FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is ‘lossy’. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA - it’s about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don’t want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media. I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrange…well don’t get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren’t stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you’ll be glad you did.
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Quality bait. Even with an experiment. Very unusual.
I feel like this is one of those thoughts that are so stupid that the general reddit cant find the gap in reasoning
Hey if op wants to produce music this way more power to him :D
I guess that will make for a nice plugin
Just learned a new word
can u post your abx so i can decide whether downloading this is even worth it? :)
Man i thought my DAP ideas were bad
Of course, any system is only as good as its weakest link, but I am curious why so many seem to subscribe to this belief.
You suggest that this isnt actually true?
Knock knock yes i just heard someone talking shit about CDs…
My uncle has been obsessed with this his whole life. He got electrostatic headphones with a high voltage supply to use it. He even has some patents on electrostatic driver designs.
He does not want to omit the idea that hi res has a benefit to impulse reproduction. Yes you can definitely see the ringing artifacts that the discretisation brings and yes the impulse widens because of this, but i get the impression that this is more a theoretical concept than any real world difference. The brain does not allow this kind of nuance.
If they aren’t night and day
they better be ngl
…and this is why you HAD a friend.
Sorry i had to lol
Now, I will enter the rabbit hole of which FLACs are truly lossless and which are only upscaled
Only pain, you will find.
If there is no alternative what does it matter if they are transcodes…
But if you want to buy some samples first to try and validate with spek.
Asking 30% more for flac is a no go imo. They should be the same price.
I do this locally with my files.
All i need to do is scan the files for replay gain then it generates the values automatically.
THe last column is the dynamic range. Its the one based on lufs
Tl;dr no
But what are you trying to do?
I have no streaming service rn i find my music in the deepest dark corners of fringe self hosted websites.
There is nothing more satisfying than revisiting a site you ripped songs from only to discover it got taken down and you are now the only gateway.
Yeah that is because compared to video, audio is a joke.
I tend to only classify when something is special about it or when it helps me.
For example: If a song has a glitch or slight flaw, i attach a tag named ISBROKEN and then fill that tag with timestamps.
I rarely go: i want to listen to grungepopfolkmetalphonk rn. The only thing i could do is tag all my classical so i can seperate it later.