Well there is some truth in all these emails. First let me say that no recording studio records in mp3 and no studio software does unless you really force it. Not even Garage Band - the baseline. (Note that I will usually make a mp3 for my phone after a mix.)

That said the dudes compiling and selling CDs will grab the data in any format and decode it and sell it.  Just 'cause you bought a CD doesn't mean it was really uncompressed DDD. Certainly a worse story if you don't know if it's pirated. How many CDs do you have with a hologram on them, Erik?

That said 9 out of 10 British housewives etc.

It is not too hard to tell and clearly Simon has the tools. I do. Just checked out a suspect disk. Hmm profile is strongly correlated with 96kps.

brucee

On 10 Dec 2013 12:54, "erik quanstrom" <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> I was not clear.
>
> If you download wav or raw pcm files via bittorrent et al the tel-l-tail

that was the missing bit.  thanks!

- erik