aubuti;610304 Wrote: > It is happening already. But it's a pretty small part of the market, and > not the big labels. I bet it will remain that way for some time because > most buyers are happy with lossy AAC and MP3. And the labels will > follow the money. > > Many small online sellers distribute both lossy and lossless, and > charge a premium for lossless. There's no reason the big guys can't do > that, but it seems they just can't be bothered to offer lossless > because the extra $$ isn't worth the extra hassle to them.
My concern about FLAC or other lossless purchases is understanding the "chain" of creation. I know that mp3 files purchased can have all sorts of differing codecs used (some better than other, VBR, CBR, ABR, as well as differing quality codecs to begin with, LAME vs others), and were these things ripped from a disc or created from some "higher" source? If the FLAC file was created from a disk rip, was it secure? etc. All this is fairly minor in most cases, and I'd be happy if I knew the FLACs were created from the studio masters in a high quality environment. But somehow I'm picturing some minimum wage guy creating the digital files without any regard for normal safeguards. -- garym ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80369 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
