Ultra 2008
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Music CD Cover Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2007-11-06 Music Label: Ultra Records Soundtracks: Music CD 1
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Free Music Notes for Ultra 2008 Album
Free Music Review: Lousy sound quality but some decent tracks
Hit: 1 Stars
I purchased the Amazon MP3 downloaded version of this CD and the sound quality is pretty bad. It doesn't sound much better than the highly compressed preview samples. Amazon claims 256K MP3 encoding, but I suspect the tracks on this CD have been re-encoded multiple times as they are loaded with compression artifacts. They sound like 64K.
I've heard a few tracks off the original CD and they sound much better than Amazon's MP3 version. The Ultra 2008 MP3 tracks have that tinny, shrill, "under water" sound to them.
I think there are still too many problems with Amazon's MP3 offering. Players report the MP3 encoder as "unknown" and I suspect it's something optimized for speed rather than sound quality.
Sadly, there's no way to know the sound quality of Amazon's MP3 offerings without buying them. And in this case you're forced to buy the entire CD which requires installing Amazon's MP3 Downloader--one more thing to clutter up your PC and potentially cause problems.
Amazon's MP3 offering would be great with higher quality encoding and if you could buy entire CD's without being forced to install their questionable software. As it is now, they have a ways to go before they'll get any more of my money for their MP3s.
The bottom line: Just because it says 256K doesn't mean it sounds good.