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  1. By 'digital rights' I mean the right to sell those recordings via any digital format ie MP3, flac, wav etc. Very often the licences which enable a record company to release a CD are only for CD. There are legal, commercial and historic reasons what a record company might not be able to release certain albums in all mediums. Usually we would have the tapes (or copies), but that's not the point - we need the correct rights in place to release in our chosen format. Digital rights is only referring to the legal situation, nothing to do with the source of the audio.
  2. Something to bear in mind is that there is a lot of catalogue Ace releases that we either don't own or have digital rights to. So out of the above, the only ones we have digital rights to are Funkadelic. As a general rule, if it's not here, we don't have digital rights, and so this would include any high res releases. The vast majority of releases on our site are licensed in and for various reasons we can't release digitally.
  3. Good stuff - We've started doing Funkadelic at 320 kbps from our own site already. I will look into high res versions of these. Thanks for your kind words.
  4. Re Mono vs Stereo - this is really a licensing/compiling issue. Depending on what tracks are included in the album a compiler would have made the choice that the stereo version should or shouldn't be included etc. We certainly couldn't make too many options for the customer eg choice of formats, choice of mono/stereo as that would be a logistical (and technical) nightmare. There could be a case for an 'original mono recordings' type album if it was appropriate for that artist. Showing the details of how and where the high res files are from certainly seems to appeal so I've certainly noted that. In terms of customer service, I'm in charge of digital here at Ace so you can always e-mail me directly with any issues: [email protected] or of course contact me via this forum. Thanks for your time.
  5. At the moment we release on CD and digitally we release on 320 kbps from our own site. We also release digitally on iTunes and all the regular sites - as you know file format and quality can vary there.
  6. Thanks. No we wouldn't up-sample and call it Hi Res. Not familiar with DSD - could you elaborate or point me in the direction of a thread on this subject?
  7. Hi, I am from Ace Records. For those of you who don't know us, we are a UK based re-issue label specialising in predominantly american blues, soul, funk & Rock 'n' Roll from the 50s through to the early 80s. We have a huge catalogue and a reputation for high quality audio on CD. Whilst we are already selling digitally on iTunes etc and have 320kbps MP3s available from our own site, we are keen to explore making high definition tracks available from our site too. Rather than just jump into this, I thought it would be beneficial to ask people who live and breathe this stuff each day for their opinion. What I'd be interested to know is: a) Would you be interested in us making hd tracks available? b) What formats (wav vs flac etc) and bit rates etc would you be interested in? (Please be specific on your requirements) c) What suggestions do you have for how to get the word out to people who might be interested? Many thanks for anyone who would like to contribute. The bigger success this is the higher the chances of us doing more in this area. Thanks. Chris
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