Beatles offer 16GB apple-shaped USB drive

Loaded with 14 albums and a pile of bonus material

Beatles offer 16GB apple-shaped USB drive. Audio, Music, Beatles, USB drives, USB gadgets 0

4 November 2009 9:49 GMT / By Duncan Geere

The Beatles have perennially refused to put their catalogue on any digital download sites, despite a little-known site called BlueBeat stocking the fab four's tracks at knock-down prices.

But if you want to get your hands on legitimate digital recordings of your Beatles tracks, you can now do so in the form of an apple-shaped 16GB USB stick stuffed with everything a Beatles' fan could possibly desire, short of Ringo's underwear.

The drives contain the 14 stereo Beatles albums in lossless FLAC 44.1Khz 24-bit, which will satisfy any audio purists, as well as 320kbps MP3s for those who care more about storage space and compatibility on their mp3 player. There's also a pile of liner notes, album art, photos and mini-documentary films about each album.

There's only 100 of the drives available to the UK, and they're up for pre-order now for the rather costly sum of £200. They'll be available from 7 December.

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  • Or £170 for the actual remastered CD's which will also survive your kids reformating the USB stick because they wanted to copy Miley Cyrus on to it. Posted by adrianaitken, United Kingdom
  • Just been doing some Googling to try and work out whether FLAC is higher quality than CD audio. Red Book (the CD audio standard) only uses 16-bit sound, whereas the FLAC in this case arrives at 24-bit, so that would suggest FLAC is better.

    Though of course it's important to consider where the FLAC files come from. It's entirely possible that someone at EMI just ripped the remastered CDs into FLAC, which would negate the benefit entirely.

    I'd doubt that anyone but the most hardened audiophile playing on very high-end equipment could tell the difference anyway :)
    Posted by radioedit, United Kingdom

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