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Respect to anyone still managing a library of mp3s (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I use FLAC for albums I love and mp3s for everything else (including copies of the flacs in mp3). It's a nice balance.

Fucking love my collection of music. I use Spotify as well, but nothing can compete with literally owning a music collection of my own I can listen to without the Internet

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This is the way. Also, FLAC for high bit rate audiophile vinyl rips.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I literally got goosebumps reading that. Take my Iron Maiden collection for example:

    I have mp3 versions of all albums. Different release versions of FLACs and then a vinyl FLAC collection as well.

    It's nice exploring the difference in sound, but somehow, vinyl always makes me feel the best.

    Man I miss what.cd.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Gotta use that lossless format so you can pick up all the sound artefacts caused by an imperfect physical format.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Despite vinyl’s technical inferiority, it was those same limitations that meant vinyl actually sounded better than CD throughout a specific period. Vinyl cannot be too loud or the needle will jump off the track, making the vinyl unplayable. This prevented vinyl from dealing with the loudness wars, and brick wall dynamic range compression. So especially for the early 2000s, the masters used for the vinyl mix were often significantly better.

    And, a clean record played on clean and properly set up equipment can sound really pristine, especially if copied to a digital format early in its life. You wouldn’t even be able to tell it’s vinyl.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    +1 to all you said. I collect vinyl for a number of reasons and none of them are because it is technically superior (it isn’t) however, many (most?) people have never heard just how good vinyl can actually sound when it’s in good condition and played on a good setup. I personally cannot tell the difference between even a 33 and CD, let alone a 45, and I have a decently high end setup.

    My ears like to trick me and tell me I can hear a difference between a 33 and 45 but I’m pretty sure this is a lie.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Not to mention, psychoacoustics don’t really give a damn about fidelity, so if your goal is “I want it to sound good to me” moreso than “I want it to reproduce sounds accurately” then there’s arguments for vinyl, tube amplifiers, vintage speakers, etc.

    Hell I have a friend who specifically uses one of the earliest CD players because it had a 14 bit DAC and no oversampling vs 16 bit DAC, and for those few albums he really likes the digital distortion that comes with it because that’s how he first heard it.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Compared to CD? If you have to compare it to a lossy compressed format to make it look good in comparison, then maybe it's not that good overall. You may have noticed it's no longer the early 2000s and CDs are not ubiquitous, nor even very common at all anymore.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Lossy compressed format? Where? Are you talking about CD? The format famous for using uncompressed PCM audio perfectly specified to cover 100% of a human’s hearing range?

    Because if that’s what you mean, you’ve got some studying to go do.

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