storing cd's

[black2yaris]

ipod suck ! mp3's decompress to garbage ! you lose all the audio sonics .. Apple has everyone fooled that small is better , when it's not .. Vinal is where the real sound is but CD's will at least reproduce the audio 100% ,, long live the CD

[brickhardmeat]

Originally Posted by black2yaris

ipod suck ! mp3's decompress to garbage ! you lose all the audio sonics .. Apple has everyone fooled that small is better , when it's not .. Vinal is where the real sound is but CD's will at least reproduce the audio 100% ,, long live the CD

thanks phil spector!

anyway, reality is I'm not lugging around piles of cd's, or cluttering my home with vinyl and getting up to change records or move the needle to the song I want, I am totally happy with rhapsody sound quality but I'm not a famed record producer like you, I don't use Apple either

glad you like the cd's ,someone has to I guess, but they will be phased out, mp3 quality will continue to improve

you are so 80's

[black2yaris]

Originally Posted by brickhardmeat

glad you like the cd's ,someone has to I guess, but they will be phased out, mp3 quality will continue to improve

the uninformed never know what going on anyway , i'm happy yer happy ! Excuse me while I warm the hard drive up !

[Pars]

Apple's iTune now has a lossless compression which is suppose to be all that.

Perhaps I'd be able to tell the difference with my old Alpine system, but the Yaris's system isn't good enough to differentiate between CD quality and compressed music.

[xed]

Originally Posted by black2yaris

ipod suck ! mp3's decompress to garbage ! you lose all the audio sonics .. Apple has everyone fooled that small is better , when it's not .. Vinal is where the real sound is but CD's will at least reproduce the audio 100% ,, long live the CD

True for 99% of the crap mp3's that people make but not the way I make them. :)

Here's a how to guide for anyone that wants to create mint mp3s.

http://www.chrismyden.com/bestmp3guide.php

I feel completely confident that if you follow the above method exactly that you will not be able to tell the difference between the mp3 and the original on anything but true audiophile equipment.

SIDE NOTE: Yes an mp3 will never be as good as a CD no matter what method of ripping and compressing the mp3 you use. But the real question is "do you have equipment good enough to reproduce the CD with enough quality that you can tell the difference between it and an mp3 which has been correctly ripped?" I don't (and will never) have the $1000 CD player, tube headphone amp, etc... that a true audiophile would use. The method I use to rip mp3s allows me to create files with are at a minimum equal to the quality of the equipment that I would be able to play the original CD on. I'm very VERY picky about the quality of my mp3s and if I can rip it good enough that I can't tell the difference then that's more than good enough for me. :)


MP3s have a bad rep because nobody actually knows how to properly rip them. They use some canned software and press a "Rip to mp3" button and then wonder why the mp3s they just made don't sound as good as the cd.


EDIT: Actually if you really want to digitally go for it you could not use mp3s at all and go FLAC which is lossless and is truely a perfect reproduction of what is on the CD. The file sizes are huge compared to mp3s but still nowhere near the full CD size. You just have to find a digital music player that you like which will play back FLAC files.