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iPod Radiohead's New Album - Is .Wav Better Than .MP3?

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Amnesiac1

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They offer a choice. The .wav choice is priced higher than the .mp3, so I am guessing it is of higher quality. Is this true?
 
Yes wav is better than mp3.
I am a huge fan of radio head but opted for the mp3 version. If I feel like I need better quality I will just buy the CD when it gets released a month or so later.
 
WAV should be CD quality. I haven't seen the pricing, but I'd personally probably buy the WAV version and make my own AAC/MP3 versions from that.
 
Can't currently see for my coutry, but in the UK it is 9 pounds versus 6 pounds (not too bad IMO) and folks are reporting that it is full CDDA. Huzzah.
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I paid for and downloaded the .WAV-Version. I was kind of annoyed though that they don't offer a version in some lossless codec like ALAC or FLAC that has tagging capabilities. You shouldn't have to enter basic metadata yourself... 😎

People are even arguing over whether it's supposed to say Mr Magpie or Mr. Magpie. 🙄

Zimmy68 said:
If they are charging more for the WAV, it better be 24bit resolution.
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It's not.

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It would probably be hard to tell the difference because it's 320 kbps MP3. Having said that, most of my music library is still in lossless.
 
Nermal said:
WAV should be CD quality. I haven't seen the pricing, but I'd personally probably buy the WAV version and make my own AAC/MP3 versions from that.
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MP3 version is $9 and the WAV version is $14. I would rather pay a few bucks more an own the WAV version, then convert that down to an AAC version.
 
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