With Inaudible.co.uk becoming more and more an online portfolio for The Crimea, all manner of goodies are being stuck up for download for record execs, press people and, of course, the fans. Along with the Session In Wales MP3s up for download, there’s now clips of The Crimea’s Lottery Winners On Acid, Baby Boom and b-side from White Russian Galaxy, Girl Just Died. Why no clip of WRG I hear you ask? Well, the powers that be have decided it’s time to give it to you for free as a full MP3 download. Click here to go to the downloads page and get a taste of all three Crimea singles. If you’re technical minded, click [More] for a word from Inaudible’s tech man Stuart Denyer on, well, technical stuff. Of course you can always purchase all the singles and much more from various places, check the shop page for more info.
To keep downloads small and fast, the free preview MP3s are mono 96Kbps / 44,100kHz encodings. 96Kbps mono is the listening equivalent of 192Kbps stereo (remember, that’s 96kbps per audio channel), so it’ll preserve those nice high-end frequencies.
The full MP3 of White Russian Galaxy is in joint stereo at the internet-standard 128Kbps.
If you need some good software to play the files, try www.winamp.com and download Nullsoft Winamp, the free media player.
I strongly recommend getting WRG for the b-sides, kids…
Oh, and stereo recordings are generally a recording industry myth.