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Post subject: Re: At What Quality Do You Listen to Music?
Posted: Thu November 12, 2015 3:59 am
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320. I prefer live music to be FLAC. I'm not sure why. I have a 350 song Old School Hip Hop mix that I made years ago at 128 so it would fit on two discs that I wish I put together with a better bit rate but I'm not tracking all those songs down again.
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Post subject: Re: At What Quality Do You Listen to Music?
Posted: Thu November 12, 2015 6:35 am
tl;dr
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:06 pm Posts: 8569
I'll settle for mp3@320 or AAC@256 if it's the most sensible option, but even if I load the lesser quality files on my phone I still prefer to own lossless copies. I do most of my listening on CD anyway so it's usually not a concern.
Post subject: Re: At What Quality Do You Listen to Music?
Posted: Fri November 13, 2015 9:41 pm
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
Birds in Hell wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
I still do most of my listening via a 160gb iPod, so lossless would be a huge hassle.
Me too, actually - I just don't carry everything with me at once.
Ah, interesting. I like to have it all at my fingertips. But I've been out of space for a while, so it won't be long before I gotta start making some decisions.
Post subject: Re: At What Quality Do You Listen to Music?
Posted: Fri November 13, 2015 9:46 pm
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bada wrote:
320. I prefer live music to be FLAC. I'm not sure why. I have a 350 song Old School Hip Hop mix that I made years ago at 128 so it would fit on two discs that I wish I put together with a better bit rate but I'm not tracking all those songs down again.
iTunes Match could do this all for you. Only $25, and they would match your tracks to better versions in their library.
Post subject: Re: At What Quality Do You Listen to Music?
Posted: Fri November 13, 2015 9:51 pm
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tragabigzanda wrote:
bada wrote:
320. I prefer live music to be FLAC. I'm not sure why. I have a 350 song Old School Hip Hop mix that I made years ago at 128 so it would fit on two discs that I wish I put together with a better bit rate but I'm not tracking all those songs down again.
iTunes Match could do this all for you. Only $25, and they would match your tracks to better versions in their library.
wait, what does the bitrate have to do with how many discs it will fit on?
Post subject: Re: At What Quality Do You Listen to Music?
Posted: Fri November 13, 2015 10:04 pm
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cutuphalfdead wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
bada wrote:
320. I prefer live music to be FLAC. I'm not sure why. I have a 350 song Old School Hip Hop mix that I made years ago at 128 so it would fit on two discs that I wish I put together with a better bit rate but I'm not tracking all those songs down again.
iTunes Match could do this all for you. Only $25, and they would match your tracks to better versions in their library.
wait, what does the bitrate have to do with how many discs it will fit on?
Absolutely nothing. I didn't pay close enough attention to his dilemma. I'll show myself out.
320. I prefer live music to be FLAC. I'm not sure why. I have a 350 song Old School Hip Hop mix that I made years ago at 128 so it would fit on two discs that I wish I put together with a better bit rate but I'm not tracking all those songs down again.
iTunes Match could do this all for you. Only $25, and they would match your tracks to better versions in their library.
wait, what does the bitrate have to do with how many discs it will fit on?
He burned them as data, not audio, discs. So size mattered.
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Post subject: Re: At What Quality Do You Listen to Music?
Posted: Sat November 14, 2015 6:13 pm
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320/v0 if I already have the LP or CD. Flac mostly otherwise. But I have to admit, since I don't stream digital to the Hi Fi just yet, I can't really hear that much a difference on my phone and $12 earbuds
Post subject: Re: At What Quality Do You Listen to Music?
Posted: Sat November 14, 2015 6:20 pm
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I have Spotify premium, so I stream at their "extreme" quality, which is 320. I also have about a TB worth of FLACs. I was gonna switch to Google Music, because they started "supporting" FLAC, but then I read that it actually just gets converted to a 320 MP3, which, to me, isn't really "supporting" FLAC.
Post subject: Re: At What Quality Do You Listen to Music?
Posted: Wed March 08, 2017 6:14 am
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I have no idea what quality my song files are. Most of my library is ripped from CD's and the rest are either Napster downloads from college or iTunes purchases over the years.
I mainly listen from my iPhone now either through an audio cable to the Aux jack in my car, through the iPhone speaker itself with my phone in my pocket while walking the kids in their stroller, or through my $8 headphones.
Post subject: Re: At What Quality Do You Listen to Music?
Posted: Thu March 09, 2017 10:01 pm
durdencommatyler wrote:
I genuinely don't care.
same. i prefer at least 192 but since 90% of my listening is done via a) phone into car radio adapter or b) computer speakers at work, worrying about quality seems silly.
I mean, I probably do care. But I have no way of knowing. I don't pay attention to what I'm listening to. I just listen to it in whatever form it comes in and I move on with my day. Like, if I spin a record. I play it. If it's on Spotify, I click play. If it's a CD, fine. If it's a YouTube clip, whatever. I have no idea what any of these quality levels are. I just listen to what I can and move on down the road.
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