Tool - Fear Inoculum -deluxe- -2019- | -flac-

2019 was the year of the algorithm. Playlists dominated. Yet TOOL, famously late to digital streaming (they only joined streaming services a week before this release), countered with a physical/deluxe hybrid. The irony is that the best way to listen to Fear Inoculum in 2019 was to buy the Deluxe physical package and rip it to FLAC.

A standard MP3 caps at 320 kbps, discarding frequencies above 20 kHz via psychoacoustic modeling (lossy). A FLAC file of the Deluxe edition typically runs between 900 and 1,200 kbps at 16-bit/44.1kHz (CD quality), or higher at 24-bit/96kHz. TOOL - Fear Inoculum -Deluxe- -2019- -FLAC-

The 2019 Deluxe Edition (often the limited CD + 4K video screen package) added: 2019 was the year of the algorithm