Wilco has been doing this marketing strategy since they put out Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 5 years ago. You can also listen to the new unreleased Wilco album on their website and Bright Eyes is doing the same thing for their unreleased album on their web site. This soon enough will be a standard and when the album is actually realeased they will have bonus material of some sort to get people to actually buy the album.

Ugh. Horrid quality music.

How do you people enjoy 128 or worse bitrate mp3s?

I'd rather listen to NIN in cd quality. Of course I also don't listen on cheap speakers or earbuds, but on $300 speakers and Onkyo receiver. But that's just me, an audiophile, if you'd rather give me red because of my OPINION, then go right ahead.

EDIT: Even if it's 256 bitrate, no go. Cd quality is FLAC, which is 1000 bitrate. mp3 cannot even touch it.

Terminatrix said:Ugh. Horrid quality music.

How do you people enjoy 128 or worse bitrate mp3s?

I'd rather listen to NIN in cd quality. Of course I also don't listen on cheap speakers or earbuds, but on $300 speakers and Onkyo receiver. But that's just me, an audiophile, if you'd rather give me red because of my OPINION, then go right ahead.

EDIT: Even if it's 256 bitrate, no go. Cd quality is FLAC, which is 1000 bitrate. mp3 cannot even touch it.

Lol, you're an audiophile with an onkyo receiver and $300 speakers?

My computer has a Headroom Max on it with sennheiser HD600's- and I listen to MP3's on it anyway. They sound great. FLAC is a minor improvement.

Me thinks you're just trolling.

Terminatrix said:Know what the term lossless is?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC

Even flac losses some cd bits. But flac is about as close as you can get to cd.

FLac may sound slightly different to you. It really depends on the person. Each person goes at things differently. For some people, a cheap pair of earbuds is fine.

For others, they need super good equipment.

Each person was made differently. You need to accept this, otherwise, next thing you'll be gay bashing.

DOesn';t mean you need to go and judge anybody.

And btw, the $300 and onkyo is my COMPUTER equipment.

Oh, green for you OP, but personally, I wouldn't want this. But I definatly know of some people who would.

i am not sure about 128kbps, but i can bet you that at 256kbps, you wouldnt be able to tell the difference between cd & mp3...i am not trying to belittle you in anyway...just saying...that at 256kbps...there is virtually no difference between mp3 or cd quality...

ROCK ON OP!
green for you.

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iwearnosox said:Terminatrix said:Ugh. Horrid quality music.

How do you people enjoy 128 or worse bitrate mp3s?

I'd rather listen to NIN in cd quality. Of course I also don't listen on cheap speakers or earbuds, but on $300 speakers and Onkyo receiver. But that's just me, an audiophile, if you'd rather give me red because of my OPINION, then go right ahead.

EDIT: Even if it's 256 bitrate, no go. Cd quality is FLAC, which is 1000 bitrate. mp3 cannot even touch it.

Lol, you're an audiophile with an onkyo receiver and $300 speakers?

My computer has a Headroom Max on it with sennheiser HD600's- and I listen to MP3's on it anyway. They sound great. FLAC is a minor improvement.

Me thinks you're just trolling.

I wish I had powerful headphone amp like headroom max..mouthwatering..

kevinca said:Its in FLV if you rip it, so you will need to download a converter to get it into mp3.

As far as the album goes, its got some real gems in it, but its not as good as previous work. I'm looking forward to the remaster that he will inevitablely release on dvd in 5.1. The sound on the previous rereleases on dvd is just amazing. I think thats where he's making most of his money and why he is "giving away" the album.

I think you are correct. Those DVD's sound like the concert. very nice.

Even flac losses some cd bits. But flac is about as close as you can get to cd.
Obviously you can just store the uncompressed PCM. Which is exactly what the CD has. Regardless, FLAC does not "loss" any information. A basic principle of information theory is that it is possible to compress most (nonrandom) data without information loss.

FLac may sound slightly different to you.
This is impossible. FLAC has the exact same output as the CD.

Incidentally, I use FLAC mainly so I can compress to whatever becomes popular in the future. There *is* a noticeable difference when you transcode.

Sp1raL said:NIN is dead. Trent is a sell out.

Oh god, here we go again.

heathiopian said:heathiopian said:But remember, if you do what OP says, you'll have to listen to NIN. Nobody wants to do that.

Why all the red for my post?

Maybe 'coz you were the first to dump a pile of BS in this thread. Your comments had nothing constructive to add to the OP.
Since I'm feeling generous I'll give you some green if you shave your head and rock to "Hit me baby one more time"