PO,
What you don't seem to be understanding is these high Rez formats you keep mentioning are all made from a file (I.e WAV or AIFF). That file IS the file you are downloading. It IS the master from the recording studio.
So get it into your head that there is no format issue anymore. Nearly everything will read a WAV or AIFF these days.
No need for your long descriptions of a world gone mad. Now read the above one more time and please take it in.
Now you hopefully have understood the above. So we can carry on to a slightly more complex aspect... Some sites will data compress these files losslessly using FLAC or something similar for quicker/easier downloads. These FLACs etc are not to be mistaken for MP3 data compression which is lossy and for our purposes the work of the devil. So the quality is not effected as they are lossless. Operative word being "lossless"
Are we good now? All clear. No need to pull out your 8track or cassette or tell anymore conspiracy stories.
What you don't seem to be understanding is these high Rez formats you keep mentioning are all made from a file (I.e WAV or AIFF). That file IS the file you are downloading. It IS the master from the recording studio.
So get it into your head that there is no format issue anymore. Nearly everything will read a WAV or AIFF these days.
No need for your long descriptions of a world gone mad. Now read the above one more time and please take it in.
Now you hopefully have understood the above. So we can carry on to a slightly more complex aspect... Some sites will data compress these files losslessly using FLAC or something similar for quicker/easier downloads. These FLACs etc are not to be mistaken for MP3 data compression which is lossy and for our purposes the work of the devil. So the quality is not effected as they are lossless. Operative word being "lossless"
Are we good now? All clear. No need to pull out your 8track or cassette or tell anymore conspiracy stories.
