Talk:K-ON! MUSIC HISTORY'S BOX/@comment-30764484-20130926045358

I just got a hold of this in the .flac format, for those who don't know, that's a lossless format, CD quality, as opposed to .mp3 which compresses the file size to save size, but at the cost of quality. It sounds awesome :D

This also means I have the Cassette, Live, Game, and TV versions that I hadn't bothered to get before. The Cassette set is really cool, the intro is exactly what got recorded in Ep23 when they were screwing around with the tape, and they talk in between the songs, though I can't understand them. Unlike all the live mixes where they use the same recordings as the standard versions and just mixed them differently, the Cassette songs are completely rerecorded, the instruments as well as the vocals.

The Game mixes are interesting, they're the same vocal tracks, but the instruments are either rerecorded or just digitally altered and the songs sound much heavier and a bit more upbeat as a result. HTT with a hint of Death Devil I suppose.

If you wanted to have all the songs (aside from the instrumentals as those would require buying all the individual albums, as they're not included in the Box), you would need this collection along with these five: K-ON! Sakura Kou Keionbu Official Band Yarouyo!!, K-ON!! Official Band Yarouyo!! ~Let's MUSIC!! 3~, K-ON! Movie - Official Band Yarouyo!! K-ON! Movie Hen, K-ON! Rendou Oubo Special CD, & "Watashi no Koi wa Hotch Kiss" Ep. 1 'Kōsan!' Version (Album).