Especially on computer speakers. Do I just have a tin ear or, as I suspect, is it all a big put-on? This seems to be a major issue in the online music theft community.
Can Anyone Honestly Tell the Difference Between 128kbps and Higher Bit-Rate mp3s or Are They Just Fronting
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I swear there is absolutely no difference via computer speakers or iPods. But I have heard the two different versions of the last Shellac album on a mighty fine stereo system and I could tell the difference. But it didn't seem to be that much of difference.
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The rise of the 320kpbs snobs seems to be concomitant with the rise of really huge cheap HD storage. It is gonna be a while before I fill this 160GB iPod (or my $100 500GB external HD) regardless of what bit rate my shit is at. I am just amazed that there are people out there who will literally lambast you for putting a 128k version of something on offer. I am all like, "Motherfucker, you getting it for free." Maybe I should have entitled this thread "Pissy Uptight Soulseex Users."
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I can totally tell (most) 128 kbps mp3's from higher bitrate compression. Noisy sounds like hi hats and acoustic guitars sound swooshy and uderwatery. Different applications compress audio better than others, but I find at least 50% of 128 kbps mp3s in my iTunes library are totally unlistenable. Now that 1 TB = harddrives are about $200 bucks, I'm thinking of re-ripping everything to .flac and being done with it once and for all.
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But I'm not one to bitch about the quality of free music. I still listen to dupes of dupes of dupes of tapes recorded from poorly received college radio transmitters 15 years ago. There something about that wobbly sound of ultra compressed mp3's that angries up my tinnitus.
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