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Acquiring quality mp3 files?

post #1 of 3
11/9/11 at 11:24am
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Dear all,

 

After joining the forum(awesome one!), i realized the listening quality of music isn't based solely on equipment but the files(mp3) itself too. It is to my knowledge that downloading files off the web might not gurantee the highest quality, even if they are the 'biggest' file amongst the options which i used to believe.

 

Can anyone advice me on how can i obtain quality mp3 files? Or if there is any programs to use, what are they? Please help (:

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post #2 of 3
11/9/11 at 9:10pm

Buy CDs, rip them to FLAC, encode those to high bitrate MP3s.

 

Even more important than the bitrate is the recording quality, though. That's something you won't be able to guarantee. A lot of modern recordings and remasters don't sound very good.

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post #3 of 3
11/10/11 at 2:05am
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Originally Posted by Head Injury View Post

 

Even more important than the bitrate is the recording quality, though. That's something you won't be able to guarantee. A lot of modern recordings and remasters don't sound very good.

 

The answer being (if you haven't already) to get into jazz or classical. :)  Recording quality for both has been pretty consistently good for the past 50 years.

 

 

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