In <span class="bold">this post</span> it is mentioned GOG's version of Blood has compressed audio files which makes the game offered here inferior. I couldn't find any information on this in the subforums so I would appreciate if anyone can confirm this.

The in game CD audio tracks were ripped to OGG and the audio track download that GoG offers on our game library page are MP3, both are lossy.

Is there a workaround to fix this?

I have also seen some discussion in the forums on MIDI format being the preferable one but don't know if it is true.

Without tracking down an original CD to rip to FLAC, not really. Some one might rip it to FLAC for you, but that would be up to them. It would be nice if GoG would offer for download in FLAC format like they do for other titles (Shadow Warrior, System Shock 2), but they currently don't.

Some people prefer MIDI, but that is a separate thing from the lossless or lossy format you get from OGG/MP3 vs FLAC. MIDI is more like sheet music that your computer reads generate the music on the fly.

Seriously though, does it really matter?

That probably refers to the bad rip GoG did the first time around, which was not really their fault.

If you have an actual Blood CD and rip it to audio files the break points between the tracks are off, so by the time you get to track5, you are missing about a second of audio at the beginning and at the end you get about a second of audio from track6. This only gets worse the further along in the tracks you get.

To fix the issue you have to rip the entire CD to a single audio file and then break it up manually in a program like Audacity to get the tracks to play correctly.

Since they used a horrible low bitrate - yes.

I'm not sure I can tell the difference between the FLAC files I've ripped from my Blood CD and the 192bit mp3 files in my GoG game library. If you want to listen yourself... link expired Granted, there's a chance it did it "wrong". I ripped to WAV with Foobar2000 and then manually split the tracks in Audacity, because of the erroneous track markers mentioned above.

It would be awesome if Monolith still has the original analog audio recordings that could be converted directly to hi-fidelity FLAC. But for the time being, the mp3s sound the same to me.

omg you have the flacs? O.O

Thaaaanks.

For some reason I had only 96 kbit oggs :S

The oggs are what came with the game installation package.
Check your Blood download page, it also 192kbps mp3s. I'm not sure the FLAC rips turned out any better.

Here is a version ripped straight from my friends Blood CD. https://www.dropbox.com/s/x703fqg9xlt4ls0/BloodSoundTrack.zip
Still ogg though.