auxien Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 1 hour ago, rhmilo said: Or you could look at the algorithm, verify that is indeed lossless and get on with your day. It’s just math, after all. And just as 1 + 1 = 2 even after you’ve tried it a billion times, so too the FLAC algorithm is lossless very single time you run it. perhaps so, as all evidence i've seen supports this. i don't understand the software/math involved enough to say for sure...but i can't help but wonder.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limo Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 30 minutes ago, oscillik said: it depends on what font size you use though Exactly. And that is all FLAC is, really. You surround your audio data with a <font size=“8px”> tag. This makes the file smaller. Remove the font tag and you have your original audio back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candiru Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 Do I need my coffee with whiskey in the goddam morning? As you were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
custom knob Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 yes flac is better but you need to make sure you use the right cables so the extra electrons in the flac file are transferred properly https://shunyata.com/products/digital-cables/usb-digital-cables/alpha-usb/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Mughnus Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 Don’t forget to dampen etc and address room nulls or flac immediately downconverts to 128kbs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marf Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 Its really who did the ripping. Pirate MFSL or find someone who is known for great rips from vinyl. Or you could go crazy and buy the wav. If you have a great system you'll feel the difference, but who the fuck am I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prdctvsm Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 "hi-fi is only as good as yr weakest link" - traditional saying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braintree Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 On 1/5/2020 at 9:08 AM, aencre said: This thread made me put on Alvin Lucier's I am sitting in a room. Which, funnily, I only have a lossy rip of. Once did that with a friend and used the resonant frequency as tonic for a track. No idea what happened to that recording though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxien Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donquixote Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 This thread is a bit like those zombie films where a baby is born a zombie. Virgin zombie birth vibes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 The less bitrate u use, the more it is IDM. 0 Bits/second is the absolute crown of all IDMs. It's called the magic window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Member Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 Bad music sounds bad in most bitrates, might sound better if you absolutely crush it. Good music tends to be good regardless. I guess there's some microhouse and minimal glitch stuff with reaaally high frequency beeps and glops that would indeed sound better in wav/flac. Wait, thats not IDM. Shame on me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colunga Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 Yes but purchasing your FLACs makes them sound a little "heavier" than pirated FLACs. I guess what i mean is they FEEL a little heavier. Feeling the weight of the music on your wallet AND in lossless quality simultaneously makes the tunes SOUND better. I guess the short answer is: It's a feeling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Member Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 This is true, it's all about the feeling. I'm always on edge, unable to really listen unless I've paid for the highest possible quality, out of fear of missing out on some hiss or high fidelity whine that I would've been able to hear a decade ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hijexx Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 I've noticed that bass tends to alias with lossy compression, sounds like it's being run through a bit crusher plugin (which basically it kinda is.) Lossless formats do not have the same issue for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limo Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 On 1/16/2020 at 4:01 PM, Wurstwasser said: The less bitrate u use, the more it is IDM. 0 Bits/second is the absolute crown of all IDMs. It's called the caustic window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotwang Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Storing IDM music in FLAC codec on your PC computer most IDM 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manmower Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 IDM's going to sound like shit regardless of the encoding. I recommend trying a different genre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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