How can mp3 files age?
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How can mp3 files age?
rotational velocidensity
>>60652662
god fucking damn it
FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is ‘lossy’. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA – it’s about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don’t want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.
I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrange…well don’t get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren’t stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you’ll be glad you did.
>>60652746
What if you store all your music on an SSD?
>>60652746
100% bullshit!
i have 320k mp3s from 1998 and still blast them all the time...and to tell you the truth, they sound as solid, if not better, as the 192k mp3s i just downloaded a month ago.
>>60652641
just put them in the fridge and you will be fine
>>60652662
>>60652746
Nice meme
>>60652746
>In a cool, dry place
gets me every time
>>60652746
This. Get FLAC everyone.
>>60652840
I'd actually freeze them. But remember to defrost, as listening to them raw can cause tinnitus!
Hearing the difference now isn't the reason to encode to FLAC. FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is 'lossy'. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA - it's about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don't want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.
I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrange…well don’t get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren’t stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you’ll be glad you did.
>>60652746
>in a cool, dry place
kek
>>60652846
>>60652641
Guys, how do I get these velociraptors off my turntable?
i know yall make all these jokes but really some songs from my friends old myspace sound different now. a lot of popping and skipping
>>60653057
Probably because it was on fucking Myspace
