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1. Mp3 or CD? | 04/29/2008 11:34pm
Mp3 or CD? Which do you prefer? What's the different feeling?
Who can tell me how to get the classic CDs?
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2. Mp3 or CD? | 04/30/2008 12:19am
I prefer mp3. It's multifunctional and convenient to carry. I bought one from http://www.madeinchina.com and it's pretty good!You must be registered and logged in to post a message.
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3. Mp3 or CD? | 04/30/2008 8:20am
Neither is as durable or has the sound quality of analog on cassette, but between the two, I'd have to say MP3. The layers of the Mylar/Lexican sandwich that is a CD start to separate about the same time enough particles jump off magnetic tape to make an audible difference. The big difference is that a cassette ssssslllloooowly loses high end and volume, whereas a CD becomes immediately and completely unlistenable. Oh, and you don't make the process instantaneous if you bump the edge of a cassette!
Much has been made out of the difference in bitrate depth, sampling rate, etc. in digital, but to be honest, I just don't hear it. Maybe if I had better equipment, a better ear, whatever, but I can tell digitized-at-some-point from analog with 100% accuracy. "Audiophile quality digital" (an oxymoron, if you ask me) from "lo-fi digital"? Sorry, I don't hear it.
And, of course, I wouldn't recommend driving down a bumpy road or jogging while listening to a CD player!You must be registered and logged in to post a message. -
4. Mp3 or CD? | 04/30/2008 11:37pm
By far a CD. I will only download an mp3 if it's the only way the album was released (i.e. "Machina II" by Smashing Pumpkins), or if I can't find the CD I'm looking for for weeks at every store. Today, I even went to F.Y.E. (the onl good music store my town has) and bought three CDs. I already had the CDs, but I had downloaded them, and that just doesn't feel the same. Not being able to hold the CD and take it around means you don't really have the album, you've just heard it. On top of that, CD quality is legions better than mp3 quality.You must be registered and logged in to post a message.
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5. Mp3 or CD? | 05/01/2008 8:21am
There's a lot to be said, too, for the notion of having the album as a package- the song order, the visual art, etc. Of course, it's more of an issue with some albums than others; there are as many different levels of "album orientation" as there are albums. By the same token, it's "fair use" to make MP3s for your personal use off a CD you purchased...unless there's some sort of copyguarding on the CD. Even writing code to circumvent that is illegal, even if one never actually uses it.
I like putting together personal mix CDs of REALLY disparate tunes (which is no more "illegal reproduction" than streaming a song on one's computer), but when an act has obviously put a lot of thought into the album as a package...a continuous, protracted experience...well, hey, you GOTTA get the album!You must be registered and logged in to post a message. -
6. Mp3 or CD? | 05/01/2008 11:13pm
In addition to what my last comment said, playing a CD on a computer sounds fine. So why should importing and then listening to a song on iTunes be any worse? Well, compressing the file into mp3 or m4a format causes the audio to lose some of its edginess. Some mp3 recordings just sound so bland.You must be registered and logged in to post a message.
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7. Mp3 or CD? | 05/02/2008 8:29am
There is...or at least, was...a really helpful article on Digifreq about preparing WAVs for compression into MP3s. It's geared toward a specific software package (Sonar, maybe? Acid?), but it taught me that I was going about things absolutely backwards. See, I always tried to compensate for the "lossyness" of the process, and what this article suggested was to GET RID OF everything that tends to muck up the data compression BEFORE converting the file. I started using what seemed to me like ridiculously severe EQ and compression, and I've gotten a lot of compliments on the sound quality of my MP3s ever since.
I'm told that the FLAC format does much of this automatically, that it's the least lossy of the compression methods, but I've yet to try it.
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8. Mp3 or CD? | 05/03/2008 10:02pm
I choose mp3 as it could be taken everywhere.You must be registered and logged in to post a message.
