In our opinion, if a band wants their music to be reviewed by DPRP, the initiative and costs lie with the band. Why should our editors spend time (and money) downloading MP3s?
• Our reviewers always play CDs several times when reviewing; using MP3s would mean they can only review using a PC, not their car or home stereo. Not only is this very inconvenient, but it would also delay the review process unnecessarily. • We normally review all aspects of an album, including sound quality (often of inferior quality if a low sample rate is used in an MP3) and artwork (not available when reviewing MP3s). DPRP therefore only reviews albums in their commercially available format. • There’s a certain barrier to overtake for a band to release a CD. Currently lots of band are releasing and selling home-made CDs. The majority of these is of doubtful quality. Making a downloadable MP3 available has an even lower barrier. The high quantity of MP3s and low quality of the material (from a compositional point of view) will probably make reviewing MP3 files not only uninteresting and tedious, but also sheerly impossible with the capacity of the DPRP team.
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