[Eug-lug] AmazonMp3 store

[silver]

You're paying for 256k MP3's?

I can barely stand listening to 320k MP3.

I can't understand paying for music provided in a lossy format. Or maybe I'm
not understanding Amazon's solution. If, along with the MP3, you also
receive the original PCM stream which you can transcompress as you see fit,
then that would be cool.

Like flac, ape, shn and wavpack or recent TTA (True-Audio) format which is
open source.

And even MPEG-4 ALS or SLS formats (not sure if decoder is yet available for
any common players).

And there are the proprietary lossless formats. Of course for downloading
from iTunes Apple ALAC (decoding only) .
And the WMAL (closed source) format.

At any rate isn't 256k MP3 going backwards?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Hudson" <rob at cogit8.org>
To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <euglug at euglug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] AmazonMp3 store


For single songs they let you just download the mp3 straight via the
browser.  For full albums you need the downloader.  Nice to know it
works on Linux.  I've been preferring Amazon/mp3 over iTunes Store
lately just b/c they're DRM free and higher quality 256k encoded.

-Rob