On 10/28/05, JASON HICKS <ikki1@msn.com> wrote:
Dude, and when we are talking about binary information, there can be no loss.
That's not true
I get flac, aif and wmv files all the time with no sound loss. zero. Its not tape trading. Jason you know I have been sharing an Orbert file. Well it is 518 mb, over half a gig!!! At 10 megs a minute, thats the biggest song file I've ever heard of outside a studio. I'm not here to disrupt the list and argue with you about how good your napster recordings sound vs soulseek ones. I'm saying I own both and it all depends if it was done right in the first place. What are the original sources for these recordings destroyed or desintegrating like ancient film stock? I have tons of Orb from Napster on cd, but I've ripped exactly zero. That would be pointless when I can get it on soulseek just as good if not alot better.
But anyway I'm pretty sure mp3 wasn't invented "decades ago".
That was unveiled at the same time the Orb's first album came out, so we're covered. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3 , when you go from mp3>wav or even mp3 on your HD to mp3 on a
disc a 0 can easily become a 1 and vice versa, these minute errors can pile up and cause a loss of fidelity, regardless of the bitrate. Since there's nothing attached to the mp3 to make sure the that the integrity of the file is maintained, mp3 is considered a "lossy" compression scheme for audio. I'm sure you've heard mp3s that have that weird breakup on the treble that is either due to crappy encoding originally, or too many generations of mp3>whatever>mp3.
That technology was invented decades ago, it just wasn't
affordable for everyone. Lol, new?
I was talking about peer to peer applications being new when Napster came out so the files hadn't been circulated as much. I can imagine some guy in the 60s with a disc of mp3s wishing he had some way to play the thing, and wondering how the hell he encoded it since there was no such thing as PCs. That's funny.
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