Just got a copy, and I have to say, this is just awesome. Any Beatles fan will love this, aficionados especially. The first half features a lot of solo guitar that is just beautiful, and the second half demonstrates more of their songwriting. It's really interesting to hear the Beatles hard at work writing early versions of Michelle, If I Fell, and Don't Bother Me at such young ages. The songs are all very clean and sounds great; obviously a lot of work went into putting this together. Even the insane Bible readings are an interesting listen to say the least (somebody was poppin Prellies)!

All the files are FLAC, which posed a problem at first, but I found this program called xrecode and changed them to mp3 fairly easily.

I haven't been a collector of Beatles recordings in the past, but after reading the release notes I have to say I'm very interested in it now. Gotta say, too, I like the idea of releasing CDs that you can actually listen to instead of just collect, and I can't wait to hear the rest of this set when it comes out!

As a side note, I have the Beatles full discography, LIB Naked, Past Masters, Love, Live at the BBC, the Anthology discs, and now your collection, asterisk. Would you recommend anything else on top of all that to round out the collection (besides repetitive/unlistenable stuff)?

Thanks again!