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Quote from: Dan on September 13, 2009, 10:01:14 PMQuote from: dustyvalentino on September 13, 2009, 09:53:13 PMEarly Bird is there too, probably better to buy it from Amazon rather than iTunes, no DRM and MP3 format.That's what I was thinking...until I found a certain FLAC download link. I think it's fairly funny that a lossless version emerged for free, while the song is only being sold as an mp3. Was heavy drinking involved in developing the new MK Inc. marketing plan? Well, I guess that's because of one of those people who like to talk about the amount of music they have in TeraBytes and convert everything to FLAC (even the crappy bootleg recordings!). As long as every song of about 5 minutes takes over 30 MB on your hard disk, there is a chance you beat everyone. It's something with "size" and "matters".
Quote from: dustyvalentino on September 13, 2009, 09:53:13 PMEarly Bird is there too, probably better to buy it from Amazon rather than iTunes, no DRM and MP3 format.That's what I was thinking...until I found a certain FLAC download link. I think it's fairly funny that a lossless version emerged for free, while the song is only being sold as an mp3. Was heavy drinking involved in developing the new MK Inc. marketing plan?
Early Bird is there too, probably better to buy it from Amazon rather than iTunes, no DRM and MP3 format.
Lossless audio is of course better than an Mp3 (even a 320 kb/s), that's true. But seen the fact that (most of) the recordings which are available on the internet (such as bootlegs) are of relatively bad quality themselves, it is pretty useless to make them even bigger. A bad recording doesn't sound much better when converted from WAV to FLAC. Actually every conversion decreases the quality of the recording. Probably, the FLAC which is circulating on the internet is a conversion of the 256 kb/s Mp3: the chance that someone could get a good quality (lossless) audio file (for example an original CD) of Early Bird is close to zero. Pumping up the size of a 256 kb/s Mp3 doesn't automatically increase the quality, only size. You can't create what isn't there with digital audio, that's my point.
Ustas posted a link: http://www.mark-knopfler.info/news/2009/09/a-new-non-album-track-time-in-the-sun/Perhaps you should use another browser? I suppose you need a flashplayer for the widget.EDIT: direct link: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music&field-keywords=mark+knopfler+time+in+the+sun
Quote from: localhero1986 on September 13, 2009, 10:25:59 PMLossless audio is of course better than an Mp3 (even a 320 kb/s), that's true. But seen the fact that (most of) the recordings which are available on the internet (such as bootlegs) are of relatively bad quality themselves, it is pretty useless to make them even bigger. A bad recording doesn't sound much better when converted from WAV to FLAC. Actually every conversion decreases the quality of the recording. Probably, the FLAC which is circulating on the internet is a conversion of the 256 kb/s Mp3: the chance that someone could get a good quality (lossless) audio file (for example an original CD) of Early Bird is close to zero. Pumping up the size of a 256 kb/s Mp3 doesn't automatically increase the quality, only size. You can't create what isn't there with digital audio, that's my point. Yes, I know, but in this case the FLAC download of Early Bird was actually lossless. I checked it in Adobe Audition.
