Edit, some say it was a flac, some say it was a wav... And through wayback machine, I only found mp3 as an official release (soundcloud download button)

Somehow I've been missing them from my library. I only have what I think is the 320kbps mp3. And I honestly don't know its source. I think I read somewhere it was available for download for a limited time in soundcloud, anyways, a little bit of story of the origin would be appreciated. And please only share the files that you are sure are originally released, not some transcodes, or a mp3 to flac conversion. thanks in advance

PS. I read in two places that apparently it was shared in uncompressed .WAV like Drunk in Love was(!!)

PPS. itoones purchased zippy of the 2020 reissue

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I’ll look around but I don’t think there ever was a downloadable wav file. I just remember Or Nah, Drunk In Love and OG Drinks On Us being in wav format. Also, was there anything different about the 2014 vs 2020 version?

through wayback machine I found the earliest recorded date
web.archive.org/web/20141211123956/https://soundcloud.com/theweeknd/the-weeknd-king-of-the-fall
and by hovering the mouse above the "download" button it gives me a preview of the size at 11.9MB, which makes me think only a HQ 320kbps MP3 was ever officially shared.
I'd like to be proven wrong though, in case the earlier visitors got a higher resolution audio download

Good work Detective Hani haha

I’ve been going back to blogs and various download sites and I’m on a mission to find the flac (and I don’t even want it, it would just be satisfying to find it if it’s out there)