That’s right, I’ve decided to release my latest EP in lossless only. You’re going to want to download the FLAC package if you’re on Windows/Unix and playing music through winamp, windows media player or such. Mac users will probably want to download the ALAC package – for usage with iTunes/iPod.

So why the lack of MP3s? Well, I could write alot about this, but basically the only argument for MP3s anymore – now that we have faster internet connections and bigger hard drives – is the compatability. Now, imagine if everyone would suddenly start using FLAC instead of MP3 – in no time, the compatability issue that FLAC has (compared to MP3) would be resolved.

Now obviously there’ll never be a sudden global change of format, so somebody has to start. So what I’m hoping to do is to at at least have the hardcore Phlogiston-fanbase (har har) using FLAC, and maybe with time more and more people will download our FLAC catalog as opposed to our MP3 catalog.

Don’t worry, though; this does not mean Pause is stopping with MP3 releases. I do realise I’ll probably lose out on some potential listeners, and it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make, but I won’t force this upon any of the others who release through Pause. I do, however, hope that other who feel the same way as I consider going all lossless somewhere down the road.

We’d love to hear your opinions on this. So please do use the comment field to post your comments, thoughts, ideas, whatever. And if you for some reason insist that I should put this out in mp3, then try to persuade me.