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yes, I have the same version from the cassette rip shared here.

Many people think that it is the regular 7’’ version. I thought the same until someone shared the cassette-rip. The same happens with She’s Breathless. People think that it contains edit versions but it only has album versions.

It's not the "It's That Girl" version.

As far as I know, the "It's That Girl" version is exclusive to that cassette. It’s not available in any other format. Anyway the edits/remixes/extended versions from the first album are not my strong point (except for "Burning Up").

No. The purpose of a 7-inch vinyl is to contain just one song per side. The running time doesn’t matter as long as the song is not longer than 5 or 6 minutes (for audio quality reasons). However, radio stations often prefer shorter versions so they can play more songs. But this has nothing to do with 7’’ vinyls.

Anyway, I have 7’’ vinyls that are longer than 7 minutes, for example, Vogue (Bette Davis Dub). However, the longer the runtime, the worse the quality becomes.

Then why have we been asking for a digital version for years if the video already has the real 7’’ edit? It's an honest question. DVDs have better digital audio quality than CDs when they use PCM

Sincerely, I have compared the last edit point in both the vinyl and digital versions, and in my opinion, they are identical. And we know that many times the fade-out of the master can be longer than the final 7’’ (for example, Holiday). It is possible that this is the real edit, but not the final cut for the 7’’ version. Again, this is just my opinion and not a fact.

Why do you think that?

Congratulations. You have won the Madonna's True-Fan™ number #1 pin. Now you can stop spewing bile like the girl from The Exorcist every time MDNA is mentioned.

Well, in all fairness, ‘American Life’ only offended the USA, ‘Like A Prayer’ offended (theoretically) all Catholics around the world.

What are you talking about? I haven't insulted American Life. But MDNA is insulted by a few fans every day since 2012. Please, accept that some of us love MDNA over American Life.

GMAYL and MDNA are better than American Life (album and Single). Period.

Yes, they are the edit points. I know what you mean. But I don’t see the problem. They are like all the thousands of album edits made to be played on radio stations. I thought it was worse (cut voices, double kicks). Obviously they weren't made with the stems, just "cut and paste".

@tiger I'm sorry. I can't remember every upload made here. I'm not a human computer. Thanks for the link.

Same here. I only have the one with "Into The Groove" (and the remastered one in 2001). I want to buy an original US CD, but I can't right now. UPDATE: I've found a Japanese 1st Pressing CD with the "Full Digital" phrase: https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3720245

Yes. I know. I bought the Japanese box in 1996/97. At that time, I thought that every single version was the same worldwide. And with the Japanese box, I learned the awful truth: every country had different single versions!!! For example Open Your Heart: USA: Album Version Japan: Album Version Germany: Remix Edit Spain: Remix Edit France: Album Version Italy: Album version UK: Remix Edit

In my opinion, the original CDs without Into the Groove have a perfect transfer from the digital master tape, while the ones with "Into The Groove" have as a source an analog master tape.

Of course, for the industry, it was the new ‘holy grail’ in music, but audiophiles loathed the Q-sound. But believe me, in video-games the Q-Sound was really successful at least for a decade.

Yes. It could be. But months later they recorded "Like A Virgin" album in digital. Months later, not years later. So they have the technology totally available in Sire/Warner when "The first album" was made. No. The Q-sound was heavily criticized back in the day for music. But it was praised for video-games.

No. Like A Virgin is credited as her first digital recording. This CD is from 1984: But while all the CDs of ‘Like A Prayer’ have the phrase ‘digital recording’ on the cover, in ‘Like A Virgin’ it only appears on the first CD released in the USA. Why? I don’t know. To have an original CD of ‘Like A Virgin’ is like having a direct copy of the master tape because it was recorded at 44100Hz.

The 7'' Remix of Borderline is just the original 7'' version. The one on It's that girl cassette is still exclusive to that release.

No, Roy. They have the stems, they didn't need to cut tapes. And a home computer maybe didn't have the power to digitize tapes, but a professional/dedicated computer yes. The first CD was commercially available in 1982, so years before they could digitize tapes. Like A Virgin album (1984) was recorded full digital. From wikipedia: In 1978, Soundstream, who had made one of the first commercially available digital audio tape recorders in 1977, built what could be considered the first digital audio workstation using some of the most current computer hardware of the time.[1] The Digital Editing System, as Soundstream called it, consisted of a DEC PDP-11/60 minicomputer running a custom software package called DAP (Digital Audio Processor), a Braegen 14"-platter hard disk drive, a storage oscilloscope to display audio waveforms for editing, and a video display terminal for controlling the system.

Please, can you point the time of those? Because I've never heard that. Looks like you are talking about Celebration edits or not original 7'' versions. PS: Take your time @Roy It's 5:50 in Spain and I'm going to sleep now. Good Night.