a few more of my opinions :P
quoted 1 line very nice! i have been reading about lossless codecs and file> very nice! i have been reading about lossless codecs and file
mp3, ogg, and mpc are all lossy
flac, monkey's audio, rkau, etc are lossless
lossless is attractive for quality - you know the quality is tops because
it's lossless! but the best compression you will get is ~50%, which is
horrible if you're backing up CDs. I mean, you want to back up your audio
in good quality, but you'll basically need half as many CD-Rs to store as
many CDs as you own (50% compression = ~2 albums per disc, right?). so
physical storage space becomes a big concern. If you have a giant HD,
great, but if your HD gets trashed, you have to rip & encode them all again.
I suppose, once backed up, you don't have to rip again, you can just keep
decompressing the lossless audio packs whenever you need to. I own about
800 CDs, which even in CaseLogic ProSleeves take up four of the CaseLogic
storage cabinets (which hold about 200 cds in sleeves). I shudder at the
thought of getting two more cabinets just to store my backups, when CD-Rs
full of MP3s can fit in a much, much smaller space...
quoted 2 lines lossless yet... many of us are tied to the mp3 format for more reasons> lossless yet... many of us are tied to the mp3 format for more reasons
> than portable players. hopefully it will be possible sooner than anyone
The thing about MPC/MpegPlus/MusePack is that, while it certainly has the
best quality, it's gone backwards for ID tagging capability. It only uses
ID3v1, IIRC. I need more than this! Ogg isn't finalized yet, and the sound
quality can only get better, and it has so much potential for tagging! It's
an open ended system, so you can use whatever you need (label tag, catalog
tag, multiple performers for band/orchestra members, 'version' tag for
remixes, etc...)
The only reason I haven't switched to anything other than mp3 yet is that
little bit about Ogg not being finalized - when they get past 1.0, I may
re-archive my music collection in a couple years. Who knows, maybe by then
something better will come along. For now, MP3 serves its purpose "good
enough"
quoted 1 line why is this on the idm list? perhaps the community is tied to mp3 more> why is this on the idm list? perhaps the community is tied to mp3 more
well, electronic music in general has more affinity for digital music than
most other types of music, and i think on the idm list in particular there
are a lot of people on low budgets who like to be able to try the music
before we buy it - especially when the styles vary so much, you never know
what you're going to get when everybody's talking about a new artist!
.adam
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