Some of the water will be used to get Oxygene, too.
While I'm sure that the astronauts will enjoy listening to Jean Michel Jarre, they should be aware that turning water into copyrighted recordings is PIRACY and will insure a large RIAA lawsuit. I'd think that some Oxygen would be more useful anyway...
If the "main-audio" tracks are high-quality DVD-Audio tracks (5.1 surround sound, PCM), playable on any player capable of playing the current format DVD-Audio discs (my Acura has a DVD-Audio player in it).
If the "pre-ripped" tracks are DRM-free, MP3, "Lower quality" would basically mean that is it a 2-channel version of the music, the bit rate should still be of higher quality (I'd accept 128K, but higher is better, and a lossless format would be better).
The sound difference between CD and DVD-audio is incredible, so you'd be getting a better version of the album, and with the ripped tracks it would be easy to burn a normal audio CD to play in the plain vanilla CD players we all have.
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Some of the water will be used to get Oxygene, too.
While I'm sure that the astronauts will enjoy listening to Jean Michel Jarre, they should be aware that turning water into copyrighted recordings is PIRACY and will insure a large RIAA lawsuit. I'd think that some Oxygen would be more useful anyway...
If the "main-audio" tracks are high-quality DVD-Audio tracks (5.1 surround sound, PCM), playable on any player capable of playing the current format DVD-Audio discs (my Acura has a DVD-Audio player in it). If the "pre-ripped" tracks are DRM-free, MP3, "Lower quality" would basically mean that is it a 2-channel version of the music, the bit rate should still be of higher quality (I'd accept 128K, but higher is better, and a lossless format would be better). The sound difference between CD and DVD-audio is incredible, so you'd be getting a better version of the album, and with the ripped tracks it would be easy to burn a normal audio CD to play in the plain vanilla CD players we all have.