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Why can't I download the MARS HILL AUDIO Journal in a single file, load it into iTunes, and burn a CD? Why are there so many MP3 files? First, the contents of each issue of the Journal are too large to fit on a single CD, so we have to have at least two files. Second, even if we provided a single file for each of the two parts of the Journal, there is no way to create and distribute a single file that would, when burned to CD, include separate tracks. Even Apple can't do this. Try downloading any album and you get a file for each song. Try downloading Mahler's Second Symphony (which is about 90-minutes long, about the same length as an issue of our Journal) and you get 25 separate tracks. If the Symphony (or our Journal) came in a single 90-minute long track, it would be more cumbersome to listen to it, given most people's listening habits. Many listeners would be really frustrated by having one long 45-minute track on a CD without any way to navigate between interviews. The CD edition of the Journal has always relied on separate tracks for each interview; listeners who burn CDs from downloadable files expect the same convenience of use. So we're stuck in a position between ease of listening and ease of preparation. Until there are major changes in the structure of MP3 files (which I rather doubt, because most MP3 listeners like having tracks separated), I don't think the burning process will be much streamlined. |
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