Joanna
----- Original Message ----- Is there a good program in the dimension of ripping or downloading information about the CD?
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:57 PM, joel schalit <jschalit at gmail.com> wrote:
> MP3s are still MP3s though. You can up the bitrate to whatever, but it's
> still a compressed format. You can hear the difference if you pay
> attention. Most people don't. That's fine. I record and edit audio all the
> time, so I can hear it.
>
> 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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