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[Bhavya]

Originally Posted by mwjames

I have a thought to add: My understanding is if you do compress content containing binaural beats to a lossy format like MP3, then you should explicitly encode using "stereo" mode rather than the default "joint stereo." Joint stereo merges stereo content in some cases, which would theoretically whack the effectiveness of binaural beat content.

All LifeFlow tracks I've received so far are encoded using joint stereo, however. Maybe Michael has tested and found that joint-stereo encoding makes no meaningful difference in the case of LifeFlow tracks. But since takes no extra time or effort to encode at full stereo, and the resulting MP3 filesize increase is minimal, I think there's no downside to doing it.

Better still, I'd instantly be an even more enthusiastic customer if lossless encodings of the LifeFlow tracks (say, FLAC) were made available. Lossless encoding not only provides potentially higher quality sound, it also bypasses the joint stereo issue altogether because it's, well, lossless.

Can lossless downloads be made a delivery option along with MP3 downloads and physical CDs? Wouldn't that extra option be a useful selling point? :-)

I'm a bit non-technical but I would love to know the answer cuz I'm using MP3s as well.