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Phish Moves To FLAC
sethadam1 writes "Due to customer feedback, Phish, who have served as pioneers in the pay-per-download online music arena with their livephish.com site, have recently converted to FLAC compression for their high-quality download offerings. Could this be an indication that FLAC may be adopted as the de facto lossless audio compression standard?" And fans were using it long before ;)
no, probably not.
... if they just noted that the tedious jam from Tuesday gig at the Cleveland Enormodome is not different from the Thursday's tedious jam at the Philadelphia Giganto-park, in any musically interesting way.
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Does it make my computer smell like Patchouli?
Heck, Why not GIF...the patent just expired, and I hear it's great compression.
This is great news for all music lovers, being a lossless, open-source audio compression algorithm. FLAC is also one of the most efficient lossless codecs.
Ummm, I think that's all I have to say. Let me check, first.
Oh yeah, down with the riaa. and microsoft, too.
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Could this be an indication that FLAC may be adopted as the de facto lossless audio compression standard?"
Of course! "As Phish goes, so goes the Music Industry," everybody knows that! As a matter of fact, they were discussing this very same trend during Phish's appearance last week on TRL.
In a related story from the same Styles page, Michael Crichton and J. K. Rowling have announced they are going to have their nipples pierced to better emulate their idol, Poppy Z. Brite.
The xmms playlist makes it around to bouncing around the room (ogg:), reload slashdot, ahhhh.....
A great man once said "If the Grateful Dead were like watching a beautiful sunset, Phish are like a blowjob."
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But did the Mayans do it first? Knot, knot, no knot, no knot, knot, knot, knot ...OK Tahmas, that's a b-flat on the pipes....
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I'm not sure if I support this... if you think about it, very few phans have ever heard a live Phish concert in high fidelity. Take me for example: at the last Phish concert I was at, I saw the music emanating from the speakers as green clouds, which then coalesced into a giant steel Beethoven, who proceeded to eat me--all to the tune of "jingle bells", played backwards at a high tempo on the kettle drums. As you can guess it made concentrating on the latter 2/3 of the set very difficult. Hence I download these new high-fi with much trepidation: what has Phish actually been playing for the bulk of all those live shows? No one I know has any idea...
I think there is a world market for maybe five personal web logs.
"Could this be an indication that FLAC may be adopted as the de facto lossless audio compression standard?" "
Yes. Or maybe no. Clouded, the future is. Outlook uncertain.
Did they switch for legal reasons? No.
Did they switch for technical reasons? No.
Did they switch for political reasons? No.
So why did they switch? Obviously, Phish just happen to be fans of the logo.
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everyone who trades live shows of the artists I listen to uses SHN, period. as with "Ogg Vorbis" (that's the name, right?), the only place I've ever heard of FLAC is on Slashdot.
:P
basically, I'm saying "pfft" at your silly audio formats that nobody uses.
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Cool, I've never been much of a fan anyways, so no big loss.
Will all their nomad fans be following them there too?
BTW, where exactly is FLAC? I hope its somewhere cold. Summer Phish concerts mean hippies in armpit hair revealing clothing. *shudder* At least somewhere cold they will bundle up
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Whoa brother, like it's not cool that their not being tight-asses but cool that they're not being tight-asses , 'cuz, you know, they are not being tight-asses. Get it? It's a contraction. It's like compression, brother. The "'" replaces the " a". It doesn't compress much, kinda more like FLAC than ogg or mp3. Haha. Speaking of kind, you got any? Let's burn one! My bro grew these nugs. It's his own hybrid strain he calls Trey An!
And you know besides "their" and "the'yre" there is "there"? Not to come down on you too hard bro, but you kinda got that one wrong in the grandparent post. Remember this?
So yeah, brother, like the first "their" was right on! But it's their policy, like their music. Yeah, it blows my mind too! Like, I would use "there" to communicate things like "there goes some tasty sisters--wonder if they got any gooballs for sale?" or "I was standing over there when I spilled the liquid acid those kids fronted me".Does it all make sense now? Cool man, I'm gonna get back to burning these Lemon Wheel shows for some kids I just met...
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FLAC?
badum-tchhh. Thank you, I'll be here all week, tip your moderators.
I kill me.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
...if they changed the name to Absolutely Free Lossless Audio Compression...then they could do tv commercials where this duck wanders around quacking their acronym...oh wait, already been done.
Looking over the PHISH FAQ under....
What are the recommended specs for enjoying Live Phish Downloads?
Under Unix it says...
Unix
You probably don't need our advice.
Barnaby