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Thrill

2599 Posts

October 01 2011 18:16 GMT

#61

On October 02 2011 02:14 Geovu wrote:
If you can actually tell the difference and have blind tested yourself then in that case it is pretty impressive, however.

I'm serious :p Had to try it again just to be sure. I'm 5/5 with the blind test. Skrillex remixes of cinema and promises (only 320 compressions i had handy), most apparent change happens as the lyrics fade: the voice drowns in the mids earlier on the 320.

Chef

10810 Posts

October 01 2011 18:18 GMT

#62

It's very reasonable to want to do your own encodes. I also do that. I keep FLAC on an external harddrive though, because I find myself running out of space on my laptop/PC all the time. I don't know how I do it... probably because I do a lot of video encoding too. Space is 'cheap' but most people don't have more than 500/1TB on their actual machine, and playing files off an external harddrive is not the best thing you can do for it. Especially for music, if you commute at all then you're using an mp3 player, and if it's a flashdrive mp3 player you definitely have space constraints. Not only that, but different formats take up different amounts of battery power (I believe it depends on the device, but Sansa Clip played mp3 with the most efficiency, FLAC with the worst, and ogg somewhere in between). Actually it's one of the reasons you see 'audiophiles' make a lot of hilarious threads about how they're not getting the battery life they're supposed to! Gosh I wonder why, since virtually all companies use 128 kb/s mp3 to run their battery life tests, not FLAC.

Geovu

Estonia1344 Posts

October 01 2011 20:04 GMT

#63

On October 02 2011 03:16 Thrill wrote:

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You allegedly have golden magical elven ears imbued with The Power of Chuck Norris' left foot and yet you listen to Skrillex? Surprising to say the least. Shameful to say a bit more

Also, I am assuming your mp3 conversions were done by yourself from your own lossless files, otherwise it may very well be a poor rip.

Azera

3800 Posts

October 02 2011 11:28 GMT

#64

Alright guys, right now I'm considering whether to stick with Ogg Vorbis or AAC, I've read better things about Ogg, but AAC seems to be more flexible. Any advice?

GTR

51684 Posts

October 02 2011 12:45 GMT

#65

if i posted my flac collection, people would be flaming me left and right

Chef

10810 Posts

October 02 2011 12:58 GMT

#66

On October 02 2011 20:28 Azera wrote:
Alright guys, right now I'm considering whether to stick with Ogg Vorbis or AAC, I've read better things about Ogg, but AAC seems to be more flexible. Any advice?

What's flexible about AAC? AAC only works with Apple products. OGG will work with anything that you can rockbox (including some older iPods), most Korean players, the Clip + etc. But if flexibility is your concern, use mp3 since literally everything on the market plays mp3. The main appeal of OGG is that it isn't proprietary, the main appeal of AAC is if you're a MAC user and don't care.

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