24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense (2012)

Post by ValentineC » Wed, Mar 06, 2019, 9:12 PM UTC

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This reminds me of Monty's A Digital Media Primer for Geeks[0] and Digital Show & Tell[1] - the delivery, the explanations and the way the experiments are set up is superb. [0] https://xiph.org/video/vid1.shtml [1] https://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml

The article's author, Chris "Monty" Montgomery, is one of the authors of Ogg Vorbis [1] and Opus [2]. It puzzles me that many people don't yet know about Opus. Let me quote the FAQ [3]: "Does Opus make all those other lossy codecs obsolete? Yes. From a technical point of view (loss, delay, bitrates, ...) Opus renders Speex obsolete and should also replace Vorbis and the common proprietary codecs too (e.g. AAC, MP3, .…

Post by jmulho » Wed, Mar 06, 2019, 9:22 PM UTC

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Which is great ...for you... but what if in the future you could hear the differences? And now your entire collection is in MP3 V2 - now what? No reason to not rip everything in uncompressed FLAC these days. But if your happy with your audio now, great!

The reverse is overwhelmingly more likely. For 8khz+ frequencies (where most compression takes place) your hearing declines pretty quickly once you hit 30 years. Whatever real compression differences you're hearing at 20 will be largely gone 10 years later, and almost certainly 20 years later.

Post by voltagex_ » Wed, Mar 06, 2019, 9:32 PM UTC

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But aren't you worried you'll lose access to your music? I have to own it! I can't have it at the whim of multiple third parties to take down as they see fit. It's too important.

Do you feel the same about cable TV or Netflix?

Post by zepearl » Wed, Mar 06, 2019, 9:43 PM UTC

ValentineC wrote: post #219

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> This is also why modern vinyl releases sound a lot better than digital: they are mastered differently since its assumed everyone is going to be listening on good equipment. Sorry, I don't know much about sound so here comes probably the most stupid question of the day (but hope never dies): does this mean that I might get better sound if I would buy a vinyl & one of those turntables which can directly digitize to U…

(Assuming you're okay with piracy…) You're better off searching for vinyl rips where people with good equipment have done the heavy lifting for you.

Post by iaresee » Wed, Mar 06, 2019, 9:58 PM UTC

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> This is also why modern vinyl releases sound a lot better than digital: they are mastered differently since its assumed everyone is going to be listening on good equipment. I'm going to disagree here. They are mastered differently because the physical limitations of the media require them to be mastered differently _and_ it just so happens that the physical limitations help limit mastering tricks in a way that prod…

You can put brickwalled audio on a vinyl record and have it play just fine if you cut it at a lower volume. This negates the reason for mastering it that way in the first place, but it's cheaper than redoing the mastering, and many people buying vinyl only do so for the image. See: https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Myths_(Vinyl)#My...