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Releasing an Album on Floppy Disk


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GUMMY BEAR INSIDE I AM NOT AFRAID OF (TURBO MIX) MIND IS FAILING LOADING SCREEN NO SOUL HOPE BLOOD BROTHERS II 3AM (WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE) 6AM (LET YOU DROWN) The suggestion in the article is to use the Opus encoder - a gorgeously lossy, and extreme compression algorithm to shrink the file down to a size that fits the destination medium. In the spirit of that original article, I'll share some audio snippets for you to listen to and compare, to give better context of what all this stuff has done.

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