Comments on: FLAC Now Available

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:24:01 +0000

Cool!

I would download them but I’ve already bought the CDs and ripped them to FLAC It’s amazing for some of them how much better the full versions sound.

By: Logan

Logan — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:02:37 +0000

Awesome! One of the only reason I still buy more physical CDs than online music is that mp3s aren’t lossless. Thanks for being ahead of the curve.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:31:45 +0000

JC: Thanks, all sorted now. You don’t scissors or paper.

By: Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:34:30 +0000

No flacs of the Ze Frank covers?

By: Maurice J

Maurice J — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:30:36 +0000

What a guy!!! I don’t want Flac, not sure what Flac is but sweet of you to offer your new format, your swapping and your time…

I think for the few people who have the means, it would be awesome if they bought them again… If they have the means that is…

What a guy.

By: Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:21:47 +0000

I have Winamp 5.5 and the FLACs play fine, including “Our Bodies, Ourselves”

By: JC

JC — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:19:24 +0000

Richard - those files were encoded from 24-bit masters, so some flac decoders don’t play them right. I’ve corrected the problem in the files that are up there, so try downloading again (let me know if you can’t). Sorry about that…

By: Johan

Johan — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:57:40 +0000

Hey, Richard, that’s probably because you don’t have the right codecs…

By: dlab

dlab — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:52:01 +0000

Cool. Apple fanboys will be happy to know that the new Mac operating system has added support for FLAC files, so anybody that upgrades their Mac can now play them using iTunes.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:00:03 +0000

Just a heads-up: I think you might have a problem with your FLAC encoding process. I bought the box set in FLAC, and at least “Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Cybernetic Arms” (and possibly the others — that’s the only one that’s successfully downloaded so far) does not play in Winamp, nor in MPlayer. It does, however, play if converted to .wav using the flac tools from flac.sourceforge.net. Weird.

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:43:44 +0000

Just a message for Jonathon here, wanna say well done for creating
the great ending song for Portal. Genious! =D

By: witten

witten — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:57:14 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to do this! In a few weeks or months, I’d be interested in hearing whether more than three or so people actually bought FLACs from you. I’m going to go become one of them right now..

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:31:42 +0000

You’re indeed generous, JoCo, but you’re entitled to something for your efforts. It’s not like you deliberately held back the better format just so you could sell as many MP3s as possible first. No one ever offered me free CDs when my cassette tapes went out of style.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:14:25 +0000

Spiff said, “I think you’d be perfectly in the right to say that the newer format are a different product than the older formats”

Actually, since the MP3s (at least most of them) were available for free download, I would say in this case that the “product” was supporting JoCo.

I am of the opinion that in general, the product in question is the song, not the file in a particular format, unless you regard the act of ripping a CD to be producing a new product.

By: Mizgrimalkin

Mizgrimalkin — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:20:23 +0000

Dearest JoCo,

That is very generous of you to offer a trade, but you have to live too. I’m perfectly happy with my mp3 ones, but if I decided I wanted the spiffy FLAC versions, I wouldn’t complain about having to buy them.

Just saying.

By: Noah Ramon

Noah Ramon — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:32:08 +0000

I think Scarybug summed it up best :

You don’t have to, but you’re doing it anyway because you rock multiple houses.

By: spi

spi — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:18:20 +0000

Opps that post got eaten by the post eating machine. I love flac. I have bought a handful of flac albums from other bands in the past. The best thing about flac is I know I am getting the same thing as if I bought the album in the store, but no album!

I can also painlessly transcode to mp3/ogg format for my standalone player.

Way go to JoCo!

By: spi

spi — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:16:01 +0000

By: Scarybug

Scarybug — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:49:37 +0000

He’s under no obligation. He’s just awesome like that!

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:01:47 +0000

Props for making the right choice, JoCo!

By: Brad O'Farrell

Brad O'Farrell — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:39:18 +0000

My MP3 player doesn’t take no flac from no one.

By: jesss

jesss — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:36:42 +0000

I agree with Spiff, unless they just bought them or something. Anyone who was really concerned about the quality probably got CD’s directly anyhow.

By: Spiff

Spiff — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:21:33 +0000

I don’t think you’re under any obligation to let people trade .mp3s for FLAC for free. When George Lucas comes out with a new “improved” version of Star Wars, he doesn’t let people trade in their old one. Not to be a jerk about it, but I think you’d be perfectly in the right to say that the newer format are a different product than the older formats and charging another $1 for them seems reasonable to me.