Some guy, on his first post, showed up and posted a link to some music store saying that there were 1 minute longer prieviews there. We all went semi-bananas and started to hear. Then someone, out of the blue, said "Hey, I'm buying the songs. They're downloading!" And we all melted.
AtomicBono said:hay guyz
it sez buy mp3
fyi
I've never even heard of Napster Mobile.
I'm surprised last night's leak (if you can call Universal selling the album early a "leak") hasn't been bigger news outside the U2 community. I mean, isn't this a big deal? I would have expected to at least see a brief blurb about it in Billboard, Rolling Stone, NME, etc., but so far I haven't seen anything.
Yeah I'm pretty sure the Napster Mobile this is 100% accurate -- I was on the atu2 forum when the guy said it was out there. He wouldn't say where, claiming he'd be banned (atu2 is really anal about that stuff), no one ended up believing him after a while, but I guess this report in hindsight, he had it.
Whatever -- the REAL leak was on interference -- because a leak is when the people get it. Also, I'm glad I could pay for it. That makes it totally legit.
I remember something about that. He claimed he had it, but people eventually didn't believe him.
Yeah I'm pretty sure the Napster Mobile this is 100% accurate -- I was on the atu2 forum when the guy said it was out there. He wouldn't say where, claiming he'd be banned (atu2 is really anal about that stuff), no one ended up believing him after a while, but I guess this report in hindsight, he had it.
Whatever -- the REAL leak was on interference -- because a leak is when the people get it. Also, I'm glad I could pay for it. That makes it totally legit.
Apparently the mp3's sold on the getmusic are a transcode. Somebody noticed the spectral analysis and discovered it.
Imagine a universe in which the leak pun thread never happened!
Apparently the mp3's sold on the getmusic are a transcode. Somebody noticed the spectral analysis and discovered it.
I'm surprised last night's leak (if you can call Universal selling the album early a "leak") hasn't been bigger news outside the U2 community. I mean, isn't this a big deal? I would have expected to at least see a brief blurb about it in Billboard, Rolling Stone, NME, etc., but so far I haven't seen anything.
If atu2 is anal about that stuff...why the hell didn't he just come here in the first place???
Imagine a universe in which the leak pun thread never happened!
Seriously, what does this mean? That they were sourced from a lossy source?
It means that the mp3's were originally a lower bit rate....Probably 192 kbps. Then they were re-encoded at a higher bit rate and sold. So basically you have lower quality mp3's disguised as something better than they are. Anything transcoded is always deleted from the site.
It means that the mp3's were originally a lower bit rate....Probably 192 kbps. Then they were re-encoded at a higher bit rate and sold. So basically you have lower quality mp3's disguised as something better than they are. Anything transcoded is always deleted from the site.
Hmmm... Well there are apparently two torrents out there. One has 256 kbps tracks and the other is 320 kbps. The originals from getmusic were the 256 and the 320 were probably transcoded from these. So I wonder which version they did their spectral analysis on.
I can't figure out why an online music store would be selling transcoded tracks, but then I can't figure out why they would need to load the tracks into the system two weeks in advance either.
I still wonder whether this leak was intentional.