{"id":356,"date":"2007-10-09T21:00:48","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=356"},"modified":"2007-10-09T21:00:48","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T20:00:48","slug":"radioheads-pay-what-you-like-download-160kbps-mp3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/356-radioheads-pay-what-you-like-download-160kbps-mp3.html","title":{"rendered":"Radiohead&#8217;s pay-what-you-like download: 160kbps MP3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Radiohead&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inrainbows.com\/Store\/index3.html\" target=\"_blank\">distribution experiment<\/a>, in which customers are invited to pay what they like for the band&#8217;s latest album, In Rainbows, in digital form, will be available from tomorrow as 160kbps DRM-free MP3s.<\/p>\n<p>That bitrate is likely to be sufficient for most listeners. 128kbps is sometimes considered the minimum acceptable for reasonable fidelity in MP3. Audiophiles will prefer to purchase the &#8220;discbox&#8221; which includes a CD, a bonus CD, and vinyl formats, or wait in the hope that a conventional CD release will appear, as it probably will.<\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=340\" target=\"_blank\">earlier comment is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:3d05fdca-408d-4942-b262-1d58eafe6b78\" 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\/radiohead\" rel=\"tag\">radiohead<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/in%20rainbows\" rel=\"tag\">in rainbows<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/drm\" rel=\"tag\">drm<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/mp3\" rel=\"tag\">mp3<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radiohead&#8217;s distribution experiment, in which customers are invited to pay what they like for the band&#8217;s latest album, In Rainbows, in digital form, will be available from tomorrow as 160kbps DRM-free MP3s. That bitrate is likely to be sufficient for most listeners. 128kbps is sometimes considered the minimum acceptable for reasonable fidelity in MP3. Audiophiles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/356-radioheads-pay-what-you-like-download-160kbps-mp3.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Radiohead&#8217;s pay-what-you-like download: 160kbps MP3<\/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":[44,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","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=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}