Regarding the 2020 release of King Of The Fall

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  • Jan 1, 2021
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    chili

    Wow, never knew this

    You’re the king of the wayback machine in Weeknd sxn tbh

    Hah, thanks. What Abel did with the mixtapes/Kiss Land made him one of my favourite musicians. So when you're dedicated to finding the highest quality sources of his music... 😅 But I am one of many in this section

    I'd like to find old 2011-2012 concerts/footage though, that would be cool

  • Jan 1, 2021
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    New NIGHTMAN

    The loudness war is over op

    https://hyperbitsmusic.com/ultimate-guide-to-the-loudness-war

    Industry level wise? It is over, loudness won.

  • Jan 2, 2021
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    talktohani

    Industry level wise? It is over, loudness won.

  • Jan 3, 2021
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    f*** dynamic range all my homies hate dynamic range

    i like my s*** distorted b!

  • Jan 4, 2021
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    talktohani

    About the artwork, that's cool. I too for sentimental values keep the trilogy dark cover. I kept the OG unpolished 2011 mixtapes, with their individual artworks, -- and for KOTF, at the time I didn't really like the Sky Ferreira cover, and I wanted to use somewhere the dark cover, so I used it for this track. And it's kinda fitting, imo lol. The vibe of the pic, with the vibe of the track.

    About the mp3, quoting myself on another thread, apparently there once was a legit download link, (not a soundcloud rip) but a legit mp3 file like "Enemy".
    But I guess there was a download limit, cause that button isn't active anymore.
    Through WaybackMachine I found the earliest recorded date
    https://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 (lossless FLAC or WAV)

    no this is correct, you would only get the 320 option, because at the time soundcloud hadn't even allowed for higher bitrate songs on the platform just yet. I have the og files for this song and all me by drake. Both are 320 bitrate mp3s.

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