compressed music files

[sublime]

i am too normal to tell the difference between compressed music files and regular old music. how much of a downgrade in quality is it? like say vinyl is 10 and CD is whatever, what would the shizit on my IPOD be?

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

Assuming they were "well done", I'd say probably about 7-8.

[sublime]

well, say i buy the stuff off ITUNES, is that 'well done'?

use the software from ITUNES to DL off a CD?

use the software from ITUNES to DL off a CD that was a burned copy?

help me listen to better music people

[sublime]

cmon you geeks, i need help.

[FouTight]

if you have to ask, you won't know the difference

[wacki]

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cmon you geeks, i need help.

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There are many types of compression. Some of them are lossless and some of them trade sound quality for size reduction. If you open up a song in winamp and see it playing at 128 kbs you are not going to hear a difference on a normal stereo. A really nice stereo will show the difference. I encode all my music at 160 kbs or greater. The files are slightly larger but there is a noticeable difference on a good (polk/infinity/etc) floor system.

More later time is precious.

[wacki]

sublime try some of these to hear lossless compression.

http://www.monkeysaudio.com/
http://flac.sourceforge.net/
www.wavpack.com/ (http://www.wavpack.com/)


Here is a good encoder as well
http://jthz.com/~lame/

Just grap a CD and experiment. Make sure you test it with a system that has a subwoofer because that is where a lot of the shortcuts are taken. Listen to one file and listen to the other while sitting at the same system.

Also, sound cards can be the limiting factor here.

Gots to go... later.