-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Pujos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 19 December 2006 18:51
Cc: 313
Subject: Re: (313) Convextion album now on iTunes

J.T. a écrit :
> spam! but thought some people would like to know...
>
> http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=208840096
>
>   
iTunes = no buy.   I hope it's available on other popular sites 
preferably in WAV format.
*****

Hey each to their own, but I wouldn't knock iTunes so much myself.

For me iTunes = a reasonably fair, equitable arrangement for both artist and 
industry (no industry, no artist and vice versa, remember?) in which everybody 
who produces gets paid something as opposed to everybody who produces doing it 
for free - as in 'illegal downloads'.

Also, regarding the quality, whilst ITMS files are ostensibly in 128kbps 
format, in fact, with Apple's proprietary 'AAC/m4a' (version of mp3) in reality 
using an average bit-rate, '128' can often mean rates up to 256. (The info is 
all on the web). Also, with the iTunes 'Producers Package', original master 
files from which the consumer files are copied are at a very good resolution, 
again raising the final quality - as I say, if you geek-out enough you can find 
all this - but people often say ITMS songs 'sound better' than 128, and 
certainly a lot of the ones I have heard do.

(Clearly, I don't work for Apple, by the way! Just wanted to give a fair, 
balanced view.)

Ken 

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