But FLAC takes up so much room. Plus it takes much longer to download FLAC files.[/QUOTE]
And hard dirves are cheap as chips too; Just buy a bigger hard drive.
Also, we live in a world of ADSL Broadband - some lucky folks even have fibre optic, so really there is no need to complain about download times. Christ. Maybe you should have been here back in 1994 when the best we had was a 14kb modem, then you'd really have something to complain about!
THAT is the reason why fucking mp3 exists at all - because old modems were dead slow.
If we'd had current download capabilities back in the 90's we wouldn't even be having this argument now :(
people on streets · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]BETA215 wrote:[/b]
SHIT, where I live, IN 2014, broadband internet worth A LOT of money, and a hard drive worth A LOT of money too.
My max. download speed is 130 kb/s and my max. upload speed is 40 kb/s. And I'm spending, around U$S 30 every month.
To download an album in FLAC, I need at least 20 minutes...
Looks like I'm living in 2000...[/QUOTE]
Some people and their "problems" ....
Benn Kempster · Member since
I'm gonna chime in here on this.
We're all talking about bootleg recordings, right? Of course, we want to hear them in the best possible quality given that the release schedule from QPL has been so incredibly poor for such a very long time. Many of us were collectors and traders before the days of the internet - waiting for jiffy bags stuffed full of ordinary old TDK C90 tapes (or if you were lucky a nice Maxcell!) that were many generations moved from the masters which were pretty poor recordings in the first place. The digital medium has made everything far too simple now for people - you can build an entire Queen bootleg collection now in the matter of days whereas before it would take a lifetime of connection with other fans and friends to build.
What this has done is make people incredibly lazy. Its also made people believe that digitally, they are able to polish a turd and find that they have a diamond in their possession. A bootleg is a bootleg IMVHO - it is what it is. If it's great sound quality - bingo. If its not, then it's simply another one of those old cassettes taken from a 4th generation copy of the master that was recorded back in 1974 at the back of a hall containing 4000 people and recorded on a reel-to-reel with a hand-held mono mic.
I completely understand the desire to hear the band we love in the best way possible, but what is there is there and in the quality that it's presented in - put up or shut up.
The King Of Rhye · Member since
I'll just say..............the path to Queen bootleg heaven............get a Sansa Clip Zip mp3 player (seriously less than 30 bucks for a used one) and an sd card for it............and get a premium membership to 1fichier..............download bokkepoots Queen concert database.................and there you have it!
