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Tux Power! - a compilation of music made with Linux

Tux Power! - a compilation of music made with Linux

Posted Jan 16, 2006 23:21 UTC (Mon) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
Parent article: Tux Power! - a compilation of music made with Linux

Some of those tracks show promise but the files are overcompressed. Even Moonlight Sonata sounds like crap at 50 kbit.

I'd like to hear the music the way the composer intended.


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Tux Power! - a compilation of music made with Linux

Posted Jan 17, 2006 12:46 UTC (Tue) by ivor (guest, #31998) [Link]

>> Some of those tracks show promise but the files are overcompressed.

As the article clearly states:-
"Full preview versions of the tracks in Ogg Vorbis"
i.e. compressed I assume to prevent server meltage.

>> I'd like to hear the music the way the composer intended.

and then states:-
"If you would like to distribute this CD, a full set of WAV files and a
PDF of insert artwork are available on request."

Tux Power! - a compilation of music made with Linux

Posted Jan 17, 2006 12:55 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

But I don't want to distribute the CD. I just want to listen to it.

And, if they wanted to avoid server meltage, why not just use bittorrent? It works great.

Tux Power! - a compilation of music made with Linux

Posted Jan 17, 2006 15:06 UTC (Tue) by xtifr (subscriber, #143) [Link]

Yeah, at a bare minimum, they could offer FLAC. I don't need or want full WAV files when I can get lossless FLAC. I mean. it's nice that this was all made using FLOSS, but I download several gig per month of completely free (as in beer), legal AND lossless audio files from people who actually earn a living performing with actual physical instruments and such. If a bunch of stoned-out DeadHeads and the like can figure out free lossless audio compression and bittorrent, how come these guys, with (apparently) much greater technical skills, can't?

Tux Power! - a compilation of music made with Linux

Posted Jan 18, 2006 23:59 UTC (Wed) by szoth (subscriber, #14825) [Link]

Daniel James gave me access to the WAV files and OK'd me FLAC encoding them and providing this torrent:

http://ubertechnique.com/seth/tuxpower-flac.tar.torrent

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