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MS Zune Marketplace audio quality

Flint

Prodigal Son
Superstar
As most of you know, I love my Zune media players. I know they don't make them anymore, but they still have a Zune Marketplace to support the MS Windows Phone ecosystem.

Today I remembered a band I absolutely adored from the 1980s named The Producers and I wanted to get my hands on their self-titled album from 1981. However, it is long out of print and nobody could sell me a copy.

I've purchased MP3 tracks and albums from Amazon before, but I thought I'd try the Zune Marketplace and see what they had. The price was right, so I purchased the album from them. I didn't think much about the quality, because I wanted to hear the music, but I discovered the tracks were all encoded at 320kbps using a proper CODEC. They should sound pretty damn identical to the original studio tapes (my original copy was an LP, so these songs will definitely sound better than that shit).

I am very excited!
 
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There's not a day go by I don't use my Zune. I purchased a 2nd for pieces and parts and it's still whole.

Rope
 
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