Gridrunner the soundtrack available for sale NOW

[Muttley]

Out of curiosity is there really a big market for FLAC ? How
many people do actually buy and/or are willing to buy FLAC music ?

I tend to not buy anything that's not in FLAC format anymore. If it's not available in FLAC I'll buy the physical CD and rip it to FLAC myself.

[gilesgoat]

I'll write to TB saying that "there are a number of people saying they'd like to have a FLAC option because ... "

They should know MUCH better than me/us "what people about
music wants" but could be a hint could not spoil

I wonder if there are licensing issues or such, if really so many
like FLAC I can't see why a music shop then is not offering it
as an option too.

Anyway "the best I can do" is to write them and tell them about
it, and then let's see what happens

[bcass]

Cheers Giles.

FLAC is open source and royalty-free so there shouldn't be any licensing issues.

[ALLseeingEYE]

Hmm, Flac sounds pretty cool. Not a necesity for me, Wav files are generally better quality are they not? The file size is 160 mb for 12 songs, and the audio quality is excellent.

But it looks like Flac would have the same quality, but with smaller files? sounds like a worthwhile move for them. But then, it should be easy enough to compres the files as Flac oneself would it not?

[disciple]

Another FLAC user here.

Hmm, Flac sounds pretty cool. Not a necesity for me, Wav files are generally better quality are they not? The file size is 160 mb for 12 songs, and the audio quality is excellent.

A wav is around 700MB for 70 minutes.

A flac can vary from around 300MB to 500MB for 70 minutes.

Both wav and flac are lossless, and produce perfect reproductions of the original audio source.

Mp3s are lossy, an mp3 has imperfections, most of which most people don't notice.

Mp3s are fine for the majority of listeners, some people however, if possible, like to have copies that are perfect reproductions of the original - in which case a Flac is preferred!

Dirty filthy audiophiles innit.

But then, it should be easy enough to compres the files as Flac oneself would it not?

Just as easy as making mp3s. http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html

[ALLseeingEYE]

Ok, makes sense. The Gridrunner soundtrack files are actually 320kbps MP3's I'm noticing.

I'm pretty big on sound quality as well, so I understand. I was actually still rocking a discman until about 3 months ago, and still buy CD's.

I'll admit though, having high quality MP3's, and the ability to stuff hundreds of albums onto a 120gb MP3 player has been enough to satiate me recently though.

[Muttley]

Ok, makes sense. The Gridrunner soundtrack files are actually 320kbps MP3's I'm noticing.

I'm pretty big on sound quality as well, so I understand. I was actually still rocking a discman until about 3 months ago, and still buy CD's.

I'll admit though, having high quality MP3's, and the ability to stuff hundreds of albums onto a 120gb MP3 player has been enough to satiate me recently though.

Well, the thing with FLAC is that because it's lossless, if you need it in another (lossy format) you can convert from FLAC and it will be just as good as if you ripped from CD directly and you don't end up with the old early 90s JPEG porn issue where people kept re-compressing, converting to GIF, converting back to JPEG and ending up with a pixellated mess that looked about as good as Samantha Fox Strip Poker on the c64.

[RiK]

Out of curiosity is there really a big market for FLAC ? How
many people do actually buy and/or are willing to buy FLAC music ?

[WiteWulf]

It's also a trivial task to convert FLAC to ALAC and play it back on Apple hardware (iPhone, iPod, Mac, etc.) with XLD.

[korruptor]

I just buy straight wav these days, or CDs if I can't something in that format. The difference in sound quality is really noticeable, especially for dance stuff.

Like I said, all the Turbo releases are available on Beatport so you can get full bitrate if you want them.

[PVB]

I just buy straight wav these days, or CDs if I can't something in that format. The difference in sound quality is really noticeable, especially for dance stuff.

Like I said, all the Turbo releases are available on Beatport so you can get full bitrate if you want them.

Their (Flash) site:

https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/con ... 1/beatport

Isn't the friendliest to navigate unless you already know what they do. I found the first track on there, so the others probably are on there too, but buying them that way probably means Turbo won't find out the purchases were due to Gridrunner.

[Spider-Dan]

Good work on the soundtrack release. Reasonable price, too. Bought.

[gilesgoat]

I did ask, this is their reply


We have some boring reasons for not going with FLAC, bandwidth, compatibility, extra admin work...
98% of DJs and fans are happy with mp3... if they want WAV they can always buy the tracks on 'Beatport.'


So there you go

I am sorry guys looks like you are in the 2% .. but as you see there's an alternative You can get the WAV
and make them FLAC by yourself.

[disciple]

Cheers for asking, 320kbs mp3 are still good.

Doubt it's 2% though, maybe they took to number of FLAC requests and compared that to the number of mp3 sales.

4 people(?) here asked for FLACs, so that makes what 200 Yakyak sales so far? :)

[korruptor]

All the DJs I know have moved over to Wav. There's no bottom end with MP3s on a big sound system.