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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 12:00 AM

Amazon's MP3 store: Better than iTunes

For the first time, there's real competition to Apple's online music shop.
By Farhad Manjoo

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  • Thursday, September 27, 2007 08:34 PM

    Re: Encoding

    Worried about sound quality? MP3 encoding is only part of the story.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ

    Studio techs increase loudness in the mastering process and thus gum up the original recording. So, you take a track that has been remastered to sound louder so it will seem better on battery powered players, then chop out even more of the information...yeah, it's a bad cycle.

    —Quackard Read Quackard's other letters

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