WHAT IS MEANT BY...

Pre-Release

Release before official release date.
It can be Presse release or just LEAK from other sources like; CD Pre-Order from Big music stores.

EP

EP stands for Extended Play. EPs are much shorter than LPs, and are more similar to a demo than a full-length album.

The consensus is that EPs are supposed to be no more than 33 minutes. As we’ve mentioned before, Spotify and iTunes will classify your tracks as an EP if it fulfills these criteria.

EPs are a great way to promote your music, and to give people a taste of what to expect from you as an independent artist.

LP

LP stands for “Long Play” or “Long Playing.” This is essentially the same thing as a full-length music album. They’re, as the name suggests, longer playing music recordings that span the course of several songs.

There are no hard-and-fast rules about the duration or number of the songs, but an LP (or an album) is typically considered to be 34 minutes and more in length.

The word LP was derived from the microgroove vinyl records of the past. Each vinyl record could hold 40 minutes of music on one side. Records with an entire album worth of music would be referred to as a “long-playing vinyl record.”

MIRROR

Absolutely the same file from other source like Mega:NZ

WEB / WEB RIP / WEB-DL

This is a file ripped from a DRM-free streaming service like bandcamp.

release types
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirated_movie_release_types

(HQ)

ReUpload in better Quallity (128kbps before -> Now 320 kbps)

Transcode / Transcoding

What is transcoding?

Transcoding is the process of converting one compressed format file to another.
For example, a MP3 converted directly to Ogg Vorbis or Ogg Vorbis converted to Wave then to MP3 are both examples of Transcoding.

Why is it bad?

The process of converting a song to a lossy format like MP3 or Ogg Vorbis involves the removal of audio data in the effort to reduce the file size. The removal of this data not only enables the reduction in file size but also in quality.

Converting an MP3 to OGG or WMA converts a file that already has lost a lot of quality and takes more quality away since OGG and MP3 are also lossy processes. Think of it as copying and copy.

This is also true for reencoding which is for example converting an mp3 to mp3. Reencoding will always deteriorate the audio quality, even if you are converting a 128Kbit/s mp3 to a 320Kbit/s mp3. This happens because the mp3 is decoded to a wave then is encoded to a 320Kbit/s mp3. This recompresses the Wave and takes away or filters more audio data for compression purposes.

So when you find a new, better audio format, don't convert all your files to that format because you think you'll be getting better quality, you'll be getting inferior quality instead. The best way to convert your existing compressed music collection is to re-rip from the CD directly to that new format.

SCENE / SCENE RELEASE / WAREZ

First quallity realese (VRB V0 normaly) by Team of more than 1 person, special warez community.

The Warez scene, often referred to as The Scene,[1] is an underground community of people that specialize in the distribution of copyrighted material, including television shows and series, movies, music, music videos, games (all platforms), applications (all platforms), ebooks, and pornography. The Scene is meant to be hidden from the public, only being shared with those within the community. However, as files were commonly leaked outside the community and their popularity grew, some individuals from The Scene began leaking files and uploading them to filehosts, torrents and ed2k.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene

MP3 128-320 VBR ABR

MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III)[4] is an audio coding format for digital audio. Originally defined as the third audio format of the MPEG-1 standard, it was retained and further extended—defining additional bit rates and support for more audio channels—as the third audio format of the subsequent MPEG-2 standard. A third version, known as MPEG 2.5—extended to better support lower bit rates—is commonly implemented, but is not a recognized standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3

256 - 320 kbps - Good Quallity
160 - 224 kbps - Normal Quallity 
96 - 128 kbps - Low Quallity

Constant bitrate (CBR)

is a term used in telecommunications, relating to the quality of service. Compare with variable bitrate.

When referring to codecs, constant bit rate encoding means that the rate at which a codec's output data should be consumed is constant. CBR is useful for streaming multimedia content on limited capacity channels since it is the maximum bit rate that matters, not the average, so CBR would be used to take advantage of all of the capacity. CBR would not be the optimal choice for storage as it would not allocate enough data for complex sections (resulting in degraded quality) while wasting data on simple sections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_bitrate

Variable bitrate (VBR)

is a term used in telecommunications and computing that relates to the bitrate used in sound or video encoding. As opposed to constant bitrate (CBR), VBR files vary the amount of output data per time segment. VBR allows a higher bitrate (and therefore more storage space) to be allocated to the more complex segments of media files while less space is allocated to less complex segments. The average of these rates can be calculated to produce an average bitrate for the file.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_bitrate

Average bitrate (ABR)

Average bitrate (ABR) refers to the average amount of data transferred per unit of time, usually measured per second, commonly for digital music or video. An MP3 file, for example, that has an average bit rate of 128 kbit/s transfers, on average, 128,000 bits every second. It can have higher bitrate and lower bitrate parts, and the average bitrate for a certain timeframe is obtained by dividing the number of bits used during the timeframe by the number of seconds in the timeframe. Bitrate is not reliable as a standalone measure of audio/video quality, since more efficient compression methods use lower bitrates to encode material at a similar quality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_bitrate