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Title: Great song, but purchase the MP3 elsewhere
Review: Great song -- heard it on KEXP just yesterday -- but pay the extra 30 cents and buy it from iTunes. This is a general rule when purchasing any MP3 from Amazon. Although Amazon states that "Songs are encoded at 256 kbps" [http://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/help/faq.html/ref=sv_dmusic_0] they actually use a variable bit rate which means sometimes it's 256 kbps, sometimes it can be, say, 195 kbps. If you care at all about audio quality, and prefer MP3s, at least purchase this from [...] where the songs are all at a constant rate of 256 kbps. I was initially attracted to Amazon over [...] because of the lower pricing, but it appears it comes at a compromise of quality. In the case of this recording, Chemical Brothers "Star Guitar" (Track 2) the Amazon sound file is 196 kbps.
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