Whether their listeners can really hear the difference or not, it’s likely stores will begin to move to greater audio fidelity. UK rival 7digital is the first and only digital store to offer up the band’s brilliant “The King of Kimbs” in 24-bit FLAC. It’s also the latest case that demonstrates that iTunes need not be your only online store for music. By “first,” I can only imagine they mean on 7Digital if you like this sort of release, it’s worth checking out HDtracks, an online store with content all going this direction (and lots of FLAC): It’s the first time there’s been a major artist doing this kind of release online, say 7Digital – and, in turn, the first step back toward greater fidelity after the step backward from 16-bit, 44.1kHz lossless audio CDs to the lossy versions available now. (Lossless schemes like FLAC, by contrast, use less data but do so without sacrificing sound information.)Īll of this means that it’s news that you can get Radiohead’s “The King of Limbs” album in 24-bit, lossless FLAC. And while the perceptual record is more mixed, there’s also no question that, in terms of data, lossy compression schemes like MP3 do demand some loss in audio information. Sit in a studio as most of your favorite albums are recorded, mixed, and mastered, and odds are the digital material is being recorded at higher bit depths and sample rates. Why shouldn’t a digital download be better, not worse, than a CD release?
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