06 May
New Nine Inch Nails album free online in various formats
The Slip is Nine Inch Nails‘ new album. Nothing special so far. But hey, it is officially offered as a free download! And not in just one file format, so choose what suits you best:
- MP3: nice and space saving for your portable player.
- FLAC lossless: with the right codec, you can play this directly, but do not forget that you can also convert this to WAV files and make a CD with audio quality identical to what will be sold in June.
- Apple M4A lossless: if you want to be limited to a closed format suit yourself.
- HD audio WAV 24bit/96kHz: these files are in the tune of the high definition SACD and DVD-Audio formats. By far the best quality of sound, useless for your computer or MP3 player, to be appreciated only with a proper high quality sound system. Download size is 1.4GB.
Apart from the MP3 format, all others are for convenience offered as torrent downloads.
Since the group does not even ask for payment, I am not sure where income is going to come from. The Nine Inch Nails are outdoing Radiohead, there is no freer than completely free… However, the later is the group that made history and started this whole free album download business. The music industry is surely taking notice and I am sure it is not very happy…
Link: Nine Inch Nails [Via Gizmodo]
[...] HD audio WAV 24bit/96kHz: these files are in the tune of the high definition SACD and DVD-Audio formats. By far the best quality of sound, useless for your computer or MP3 player, to be appreciated only with a proper high quality sound system. Download size is 1.4GB. (continued) [...]
May 6th, 2008 at 11:21 am