and is now being distributed to other torrent sites as a 256 Transcode...... be careful and sit it out for a bit
The only rip I'm finding of it is shitty .wma anyway. It comes out tomorrow in Australia so just wait a bit and a better rip should show up. *Edit* The front page on Myspace is saying you can listen to the whole album on Thrice's Myspace page, but it hasn't been uploaded yet.
A MP3/256 (VBR) rip of Thrice- The Alchemy Index Vol. I & II has leaked! EDIT: I'm downloading right now, not sure if it is legit or not.
I'm just listening to Firebreather, but it sounds good so far. I'm no audiophile though, so I can't actually confirm the bit rate. I can't tell between 128 and 256 lol
Apparently If you rip straight from a CD, using Windows Media Player, it rips in WMA. That doesn't mean it's a shitty rip. You ripped it straight from the CD.
Its a proprietary Microsoft format. Thus, it sucks. No matter how good and technologically advanced it is, it sucks.
Well for the people who hate everything Microsoft (even though the WMA files were a lot better than a myspace stream) the Scene version of it has leaked. It's over 60MB, so it should be good quality.
No, I hate Apple's AAC crap as much as I hate WMA. But I didn't mention that because that wasn't the topic at hand until you brought it up. MP3s only for me.