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There are a few FZ albums legally available to download on Jiwa, however I dunno if it is possible to buy from every country.

I would be all for this if the quality of iTunes downloaded songs didn't suck.

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The songs could be made available via iTunes in lossless m4a format without Apple's proprietary DRM technology. EMI and some independent labels allow Apple to provide their music to consumers this way.

Yeah, it would be a great idea. In the unlikely case some kid stumbles over Zappa now, all he/she get is AAFNRAA. Not the best kind of advertisement. But what do I know about selling music in a cottage industry?

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Have you heard about Deezer?

I've got to jump in on this one. I was very disappointed when they yanked Frank's stuff from itunes. Let's admit it- we all have favorite stuff/periods of most artists we listen to; even Frank. So when we get setlists of ZPZ shows, and are not familiar w/ a song or two from a certain period, it would be good to be able to just download that one song so as to familiarize ones self w/ that tune to maximize the concertgoing experience. Case in point: While I feel that the whole OSFA time period was one of FZ's best, I'm less enthusiastic about the, lets say FZMTMOP period. So when the last setlist included "What's New In Baltimore", I didn't know what the hell it was, cuz most of what I've heard from that era I didn't particularly like. When I found myself downloading that song for free at my local library I discovered 2 things:
1. I felt a bit guilty taking one of Franks songs w/out paying for it (Hey,
that's just me)
2. What's new in Baltimore is a suprisingly fucking incredible song.

So, ZFT. bring back Franks stuff to itunes so as to increase it's accessibility. That's what it's all about in the end, isn't it?; getting it out there to more and more people. That's what this whole ZPZ/FZ 'Revival' thing is about, isn't it?

Why do you absolutely need it to be on iTunes?
Have you tried Jiwa or Deezer instead?

I dunno. Are those file sharing sites, or "pay for" sites?

Like I said, I've kinda got a problem w/ taking an artist's work w/out compensating the owners, but I don't want to open up that whole beaten up thing on this thread. It's just me.

If you buy songs from iTunes, you will only be able to copy them to an iPod. You can't burn them to a CD. I don't have an iPod. If I'm going to be spending a lot of money to buy some piece-of-shit gizmo anyway, I'd rather spend money to buy the CDs, or purchase MP3s from another service and burn them onto a CD. If Frank's music was to be offered for download, the ZFT would be better off coming up with their own service rather than dealing with Apple.

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These seem to be legal platforms where you can buy music.


Same 4 me, however I always prefer a CD than a lossy codec.
I hope you are talking about burning an ISO9600 CD-R, right? Not using the CD-Audio fomat.

But

You are wrong. Songs from iTunes can be burned on a CD.
I who have all Zappa on vinyl wants to get them to my computer. I only had time to buy Sleep Dirt.
Get Zappa back to iTunes.

To iterate a bit further: Not only can you burn Itunes purchased songs to a CD, you can then rip back the songs to regular mp3 format and put them on whatever mp3 player you want. So I use Itunes a lot, but I don't own an Ipod. No problems there.

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Yes and you can reiterate this bit several times using different lossy codecs and various bitrates.
After this you can copy the music on a CrO2 tape through a jack cable and why not store the final result on a DVD Audio.
Still no problems there.

I love the idea, but please!?! 64K? That's just irritating.

Ok, you are right 64 kbps mp3 (MPEG-1 Layer 3) is a big waste of space.
In order to obtain smaller files, you can use 8 kbps MPEG-2 in mono instead.

As a comparison, the track Baby Snakes (from Ryko RCD 10539) would require:

• 827 Kb encoded in mp3 @64 kbps stereo
• 106 Kb in MPEG-2 @8 kbps mono... but it'll look like it is sung by whales

To iterate a bit further: Not only can you burn Itunes purchased songs to a CD, you can then rip back the songs to regular mp3 format and put them on whatever mp3 player you want. So I use Itunes a lot, but I don't own an Ipod. No problems there.[/quote]


I wouldn't do that. That's where the real quality issues come in. You take a lossy mp3 file and burn it to disc where it becomes a lossless wav file. If you convert that back to mp3 you have an mp3 that's been compressed twice...and it might not sound so pretty.

ipods are for pussies

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