I would only listen to MP3s or lossless-formatted mini-files on a dedicated HD player. If I'm going to use a CD player, I''ll just default to a traditional CD. I never thought I'd make such a distinction (I really do prefer vinyl) but those are the shakes.
Joel
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Arthur Maisel <arthurmaisel at gmail.com>wrote:
> One other thing. It also depends on whether the CD will be played on a CD
> player or on a computer (most CD players support mp3s, I believe; not as
> many support FLAC).
>
> 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).
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:03 AM, joel schalit <jschalit at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Y. FLAC & Apple Lossless are the best-sounding formats for portable
> music
> >> players. MP3s sound awful.
> >>
> >> Joel
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Ira Glazer <ira.glazer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> > 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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