Nirejhenge wrote:
LewieP wrote:
throughsilver wrote:
Bonus props to Rez-NOR for offering the album as FLACs, M4As and WAVES, the latter of which are haughty beyond even my own, demented, standards.
My only disappointment is that he uses the phrase "CD quality" as a yardstick to describe the quality of the various versions. This really needs to die in fire.
I'm sick of people asking "How many songs can you fit on an iPod?" etc.
All of this seems perfectly reasonable to me, apart from your hate of it. Can you explain what you don't like about it? CD quality is standard quality people are used to so it seems appropriate to compare other formats to that. Also it is useful to know how big these files are likely to be.
I'm probably just being anal, but this would have been a great educational opportunity. A lot of people who are NIN but maybe not technically knowledgeable will be downloading this, and perhaps this could have been used to encourage them to have a better understanding of music formats and how they work on computers.
As it stands, I know people that think saving MP3s onto a disc will drop their quality. People want to know "how many photo's can I save on that memory card" not "what is the capacity of that memory card".
It's a perfect example of
Asymmetric Information that electronics manufacturers, retailers and record labels have fostered, and reducing it will only benefit consumers.
Edit: It's not
bad that it was worded the way it was, just a missed opportunity.