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525. FLAC. I had a crazy episode and deleted my entire collection about a month ago. Was 19,000 tracks, all FLAC. Now I get to start fresh and do things properly. Until I realize IT'S ALL WRONG and my brain explodes. Currently going through my small CD collection and ripping them again.

It's counterfeit. I bought some counterfeit anime soundtracks and the quality was hit or miss. Overall most of them were great. Sounded perfect and most of the time the booklets were really good. Sometimes the booklets looked cheap but not awful and only 2 of the soundtracks I bought had...

16/44.1 FLAC. No need for anything higher (for playback). +ReplayGain on the whole music collection is nice.

Track gain is always given when scanning and is the same regardless of how you scan.

Track Gain: increases or decreases the volume of that track to on average 89 dB. All tracks will be at about the same loudness. Album Gain: increases or decreases the volume of the album to be on average 89 dB. This allows quiet tracks on the album to remain quieter than the loud tracks on the...

Or the annoying high pitched noise is annoying. Something doesn't need to be loud for it to cause a headache...

I don't like the growly metal either. For the most part I don't like vocals with metal at all, it rarely works for me. That's why I listen to instrumental metal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHAUQNTwYZo

http://bandcamp.com/

Just as a jumping off point: music-map.com

Pretty easy at first out of my tablet and (crap) Sony buds. B was just fuller. After awhile though they both started sounding the same. Got it right without reading any comments but I doubt I could tell the different between even 256 & lossless, at least with my current gear.

I can hear 19 kHz.

There's a very old thread like this one. JPGs were used but it doesn't really matter except on the highest bitrate lossy encodes.