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01. One Step Closer (Ext. Intro w/ Outro)
02. Battle Symphony
03. Breaking The Habit
04. Points Of Authority
05. Papercut
06. The Catalyst
07. Wastelands
08. Lost In The Echo (w/ ext. Intro)
09. From The Inside
10. Waiting For The End
11. Invisible (Ext. Intro)
12. One More Light
13. Sharp Edges (Ext. Intro)
14. Crawling (Piano Version)
15. Leave Out All The Rest (2017 Version)
16. Faint (Ext. Outro)
17. Final Masquerade
18. Nobody Can Save Me
19. Rebellion

20. Bleed It Out (Bridge w/ A Place For My Head v1 + Bridge)
 

No improvements, it sounds good as it is.

I compared the instrumentals if they have any differences with album or single versions of the same songs and also compared them with previous officially released instrumental version.

01.Crawling (Instrumental) (03:29)

It matches with the album version.

 

02.Faint (Instrumental) (02:42)

Didn't noticed that earlier, but the intro in the single version of Faint is basically the album version but with fade in, which is a bit cut, weird edit. The instrumental version is not the single version, the intro in it fades in differently.

 

Faint-Single
Faint-Instrumental

03.Numb/Encore (Instrumental) (03:25)

After comparing it with the instrumental from the Numb/Encore CD single it has Completely new, better mastering. The version from the CD was too loud and had a lot of clippings. This version with new mastering seems to be fixing both of those. I can easily recommend the Papercuts: Instrumentals version. https://i.ibb.co/wRKpWkT/numb-enc.jpg

 

04.Papercut (Instrumental) (03:04)

Not a single or album version. The guitar in the intro comes a bit late in this instrumental version. The instrumental doesn't have the transition to One Step Closer at all.

 

05.Breaking The Habit (Instrumental) (03:15)

Single version, without almost 2 seconds of silence at the end.

 

06.In The End (Instrumental) (03:36)

Besides the quality, no differences between the album version.

 

07.Bleed It Out (Instrumental) (02:44)

Album version.

 

08.Somewhere I Belong (Instrumental) (03:34)

Single version, which means no transition from Don't Stay.

 

09.Waiting For The End (Instrumental) (03:51)

- The effects on the guitar that's in the intro matches with the 2012 version.
- No transition to Blackout but almost one second of the outro at the end was cut and instead of it. it has almost one second of silence comparing to how the version with vocals, released on Papercuts on May 6 have it.

 

10.Castle Of Glass (Instrumental) (03:25)

after comparing it with the released in 2012 instrumental version:
 - the volume of it was a bit decreased,
 - out of 4 glitches only the first one was fixed.

 

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Living Things (Acapellas and Instrumentals) contains several glitches. The most affected track is the instrumental version

of "Castle Of Glass" with glitches at 0:36, 1:10, 1:28, and 2:36.

 

 

11.One More Light (Instrumental) (04:15)

Album version.

 

12.Burn It Down (Instrumental) (03:50)

After comparing it with the released in 2012 instrumental version:

- just a little differences in mastering

 

13.What I’ve Done (Instrumental) (03:28)

- single version. Very noticeable difference in mastering/EQ.

 

14.QWERTY (Instrumental) (03:21)

Compared it with the instrumental version released on the single:

If there are any differences, they are unnoticeable.

 

15.One Step Closer (Instrumental) (02:35)

The intro doesn't have the transition that starts at the end of Papercut and goes through the intro of OSC.

 

16.New Divide (Instrumental) (04:29)

after comparing it with the released in 2009 instrumental version:

- it has different mastering
- -2 seconds of silence less at the end

 

17.Leave Out All the Rest (Instrumental) (03:19)

- single version

 

18.Lost (Instrumental) (03:21)

First thought are good memories because this instrumental version has the same length like the very first version of the song with vocals that was registered in 2022 which was later in Januray 2023 replaced with the '3:19' version. It contains almost half of a second of silence at the beginning and one and half of a second of silence at the end.

 

19.Numb (Instrumental) (03:06)

Comparing it with the album version:

- the instrumental version is missing over 1 second of intro and it contains a slightly different effects.

Numb-instr
Numb-album

 

20.Friendly Fire (Instrumental) (02:56)

Compared it with the instrumental version released on the single:

If there are any differences, they are unnoticeable.

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Also, here's the quality check of the source (the highest quality delivered by the label), because some of those instrumentals for some reason were exported to even 192 sample rate, but in general what is the real quality of them? I downloaded the source from one of the digital stores and checked it, here are the results:

 

01.Crawling (Instrumental) (03:29)

Source: 24-bit/96.0kHz - Upsampled, correct quality: 24-bit/48.0kHz

 

02.Faint (Instrumental) (02:42)

Source: 24-bit/192.0kHz - Upsampled, correct quality: 24-bit/96.0kHz

 

03.Numb/Encore (Instrumental) (03:25)

Source: 24-bit/44.1kHz

 

04.Papercut (Instrumental) (03:04)

Source: 24-bit/96.0kHz - Upsampled, correct quality: 24-bit/48.0kHz

 

05.Breaking The Habit (Instrumental) (03:15)

Source: 24-bit/192.0kHz - Upsampled, correct quality: 24-bit/96.0kHz

 

06.In The End (Instrumental) (03:36)

Source: 24-bit/96.0kHz - Upsampled, correct quality: 24-bit/48.0kHz

 

07.Bleed It Out (Instrumental) (02:44)

Source: 24-bit/96.0kHz

 

08.Somewhere I Belong (Instrumental) (03:34)

Source: 24-bit/192.0kHz - Upsampled, correct quality: 24-bit/96.0kHz

 

09.Waiting For The End (Instrumental) (03:51)

Source: 24-bit/44.1kHz

 

10.Castle Of Glass (Instrumental) (03:25)

Source: 24-bit/44.1kHz

 

11.One More Light (Instrumental) (04:15)

Source: 24-bit/44.1kHz

 

12.Burn It Down (Instrumental) (03:50)

Source: 24-bit/44.1kHz

 

13.What I’ve Done (Instrumental) (03:28)

Source: 24-bit/44.1kHz

 

14.QWERTY (Instrumental) (03:21)

Source: 24-bit/44.1kHz

 

15.One Step Closer (Instrumental) (02:35)

Source: 24-bit/96.0kHz - Upsampled, correct quality: 24-bit/48.0kHz

 

16.New Divide (Instrumental) (04:29)

Source: 24-bit/44.1kHz

 

17.Leave Out All the Rest (Instrumental) (03:19)

Source: 24-bit/96.0kHz - Upsampled, correct quality: 24-bit/48.0kHz

 

18.Lost (Instrumental) (03:21)

Source: 24-bit/96.0kHz

 

19.Numb (Instrumental) (03:06)

Source: 24-bit/192.0kHz - Upsampled, correct quality: 24-bit/96.0kHz

 

20.Friendly Fire (Instrumental) (02:56)

Source: 24-bit/48.0kHz

 

So now with that info you can save some MB on your disc by converting your source upsampled audio files to the correct quality.

Added more covers (front+back) to main post, so make sure to re-visit it.

Added:

Albums & EPs

Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023): Instrumentals // {20tr, 093624840831} link

Ringtones (links works only on apple's mobile devices)

Bleed It Out (Instrumental) // {portion of the second verse + chorus and portion of the bridge} link

Breaking The Habit (Instrumental) // {first pre-chorus and chorus} link

Burn It Down (Instrumental) // {portion of the first verse + chorus} link

Castle Of Glass (Instrumental) // {portion of the first verse + chorus} link

Crawling (Instrumental) // {portion of the pre-chorus, chorus + portion of the second verse} link

Friendly Fire (Instrumental) // {first 30 seconds of the song} link

In The End (Instrumental) // {portion of the first verse, chorus and portion of the second verse} link

Leave Out All The Rest (Instrumental) // {1st chorus+portion of the 2nd verse} link

Lost (Instrumental) // {portion of the pre-chorus + chorus and portion of the second verse} link

New Divide (Instrumental) // {first chorus} link

One More Light (Instrumental) // {1st chorus} link

QWERTY (Instrumental) // {first 30 seconds of the song} link

Waiting For The End (Instrumental) // {first chorus + portion of the second verse} link

 

Update:

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LP Underground 16 // {10tr, LPU-82-B016} link

LP Underground 13 // {12tr, LPU-82-B013} link

 

 

Both are now available only in AAC m4a format. The site was updated with that info.

Lost still have that scratching sample in the verses which is cool.

 

https://i.ibb.co/Bj74C3w/806789990999.jpg - what? 192kHz?

Linkin park just released the instrumental version of "Papercuts". All 20 instrumental tracks are now available on DSPs.

 

 

Tracklist:

 

01.Crawling (Instrumental) (03:29)
02.Faint (Instrumental) (02:42)
03.Numb/Encore (Instrumental) (03:25)
04.Papercut (Instrumental) (03:04)
05.Breaking The Habit (Instrumental) (03:15)
06.In The End (Instrumental) (03:36)
07.Bleed It Out (Instrumental) (02:44)
08.Somewhere I Belong (Instrumental) (03:34)
09.Waiting For The End (Instrumental) (03:51)
10.Castle Of Glass (Instrumental) (03:25)
11.One More Light (Instrumental) (04:15)
12.Burn It Down (Instrumental) (03:50)
13.What I’ve Done (Instrumental) (03:28)
14.QWERTY (Instrumental) (03:21)
15.One Step Closer (Instrumental) (02:35)
16.New Divide (Instrumental) (04:29)
17.Leave Out All the Rest (Instrumental) (03:19)
18.Lost (Instrumental) (03:21)
19.Numb (Instrumental) (03:06)
20.Friendly Fire (Instrumental) (02:56)

 

Source: https://lprk.co/instrumentals

 

Choose service to buy: HDtracks, Qobuz, ProStudioMasters, 7digital, Juno

Unnofficial.

So just to sums up, those vinyl will never have the 192 studio quality, case closed. But you can still buy them for collection purposes.

26 minutes ago, michalangelo said:

I contacted site support just to get an answer that they have no info about Shadow of the Day. LMAO

 

But I think they would have to compare the SOTD with the correct version, otherwise how would they know which version they have?

The store is now officially opened. The Pre-Orders for vinyls are now available for everyone! Main post have now direct links to the store. Have fun!

2 hours ago, Rokaito said:

I'm sorry for being the goofball In this situation but what does BSM stand for?😅

Because Sound Matters

 

14 hours ago, letdownagain said:

Have any of the previously released HD digital versions been 192/24? I feel like I've seen 96/24.

 

None of the Linkin Park albums were ever released with 192/24 quality. And I think those vinyls will be the very first ones to which the 192/24 masters were used.

A special limited vinyl releases of three Linkin Park's albums Hybrid Theory, Meteora, Minutes To Midnight are available now for Pre-Order on Because Sound Matters web store, for those who previously has purchased something through the band's official store. Check your e-mails! EDIT: the vinyls are now available for everyone!

 

Store description:

 

Hybrid Theory (cat. 093624844044):

 

click on the cover for HQ artwork

PRE-ORDER

Details:

 

Meteora (cat. 093624844068):

 

click on the cover for HQ artwork

PRE-ORDER

Details:

 

Minutes To Midnight (cat. 093624844099):

 

click on the cover for HQ artwork

PRE-ORDER

Details:

 

 

All vinyls have a price $99.98 and will be released on August 9 this year. Let us know in the comments if you gonna buy it!

Small update on the site:

 

- corrected the release date of Not Alone single from January, 2010, to October 21, 2011 - after talking about it with someone on discord, it wasn't available on iTunes on the same date as the Download To Donate compilation, it was actually released a year later on digital stores. Also, added some other links to notes.

- changed status of Reanimation's interactive booklet to "available" since it is included on the Reanimation's bonus edition on Qobuz. But i think that anyone who decide to purchase it it would have less than 1% chances to open it, even with having the correct versions of iTunes and quicktime.

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Also, there was at least one case of someone buying the CD in the local store in Germany, that had 2 CDs inside, both with the exact same content.

 

As one person described that on LP's discord.

 

On 6/10/2024 at 4:20 PM, JZLP-NaughtyNottingham said:

no idea about this? which cd is it?

 

This green vs standard. Green is from Indonesia version.

I'm interesting if THP will really gets the POA. That would be something really exclusive in it.

 

On 6/8/2024 at 3:23 PM, JZLP-NaughtyNottingham said:

The only variant that I actually want to own is the pink Hybrid Theory CD and the black one too those are amazing.

 

The green THP looks sick.

 

So all purchased files from iTunes have the original album id from which they were purchased. I checked the id in the "Crawl Back In (Live).m4a" file and I found this. Next I tried to search that album via web archive by adding the id of it at the end of the link just like links to the albums on iTunes have and i found it. So this is the 14-track edition that originally had the 14 tracks with the pre-order only track Crawl Back In (Live). unfortunately I haven't found the same link archived in the time when the album was still in the pre-order. It was only archived after the album was released so the CBI (Live) track is not present in the tracklist. Also, there was 13-track version also with booklet which was archived the same day as the 14-track version and it is still available till this day on iTunes, Qobuz and other stores. I have re-check the iTunes database, Qobuz and confirmed that the 13-track edition matches with this identifier: 093624971528 - which if you check it here - there is a confirmation that it never had more than 13 tracks. Also, here is the extracted page with the tracklist from the booklet pdf that was downloaded from that edition before the 2019 (you can see 13 tracks there).

 

Now why I'm showing this? Because yesterday i downloaded the booklet from that same 13 track edition from one of the digital stores and the booklet is the 2019 updated one with new Warner Records logo etc. but it seems they choose the wrong booklet not from this edition, the tracklist lists 14 tracks instead of 13: https://i.ibb.co/zfz4D5Z/OOA-Booklet-pdf.jpg - EDIT: also I have noticed that in the bottom right corner there is a word "Unauthor" which is not present in any other booklets.

 

Besides the new Warner logo the booklet has also a small differences in contrast and colors. You can notice that in the 2009 booklet the colors are more red while in the 2019 updated version the colors are more orange than red.

Site's update:

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Out Of Ashes (Pre-Order Bundle) // {14tr + MA, CBI live, Digital Booklet, 093624971511} link

- added web archive link to it.

 

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Out Of Ashes // {13tr + MA, Digital Booklet, 093624971528} link

- added info about the updated booklet in 2019.

 

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EDIT: 12.06 The site was updated.

 

- the plan9music.com service is no longer selling music in digital format, the releases that were available only in that service were marked as not available anymore (8 releases were effected) and the links to all of them were replaced with the ones archived by web.archive.org;

- new blue icon as the link, it means that there is a link to the release that doesn't work anymore and it wasn't archived by any site.

 

Plus some other minor changes on some ATS releases/export to TXT file info corrections and few others.

Plot twist - the LPU vinyl is available again.

Yay, update of another MTM edition:

 

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Minutes To Midnight (Pre-Order Bundle) [Clean] // {14tr + NRL, WID live, 093624996095}

 

- the release was set as streaming only
- booklet was added
- link to Qobuz was added
- notes are totally re-written

 

NRL track is not available at all. The release have just name "Minutes To Midnight" without any extened name with the "()" after it but I decided to keep the extended name on the site. For some reason the label re-named all MTM editions to just Minutes To Midnight name, even the "Minutes To Midnight (Circuit City DMD)" has now just MTM as name.

 

There are currently 10 different editions of MTM (with different tracklist) available out there including this one. You can tell that some of them isn't supposed to be still available but I guess that if you are big label with a lot of artists on your back and have that amount of editions of just one album then it can be hard to manage it.

 

Also, I added to both lists a standard version with 12-tracks and booklet.

 

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Minutes To Midnight // {12tr + booklet} link

 

Found it on iTunes, it was available in few countries, found no any identifier for it. There were always a two versions of the standard edition, one with booklet and another one without it. i think the one without the booklet on iTunes had the same barcode as the one we know (this one: 093624447764) and the version with it had to have different barcode just like it had a different album id on iTunes.

9 hours ago, bloodbath said:

Question: Is there any way to tell apart the CD versions that contains LOATR single version and album version? Something like a barcode. I'd like to have the former since it's 10/11 seconds shorter

 

If the back cover says "Made in Germany" it will contain the single version of LOATR. https://lpcatalog.com/item/2024_papercuts/cd/0093624846017_de

I like Tommee Profitt for his other stuff like ITE remix cover or song I'm Not Afraid. Both are awesome, you should definitely check those.

Update:

 

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Already Over (8-bit Version) // {... 05439...}

 

Completely removed from both of the lists. Well, shit happens.

 

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Already Over (Live In Berlin) // {2tr, 054391335852} link - streaming only

Already Over (Live In London) // {2tr, 054391335876} link - streaming only

Already Over (Live In Los Angeles) // {2tr, 054391340399} link - streaming only

Already Over (Live In Sydney) // {2tr, 054391360076} link - streaming only

 

 

Marked on the site as not available anymore.

 

Update of the "Mikeshinoda.com Exclusives (Playlist)" - added small icon next to the last track with the info, when this track was added to the playlist.

 

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Lost In The Echo // {A10302B0001689448P} link

Iridescent // {A10302B0001381175N} link

 

 

Added the missing identifier for those two music videos.

 

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Blackbirds // {1tr, 054391983466} - cancelled release

 

Update of the release date and notes on the site. Also, the correct mix/master credits for the song are: Neal Avron - mix, Brian "Big Bass" Gardner - master. Currently my site might be the only one that have correct mastering credits for that song. lol

 

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Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023) // {20tr, 093624846031} link

 

Currently it was removed from all digital platforms. Marked on the site as not available anymore.

Last but not least - the releases have now the catalog numbers when info is exported to txt file.

33 minutes ago, lpliveusername said:

There's a yellow vinyl now. Discord exclusive.

 

Added the info about it to the main post.

The vinyl is sold out.