/g/ makes an 18th album
Theme: 'music inspired by the vastness, beauty, and strangeness of space'

>Song submissions
https://rbt.asia/g/post/107111628 - Light-year Transmission

>Next album theme suggestions
[Suggested during listening party] movie score
https://rbt.asia/g/post/107099427 Hardstyle Lumberjack
https://rbt.asia/g/post/107108933 Hardstyle
https://rbt.asia/g/post/107110545 Gabb(ie Cart)er?

>Title suggestions
None yet

>Album over art submissions
None yet (Assuming >>107110148 is for the track)

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Anyone want some elephant sound samples?
I'm sharing my 32 meticulously curated elephant sound samples I cut from a few SFX videos off youtube for use in my dubstep WIP themed around a woolly mammoth

https://vocaroo.com/1gzsiZ3IgkQV

https://gofile.io/d/J9ArhG

>>107166761
>https://gofile.io/d/J9ArhG
ty anon

Anyone here use artix or devuan with either openrc or dinit for audio production? How has the experience been for you? Run into any issues from using an alternative init system?

up

>>107165982
>None yet (Assuming >>107110148 is for the track)
not for the track it's for the album btw

new submission for the new album
title : Outer Space MRI

https://voca.ro/1grRqay9J2b9
https://files.catbox.moe/s06iyt.wav

you might like this

>>107172593
>https://voca.ro/1grRqay9J2b9
i love this

What is the best DAW for linux if I want to do lots of MIDI shit and like looping and sequencing stuff. Not so worried about recording audio into it or anything.
Any mods for Reaper to make it more suited for that sort of thing? Or is Bitwig my best bet? Something else (preferably free)?

>>107165973
bros i cant produce for shit
every beat feels like shit
i keep asking myself "would i have it on repeat on my dap?" and the answer is NO
ill never be a good producer, ill never be a woman, ill stick to my 9-5 big tech corpo job

>>107172875
Where does one find such things days? Yandex or something? Pirated linux software is such a small niche.

>>107173025
reddit piracy megathread software forums

>>107173040
>>107173043
Interesting, thanks.

>>107165973
is it possible to use paulstretch as a realtime effect instead of recording/loading a sound?
>>107172872
I believe you're doing alot of things right, but still doing a few things wrong, fix them and your production skills will certainly get better.
I currently just make simpler melodies just so I can focus as much time on over producing them by running the same melody through different chain effects that produce results that are musically viable for the composition. I haven't even started gathering fx chain that i can re-use which would streamline the workflow even better.
tl;dr spend more time making sounds(not forcefully music) and optimizing your workflow

>>107172872
post examples, maybe anons can help point out what to improve on

>>107172820
all the fancy stuff in reaper is done with scripts

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>>107165973
Opinions on Ardour? I'm looking at DAWs on Linux. I'd prefer FOSS, but I don't mind paying a little bit. I don't feel like pirating. Also I'm shit at making music.

>>107175926
It's buggy and doesn't have enough stock plugins, but it's workable

first time posting here i'd just like to say that i love the idea, im a young producer but ive been doing it for some years now and i never published my music anywhere ( besides a few times on soundcloud that i deleted years ago )

i make all my music using a cracked version of fl 11 and renoise, this track specifically i made with renoise and with 100% samples, no effects besides the native tracker ones ( no delays or reverbs either, all manually tracked in )

https://voca.ro/1ly5s3TLHjA7 its a jungle-chiptune sort of a tune i hope u guys like it and if u want i can post renoise file as well

My butt itch.

I'm cucking out on the Arturia Pro collection
Do I really need it? No, but it's the cheapest I'm ever getting it and I've wanted a few synths in it for a good awhile now

>>107172872
>tfw producing is my 9-5 corpo job
fuck me i'm seriously considering just being a fucking grab driver

>reaper updates basically every week
>sidechaining is still a fucking indiana jones booby trap after all these years

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Bup

>>107180297
>Grab driver
Consider becoming crab driver

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>>107172872
I am a wagie producer. I do prod in the evenings but not as much as I'd like to.

>>107182457
What's the secret to making things sound good?

>>107182510
not her but
>attack and release are the most important controls on a compressor because transient shaping

>>107182510
Literally music theory

>>107182510
Listen to thousands of hours of listening to music. And you will develop the ear for a good prod.
That's what worked on my machine.

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could anyone suggest some software which can turn my humming into music, preferably with instrument choice? could even be midi

I only ever used 1bitdragon, just to see if I have a knack for making music but apparently not

>>107172872
"ima be a producer" is a sad dream

>>107183695
I am sure some voice ai could do something like that.

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title: A Hitchhicker's Shitpost To The Galaxy
https://gofile.io/d/ciNXHs

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>>107165973
ANNOUNCEMENT! ATTENTION /G/UITARISTS!
Consider the following:
- Fedora 43
- Steinberg UR22c audio interface
- pipewire (FUCK JACK)
- Bottles (.rpm)
- wineasio
- cracked ML Sound, Overloud TH-U, Guitar Rig, Amplitube, NeuralDSP standalone apps
I made it work with 5.3 ms latency.
That's all.
I'm a massive retard and I've been trying for months to make it work so I'm just proud I made it and wanted to share.

>>107182510
Soundgoodizer

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>>107186197

wats ur favorite bpm

/prod/ is under attack

>>107186197
why do people try to do music production on linux?
you're just making it harder for yourself for no benefit whatsoever.

>>107188504
Looks like 64% of my song are are either 120 or 124 bpm with 24% being 128 and a few being 104 or 140.

>>107188504
>>107188604
hmm well most of mine are close to 87bpm with the rest around 125

>>107188504
75-100
120-140
16x-18x

>>107180404
if you're just sidechaining a 4x4 kick you can do that with volume automation if you are having compressor challenges.

https://valhalladsp.com/shop/reverb/valhallafutureverb/

crack it plebs

>>107190337
intro price is only $50 thats actually a sick discount yall i fuckin love black friday

>>107188517
I have killed this dump and I will proudly kill that piece of shit too, they are dumb cattle with no standards or understanding of the importance of analog equipment

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I found out the other day that Armin actually has a law degree... maybe if I go to law school I'd be better at making music? I don't really have much of an interest in studying Dutch laws though.

>>107188597
FLStudio works 100% on Wine (Bottles) for me.

>>107165973
Is serum 2 worth pir- er getting?
Also, submission for the album:
Black Space Intergalactic Planet Scissor Song (2003 Remaster)
https://files.catbox.moe/cgr253.wav
I tried to do the house music "sample a lot of crazy shit" thing and used all space related songs of course.

>>107190337
such snake oil, reverb is a well solved and easy to do thing
what do they have like 5 'different' kinds to rip you off 5 different ways

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having to read a 5 page essay on how to get rocksmith to work with a guitar in wine

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>>107187263
My negro, I don't produce music, I just like to strum me guitar and I'm also determined to ditch Windows once and for all and go full Linux.
The only things holding me back are guitar software and WeMod (cheating/trainers for single player games) but the latter is not important.
Once I'm sure my audio stack on Fedora is stable, I will go full Linux.
People suggest Arch to me, but I'm afraid I'm too dumb for that.
I also wish I'd understand what and how my audio stack works, instead of fucking around and getting help from chatgpt, and then forgetting everything as soon as the problem is magically solved.

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>>107190337
>>107190731
I hope it has 100% human code in it. 50 is ok if you use Valhalla often.

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Bitwig Studio or nothing. Normally I wouldn't support colorful, tranny software but this one is the real deal.

a cover of a Bad Disk remix
https://vocaroo.com/15xSPudy6z9J

What's the best, cheapest microphone?

I'm doing audible genius's building blocks course and it wants me to use a microphone to sing or hum melodies or whatever. So I guess one that's good for vocals?
Looking for like $20-50 range, but cheaper is better as long as it's not garbage. Also I've got an audio interface with phantom power and all that shit, so no USB stuff.

Also, I do have a gooseneck mic from my Akai Miniak for use with it's vocoder... But the quality seems shit, but maybe it's user error?

>>107190337
I listened to the valhalla dev talk dsp for almost two hours, it was great. I bought two or three, be advised, there are free valhalla plugins that are fun, you don't have to spend money.

>>107195188
i wrote him off for a little bit because he can seem kind of redditor-y but apparently he used to work for analog devices, so that gives him cred in my book

>>107195215
>he can seem kind of redditor-y
honestly most devs are like that, I just ignore it. if i like the product, i'd rather not know more. it was just a time when i was working on my own personal plugins as a side project and his takes were helpful

>>107192369
>reverb is a well solved and easy to do thing
there are different algorithms for different reverbs and some people fetishize them. for example, the lexicon algorithms are these coveted things because they've never been released or leaked and some are possibly "lost" - this is the kind of shit gearheads bust a nut over.

>>107192658
i run fedora, you should consider installing the fedora music production package group, make sure you have pipewire, and then get qpwgraph, which is a gui for pipewire where you can see and adjust connections. you could do all of this in the terminal, but i find it's easier this way because it's easy to forget how you set things up

>>107168428
Bumping this question

>>107195292
Thank you. From what I see, though, I don't think I'm missing anything of interest but qpwgraph, plugins and DAWs I can install individually and at my choice, what I really needed sorted out was the inner workings of the audio stack; not much system-side (it was already working from the get go) but rather on Wine's part. That gave me multiple headaches

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>>107192658
Of course I was joking/trolling.
Anyway, WeMod is now Wand. If you install it under the same general wine folder as the rest of your applications, it does work.
As far as linux goes, yeah, arch is so bleeding edge, that you probably shouldn't use that. As much as I love using arch, Fedora is probably the best standard for workstation stuff in my opinion. But you really need pipewire as it gives you the highest quality audio. It also gives you full control over your audio stack. The thing is, if you need compatibility layers with other audio such as alsa, pulseaudio, jack, you can just download the plugins for pipewire. (pipewire-alsa, pipewire-pulse, and pipewire-jack)
I can't remember what the standard for the patchbay is but maybe Helvum?

>>107196389
I did install all the required pipewire plugins and layers, as it was my specific desire to absolutely avoid JACK (I don't like it).
I'm using Helvum for a patch bay, pwvucontrol for volume control (but I suspect it's pointless, doesn't seem to add anything of use to me on top of the native gnome volume control) and EasyEffects. Regrettably, none of them offer the ability to change buffer size and sample rate and I find this pretty absurd. 4 audio pieces of software and none able to manipulate some of the basics of audio production parameters.
Even on Windows you could go the audio panel in Settings and set buffer size and sample rate.

>>107196806
Oh like you need some form of AISO4ALL? I'm not even sure what on linux offers that

>>107196984
https://github.com/magillos/Cable
Damn

>>107191150
But can you run something like Omnisphere inside FL Studio inside Bottles (Wine)?

>>107195941
yeah, it can be tricky. i don't run a daw in wine, i use reaper which runs natively and an occasional vst through yabridge

>>107195058
You should save up for an sm58. Tried and true.

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>>107195236
so he could be anything on this chart and youd have no clue, what if hes a dark forest accelerationist and that last $50 is all he needs to contact the aliens

>>107172872
My mental satisfaction with hobby increased after I got guitar and started writing songs before attempting to produce them. Because ok song still sounds ok even with bad production

Any cool AI vsts effects?

>>107199798
>t. dark forest accelerationist trying to summon the alien

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anyone in here makes dungeon synth?

guys how do i make a track like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCdoUKKBg08
the timbre of the main synth is so rich, do you guys think it was analog? maybe he did a foley recording or w/e it's called.

>>107199964
like the blaster beam?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj4f5z6nRhs

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>>107165973
Hey friends, retard here. I know nothing about audio mixing, but I want to make some basic sound effects for games. Are there any good resources/youtube channels on this topic? Like something that goes over what type of sounds what waves make, and when you may want to use them?

>>107199924
>dungeon synth
could be an album theme?

>>107200274
sadly theres not really any good guides like that. you kind of just have to learn synth basics and you will figure it out

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>>107201173
Dang. Do you know of any good resources for learning the basics of synths? Like if someone knew nothing about programming, I could recommend a dozen starting places depending on what they wanted to do. What's the starting point for someone who wants to learn about audio, without wanting to make music?

>>107201245
Syntorial

>>107168428
>>107195691
I know Artix has some sessions on their wikis on how to deal with some audio problems, but I haven´t seen much on the forum about it. It should be OK but you should ask there.

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alright I'm braindead and also retarded. I have two versions of bitwig installed on linux via flatpak. I want to use version 5.2.7 but for the life of me I can't get it running. It only launches 5.1.6. I also can't seem to find a way of uninstalling 5.1.6, so I can't even kludge it like that.
Trying to launch it via things like

flatpaak run --installation=system com.bitwig.BitwigStudio
error: Could not find installation system

just yields that error or something similar.

deliver me from my retardation, how do I get this shit to work

>>107200274
google it and look at options. lots of resources but you are so unspecific in your request there is no more help to give. if you go through the first page of 'sound effects for games' google search you will at the very least know what it is NOT that you are looking for.

>>107199747
>so he could be anything on this chart and you wouldn't care
fixed

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>>107202968
This looks really cool. I like how it seems to only add 1 new control at a time. Hopefully the free/trial version isn't totally fucked.

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sample this
https://vocaroo.com/1nKc7PBhXCoZ

>>107204002
I thought flatpak was one of those things where the program was self contained, so you just like delete the file/folder and it's gone?

>>107205406
Honestly the free trial is all you need. I bought it last year or the year before on the black friday sale, and I still haven't gotten past what's included for free lol.
I'll warn you now though, it gets incredibly tedious, and difficult.

>>107199924
I don't but I would like to.

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>>107198339
Sure. Any VSTs and what not you just simply install the windows versions of them in the appropriate folders within the wine prefix.
Once you get things set up Its genuinely more simple then fucking around with Linux DAWs and using VST compatibility layers, or at least its been the case for me.
I would recommend using wine 10.0+ at least though, as I've found some of the built in FLStudio plugins are broken if you use something older like 8.0 series. But since in current standing, every function/plugin I've tried has all worked exactly as it should. The only thing I don't have set up is ASIO4WINE, but I'm still able to get 20ms latency presently without doing any tweaking with Pulse, good enough for me.
Pic related for the current version of Wine I've been using.

>>107206784
Cool edm riser actually

modular synthesis

>>107182510
Listen to a lot of music of many different genres. Both stuff you like and you don't like. Listen critically. Find out the ingredients of the stuff you like e.g. you notice that the guitar has a lot of reverb but the drums are dry, everything is in minor scale, there's a lot of staccato and not many sustained notes, etc. You note down what makes something sound like the thing it is. You learn to notice what it is especifically that you like and don't like.
Learn music theory, but not academically. Learn an instrument, play covers of many good songs and then go by feel. The real use of theory is knowing how to play, jamming some chords and notes and using your ear to find what sounds good. Then theory can retroactively help you understand 'why' it sounds good, and how you can replicate what you did again. People who learn a lot of theory but don't learn an instrument are either university professors or very misguided people.
Learn what your tools do. This is something that is better done on the process of attempting to produce. "Oh man, on X song I like a lot, they made a sound that goes left and right on my headphones, how do I do that?" LFO on the pan control. "Boy do I wish I could hear this synth lead at the same time as this pad, but their frequencies overlap a lot" Sidechain compress the pad using the lead as input. I think a lot of people who want to produce tend to get pretty decent at this stuff but they don't realize it because the haven't made good music yet so they can't see how good their technical chops are.
At this point you see that it's all a combination of taste, having trained your ear and knowing how to use your tools. If you have good, developed taste, you can make good music, because you'll make tasteful musical decisions. Then in the stuff you make, your trained ear notices the sound is too loud/high/resonant/sibilant/muddy and so on. And then because you know your tools, you know exactly what setting you use to fix the issue.

>>107195058
Best bang for your buck is probably a behringer xm8500, but as >>107199623 said you can't go wrong with a shure sm58.

Anyone know a dependable cr_ack for Kontakt? After 20 years of this I am done

>>107175926
it's fucking dogshit

https://vocaroo.com/15X5hngJDvGC

>>107175926
>>107177828
>>107213536

After years of being a freetard and linux admin I came to the universal conclusion that freetard software is absolutely useless time wasting garbage with no exceptions. No, I will not adapt to your autistic quirks and lack of care when it comes to polish and user experience.

Just pirate something real, do not use software from people that smell and don't feel human emotions (which is reflected in average freetard UI design)

>>107214876
i made a shitty plugin that does crosstalk cancellation of speakers in an assumed anechoic environment

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Should I install a DAW on my PC or my Mac? I have one of each. I'm normally a Windows user, but my last job used Macs and they let me keep the laptop after they laid me off. The Mac is a lot newer and more powerful than my laptop, but I'm much more comfortable using Windows...
The DAW I'm looking at using is Ableton

>>107215461
Mac BTFOs Windows for audio stuff. Also you can get Logic Pro it's pretty cheap and you get infinity updates forever apparently.

>>107215540
Ok thanks, maybe I'll give i ta try. i might have to re-organize my desk though...

>>107215461
They're both the same (assuming you've got an asio compatible audio interface to use with windows, you don't need that sort of thing for macs.) Legit, just use whatever you want.
Macs don't have any real advantage other then not needing said audio interfaces for low latency, but also do have the disadvantages of less access to plugins as many are only built for windows (or x86 for that matter anymore). This may or may not matter given what you use.

>>107215965
Thanks, I guess my main concern is the performance. My Mac is newer, and it's probably significantly more powerful I think. I don't know how much CPU/memory/graphics-power Ableton requires. I guess I could always try installing it on both if the license allows.

>>107217139
>ableton

grow up

>>107217779
I tried. I even started coding my own DAW. It's too hard

>>107217779
schizo

>>107215540
iOS vs Android? 100% true. Mac vs Windows? You're a fucking drone.

>>107217779
This too. There are legitimate reasons to choose Ableton but for the most part the Mac+Ableton combo is peak brainless drone behavior. These people want to create something but they haven't even begun and they're already not thinking by themselves.

>>107218667
>iOS vs Android? 100% true.
t. a fucking drone.

>>107219130
Android is not inherently worse nowadays, but it used to have audio latency issues that caused devs to prefer iOS for production-related apps, which is why if you search both stores you'll find more stuff on iOS than Android. Not the case with Mac are Windows, where there is hardly any software of note that is exclusive to Mac (and even the inverse is true, there are a few things that are only on Windows, and it tends to be niche stuff), and you can get cheaper RAM and processing power on Windows (not that anyone is unaware of this at this point anyway). If anything, with all the complaints I have read on audio forums about software compatibility with M1, I'd say that sticking to Windows is generally a better use experience than Mac.

>>107217779
What's wrong with Ableton + Max? Other than cost.

>>107211599
>you notice that the guitar has a lot of reverb but the drums are dry, everything is in minor scale
I can't notice if "everything is in minor scale", is it over for me?

>>107219278
Nothing, probably a stupid boomer who still thinks it's 2005 where Logic is the end all be all

>>107220031
lolgic was never good

>>107196806
If you want the buffer size and sample rate to be universal pretty sure you have to set it in some jack related config file even if you're not using jack because that's what pipewire expects or something retarded like that.

>>107175926
reaper has an unlimited trial

>>107217139
>>107217779
kek the meme caught on, I'm glad it did because Ableton should go bankrupt they are the main reason music became slop today. Music isn't something you should just "jump in" to, if you refuse to learn the basics and skip to seek beatz making with fisher price software just off yourself now.

>>107223362
It's not 2008 anymore retard
Music isn't exclusively made AT LE RECORDING STUDIO WITH LOGIC-PRO!! LE PROFESSIONAL AUDIO ENGINEER'S SOFTWARE OF CHOICE! YER NOT USING FRUITY LOOPS ARE YOU??!1??? VSTS??? YOU NEED LE ANALOGY HARDWARE!!!

AND NO! THE SOFTWARE EMULATIONS RUNNING BIT FOR BIT THE EXACT ROMS OFF THE VIRUS HARDWARE SYNTHS OR JP-8000 DON'T COUNT! BECAUSE THEY JUST DON'T, K?

>>107223618
learn music retard macs and unabletons ain't gonna cut it. The average retard beginner things that pressing buttons going to make them golded record material

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I think today instead of installing a DAW and getting started I will re-arrange my desk so that it's easier to work once I do install a DAW and get started

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>>107225181
of course
i'd also recommend learning guitar so that you can use it if you ever want to include it in a song

>>107226244
I tried that when I was in college. I don't have the fine-motor control to do it, and they've only gotten worse since then.

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>>107226415
you don't really need good motor control to slap down some chunky rhythm chords
but you're right, it'd distract you from actually prodding music for too long

>>107228899
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guys I need to upgrade, I work on a shit laptop, previously I had a computer but it can't handle multiple instances of Diva vst. I was looking at lenovo legions, macbooks and what not but can0t decide. I even made a configuration for PC but after getting a laptop I hate the idea of being tied to one spot for working on a computer. What do you guys use?

>>107229115
on a gaming laptop
everything is fine except latency is complete shit for midi control without using an interface for audio

>>107166761
thanks anonie, appreciated

>>107229797
I do have an audient audio interface. Ill have another look at the gaming laptops. On macbook it bothers me I can't change ssd if it dies.

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VENGENCE

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>>107233773
I have noticed a pattern with average dmp posters having no fucking idea how to build up tension it's usually in your face obnoxious noise like this

>>107208550
this nigga driftin

>>107228899
sylenth1
nvr obsolete

>>107177937
this is lit

what about country?

Recorded a rough edit of my track for the space album and it clocked in a 11 minutes.
I think I'll need to work on this arrangement

>>107239573
pirate album had a 12 minute teack nobody was bothered
except me bc it sounds worse on every listen

>buy amp sim plugin
>replicate its sound with tube saturation, EQ, and compression
>never touch it again

"HMV" and/or "PMV" will get you shadowbanned on youtube.
Dont ask me how I know.

>>107241768
WEW

>>107239990
listened again, it got worse

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>>107243130
His Master's Voice?

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>>107245166