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Posted by Technomage Hawke on 09/22/05 00:32
FatKat wrote:
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>> As a long time fan of symphonic rock I literally spent years downloading,
>> wading through and tossing out garbage on MP3. The object of this quest
>> was to find at least one album by a recent band that was of comparable
>> quality to the best symphonic rock of the 70's.
>
> Do you mean artistic quality or sound quality?
well, it was a repost of something sent to me in e-mail.
I'll bet he was downloading and listening to low bitrate mp3's. I never get
anything less than 224 Kbits audio anyway. anything lower and I hear the
"aliasing effects".
>>
>> Then I listen. I like what I hear. I like it so much I burn it to a CD
>> so I can play it on my stereo or in my car. I like it so much that when
>> I eventually run across a pro-copy of this CD I plunk down $40 to buy
>> it, with glee.
>
> This sounds like something Iluvzlaur might be interested to hear. He
> argued that WinMX users don't eventually buy the music they DL. I
> suggested that they might, or would at least buy other albums by the
> same artist/band that they wouldn't have thought to even look for -
> either for the reasons you say below. I was surprised though by how
> emphatic you were about spending $40 for the album, assuming at the
> outset that the DL could not match the published version.
well, that is neither here nor there. the music/recording industry claims
that they lose BILLIONS from downloaders, yet the last sales figures over
the last 5 years suggests otherwise.
>
> Also, I don't see where you mention this at the outset, but based on
> the lower part of your post, the beef seems confined to DL's from
> pay-sites, even AFAIK, the industry has been confining its complaints
> to the free-sites.
as I said, this was a repost from an e-mail sent to me......
TMH
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