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History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell (AUDIOBOOK)
Type:
Audio > Audio books
Files:
79
Size:
555.33 MiB (582310506 Bytes)
Spoken language(s):
English
Tag(s):
bertrand russell western philo
Uploaded:
2009-08-01 14:02:42 GMT
By:
renumeratedfrog
Seeders:
1
Leechers:
0
Comments
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Info Hash:
300033170F47CF19EA630DB77136207634EF1096




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First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy. Providing a sophisticated overview of the ideas that have perplexed people from time immemorial, Russell's History of Western Philosophy offered a cogent précis of its subject. Of course this cannot be the only reason it ended up the best selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. Russell's book was 'long on wit, intelligence and curmudgeonly scepticism', as the New York Times noted, and it is this, coupled with the sheer brilliance of its scholarship, that has made Russell's History of Western Philosophy one of the most important philosophical works of all time.


NOTE:

This is a fixed version of the original torrent. Following changes were made:
- Fixed the annoying hiss from the cassette tape
- Divided the cassette volumes into actual chapters corresponding to the book
- Used VBR (effective 100kbps) to halve the size of the files

Thanks to tonytiger01 for the original torrent.

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Comments

tonytiger01 at 2009-08-03 14:44 CET:

Nice!
How did you get rid of the hiss??
Also how did you divide into chapters?
What program do you use?
and when I experimented with VBR I found it produced files nearly 3x the size of CBR.

NOTE:
I also chose CBR because of its universal compatibility with hand held players. I found that quite a few of the older players will not decode VBR.

renumeratedfrog at 2009-08-03 23:50 CET:

tigertony01:
Thanks, I'm glad you're not mad. I originally just did it for myself, but I put so much effort into it that I thought I could re-release it. :)

For the hiss, I used Sound Forge 5 with the Noise Reduction plugin. It's terrific for cleaning up cassette and vinyl records, but its MP3 encoders suck.

Dividing the whole thing into chapters took me a while, but in Sound Forge I could actually "see" where the guy says "chapter blahblah" and I was able to chop it up (using SF again) in just 4 hours. If I did by ear, it would take me far longer.

I agree that CBR is probably a better choice for torrent, if you're looking for compatibility. I use VBR myself because I'm a fanatic about small sizes and originally I was just doing it for myself. The SF encoders suck, and I prefer the LAME encoder that comes built-in with Foobar 2000 for Windows. I did some experiments and decided that the VBR (V7 level which corresponds roughly to 100kbps CBR) produces the best quality for the smallest size, at least as far as speech goes. Foobar is also multithreaded, so if your PC has quad-core CPU, it can actually encoded 4 files at the same time. The only problem is that I was re-encoding your MP3 files so there was a slight quality loss, but for speech this isn't very noticable.

renumeratedfrog at 2009-08-03 23:56 CET:

tonytiger01:

BTW, just out of curiosity, where did you find this book? I love personally. I'm a bit of a philosophy buff myself. You can sometimes catch me on Undernet's #philosophy channel. See you there. :)

tufgong at 2009-08-18 04:52 CET:

Very Nice! Thank you!

hrmitcrb at 2009-08-23 19:03 CET:

I hereby nominate both tonytiger01 and renumeratedfrog for the Pirate Bay Nobel Prize. Outstanding effort by you both!
Thank you!

scl52 at 2009-09-02 08:41 CET:

has anyone else had problems with the mp3s cutting out midsentence on an ipod?
generally with about 2 seconds left on my ipods counter, he'll cut out midsentence and the next chapter plays, but on itunes each chapter will play in full

renumeratedfrog at 2009-09-06 23:08 CET:

scl52: Some older MP3 players might not be able to handle VBR properly. I have a similar problem with iAudio which is about 4 years old. The first MP3 will get cut off about 30-60 seconds from the end and I will just listen to silence. But all the next MP3's after that play fine.

carlosjrincon at 2009-10-13 22:06 CET:

big THANKS!!!!!!!

tstanley at 2009-11-10 01:05 CET:

Very well done. Do you know the name of the narrator?

renumeratedfrog at 2009-11-29 09:44 CET:

He says his name at the end of the book and it sounds like Jeffrey (possibly Geoffrey) Sherman.

olphus3 at 2009-12-03 07:58 CET:

It's great that the seeders outnumber the leechers - which is unusual.

phish1999 at 2009-12-13 05:14 CET:

Thanks for Russell material. Loved his "Why I Am Not A Christian" speech. I hope this is just as logical and brilliant.

joyfreak at 2010-01-24 17:53 CET:

Thanks Tonytiger01 and renumeratedfrog for all your hard work. Brings a tear to my eye... just beautiful

Gport at 2010-02-11 16:04 CET:

wow! thanks so much. these are the types of torrents I love to run into :)

Evg222 at 2010-03-22 08:49 CET:

As for the audio cutters, I myself tried lots of them and the only one I found which provides a single -second precision is EASY AUDIO CONVERTER - small in size, highly recommended.
The narrator' name is defitely Geoffrey Sherman.
Check out my uploads and you will find more cutted by chapters by me audiobooks.

Croix1979 at 2010-10-31 14:56 CET:

This is awesome. So glad I found this. I appreciate all your hard work. you guys are great.

srennie at 2011-03-11 11:29 CET:

Thanks!

grippm at 2011-06-18 23:52 CET:

Thank you !

Swamppony at 2013-06-18 23:59 CET:

Thanks so much for this all the work you've put into this!