First off, if you need something to do this New Year's Day, head to Iowa School for the Deaf in about two hours. Bright Eyes is opening for Barack Obama at a rally.
http://iowa.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/meeting/4vp88
Secondly...
Rolling Stone has a really good article about the death of high fidelity.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17777619/the_death_of_high_fidelity
According to the article, to ensure the best quality of downloads, do the following...
From your iTunes main screen...
1. Click the Edit menu and select Preferences.
2. From the iTunes window, click the Advanced tab.
3. Click the Importing tab.
4. Click the Setting drop-down box and select Custom...
5. From the AAC Encoder window, select '320 kbps' from the Stereo Bit Rate drop-down box.
6. Click OK.
