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Digital Audio Insider is David Harrell's blog about the economics of music and other digital content. I write from
the perspective of a musican who has self-released four albums with the indie rock band the Layaways.
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Radiohead Doubles the Quality
by David Harrell
No, that's not my opinion of the band's latest song. When Radiohead conducted its "name your own price" experiment for the direct download of the "In Rainbows" album, there was some grumbling about bit rate of the mp3 files -- just 160k. But the band's new track "These Are My Twisted Words," which they're giving away here as a free mp3, is encoded at 320k.
Update: Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood discusses mp3 audio quality in this interview from yesterday with Sasha Frera-Jones. Thanks to Aaron for the tip!
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