Re: eMusic: Are the files tagged?

DmitryG wrote:
On Apr 30, 1:44 am, Andrew Rose <and...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
vhorowitz wrote:
I wish one of these sites would wake up and include art work/liner
notes as a download
We do! If they're not available from the record company we scan them
here, OCR them and provide them as searchable PDFs. Most of them come
with the MP3 in ZIP files, but our Music and Arts covers can be
downloaded freely from the site.

We also use LAME encoding (as at emusic) but at higher bitrates.

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Andrew Rose - Pristine Classical

The online home of Classical Music:www.pristineclassical.com

- Hi Andrew,

Fine that you mention downloads sales. I've looked at your site and I
see that I would be interested in buying some albums as downloads. The
prices are OK and PayPal is fine, too. Are the files tagged?

On my side, I offer three different formats in Elena Kuschnerova's
Downloads Shop, M4A ad WMA at around 128 kbps and hi-res MP3. Here is
the shop:

http://www.elenakuschnerova.com/classical-music-downloads-shop.php

and here is the help page with detailed explanations:

http://www.elenakuschnerova.com/classical-music-downloads-shop-comments.php

All files are accurately tagged.

We use long MP3s and cue sheets - for most of our files you can examine the cue sheets and see the tags which will be applied if you use a cue splitter to create individual files. We also manually tag entire albums, and I do go to some lengths to ensure that the cue sheets are an accurate reflection of the music with regard to title and performer, though they don't add genre and date information.

The pre-XR 78s were all Fraunhofer-encoded joint stereo 128kbps MP3s. Everything else is LAME preset extreme encoded, including since XR all 78s.

My take on non-lossy compression is that we will embrace it once (a) general bandwidth increases and (b) overall sales allow for the investment required. Ultimately I see all compressed audio file formats as a transitory medium whilst the hardware and infrastructure catches up. Until then I want to carry on offering very high quality MP3s, the only compressed format which is pretty much universally compatible.

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Andrew Rose - Pristine Classical

The online home of Classical Music: www.pristineclassical.com

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