This is one of the good reason to start this blog. B&W, the speaker company, has team with Peter Gabriel to create the B&W Music Club. The idea is great: you sign up for 12 months. It costs 60$ USD. Each month you can download a new album. That sums up to 5$ per album, a very good price. There's one downside: you can't choose. There's one album per month and that's the one you download.
You can also sign up for a free trial where you will be able to download a EP, a small selection of the songs available on the entire album. The trial is offered for 3 months.
Obviously Peter Gabriel's involvement caught my attention. He chooses the albums from his RealWorld catalog. This month it's Spiro "Live in Box". Based only on this album only, so I might be wrong, but it would appear that the B&W offers unreleased or digital only releases because I can't find it on Amazon. Since the point is to discover music, it doesn't really matter.
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You can download the album in three formats: Apple lossless, FLAC and FLAC 24bit [Apple doesn't support 24bit in its lossless format]. Pick the format you prefer, or download them all.
And 24bit FLACs, this is very interesting, specially for the anonymous audiophiles! It's also nice because suddenly your sound source is better than the CD. I had to do some research on how to take advantage of the 24bit FLACs and I will write on the subject in a subsequent post.
Personally I downloaded the Apple lossless for my iTunes library and iPhone. I also downloaded the 24bit FLAC for the simple fact that it's better and I have the required audio equipment to listen to 24bit music. Does it sounds any different? Probably not but that's not the point ;)
The picture used in this post comes from the link above.
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