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Specop 007

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Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
still, my guess is they are just transcoding mp3 to flac or something lol:)

That would be a foolish mistake. Why sell them same file thats 10 times bigger?
 

Goosemaster

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Originally posted by: Specop 007
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
still, my guess is they are just transcoding mp3 to flac or something lol:)

That would be a foolish mistake. Why sell them same file thats 10 times bigger?

Ebcause they charge based on bandwidth silly:p
 

Anubis

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Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
still, my guess is they are just transcoding mp3 to flac or something lol:)

no they arnt, for a while they had a "WANTED" program where you coudl upload stuff to them and get credit

they had you rip as WAV files uncompressed with EAC, and you uploaded them, so i would assume they woudl encode everything from them, which is exactly like ripping it from the CD itself