If you buy it on bleepstore you can download immediately; I got the 24-bit audio and converted to FLAC and tagged it. Listening on Grado SR125s through a good USB DAC plus tube headphone amplifier it sounds great. Not sure if I could detect a difference between the 24-bit and 16-bit lossless audio (or the MP3s for that matter) but it FEELS more high resolution, if nothing else Frankly don't understand why Bleepstore doesn't give you properly tagged 24-bit FLAC files. I also don't know what the master files were -- they could have just upsampled 16 bit audio for all I know.