[microsound] Audio Compression

[Christopher Murphy <chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All,

After a couple of quiet years, we're uploading new content to Fallt  
(www.fallt.com). As part of this process we're re-converting our  
existing back catalogue, in particular the entire 'invalidObject  
Series' (Kim Cascone, Richard Chartier, Taylor Deupree,  Stephan  
Mathieu, Pimmon, Pita etc.), into high bit rate format.

We're about to start creating new MP3s for the website from the  
original Fallt masters for all of our audio releases and want to  
convert them in as high a quality as possible.

We've started converting everything to MP3 format using iTunes at 320  
KBPs, Variable Bit Rate, which is the maximum quality iTunes supports.

Before we finalise converting the rest of the back catalogue we'd  
welcome some thoughts on the best approach to supplying Fallt's audio  
in compressed format. What would everyone suggest?

Obviously there are more options available now - MP3, AAC, FLAC -  
than there were when we originally distributed many of our MP3s. If  
you could choose, what would you choose?

If you'd like to preview what we've done so far, there are a number  
of releases available here:

http://www.fallt.com/mp3s

Feel free to email off-list - chris@xxxxxxxxx - meanwhile, thanks for  
your suggestions in advance.

Best,

Christopher


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