Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3?
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It was ripped directly from my cd at 320kbps and played on an iPod 5th generation (iPod video).
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I care, because I e been using streaming media fr quite a few years ears and not kept up with an changes
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Could it be the sound system? Most people seem to prefer the convenience of Bluetooth, ubiquitous small speakers, and maybe that’s usually the limiting factor
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No, I don't think you're as asshole at all, and don't doubt you can hear the difference. I just can't, myself. Or at least I've never been able to.
But I also watch DVDs and didn't really notice the resolution, either. (Old TV shows, that I can notice.
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I'd argue you've got that backwards; CD is to vinyl what lossless is to .mp3. That said, I know what you mean.
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I should add that I have a hackish python script for that conversion. It basically mirrors the tree of MP3s and FLAC files, converting the FLACs and hard linking everything else. So it doesn't use too much more disk. Then I copy that to my phone. I could put it up somewhere if it would be useful.
But I don't have as much music as you, either.
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IIRC that era of iPods had issues with their preamps. I remember when I switched from a Nano to a classic that there was noticeable clipping and other distortion where there wasn't before. I would have returned it but I had already sold my Nano...
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I thought so too, but once I got IEMs. The drums felt more organic and I heard parts of guitars that I didn't on mp3.
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Ye, when outdoors in my wireless headphones, I won't even hear the difference.
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Seems to confirm the tendency, except I was thinking about higher-end and more professional systems.
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A lot of people cant tell the difference between MP3 @320Kbps and a fully lossless FLAC.
MP3 has some disadvantages over more modern formats, regardless the used bitrate. It's been a long while since I was very interested in audio formats, so I may not be up to date on some newer developments but unless anything major changed, MP3 can't do truly gapless playback between tracks (used in live albums), for example.
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Aren't there unofficial extensions to mp3 for gappless playback? IIRC you can tag tracks as gappless and many audio players will make them so.
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Aren’t there unofficial extensions to mp3 for gappless playback?
Yes and no.
IIRC an MP3 track is divided in fixed-length frames and unless the actual audio matches perfectly with the end of a frame, it's not possible and that's why cross-fading plugins for audio players were invented. The padding data is there either way but can be documented in the metadata section of a file.
Last I checked (and that was years ago, so I may be wrong) this approach was never perfect and prone to breaking. It's an inherent flaw with the format where some form of workaround exists.
That said, for most use cases this is irrelevant.
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I don't use any one format. No idea what audio formats I have but probably a lot. Never cared, VLC takes them all.
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Oh, yeah, not saying that they were the first filesystems, just that I can remember that transition on the personal computer.
