unless you're putting them on a conventional ipod. then size is an important concern.
I was buying music off Amazon and I noticed almost every album was available as "instant digital download" and I thought, nah, I'll wait for the CD and then rip my own. IF the digital download was lossless files, like .flac or .wav, then I might have done it.
Once I signed onto a music sharing service and saw folks trading illegal mp3s of my own music. That was interesting. I got one of them out of curiousity. The rip was at a low bitrate and sounded horrible compared to the CD, with the mix out of whack because of the serious compression.
From: Cfh <cfhiebert@sasktel.net>
To: Classic_Rock_Forever@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2011 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Classic_Rock_Forever] Re: REPORT: CD-Format to be Abandoned by Major Labels by the End of 2012
I'd agree. Mp3's can vary depending upon bitrate as well. The lossless formats are superior, and wav especially have an excellent sound. Considering the low cost of hard drive space these days, the size of the files are not the same concern that they used to be.
Clint
From: howl dog
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 7:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Classic_Rock_Forever] Re: REPORT: CD-Format to be Abandoned by Major Labels by the End of 2012
From: Cfh <cfhiebert@sasktel.net>
To: Classic_Rock_Forever@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2011 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Classic_Rock_Forever] Re: REPORT: CD-Format to be Abandoned by Major Labels by the End of 2012
I'm not one to dismiss the mp3 as a bad format. 99% of the folks couldn't tell the difference if I put a blindfold on them.
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while this is true, it depends on the file and the way its created. From personal experience mixing my own music, when you crunch a huge file down to mp3, the compression involved can do very weird things to the mix... suddenly something becomes louder, like the hi hat, or something gets inexplicably buried.
It can get weird. If I mix down to a lossless format, like pure .wav file, of course they're huge, but, it sounds identical to the mother track.
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