2. Have considered purchasing. But money and opportunity have not had a confluence where the site's concerned; to date, all my purchases have been on CD. No bias there, when something cool is on the site and I can afford it, I will buy.
3. I like lossless formats. Doesn't matter which (of the major ones); I can convert them myself.
4. I might pay higher for, say, a 320kbps MP3 than a 128kbps one; I would be harder pressed to justify paying significantly more for 192kbps. (I understand the larger sizes will affect your bandwidth costs. Don't know the actual numbers, but I can see how it could push you hard.)
5. The only sort of multiple formats I think I would prefer is one lossless, one MP3 version. I'm especially not a fan of WMV, and AAC is Right Out. (Both formats being created by hated monopolists, this ought not to be too much of a surprise.)
6. MP3, OGG, FLAC are all good. I can also handle SHN and APE (both lossless) and wouldn't be averse to learning to handle other formats if they have significant advantages.
7. I don't have surround sound on my computer -- today. But when I go buy a new system, I might, so having the files can't hurt (as long as there's enough backwards compatibility that I could listen to them now). But if it causes you ggreat grief to create them, then I'd come in as "not necessary."
More as I wake up further (still on night schedule left over from the weekend; caffeine is imminent).
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Date: 2005-02-15 12:24 am (UTC)2. Have considered purchasing. But money and opportunity have not had a confluence where the site's concerned; to date, all my purchases have been on CD. No bias there, when something cool is on the site and I can afford it, I will buy.
3. I like lossless formats. Doesn't matter which (of the major ones); I can convert them myself.
4. I might pay higher for, say, a 320kbps MP3 than a 128kbps one; I would be harder pressed to justify paying significantly more for 192kbps. (I understand the larger sizes will affect your bandwidth costs. Don't know the actual numbers, but I can see how it could push you hard.)
5. The only sort of multiple formats I think I would prefer is one lossless, one MP3 version. I'm especially not a fan of WMV, and AAC is Right Out. (Both formats being created by hated monopolists, this ought not to be too much of a surprise.)
6. MP3, OGG, FLAC are all good. I can also handle SHN and APE (both lossless) and wouldn't be averse to learning to handle other formats if they have significant advantages.
7. I don't have surround sound on my computer -- today. But when I go buy a new system, I might, so having the files can't hurt (as long as there's enough backwards compatibility that I could listen to them now). But if it causes you ggreat grief to create them, then I'd come in as "not necessary."
More as I wake up further (still on night schedule left over from the weekend; caffeine is imminent).