Guest Adjective Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 i keep flacs of music i love, mp3s of music i like. if i get low on space from billions of flacs, i can convert it later to mp3, takes minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hanratty Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 i keep flacs of music i love, mp3s of music i like. if i get low on space from billions of flacs, i can convert it later to mp3, takes minutes. what program do you use to convert to mp3? i currently convert flac to aiff in Toast, then aiff to mp3 in itunes. probably not the best way to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adjective Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 i keep flacs of music i love, mp3s of music i like. if i get low on space from billions of flacs, i can convert it later to mp3, takes minutes. what program do you use to convert to mp3? i currently convert flac to aiff in Toast, then aiff to mp3 in itunes. probably not the best way to do it. i used foobar in windows. you have to point it to the encoders, but only the first time. after that it's just right-click->convert to whatever not sure the simplest ways in other OS's though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 lol - i use m4a cause I'm better than you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xyrofen Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 I do WAV rips of the CDs I own that I particularly like. If I love something, I get it on CD then do a lossless rip (and for the art, yay art). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest uptowndevil Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 i usually go with mp5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nene multiple assgasms Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 I use eac and lame to convert to mp3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GORDO Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 no need for anything more than v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beariksson Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 I listened to 64kbs 32khz mono mp3s of an album whilst waiting for the cd to arrive. now thats hifi 2k10 4 real. (is that correct usage of "whilst"?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GORDO Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 was it for alright! ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 no need for anything more than v2 you music hater! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Al Hounos Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 i wonder what boxing day uses to listen to his FLACs? there's about a 90% chance that my listening hardware makes his look like he hates music. i've got pretty amazing setup (external DAC, tube amp, Senn HD-650) and i often can not tell the difference between flac and a 320kbps .ogg that i make for my portable player. when i can tell the difference, it's so small that I can't be sure it's not just my imagination. nonetheless, i have 1TB of storage and it cost $100 so why the hell not use flac for at-home listening and archiving? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Glass Plate Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 yeah unless you have sweet ass speakers/headphones you use regularly, than mp3 is fine. also, there's a whole music forum on this message board... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dial Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 VBR0 because i got a iphone .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcock Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 ive got a badass stereo i spent quite alot of money on, i cant tell the difference between 320 and flac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggs Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 oye como va in 320. fuck your idmz. ps. im mexicanz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Al Hounos Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 ok so the consensus is you cant tell 320 from lossless but what about 256? 192? at 256 i can, usually. the highs start to go sharp, tinny and digital sounding... at 192 things get seriously bad, enough that after i got my new headphones i avoid listening to anything in my collection that's less than 256. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o00o Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 I try to get the stuff I like in flac I convert it to apple lossless in case I want to have it on my iphone the rest that is not so important to me is mp3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hanratty Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 flac, because I dont have to care about storage/space Storage is like the Rubbermaid bins at your local--cheap and huge. Fuck, Wal-Mart sells 1TB's for $90 so get in it! But always backup because who knows what cheapo shit's going on (it's a Western Digital, works great over 4 months so far). So, I strive for .wav anymore--fuck it. FLAC is definitely my all-around format of choice because you can turn it into anything-->it's like the stem or blast cell of the body. Since I have a first generation mp3 player from around '04 (iRiver red dildo looking thing that feels like it's 5 lbs.), it only holds 256 MB, which is laughable now. However, instead of degrading one shitty mp3 down further into unlistenability, if you knock a FLAC to a 96 kBps "shit file" for getting more out of your space, it does the trick. Besides, when I'm out and about with wind, headphone leakage, etc., what does it matter at that point? i have a 1TB which i got for around $100, but i need another one to be a copy of the first one. Because if I lose 1TB of music/software/files I will go Amish. then it's about $200, plus i need new stereo/speakers/headphones. it gets pricy this music stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plstik Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 flac, because I dont have to care about storage/space Storage is like the Rubbermaid bins at your local--cheap and huge. Fuck, Wal-Mart sells 1TB's for $90 so get in it! But always backup because who knows what cheapo shit's going on (it's a Western Digital, works great over 4 months so far). Thats the reason why I spent ~30€ more on a qualified server/surveillance HD... still I back up every month or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root5 Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 I find that, when it is my own music, 320 usually sounds significantly worse than wav. But maybe that's because I can't master properly. Music with a lot of reverb also loses something noticeable. Especially classical music recorded in a cathedral or a similar space. There is a brightness to the reverb that gets lost in 320. But it is rather subtle and doesn't make that much of a different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest we_kill_soapscum Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 has anyone actually tested to see what the roof of their hearing is? i drop out between 18 and 17khz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokoon Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 i just checked :) i can actually hear up to 20kHz, but i have to raise the volume above 16kHz quite a lot to hear anything. if i keep the volume constant (set so that 2kHz feels comfortable), then it's between 16kHz and 16.5kHz but seriously, if i pump up the volume, i can hear just a bit below 20kHz! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokoon Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 oh, and that's RME Hammerfall 9632 playing a 32-bit 192kHz generated sine sweep, headphones are sennheiser hd280pro, so i guess it's quite accurate. i just measured again, it's around 19300Hz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saikobjorn Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 I'm now listening to a delicious 24-bit 96kHz flac file (2919kbps, about twice that of a cd) vinyl rip of a Mathew Jonson record and comparing it with the 320 conversion. The high quality file is much more comfortable to listen to. If you've got time and interest for it, here's an interesting video that highlights some audio quality issues in a entertaining and fathomable way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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