* Posts by Phil Holden

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Record labels to ditch CD singles for USB Flash drives

Phil Holden
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There could be some advantages

OK so the odds are that this WILL NOT happen, but...

The audio provided COULD be 24-bit 192Khz as we're no longer limited by the outdated spec of CD's. As a lot of folk haven't got a DVD-Audio player this could be the way for us to move to a higher quality audio reproduction than the CD's we're currently buying, without having to shell out for a new player.

I'm no fan of the MP3 as to my ears they sound lacking in depth and very often hihats sound like clinking milkbottles (reminiscent of my old 8-bit Amiga sampler)

But then as has already been pointed out playback is limited to your PC, but not everyone will find this a problem.

I would also like it if the data and DRM license can be copied to your harddisc then we wouldn't have to dig the thing out every time we want to listen to it, which is currently easy to do with cd's.