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> for this reason alone it's not the future of music The opposite - it is a future that your platform hasn't caught up with yet.

• msephton 3y ago
  I mean I can play FLAC on my iPhone if I want to...but I'd rather just drop some files that I don't have to post-process in some way onto an app and have them magically appear on all my devices. That's the future and we have it today. Even Bandcamp figured this out and gives me the option to choose the type of download that best suits me, and I buy much music from there. If Cindy Lee had put this album out on their Bandcamp page on a Bandcamp Friday, with the included choice of formats, it would be better for everybody. But of course that wouldn't have garnered any press about an unorthodox method of distribution. All that to say: a zip of FLACs on a no-frills website is definitely not the future of music, regardless of "platform".
  • shiroiushi 3y ago
    >All that to say: a zip of FLACs on a no-frills website is definitely not the future of music, regardless of "platform". It sounds pretty good to me. It would be better, however, if they used 7z instead.
    • 1317 3y ago
      that would be worse imo flac is already compressed so you don't gain anything from 7z's better compression you just make it less compatible
      • msephton 3y ago
        tar ball with zero compression, surely? Regardless, all of these are user-hostile ways to distribute an album.
  • iggldiggl 3y ago
    > a zip of FLACs If at least it had been FLACs – it actually was raw WAV files, so a bit of wasted bandwidth and no included tagging on top, too.
    • ChickeNES 3y ago
      Well, WAV files can easily have metadata, it's just that most people don't bother to add any