So, I know the contents and quality of The Work is well documented, but what about Work It by comparison? Isn't it mostly/completely the same content and quality? Work It was intended to be free too, correct? Anyone want to enlighten me?

Do U mean, "Let's Work," from "Controversy?"

Tame said:

Sorry, I mean the massive bootleg comps. But judging by your smiley face, you mighta known that already, eh?

Prince is always working he works too hard

pastawrangler said:

work it 2.0 is supposed to be the best quality sources avaliable. i.e. flac

where-as the work is in mp3, converted from .wav masters

besides that, the work has more material than work it.

pastawrangler said:

What are "comps" compositions?

^ compilations

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Bohemian67 said:

Compilations.

jethrouk said:

A FLAC is just a WAV in a container. The question is, are the "sources" directly from the cassette or CDS they are found on, and was there NEVER any compression from point A to point B. Some of those songs that have leaked out are only going to sound good to a certain point, regardless of the source. Tapes get old, some stuff is just a bad copy to begin with.

ernestsewell said:

yes i know that. work it 2.0 the blurb reads:




The work is in mp3, probably copied from a variety of sources. Richard has made the work EE which is the original wav from his masters.

I downloaded the entire Work It 2.0 set in Flac. It's tracks are supposed to be culled from the best sources available. I have the old The Work CD set too, but better sources have since been found. The hard part is finding a lossless version of The Work. The Work EE is only appearing in teaser form right now as far as I know.

Start with Work It 2.0 and if you get lucky, download The Work in lossless if you can find it.

By the way, WAVs are a container(or shell) as well - but not compressed like Flac, so WAV quality can vary as much as mp3s. In a perfect world, people would not convert lossys to Flac and WAV, but they do.

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you are talking about wave not wav.
and FLAC has no sound loss!

I know nothing...I always put the cool sign at the end of my posts...

Just to ensure the members of the org. That I may not be beautiful although capable of turning Prince on, however I can't help but be cool all of the time.

Dewrede said:

WAV and Wave are both abbreviations for a Windows Waveform audio file. WAV just happens to be the 3 character extension. And yes, Flac is a lossless codec, but a lossy mp3 or wma can be converted to Flac or WAV - and often is.