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End of digital files on iPhone/Touch?

post #1 of 11
10/27/09 at 9:22pm
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Doubtful, as the SQ of these files sound dubious at best. But it is an interesting concept.

Music service Lala heralds MP3-killing iPhone app - USATODAY.com
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post #2 of 11
10/27/09 at 10:42pm
It's like a terrible rip-off of Spotify.
Spotify's much better, 320kps (ogg Vorbis), option to buy permanently, can store 3,333 tracks offline etc. Lala's DOA
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post #3 of 11
10/27/09 at 10:46pm
32 kbps, fantastic...
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post #4 of 11
10/27/09 at 11:15pm
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No Spotify in USA, yet.
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post #5 of 11
10/28/09 at 6:41am
Well, they said that higher bitrate versions of the songs were also available and that it would continue to improve as cell phone delivery capacity increases. How much cheaper would a device be to produce/sell if manufacturers didn't have to integrate so much on-board memory??
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post #6 of 11
10/28/09 at 7:08am
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Originally Posted by Joelby View Post
32 kbps, fantastic...
I think its enough for people who listen "music" trough their cellphone speakers, especially at high volume.
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post #7 of 11
10/28/09 at 7:19am
How does that mean the end of digital files on iPhone / Touch?
1. Many of us prefer to buy CDs instead of buying digital lossy music.
2. Many of us can hear an audible difference between lossless and lossy. Especially 32kbps files as this service provide.
3. Seriously doubt it will be available worldwide, like the Touch (iPhone?) is.
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post #8 of 11
10/28/09 at 9:08am
It's just a new type of service, which will be useful for some people, but definitely not the "end" of anything.
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post #9 of 11
10/28/09 at 10:06am
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If you read the original post, I didn't say it was the end of digital files. Highly doubtful is how I put it.

However, "many of us" doesn't mean in 5 years that loading digital files onto a player, via rip or download, will be many any more. The point about how much cheaper a handheld will be without any internal memory is interesting.
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post #10 of 11
10/28/09 at 10:27am
^ Yeah, it is in question form "End of digital files on iPhone/Touch?"
The low bitrate alone exclude it from being very popular I would say. But then again we Head-Fiers do not always agree with the masses.
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post #11 of 11
10/28/09 at 5:18pm
Until someone offers a real Lossless solution to this i want nothing to do with it. ORB is pretty close as you can access and listen to your local collection from a web page but no matter what you do it won't actually stream your lossless audio in a lossless bit rate.
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