I really think sites that sell MP3 files need to list more info, such as the source format, who encoded it, etc. For example I've bought some files from another site several years ago and they were clearly encoded wrong and not gapless. I recently bought an album from Napster and it turned out to be 128k instead of the usual 256. When I complained to them, they basically said,"too bad". Rhapsody's 192k MP3 files that you get with a streaming subscription are encoded wrong and are never gapless. They won't tell me, but I suspect it's because they encode them from a non-lossless source.
Amazon seems to generally be better than the above examples but you really have no way of knowing where the MP3 came from. Did Amazon encode it from lossless, or was it provided by the record label? -- andyg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73911 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
