Tantei Opera Milky Holmes BD Vol. 2 released!

MMC says:

As we recognize that the majority of the anime fanbase does not have either 1) ears trained enough to tell the difference 2) sound systems nor headphones good enough to output the difference 3) a dog to tell the difference for them 4) the bandwidth nor patience to download the extra 100~200MB of bloat per episode, even if HDD space were readily available 5) any combination of the above, we shall keep our consistency of OGG-encoded releases, until such a time that the demographic of the fanbase changes to being massive audiophiles instead of people who just want to watch their anime. We will, however, keep encoding in h.264 as you have suggested. 😉

Now one thing I’m not sure about but thought held true fairly evenly across the board for fansubbing groups: Was it not policy to release the source material’s highest resolution with the highest quality audio? As we are not releasing 1080p for reasons outlined in our post for Volume 1, we therefore also feel no need to release the full lossless audio just to gain the minor benefits involved. Such high-fidelity audio sounds best if the source were actually 5.1 or higher, but in Milky Holmes’ case, this sadly isn’t so, being mastered only in 2.0. There are notable raw groups out there that have done supermassive 1080p+FLAC batches if you wish to remux them with our releases, however.

Also, >lolFLAC on Milky Holmes
Perhaps the only episodes where the lossless audio would work efficiently in is in the battle scenes, maybe just even in episode 12. Anywhere else is just wasted bitrate, except perhaps for Twenty’s voice-overs 😀 But seriously, the original soundtracks and OP/ED singles have been released in FLAC. Go get them if you so wish. This is not Break Blade or Evangelion where the amazing soundtracks and every single footstep and gunshot and badass mecha kathunk is significant enough to the viewing experience to be deemed lossless quality for archiving.

Our encoder strongly prefers Vorbis as well, even sometimes re-encoding the original AAC audio from the transport stream raws instead of just remuxing it. Anyone is welcome to discuss exactly why with him on IRC. Of course, if any new encoders step forward for us and wish to do lossless audio on their own encodes, then we will honor that. We value the input of our own members first and foremost, after all.