On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Arthur Maisel <arthurmaisel at gmail.com>wrote:
> "Awful" was certainly true of mp3s a number of years ago; their relation
> to good recordings was analogous to that of fast food to food.
>
> These days, it depends a great deal on the bit rate and the limits imposed
> by the size of the original files. FLAC will give you a file 50-60 percent
> of the original size (about two hours on a CD), with no loss of
> information; mp3 with a high bit rate will give you a file of 20 percent or
> less the size, and a hardly noticeable loss of information (much less loss
> than, say, an audio cassette recording).
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> It also depends on how complex the music is (more complex means more to
> lose) and how well it was recorded to begin with. If you are compiling
> music from old 78s, it's already lost most of what an mp3 will lose.
>
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> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:03 AM, joel schalit <jschalit at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Y. FLAC & Apple Lossless are the best-sounding formats for portable music
>> players. MP3s sound awful.
>>
>> Joel
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>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Ira Glazer <ira.glazer at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > depending on how important the quality of the music is to you, you might
>> > want to download a freeware program that can rip the music into the
>> .flac
>> > format flac is lossless -- ie you lose none of the original
>> information
>> > (unlike mp3, which is lossy, and where you do lose a lot of the original
>> > information) also, flac files are much smaller than wav files
>> >
>> > if you're compiling 'quality' music, this is the way to go imho
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