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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)
In reply to: Tux Power! - a compilation of music made with Linux by bronson
Parent article: Tux Power! - a compilation of music made with Linux

>> 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."

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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?