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Compressing music should be a crime! MP3's shouldn't exist now we are rocking terabyte hard drives!

Listen up DJ's > be kind to your dancefloor, you have a responsibility to deliver the best sound possible. Play WAV or AIFF or a lossless format. ...and the universe will love you for it!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3_iOHHQvPg

True dat!

Are you being deliberately ironic by linking a screencap of the original video?

Original video if anyone cares:


I agree with the issue though. I was talking about this with a mate, and we both agreed that we wouldn't miss lossy formats, and CDs for that matter, if they died completely. Between vinyl and FLAC/WAV you've got all the bases covered pretty much with the potential for better-than-cd quality if the original tune is made at suitable quality.
However, I don't think anything is going to change consumer-wise. Lots of people still have bandwidth caps on their internet connection, and most people aren't even aware of the difference between lossy and lossless formats. In addition, programs like iTunes which rip to 128kbps by default (this used to be the case; someone correct me if I'm wrong now) aren't helping.
That said, most of the people listening to low-quality mp3s are probably listening to them on laptop speakers/iPod earbuds anyway, so it's all a bit pointless. People who care about music sounding good probably already listen to stuff in good quality, and people who don't care about music sounding good don't care about quality either way.

Amantus wrote:Are you being deliberately ironic by linking a screencap of the original video?

Original video if anyone cares:


I agree with the issue though. I was talking about this with a mate, and we both agreed that we wouldn't miss lossy formats, and CDs for that matter, if they died completely. Between vinyl and FLAC/WAV you've got all the bases covered pretty much with the potential for better-than-cd quality if the original tune is made at suitable quality.
However, I don't think anything is going to change consumer-wise. Lots of people still have bandwidth caps on their internet connection, and most people aren't even aware of the difference between lossy and lossless formats. In addition, programs like iTunes which rip to 128kbps by default (this used to be the case; someone correct me if I'm wrong now) aren't helping.
That said, most of the people listening to low-quality mp3s are probably listening to them on laptop speakers/iPod earbuds anyway, so it's all a bit pointless. People who care about music sounding good probably already listen to stuff in good quality, and people who don't care about music sounding good don't care about quality either way.

He didnt exactly seem to love the old way either in that video, the whole tangent seemed to amount to 'they dont make a medium quality enough for my rigs'

i wander what djs that guy rates then...

Amantus wrote:Are you being deliberately ironic by linking a screencap of the original video?

Original video if anyone cares:


I agree with the issue though. I was talking about this with a mate, and we both agreed that we wouldn't miss lossy formats, and CDs for that matter, if they died completely. Between vinyl and FLAC/WAV you've got all the bases covered pretty much with the potential for better-than-cd quality if the original tune is made at suitable quality.
However, I don't think anything is going to change consumer-wise. Lots of people still have bandwidth caps on their internet connection, and most people aren't even aware of the difference between lossy and lossless formats. In addition, programs like iTunes which rip to 128kbps by default (this used to be the case; someone correct me if I'm wrong now) aren't helping.
That said, most of the people listening to low-quality mp3s are probably listening to them on laptop speakers/iPod earbuds anyway, so it's all a bit pointless. People who care about music sounding good probably already listen to stuff in good quality, and people who don't care about music sounding good don't care about quality either way.

You can choose what format Itunes rips to. And what's wrong with CD's? Loads better than vinyl in terms of fidelity. As to the video, the healthiest human ears can barely perceive above 20 kHz so his whole spiel about that is just pretentious.

As much as I love listening to FLAC or WAV compared to MP3, you've gotta remember a few things. For one, here in Australia, and other places in the world, we have download limits. If an album is like 700mb each time, we'll go over pretty quick. Plus, mp3 players are still a long way begind actual computer hard drives.

Also, what Amantus said ^^^^

or buy vinyl!