your data live in a walled garden, but you also risk being the unfortunate victim of the Bored Developer Syndrome. Side-note: Most of the good engineering blogs I read are just stock WordPress themes with RSS enabled. None of that "RSS only the first paragraph so I get more hits" junk. If someone's intentionally silo'ing their data, more often than not it's one of those "4 things you didn't know about Bash!" blogs. Not much value when you can read the GNUinfo docs on it. [1] I'm presuming you mean, in the sense of actually re-producing off the master tracks, not just EQ'ing [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11250108 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11250108 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10753650 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10753650 - Paragraph 2