A turd wrapped in gold is still a turd - can't see why you do this, it's a waste of time
eh???? that's almost copyright theft...you've almost got my sig there
Sue me then - and then the people I nicked it from years ago will sue you :-)
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kyassor
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taylorgaga (Begg) wrote:
i hate flac, iv always got to convert my flacs to mp3 to get em onto a CD! one i can listen to!
I copy my flac version on to a cd so I have the higher quality version to keep and then convert them to mp3s for my iPod - if you are only copying on to a cd then why convert to mp3 first ? Possibly it could be your lack of knowledge that is stopping you, not anything to do with flac ?
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roblov
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I add this again because it might be helpful...
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An audio CD is digitally recorded at 44100 samples per second, each sample is given a 16 bit resolution. So when multiplying both number we get that each second of music of a (mono) track takes 705600 bits. If you multiply this by 2 (the number of channels in a stereo recording) you get 1411200 bits of information for one second of a stereo music track.
If you divide this by a typical encoding quality use d to create mp3 (128000 bits per second) you get:
1411200:128000 = 11,025
That means that each second of a stereo track in a n audio CD takes, approximately, eleven times more space in your hard disk than the corresponding mp3 (if it has been enconded @ 128kbps.) This compression is achieved at the cost of the attenuation of many of the frequencies that the human ear is not likely to hear. That´s why mp3 encoding is "lossy". Once you made that change you can´t take it back. Flac, on the contrary, is not lossy. When you uncompress a FLAC file, you get a wav file with each and every frequency of the original sound file which was compressed to make the FLAC file.
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The text before explains the difference in quality between the flac and the mp3 formats. Of course, if the frequencies contained in the flac file are in such a narrow band so that the mp3 file made from it contains that frequency band almost unaltered, differences will not be noticed by an untrained ear. In general, even those sounds that seem very acute to us correspond to a frequency that´s well below the ear´s hearing limit and the mp3 file might get most of the frequencies almost unaltered.
The bandwidth issue for transmiting through internet is, of course, important. If you don´t believe me, check out the format and bitrate any online radio uses.
Well, this is a nice topic for discussion. Anyone who knows about this be kind to share your knowledge.
Roblov.
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Wilki Amieva
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taylorgaga (Begg) wrote:
shes a poet and didnt know it! :P
i hate flac, iv always got to convert my flacs to mp3 to get em onto a CD! one i can listen to!
Two words: Use Nero.
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onevsion
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To me, the only downloads i'm interested in are the ones in the FLAC format.
When I trade i do not accept mp3 sourced boots. Most traders won't accept them.
Mp3 for bootlegs is crap!
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Fairy Fellers
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Ducksoup wrote:
To me, the only downloads i'm interested in are the ones in the FLAC format.
When I trade i do not accept mp3 sourced boots. Most traders won't accept them.
Mp3 for bootlegs is crap!
You are right, I agree at all.
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Saint Jiub
· Member since
This contiuous battle is like Highlander set in Northern Ireland:
The "There can only be one" battle pits the catholics against the protestants.
The mp3 adherents represent the protestants, while the catholics represent the flac adherents because of their holier than thou attitute (theirs is the only true faith).
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Saint Jiub
· Member since
Fairy Fellers wrote:
Why most of people (90%) upload concerts in mp3 format? I hate mp3...
Because flac is not worth the extra effort for most people who only see a slight improvement with flac on audience recordings.
Should you not be thankful for the downloads you have available on flac, rather than be disgruntled at what is available in mp3?
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NOTWMEDDLE
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MP3 is the only way I can hear the shows. My father installed a firewall on my computer because he is PARANOID that hackers will ruin the computer so I cannot download rapidshare nor bit-torrent because we have had computer hijacked by assholes!
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Rick
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Many people don't share FLAC files, because they want to trade with lossless concerts, so they convert the FLAC-files to mp3. So they can share and trade at the same time, nice, isn't it?
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poltergeist
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Ducksoup wrote:
To me, the only downloads i'm interested in are the ones in the FLAC format.
When I trade i do not accept mp3 sourced boots. Most traders won't accept them.
Mp3 for bootlegs is crap!
I'm not a trader but if I were and I traded with you, I'd just convert the mp3s to flacs and none of you flac-traders-mp3-haters would ever notice.
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riku_queencdr
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poltergeist wrote:
I'm not a trader but if I were and I traded with you, I'd just convert the mp3s to flacs and none of you flac-traders-mp3-haters would ever notice.
poltergeist: How wrong can you be..
Have you ever heard of frequency analysis??? Or spectral view on audio editing software??
You need only 5 seconds of wav format audio file to tell if the source is mp3 based or not. It will take roughly 2-3 seconds to check this.
