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post #16 of 22
6/22/10 at 12:21pm
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Originally Posted by steve823 View Post
  
I know mp3 files and most mass music is horrible quality and compressed. 


You realize those are two different kinds of compression mentioned in the same sentence right?  Data compression and audio compression used in most modern pop recordings are 2 different things.

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post #17 of 22
6/22/10 at 12:25pm
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Originally Posted by Anaxilus View Post


You realize those are two different kinds of compression mentioned in the same sentence right?  Data compression and audio compression used in most modern pop recordings are 2 different things.


True, but of course he was right nonetheless.

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post #18 of 22
6/22/10 at 4:07pm
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Originally Posted by Oktyabr View Post

x3 Mr Joboto on the CD purchase!

 

I buy a lot of my cds used (cheap) from either Amazon or one of a couple of local shops then I rip them into lossless FLAC for home stereo and fairly decent quality VBR mp3 for the iPhone.


The nice thing about archiving in FLAC is that if you want to do a CD for a roadtrip or something you can burn an exact copy of the original from the FLAC files.  Most of my CDs see a CD player/ripper *once* and then they get archived for backup purposes just in case.

 

I also get FLAC (even 24/96kHz high resolution from the original studio masters!) at HDtracks when they have something I want.  Search www.archive.org for FLAC of some interesting stuff too.


How do you rip a cd to FLAC? I have Nero or Itunes that I can use to rip tracks ,but do I need a special program or is their a certain setting I use?

 

And you can only do this with CD's right? Music online is already set and I can't make the quality better, if I'm not mistaken,

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post #19 of 22
6/22/10 at 8:24pm
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Originally Posted by steve823 View Post

And you can only do this with CD's right? Music online is already set and I can't make the quality better, if I'm not mistaken,


You can't make the quality better through conversion or compression. The best you can ever hope for is a faithful reproduction of the original.

Lossless will do that (FLAC, ALAC, etc.).

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post #20 of 22
6/22/10 at 8:39pm

The answer is simple...Spotify!

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post #21 of 22
6/24/10 at 10:56am

x4 for buying compact discs!

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post #22 of 22
12/5/10 at 1:04am

I just posted this in another thread but you can find a list of sites that offer FLAC downloads here

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