The version of The Void CD is different. Because Infinite was poorly mastered originally—thin lows, harsh highs—listening to it in MP3 at 128 or 256kbps creates "artifacts" that muddy the already murky production. In FLAC, you hear the hiss of the tape, the subtle clipping on the bass kicks, and the actual room reverb on Eminem’s voice. For a lo-fi record, lossless is essential .
Every song he had ever collected—terabytes of jazz, rock, hip-hop, every painstakingly preserved FLAC—was gone. emineminfinitereissuecdflac2009thevoid
He opened it.