[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Gym Bitch wrote: [/QUOTENAME]The censorship practices of Sir GH's Moral Majority, Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority, and the Nazi's are hauntingly similar[/QUOTE]The resemblances are so eerie! Uncanny the similarities!
Way to go Mike Van, yet another post that proves you are in fact an arrogant jackass. Why don't you provide some valid arguments explaining why you believe mp3s are a superior format?
I would argue that your posts resemble the moral majority as you state conjecture and your backwards opinions as facts.
Quit acting like a victim and come down from your fucking cross.
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[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]josedequeso wrote: Why don't you provide some valid arguments explaining why you believe mp3s are a superior format?[/QUOTE]
I believe that flac has slightly better sound quality, but for typical people worldwide, the smaller file size is a bigger benefit than the slight increase in sound quality. Since I listen to my music in my car, I feel the improved flac sound quality is not necessary for me.
I think that it is safe to say that, in this world of ipods, that mp3 is a more popular format than flac because of the smaller mp3 file sizes.
Yesterday, I saw a commercial for the Ford Focus that advertized its mp3 stereo system (but no mention of flac).
The Consumer Reports 2008 Buyers Guide rated the sound quality of most mp3 players as excellent, but did not mention flac as a feature.
Given the popularity of mp3 worldwide (despite its slightly lower sound quality), I find it amazing that Bob's moral majority wants to ban mp3's on QZ, just because he does not want to have to regularly use a spectral analyzer.
Incidently, both my Chicago 82 and YotO mp3 shares each have had over 25 downloads despite also being shared in flac.
The demand for mp3 still exists somewhat on QZ, but I believe most mp3 users stay quiet and do not post, because of the extremely abusive attitude of some flac proponents over the past year.
I believe that flac has slightly better sound quality, but for typical people worldwide, the smaller file size is a bigger benefit than the slight increase in sound quality. Since I listen to my music in my car, I feel the improved flac sound quality is not necessary for me.
I think that it is safe to say that, in this world of ipods, that mp3 is a more popular format than flac because of the smaller mp3 file sizes.
Yesterday, I saw a commercial for the Ford Focus that advertized its mp3 stereo system (but no mention of flac).
The Consumer Reports 2008 Buyers Guide rated the sound quality of most mp3 players as excellent, but did not mention flac as a feature.
Given the popularity of mp3 worldwide (despite its slightly lower sound quality), I find it amazing that Bob's moral majority wants to ban mp3's on QZ, just because he does not want to have to regularly use a spectral analyzer.
Incidently, both my Chicago 82 and YotO mp3 shares each have had over 25 downloads despite also being shared in flac.
The demand for mp3 still exists somewhat on QZ, but I believe most mp3 users stay quiet and do not post, because of the extremely abusive attitude of some flac proponents over the past year.
Why are you singling me out? Tonnes of people here have quality standards besides me. Never did I say that I "don't want" to use a spectral analyzer, so please stop putting words in my mouth as a means to further your agenda of antiquated views on digital audio quality.
What I and others here are envisioning is a community where people won't need to feel required to use a spectral analyzer because we'll *trust* one another with the assumption that every recording is lossless by default. Many trading communities have achieved that. We, on the other hand, are a long, long way away from that, because people like you continue to share mp3s.
If you want to group yourself in with the majority of people "worldwide" who don't care about quality, then that's fine. But the fact that FLAC isn't a household word doesn't make it somehow inferior to mp3, as you're attempting to present it. As always, you're making false arguments based on pretenses that aren't true to begin with.
The average person doesn't care about quality, but the average person interested in unofficial recordings (where there is often little quality to begin with) is interested in preserving that quality. That's the difference. Just take your mind out of 1999 for a moment, and honestly, try to understand where this growing number of people are coming from.
I really don't understand why you're still trying to convince people with quality standards that they're wrong. Honestly, I have never in my life seen anyone debate a lost cause like you have, and to such extents (re: your political and religious similes). If only you realized how idiotic your every post on this subject is, and that you're digging yourself further and further into the ground.
You
Are
Getting
Nowhere.
Stop
Trying.
What I and others here are envisioning is a community where people won't need to feel required to use a spectral analyzer because we'll *trust* one another with the assumption that every recording is lossless by default. Many trading communities have achieved that. We, on the other hand, are a long, long way away from that, because people like you continue to share mp3s.
If you want to group yourself in with the majority of people "worldwide" who don't care about quality, then that's fine. But the fact that FLAC isn't a household word doesn't make it somehow inferior to mp3, as you're attempting to present it. As always, you're making false arguments based on pretenses that aren't true to begin with.
The average person doesn't care about quality, but the average person interested in unofficial recordings (where there is often little quality to begin with) is interested in preserving that quality. That's the difference. Just take your mind out of 1999 for a moment, and honestly, try to understand where this growing number of people are coming from.
I really don't understand why you're still trying to convince people with quality standards that they're wrong. Honestly, I have never in my life seen anyone debate a lost cause like you have, and to such extents (re: your political and religious similes). If only you realized how idiotic your every post on this subject is, and that you're digging yourself further and further into the ground.
You
Are
Getting
Nowhere.
Stop
Trying.
Political comparisons.... So now I think you go to far man, I think you are lost in your thoughts.
The debate is Flac / mp3, it's not anything political or what, nor it's a fight against Bob. You don't like him, fine. Go your own way and let him alone, or insult him via mail, or what you want, but this has nothing to do on Queenzone it seems. How do you want people be interested in this mp3/flac discussion with that in the middle of the discussion ? It has nothing to do here.
And please stop comparing anyone to Adolf Something. The debate should gain quality. And the debate IS about quality, nothing else, remember before your next post.
So for those who lost the meaning of this discussion, sorry, sometimes Queenzone is like that. Please feel free to express your own opinions, you are welcome on (this) board.
Is there anyone here willing to share its own opinion, be it for mp3 or for Flac format ?
Regards,
Olivier,
France.
The debate is Flac / mp3, it's not anything political or what, nor it's a fight against Bob. You don't like him, fine. Go your own way and let him alone, or insult him via mail, or what you want, but this has nothing to do on Queenzone it seems. How do you want people be interested in this mp3/flac discussion with that in the middle of the discussion ? It has nothing to do here.
And please stop comparing anyone to Adolf Something. The debate should gain quality. And the debate IS about quality, nothing else, remember before your next post.
So for those who lost the meaning of this discussion, sorry, sometimes Queenzone is like that. Please feel free to express your own opinions, you are welcome on (this) board.
Is there anyone here willing to share its own opinion, be it for mp3 or for Flac format ?
Regards,
Olivier,
France.
GymBitch, you have posted dozens of times about the subject, but you still just don't get it. It's not about a quality comparison between FLAC and MP3. You can't hear the slightest difference between a FLAC file and a high bitrate MP3 (though some people claim so, but I don't believe them). It's only about reducing the probability of sharing repeatedly encoded MP3 files or files, that were reencoded to FLAC from MP3. If valuable shares (like Queen concerts, compared to "invaluable", since officially available, music files) are shared in a lossless format only, the probability of degrading the quality is reduced significantly. It's okay to encode your own MP3s for use in your iPod or car, because the file format is of much better use there, but MP3 is no format to grant quality preservation at all.
And I second Olivier's opinion: Keep your private war out of Queenzone, it's annoying at least.
And I second Olivier's opinion: Keep your private war out of Queenzone, it's annoying at least.