{"id":209,"date":"2007-05-04T18:46:55","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T17:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2007-05-04T18:46:55","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T17:46:55","slug":"linn-records-adopts-flac-for-hi-res-downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/209-linn-records-adopts-flac-for-hi-res-downloads.html","title":{"rendered":"Linn Records adopts FLAC for hi-res downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was interested to see that Linn Records now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linnrecords.com\/linn-downloads-what.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">offers FLAC downloads<\/a> in its music download store. This is a download store done right &#8211; no DRM, no lossy compression (unless you specifically choose MP3).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still something of a struggle finding a file format to please everybody. Linn now has three: MP3, lossless WMA, and FLAC. MP3 is no hassle. WMA is tiresome for Mac users. FLAC won&#8217;t play in Windows Media Player without an add-on. It&#8217;s even worse when it comes to&nbsp;high-res (typically 96\/24) files. Linn&nbsp;says that high-res&nbsp;WMA&nbsp;won&#8217;t play at all in iTunes on the Mac, and that high-res FLAC won&#8217;t play in&nbsp;Windows Media Player.<\/p>\n<p>Personally I shall choose FLAC if I buy any of these, as I have done with&nbsp;Robert Fripp&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dgmlive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DGM download store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great to see a small but highly regarded label adopting an open-source format for its downloads. How about it Apple?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:9f3d9962-91e4-45ab-92e9-89bc33aa4c16\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/linn\" rel=\"tag\">linn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/music%20downloads\" rel=\"tag\">music downloads<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/apple\" rel=\"tag\">apple<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/MP3\" rel=\"tag\">MP3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/WMA\" rel=\"tag\">WMA<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/FLac\" rel=\"tag\">FLac<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/itunes\" rel=\"tag\">itunes<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was interested to see that Linn Records now offers FLAC downloads in its music download store. This is a download store done right &#8211; no DRM, no lossy compression (unless you specifically choose MP3). It&#8217;s still something of a struggle finding a file format to please everybody. Linn now has three: MP3, lossless WMA, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/209-linn-records-adopts-flac-for-hi-res-downloads.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Linn Records adopts FLAC for hi-res downloads<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,48,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-itunes","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}