In Greece cd piracy is a super huge illegal industry,so most greeks buy cds almost for free.Personally I prefer being illegal than being ripped off by the music industry.
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In Greece cd piracy is a super huge illegal industry,so most greeks buy cds almost for free.Personally I prefer being illegal than being ripped off by the music industry.
On a cheap midi system, with limited equaliser functions, I really don't notice that much difference (if any) between Mp3 (even 128kbs) and CD.
On my own amp and speaker set up, I notice a large difference between mp3 and cd.
However for most lo-fi music I prefer vinyl. But don't have a decent record player, so it sounds a bit poo. My friend however does have a top notch record player and I just think music sounds so much better on it.
Vinyl is much warmer, but too much of an inconvenience.
With some music, even sub-standard bitrates sound fine. I've got a 96kbps mp3 of Nico's "These Days" from the Royal Tenenbaums soundtrack that sounds absolutely wonderful.
MP3s have roughly the same effect as a low pass filter. If the music is already dulled enough (common with crunchy synth/organ stuff - "Everything in its Right Place" for example) then low bitrate MP3 is gonna be just fine, and only noticeable on infinite frequency sounds such as cymbal crashes.
I hate low bit rates, you cannot get a nice quality sound out of them.
My old Kumar Sanu songs are encoded at 56kbps and they just don't appear to play at all. No sound, I mean I hate the sound quality.
I download a Phish song yesterday and it turned out to be encoded at 64kbps. Nasty.
You like VBR. I hate that too.
Why would you hate VBR? It only makes sense, at least in theory. Why encode at a constant bit rate while some portions of the music might be much simpler and cover a much narrower frequency band?
Simply because I hate it.
