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by DropInIn 1059 days ago
Imo musicians need to make it a norm to release two 'correct' verions:

The highly compressed versions for radio play/commoners

And

A 'hi-fi' version for audiophiles

They need to be the same except for levels etc, and neither more official than the other

If your song can't be enjoyed in both ways, then either your music is 'specialty' music catering to audiophiles and musicophiles (?) Or it's just garbage and shouldn't be released regardless.

But that opinion may be a major cause for myself never releasing anything....

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Why don’t we have an audio format that has different profiles with different mixes?
In a world of limitless storage that makes sense but for users who have music locally on thier phone not so much...

The actual use cases for each form undermine consolidation into one file.