I am listening to the Goldeneye Source soundtrack, and it is full of some pretty fantastic remixes. Bass to fuck and back, these are some "dope-ass beats."
Bonjour is used for library sharing I think. Nothing I have works with it though, I assume it only works with Apple shit. I use TVersity for media sharing, which works with everything (and much better than WMP media sharing).
One thing that (i think) no store has gotten right is the quality of the files. If I'm paying for it, I don't want 128kpbs AAC because it doesn't sound very good. I think Amazon used to sell VBR v0 MP3's but i hear they're moving to v2, which sucks. I like my regular music to be in 320kpbs or v0 and my classical/jazz in lossless.
Ok so here is what I've never understood and what wikipedia couldn't tell me. If you can quanitfy the quality of sound in a digital recording and pretty much everyone everywhere will tell you vinyl is better, what would be the necessary level of kbps to get a vinyl quality sound in a digital file?
One thing that (i think) no store has gotten right is the quality of the files. If I'm paying for it, I don't want 128kpbs AAC because it doesn't sound very good. I think Amazon used to sell VBR v0 MP3's but i hear they're moving to v2, which sucks. I like my regular music to be in 320kpbs or v0 and my classical/jazz in lossless.
Ok so here is what I've never understood and what wikipedia couldn't tell me. If you can quanitfy the quality of sound in a digital recording and pretty much everyone everywhere will tell you vinyl is better, what would be the necessary level of kbps to get a vinyl quality sound in a digital file?
Vinyl's quality can be preferred for two reasons:
1) Old records have that classic crackle and pop.
2) Vinyls are mastered differently. Many CDs nowdays are mastered towards loudness, washing out the finer details. Vinyls are not.
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Lost Salientblink twiceif you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered Userregular
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I love the depth and (is it way too corny to say this?) the sort of audio texture you get listening to vinyl. That said, much as investing in the ability to convert my vinyl to .mp3 format is intriguing, I am way too broke and sentimental to give up my Bang and Olafsun Beogram turntable in favor of something more high-tech.
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"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
One thing that (i think) no store has gotten right is the quality of the files. If I'm paying for it, I don't want 128kpbs AAC because it doesn't sound very good. I think Amazon used to sell VBR v0 MP3's but i hear they're moving to v2, which sucks. I like my regular music to be in 320kpbs or v0 and my classical/jazz in lossless.
Ok so here is what I've never understood and what wikipedia couldn't tell me. If you can quanitfy the quality of sound in a digital recording and pretty much everyone everywhere will tell you vinyl is better, what would be the necessary level of kbps to get a vinyl quality sound in a digital file?
Vinyl's quality can be preferred for two reasons:
1) Old records have that classic crackle and pop.
2) Vinyls are mastered differently. Many CDs nowdays are mastered towards loudness, washing out the finer details. Vinyls are not.
If you buss compress everything, when the kick drum hits it's sucking back everything from the mix. I don't want to hear stuff pump. I want my dynamics intact that I recorded. I don't want everything to be one dynamic.[9]
this is interesting because that's actually evolved into a recording technique, where it started as a necessity
you can hear it on Merriweather Post Pavilion in a few places where the kick or heavy bass temporarily sucks everything else out of the mix. it's kind of dramatic when used correctly.
I hate iTunes but it's the only real service of its kind in Canada.
I hate iTunes because it assumes I am a criminal and so every song is encoded with DRM which puts a whole bunch of restrictions on it.
But Meiss, they have the ability to remove the DRM! That's true, but you have to "upgrade" them, which actually entails you paying more for songs just to remove some arbitrary bullshit that they put there in the first place.
Just give me my music, asshole.
i have never had an issue with DRM and itunes
and i pirate 99% of my music
itunes does get pretty crappy once you have a lot of music to manage though, unless there's some secret i'm unaware of
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this is why vinyl is better, in the case where the vinyl was properly mixed and not pressed after compression. the problem with it lies in that vinyl degrades over time and with each play, so ideally you'd have your fresh vinyl recorded to a lossless digital format to get the best possible sound quality.
or the record companies could just stop fucking with the mix and release proper digital versions
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FalloutGIRL'S DAYWAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered Userregular
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seriously wish the record companies would just die and let independent artists and producers get all the work and attention based on their merit
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Lost Salientblink twiceif you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered Userregular
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Meritocracy?! Watch out, that sounds like that socialist talk I've been hearing about on the news
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"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Man, vinyl is not better. CD is better in every concievable way, and if it isn't, then SACD is, or if you prefer then press Blu-rays with uncompressed PCM soundtracks, then it can't possibly BE any better, you basically have the fucking master tracks on a disc.
The only thing vinyl has going for it is that it's analog. There's no "bit rate" that could approach a continuous analog signal, it would have to be infinite and that's probably too much data to fit on one CD...
So take the infinite "bit rate" of vinyl vs;
* compressed dynamic range
* lousy stereo seperation
* "wow" and "flutter"
* crackles, pops from wearing out, yes they wear out even if you keep them clean.
* warping
* feedback/rumble
Of course if a CD is mastered poorly it might not sound as good as a well-mastered record, brand new out of the box and played on the best turntable in the world... But in every other case the CD will sound better.
itunes does get pretty crappy once you have a lot of music to manage though, unless there's some secret i'm unaware of
i am not finding this to be the case
maybe on windows, but i didn't have problems even on windows when the size was maybe half of what i have now
I'm at roughly the same library size, give or take a few gigs, iTunes on Windows freaked the fuck out when I tried to re-import my library after reformatting. It just randomly skips songs while importing that are obviously there, not to mention I got huge slowdown when searching and using anything but list view. I was forced to switch to Winamp for now (and maybe Songbird once they have Watch Folders)
Man, vinyl is not better. CD is better in every concievable way, and if it isn't, then SACD is, or if you prefer then press Blu-rays with uncompressed PCM soundtracks, then it can't possibly BE any better, you basically have the fucking master tracks on a disc.
The only thing vinyl has going for it is that it's analog. There's no "bit rate" that could approach a continuous analog signal, it would have to be infinite and that's probably too much data to fit on one CD...
So take the infinite "bit rate" of vinyl vs;
* compressed dynamic range
* lousy stereo seperation
* "wow" and "flutter"
* crackles, pops from wearing out, yes they wear out even if you keep them clean.
* warping
* feedback/rumble
Of course if a CD is mastered poorly it might not sound as good as a well-mastered record, brand new out of the box and played on the best turntable in the world... But in every other case the CD will sound better.
I know like five artists that have put out SACD and none that have put out uncompressed bluray albums, so while those might be better than vinyl and CD there is no fucking way to get them
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Likewise. It fills all my Mac mp3 playing needs quite well.
I assume the prices on the songs will vary by the length and the content.
it has to install Quicktime I think, as iTunes uses it to play music (or something). Bonjour let's you do wireless printing!
installing now
Ok so here is what I've never understood and what wikipedia couldn't tell me. If you can quanitfy the quality of sound in a digital recording and pretty much everyone everywhere will tell you vinyl is better, what would be the necessary level of kbps to get a vinyl quality sound in a digital file?
1) Old records have that classic crackle and pop.
2) Vinyls are mastered differently. Many CDs nowdays are mastered towards loudness, washing out the finer details. Vinyls are not.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
more details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
edit: an interesting quote from that article: this is interesting because that's actually evolved into a recording technique, where it started as a necessity
you can hear it on Merriweather Post Pavilion in a few places where the kick or heavy bass temporarily sucks everything else out of the mix. it's kind of dramatic when used correctly.
There is a TURNTABLE
that costs more than a HOUSE
WHAT
i have never had an issue with DRM and itunes
and i pirate 99% of my music
itunes does get pretty crappy once you have a lot of music to manage though, unless there's some secret i'm unaware of
maybe the turntable is in a really nice neighborhood
Does it proportionally match the improvement in sound quality over a turntable that's 1% of the price? There is no fucking way on earth.
and they only make 5 a year
do you guys have any idea how much room these things take up
they are obsolete!!! digital forever!!!
also i uh
i thought that was katy perry in your sig until i looked at the url just now
god i feel so old
i can barely even remember my own
uh
something
your own penis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQyPF3TwNT4&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ&feature=related&fmt=18
this is why vinyl is better, in the case where the vinyl was properly mixed and not pressed after compression. the problem with it lies in that vinyl degrades over time and with each play, so ideally you'd have your fresh vinyl recorded to a lossless digital format to get the best possible sound quality.
or the record companies could just stop fucking with the mix and release proper digital versions
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
The only thing vinyl has going for it is that it's analog. There's no "bit rate" that could approach a continuous analog signal, it would have to be infinite and that's probably too much data to fit on one CD...
So take the infinite "bit rate" of vinyl vs;
* compressed dynamic range
* lousy stereo seperation
* "wow" and "flutter"
* crackles, pops from wearing out, yes they wear out even if you keep them clean.
* warping
* feedback/rumble
Of course if a CD is mastered poorly it might not sound as good as a well-mastered record, brand new out of the box and played on the best turntable in the world... But in every other case the CD will sound better.
I use TVersity for sharing to the PS3. WMP was buggy as shit and crashed constantly.
i am not finding this to be the case
maybe on windows, but i didn't have problems even on windows when the size was maybe half of what i have now
I'm at roughly the same library size, give or take a few gigs, iTunes on Windows freaked the fuck out when I tried to re-import my library after reformatting. It just randomly skips songs while importing that are obviously there, not to mention I got huge slowdown when searching and using anything but list view. I was forced to switch to Winamp for now (and maybe Songbird once they have Watch Folders)
works great on OS X though
ah well
I know like five artists that have put out SACD and none that have put out uncompressed bluray albums, so while those might be better than vinyl and CD there is no fucking way to get them
it held 8 songs