Lorde Melodrama/ St. Vincent Masseduction MP3!

[hanover33]

a good album, but the digital download is mp3! and its not clear what the file quality is until you download it, which I did, and now I'm going to return it.  Bit rates from 151kbps -203 kbps.  Terrible.  What do you do in cases like this, buy the CD and rip?  St. Vincent is the same thing - she has earlier albums on HD Tracks but the latest is an MP3 download.

 

Is it asking too much these days for well mastered high res downloads as an option?  what is wrong with the labels?

 

[tdimler]

On 12/30/2017 at 9:23 AM, hanover33 said:

Is it asking too much these days for well mastered high res downloads as an option?  what is wrong with the labels?

 

Yes apparently so.

 

I am playing a CD rip and it sounds pretty good.....not as high fidelity as Pure Heroine though.

[new_media]

Downloads from where? I never purchase digital downloads from the artist's page unless they specify the format.

 

I downloaded both of these albums from 7digital and they are redbook FLAC.