mminutel
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Alright, my friend and I are in a little argument. He basically makes fun of me for encoding my music in FLAC, because "it is pointless." He said that his DJ friend has been around people that master CDs, and they only master them with 160kbps. He said ripping them in anything over 160kbps is pointless. Now, I know this isn't true, but I want to be able to show him all of the people that are on my side. His argument doesn't even make sense to me. I tried to tell him there is really no such thing as compressing audio before it is burnt to a CD, but he insists on arguing. Anyone care to help me out?
(12:30:43 PM) ********: Truth be told, CDs are only recorded at 160, if you go over that, you are just adding extra 00s to the file to make it a bigger size.
(12:31:20 PM) MMinutel: I assure you they aren't recorded at 160.
(12:31:27 PM) ********: 192, rather.
(12:31:56 PM) MMinutel: How do you figure that?
(12:32:36 PM) ********: Eric told me, he's a DJ and has watched CDs being mastered. They were mastered at 192 or something
(12:33:09 PM) MMinutel: Not to get an argument started, but I don't see how that is possible.
(12:33:20 PM) ********: Why?
(12:34:16 PM) ********: You can reencode a 16 kbps file to 1411 and it's still only got the 16kbps info, it's just got a **** load of extra zeroes to make it 30 mb instead of like 800 KB
(12:34:35 PM)********: You have no extra "sound information"
(12:30:43 PM) ********: Truth be told, CDs are only recorded at 160, if you go over that, you are just adding extra 00s to the file to make it a bigger size.
(12:31:20 PM) MMinutel: I assure you they aren't recorded at 160.
(12:31:27 PM) ********: 192, rather.
(12:31:56 PM) MMinutel: How do you figure that?
(12:32:36 PM) ********: Eric told me, he's a DJ and has watched CDs being mastered. They were mastered at 192 or something
(12:33:09 PM) MMinutel: Not to get an argument started, but I don't see how that is possible.
(12:33:20 PM) ********: Why?
(12:34:16 PM) ********: You can reencode a 16 kbps file to 1411 and it's still only got the 16kbps info, it's just got a **** load of extra zeroes to make it 30 mb instead of like 800 KB
(12:34:35 PM)********: You have no extra "sound information"