Originally posted by jimmymcfarrell
Compressed music formats should be banned. All compression formats sound horrible in my humble opinion.
So you've heard all compressed formats then I take it?
Originally posted by jimmymcfarrell
Compressed music formats should be banned. All compression formats sound horrible in my humble opinion.
Originally posted by Sgt Rock
It finalizes the CD, how do you expect it to work ?
lloydsj, no cons IMHO, pros = tagging and it works great with an iPod.
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Originally posted by garyi
Paul, you do love compressed music and that is to be applauded, however they do sound inferior, they have to, most of the information is missing there is simply no getting away from this fact.
Originally posted by garyi
What you are saying is an oxe-moron (sorry about the spelling)
Lossless compression?
What the hell does that mean. How can you chuck out half the information and lose nothing?
If this format is so miraculous why is it not the main stream?
You could call it, compression without loss, no loss compression, call it what you will but fundamentally it comes down to one thing. The information that was there before is no longer there.
YOu say on thew one hand it makes no difference, then you are saying it does because you can hear it on your PC, this makes no sense.
PLay back these two items on a quilty peice of HIFI and you will hear the difference, just a surely as you wil hear that Vinyl sounds better than CD.
Originally posted by jimmymcfarrell
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Erm... I reckon music is a bit more sensitive to being messed around with than a word file. Music contains freqs. that you cannot hear, but are essential to the atmosphere of the music, and which are lost during compression. This is blatantly not the case with a word doc.
Surley its like saying "write something on a piece of paper, and put it through the wash - you'll still be able to read it, but not as well. Now try putting a cassette in the wash, it may still work, but you'll lose a hell of the detail of the recording.
That sums up compressed music for me, it sounds like its been through the wash!
Originally posted by jimmymcfarrell
I get what yer saying, so what stuff uses lossless compression then, what formats? And can you get it on any portables, cos thats probably the most usefull use of compressed music IMO.
Originally posted by nsherin
It's worked pefectly with no problems whatsover. I was expecting copy-protected CDs to really cause grief.