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Reddit mentions of Disparate Youth
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Reddit mentions: 2
We found 2 Reddit mentions of Disparate Youth. Here are the top ones.
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| Release date | February 2012 |
Happy Birthday!!
Santigold is killer!
Robyn...jammin'
Oh Land...new favorite discovery
Grimes is my girl!
I pulled some choice selections for your ears pleasure from some songs I already have. Hope you like them or at least one! Thanks for the contest
Well as I can't buy any mp3s from Amazon due to regional restrictions, I can't prove it to you. But here's an example of a fairly recent release: Santigold, "Disparate Youth", only available as 256CBR through various e-shops:
And I swear that, when I looked at it some 1 or 2 months ago on
Amazon, it too said "256k". Now it just doesn't say anything any more.
I'm pretty sure that the record label is to blame for this, that 256k is all these shops get. You can check other current releases, only available as 256k, is very common. So I'd be very suprised if Amazon would have gotten different files from the labels.
Amazon's own mp3 FAQ says:
>Bit Rate: Where possible, we encode our MP3 files using variable bit rates for maximum audio quality and smaller file sizes, aiming at an average of 256 kilobits per second (kbps). Using a variable bit rate allows us to allocate a higher bit rate to the more complex sections of music files while using a smaller bit rate for the less complex sections. The average of these rates is then calculated to produce an average bit rate for the entire file that represents the overall sound quality. Some of our content is encoded using a constant bit rate of 256 kbps. This content will have the same excellent audio quality at a slightly larger file size.
Yeah, right.