What Format is Your Music?
Mar 18, 2010 at 9:16 PM Thread Starter Post #1 of 216

Necrolic

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I was just reading around today and out of nowhere I became curious as to what format everyone listens to their music in, whether it be 320Kbps MP3s, low quality MP3s, FLAC, CD, SACD, Vinyl, or some other format.

My entire music collection is in 320Kbps MP3s purchased from millisong.com. I personally can't detect a difference between 320Kbps MP3s and FLAC except for a very slight difference in extremely complex passages of songs, and only after extensive A/B'ing, so it was not worth paying roughly 5 times the price to buy everything in CD form and rip it to FLAC.

So what about the rest of you?
 
Mar 18, 2010 at 9:22 PM Post #2 of 216
256Kbps VBR AAC
 
Mar 18, 2010 at 9:24 PM Post #3 of 216
Hybrid of FLAC and 320 MP3. I honestly can't tell the difference 99.9% of the time.
 
Mar 18, 2010 at 9:26 PM Post #5 of 216
As an aside, aren't the flat bit rate 256 AAC from the itunes store equivalent in quality to a 320Kbps MP3?

I hope I'm not opening a can a worms with this.
 
Mar 18, 2010 at 9:32 PM Post #6 of 216
It varies, but mostly CD and 256kb VBR AAC
 
Mar 18, 2010 at 9:34 PM Post #7 of 216
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As an aside, aren't the flat bit rate 256 AAC from the itunes store equivalent in quality to a 320Kbps MP3?

I hope I'm not opening a can a worms with this.



Debateably, yes. Although they cost 10x the price of where I got my 320Kbps MP3s (see OP). Unfortunately, that site seems to be going down, as they haven't been accepting payments for a few weeks now.
 
Mar 18, 2010 at 9:39 PM Post #9 of 216
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Debateably, yes. Although they cost 10x the price of where I got my 320Kbps MP3s (see OP). Unfortunately, that site seems to be going down, as they haven't been accepting payments for a few weeks now.


But the selection in the itunes store for non-mainstream offerings is astonishing.

Something that has always puzzled me is that there are no Tool albums in the iTunes store... at least not in the Canadian store. No idea why.
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Mar 18, 2010 at 9:46 PM Post #10 of 216
It would be good if that poll was multi-entry. I'm 90% FLAC.
 
Mar 18, 2010 at 9:55 PM Post #12 of 216
CDs only - as long as music is still being sold on disks (or any other physical volume), I will continue to buy and use them (except for portable use). A file list on a pc isn't half as appealing as a CD rack...

For use with portable players, I rip my CDs to ~300kbps Ogg Vorbis files.
 
Mar 18, 2010 at 10:02 PM Post #14 of 216
I buy CDs, and rip them in ALAC which I convert to 320 kbps for iPod listening. My real listening time is CD-based, though.
 
Mar 18, 2010 at 10:04 PM Post #15 of 216
60-70% of my music is ripped from the CD's I own, and hence is all in FLAC; with about 20%, they're the paid 320kbps mp3 downloads from other sites and AAC 256kbps from itunes, etc. The rest is really old 128kbps stuff I downloaded many, many years ago when mp3's first surfaced.
 

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