If you had the option of a favorite CD would you choose:
A Lossless format, like Flac or a Lossy compression version (MP3)
For people that don’t know what this means. A Lossless format retains much of the music quality resulting in bitrate of about 800kb/s to 950kb/s. Where Lossy compression, would usually be around 192kb/s
Of course FLAC would be much larger, and bitrate isn’t a completely accurate difference in showing quality, but a FLAC >>>>>>> MP3
I’ve just recently been downloading cd’s in .flac format.
Yeah, I recently got on a private tracker about a month or 2 ago that has a good selection of lossless.
yea oink demonoid and what not all have a good selection… but 1 seeder… for the albums I want is kind of lame
no invites as of right now 
and its tough for me to get the power user and a shit load of invites, I’m on campus at UB and there is upload problems sigh
a high quality mp3 sounds exactly the same to me at 20% of the HD space/bandwidth.
maybe i have an untrained ear but fuck that waste. Downloading a gig for 1 CD worth of music :picard:
most of my shit is 320kbps…close enough
if im sampling it, .flac or .wav/.aif. playing it out in the club…anything over 192kbps is acceptable. some rare shit i can only get in like 192 VBR (dancehall).
pancake / bacon.
don’t care. I can hear the difference fo sho, but I still dont care anymore.
mcell i can hook you up with an oink invite tomorrow ( monday ) if you PM me about it so i remember-
anyways, i prefer .flac obviously, but it’s just a hassle considering the size is SO much greater than .mp3, and my only computer is my work laptop ( 70% of the hdd space is taken up with music, haha )
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but it’s just a hassle considering the size is SO much greater than .mp3
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thats pretty much what it boils down to. 90% of the time the music is only being played for background noise, and while I enjoy high quality data more - its just not worth it.
Then again, alot of people are prolly rocking out the HQ files in their cars on OEM paper speakers too… :picard:
Component set & effective tuning > *
flac all the way
tons out there, and well worth the download. Blows MP3 away
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anyways, i prefer .flac obviously, but it’s just a hassle considering the size is SO much greater than .mp3, and my only computer is my work laptop ( 70% of the hdd space is taken up with music, haha )
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Size… so you are another one of those “I have ten thousand songs, look how big my dick is, yet I listen to maybe 5% of them”
Quality over quantity for me
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Size… so you are another one of those “I have ten thousand songs, look how big my dick is, yet I listen to maybe 5% of them”
Quality over quantity for me
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uh ok? i don’t know why you are being a fucking douchebag, but i’m pretty certain it’s unwarranted. a lot of people collect things, from stamps to coins to clothes to music to porno
i could just as easily say:
“hey aren’t you the loser that hosted hundreds of gigs of music/videos/apps on the various UB hubs? i bet you didn’t even use 5% of the shit you shared”
:bloated:
I filled requests for people and shared a quarter ass ton of porno, where I watched each one of them and got my fair use out of them 
It just seems ridiculous to have the entire discography of Dave Matthews Band, when you hate DMB…
disclaimer: I used DMB as an example, and if you like DMB you are clearly gay
Disk space is cheap. I don’t like compromising on quality vs disk or bandwidth…
I have over 3400 songs (legally) ripped to Apple Lossless. no question what option I chose. And despite your arguements, I listen to all of them - I like albums, not “songs” - my gf and I were talking about that the other day, people seem so interested in mix disks / playlists, I for one could NEVER deal with something like an iPod Shuffle where it was just a smattering of my stuff, on random. I get in the mood to hear something and want to hear it…
edit: and I keep 192mp3 versions of all of that on my laptop / to copy to my iPhone - cuz honestly while there IS a big difference on a good stereo / good headphones, when I travel I’d rather have ALL of it at lower quality than some, at excellent quality.
I can’t stand people that just get certain tracks, I get the whole album or I refuse to download it… I’m trying to find a great source for FLAC’s but so far its 1 seeder per torrent and my ratio is sucking, I’ll have to drive my way back into scene access
Already dodged the FBI bullet with one .us site, I may just do it again sigh
most people can’t hear the difference between 192 and 320 and .wav
believe it or not…studies done are quite hilarious.
I use apple lossless for everything, cant find a way to make a ipod play flac… And itunes wont play it also, so its useless for me… I just rip them to apple lossless and im off…
And although i have a strong hate for ‘mp3s’ much of my music is thus…
Its soo freeking hard to find the shit i listen to in lossless without buying the cd and ripping it yourself, but you cant buy most of the cd’s anywhere besides the internet anyways… And thats pricey…