Sound on Sound Magazine 2012 Collection

WOW SUPPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA :)

Really Pro! seperate links! yeah!

Blimey this is brilliant! It seemed as though there was nobody uploading SOS since early 2012, especially on the popular torrent sites like PAT.

I stopped uploading SOS because The source I used to produce these high quality copies of SOS without all the commercials stopped sourcing so I had to stop too. I don't have a subscription to the digital edition.

I removed the commercials in the past because they consist of solid graphics in excess of 1+ MB per page and there are between 50 and 100 such pages in each issue. So, assuming that there are only 50 advertisements in each issue, you will have more than 600 Mega Bytes of disk space filled with useless information. But it will probably be closer to 1 GB of raw commericals, almost half of this download.

In addition to removing the commercials I also "Hot-linked" the index pages to the content which was a luxury even SOS did not (and still does not) provide. Alas, 12 issues at once is too much to do, it takes almost 2 hours per issue to clean up.

Caithleann -

I too find eMagazines far too heavy on commercials these days.
Take this SOS example - only 1 year at 2.5GB !!... what the !!!

After I've downloaded a mag., I quickly browse through it with a 'PDF Splitter' app to delete the pages I'm not interested in - including full-page ads. That reduces the size quite a lot.

Dal ^_^

Dalmation -

You and many, many others. Coupled with a reduction in usable content (far too many people oriented articles (interviews and gossip) rather than equipment and software oriented articles, tips and tricks as it used to be in the past) the advertising scourge has gotten so bad that subscribers are actually unsubscribing causing publisher to add even more ads to offset the losses! These publishing houses still don't realise after all these years that too many ads KILL a publication. SOS has nearly reached that point where their ad content eclipses the editorial content and of the latter most of it no longer represents what the magazine was started for. IF this doesn't stop, SOS too will go the way of the dinosaurs.