Radiohead - The King of Limbs

wonder if Pitchfork is seriously having an office party right now

What looks reggae about the cover?

I think the worst part is the type on top of the cover. It does look very AP magazine emo/screamo/hardcore/postgoth

It's apparently a font that was made from handcut blocks of wood that were then scanned. And yet it still doesn't look like anything other than some shitty grungy font from the year 2000.

Well, it's a basic non-grungy font. It's just that it's kind of translucent and you can see the design beneath it.

Right. Its paired with such a gothy t-shirt ready image as Matt said.

Although I'm not as hardline about it as Geir, I'm one of those people stuck on the physical format and I'm having a really hard time letting go of that. I know there are so many reasons to get over myself - a) I don't have unlimited physical space for my ever growing collection, b) from an environmental standpoint, its kind of wasteful and indulgent, and c) the "cloud" is obviously the way of the future; but I'm finding myself frustrated when I get "punished" for waiting months and months for a physical item.

what typeface are we talking about here?

xpost

jon and Geir are experiencing what may be the platonic ideal of First World Problems

Yeah, I guess I'm just a big old douchey dinosaur for feeling like I do.

Just about the download, it looks like you need to be able to unzip the files once you get them. Cos I don't generally download stuff (other than from iTunes, Amazon and eMusic), I never got round to buying an application to extract files. The King of Limbs site links the user to Winzip, so if I were to follow their advice, then this whole thing is going to cost me £32. Thanks guys!

what typeface are we talking about here?

http://cdn.sandbag.uk.com/RV/c/TKOLPackshot.jpg

oh!

winzip is free to all intents and purposes. 7zip is really and totally free: http://www.7-zip.org/

if you preorder the 'newspaper' edition you'd have to wait a month longer than the people picking up the regular CD/LP. the leak is on saturday, the physical release a month later, the deluxe release a month later than that.

I mean, I want a physical CD without 625 choking hazards as well, which is why I am either going to wait for the physical release or buy the mp3s and pick up the album later if I like it enough

(which reminds me, I still need to pick up physical copies of Heligoland and Heartland)

xp: most modern operating systems open .zip files natively now; they are treated just like regular folders

Thanks ledge. Why aren't the Radiohead sending people there instead? xxp

xxxp: what OS are you on? windows has native support for unzipping zip files, at least since XP if not older versions

and winzip is 'shareware' or whatever, it asks you to buy it but it never actually disables any features after the 30 days are up iirc

I got xp, so it may or may not work I guess. Hasn't worked in the past, but I'll figure it out somehow...

well 7-zip should work regardless, so you're all set

and winzip is 'shareware' or whatever, it asks you to buy it but it never actually disables any features after the 30 days are up iirc

FYI as of version 10 they changed this so that after 30 days you had to buy it; I don't know if they changed it back with subsequent versions

does the program actually have features that are worth $ in any sense?

or are they just relying on people who get confused w/ zip files

winRAR is free and can open .rar and .zip iirc

No, not in a world where 7zip exists (xp)

not really, it was the first decent zip/unzip program for windows and has been around for ages and ages, so it's used purely on name recognition now that there are good free alternatives

Yeah, winRAR is the champ for all time.

btw can I just say lol @ all of us for the turn this conversation has taken

This is the stuff that Thom Yorke doesn't want you to know.

this is a good time to ask the question "what is the difference between zip files and rar files?"

Yeah, winRAR is the champ for all time.

QFT; it really doesn't get better than WinRAR.

this is a good time to ask the question "what is the difference between zip files and rar files?"

it's a different encoding algorithm; IIRC RAR files are supposed to be smaller on average

pretty sure rar compression creates smaller archive files?

xp

so why would anyone ever use a zip file?

this is a good time to ask the question "what is the difference between zip files and rar files?"

Rar compresses more than zip, I think the compression algorithm is just more complex or something

Hey guys, I wonder what this album will SOUND like?!

I think zip files are still used because WinZip doesn't do rars or something, I guess it's kind of the same reason why mp3 is still used even if other formats are technically 'better'

because rar sometimes confuses people and zip is better known/maybe more universal?

so why would anyone ever use a zip file?

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zip is open format, rar is proprietory.

Thought that 'waiting' artwork is more Meat Puppets circa 1985

I have learned so much this morning, thank you

man i wonder how many mbs the compressed archive of this album is going to be!

c'mon we can get five days more compression software discussion out of this before the album arrives.

radiohead's decision to make this a zip file now infuriates me btw

Well it's also easier to figure out what to do with a file ending in ".zip" ("hmm, maybe I need to... unzip it?") than what to do with a file ending in ".rar" ("I spent 10 minutes roaring into the microphone and I still can't get to my mp3s ;_;")

Please note that compression software data for the entire discography is also included. This was the only data made available with the application, and in order to accurately estimate and verify hearing results, individual album compression data will need to be obtained from the band.

I don't even think Factory released a file compression program under a cat number.

Jordan - I would guess about 82 mbs compressed. I would guess they would use 320 kbps MP3s after the shitstorm that occured after In Rainbows was released as a 160 kbps MP3 (really a dumb decision, but whatever), I still think they probably have no idea what VBR is so I doubt they'd use it. I think 320 is like 2 mb = 1 minute, and my guess is this album will be 52 minutes long, so 104 mb compressed which should be like 82, but my math might be totally off.

104 mb compressed which should be like 82

That would be SERIOUSLY compressed. I'd guess that 104mb worth of data compressed by standard rar settings would result in something around 96-98mb.