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[carson10us]

Just a quick question for everyone. Am I the only one here who absolutely hates MP3?

I'm so tired of people with an 8 gig iPod nano bragging about a metric ass ton of songs on there.  Lossy compression is not your friend!

I'll reluctantly admit, I do use WMA loss less because it streams to my XBox easily, but I also use FLAC.

Poll What format do you use?wildbilltx, I swear... if you put

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[wulfsige]

Hate Mp3? = No.
Dislike? = Somewhat.
Prefer? = No.
Do I use them? = Yes.

It really depends on a number of things. IE- How was it captured? digitally or analog? Is it CBR or VBR? Are you encoding 128kbs or 320kbs? Are you using interpolation software/hardware? etc, etc, etc.. You get the idea.

I'd bet any amount of money that the next time your here I could pull out my studio monitors and you likely wouldn't be able to tell the difference in something I've encoded vs a store bought CD.

Now if your talking MP3's vs 88k2/24 or something of that nature, then yeah! Night and day difference no doubt, but the difference between a nicely-ripped 320k MP3 and that of the original 16/44 is very small when done right. Why go though all the trouble? -Compatibility.... (that's the only real reason why I use them)

[carson10us]

I highly doubt wherever these people are getting music *cough cough torrents cough* have anything but constant bitrate. The particular girl that I ran into yesterday actually RECOMPRESSED everything into 64kbps MP3s so it would fit.

MP3 is so old and inefficient... but yes compatible it is.

While I'm not an audiophile by any stretch of the imagination, I will still go buy the CD and encode the music myself if I like it that much. Not that I'm going to notice with the garbage sound card my laptop has, but whatever.

Then again... I own a headphone amp, I have a respectable pair of headphones. I'm not exactly a normal listener XD

If you really want to set up your audio rig, sure... I'll listen. You had better put something on besides club music though XD

[carson10us]

Also, the amount of audio gear you have access to likely well exceeds my net worth.

[nbowa]

mp3 is ok for most pop and rock music. I despise it for orchestral works, because you do lose a lot of fidelity, especially at the low and high ranges. If you have anything less than 256kB then it's even worse... 128 for orchestral is OUT.

[tawnybronzelyon]

MP3 is OK by me, but has to be at least 256Kbps. Just because it is so widely supported. Even my TV can play it.

Oh how I wish my player supported OGG Vorbis...

[taren_]

I prefer MP3 only for compatibility. I recently switched from using Winamp to VLC, and Winamp is very picky about formats. Ogg needed a plugin, FLAC was broken, v0 was hit or miss...

I agree I hate when I get lossy tracks. Sometimes it's obvious there are issues. Other times it's subtle.

I have recompressed audio from time to time. For me the only time lossless audio even matters is when I'm in a quiet environment with good headphones. When I worked in a stockroom with earbuds, 56kbps was just fine. *prepares for tomatoes*

My pet peeve is when people think there's a straight conversion between MB and MP3 minutes. Bitrate what?

[rocket_wolf]

I mainly use WMA and WAV formats.

WMA tends to sound better with my music than MP3, especially since I listen on stereo computer speakers.

WAV is not the greatest quality, but it tends to work with most media players, and the old games I play.

I have a few MP3's, but they are only that way because that's the format they came in.

[carson10us]

Actually...
WAV is completely uncompressed. If done at the correct sampling rate, it is actually one of the best (but largest) formats to use.