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eric,

that's fair enough, but it does still come down to popular compatability vs higher quality. i guess we're among the betamax camp at btr.

i'd like to suggest to matt at this point that he looks into the possibility of making both versions available for download, but i suspect he'll tell me there's not enough server space -- which is also fair enough.

but i'd argue that the proportion of our listeners with mp3 players is possibly too slight to justify using the lossier mp3 format exclusively. in an ideal world, we'd like to cater to everyone's needs, but in that ideal world we could also get away with putting up wav files, if you catch my drift.

still, you seem persistent enough despite your complaints to keep on converting these things, which i think proves sufficiently that if someone really wants to listen to the thing (and we have no other incentive, since we're not losing sales or anything), they'll find a way to do it. as always, feedback is appreciated (usually the once is enough to get our attention, though), but on this occasion i don't think the pros of mp3 outweigh the cons for us.

btw, there are file conversion apps out there that are freeware -- just not on the page, i linked, obviously. and they work very quickly, i.e. they take about a minute at the most to convert a file. which i can't imagine is that big a deal at the end of the day when you're downloading and then copying to an mp3 player, etc.

oh, and there's always an ipod.

careful as you go, matt -- some people might get pissed off that we, as moderators, actually want to moderate!