What Formats Do You Want Your Music In?
As things are starting to move forward with our new album, I started thinking about the possibility of making our music available in some other formats. Currently, everything we have in the store is in MP3 format, encoded at 192k. Almost all of my personal music collection is at this format/bitrate and I find it to be a pretty good compromise between sound quality and file size.
But I realize there are other formats out there that people might be interested in. And we also want to get a sense of how many people are interested in buying the new album on CD.
So, if you have a minute, take this quick poll and let us know what you’re looking for.
If some of those options don’t sound familiar, you can find more information at the links below:
For the most part, if you have an iPod, you’re going to want mp3 or aac. But you may also want a higher quality version like FLAC or Apple Lossless that you can use as a backup, burn to a CD or to encode into some other format.
My personal choice is FLAC for home use, but the higher data rate MP3 would be fine for most people.
Nin recently released their latest work via downloads and they had some of the lossless formats available, think I grabbed mine in .WAV, which was awesome.
Would also love to see the work on Vynl.
I’m sort of torn with all this stuff.
I’m pretty sure we’re gonna make the album available on CD, at least on a limited basis. And, in general, the people who are gonna want lossless formats are the same people who know how to create them themselves from the CD.
Are there people that want just the FLAC or WAV versions and then would create their own mp3s, CDs, etc?
It doesn’t necessarily cost us any more to provide multiple formats, but I’m just wondering what we should be doing.
Having something of ours on vinyl would be awesome. But like most people I know that aren’t DJs, I don’t have a turntable to play it on. I’d probably still buy it from a band I liked, just as a collectors kind of thing.
Are there people who would actually listen to us onn vinyl or do people want it just to frame and hang on their wall?
We want to put things out there that people want.
Yeah, sorry I didn’t mention the humble CD, it’s still most people’s first choice as a format, so I’d always want that available.
Totally agree that anyone who has a keen ear for sound quality will take the CD and make their own lossless versions. The problem with that however, is availability of CDs from indie labels outside the US.
Though I have a turntable your right, it’s definitely a collector/geek thing with the vinyl; I just hope enough people express interest to make it happen!
Interesting topic, looking forward to the new stuff surfacing.