I keep all my music as wav so it's extra lossless, how about you guys?
>extra lossless
I usually use youtube to mp3 and convert the file to lossless, might do .wav now if it sounds better..?
>>65486240
>youtube to mp3 and convert the file to lossless
>>65486240
same as this guy tbqhwy
>>65486260
What is bait?
>>65486240
Violent chaos music is truely our life, westham fo life untydied <read in a mexican inflection on a us dairydistrict demented brian blessed>
There is nothing wrong with ripping a song from youtube using youtube2mp3
PS I have a wcd acc
I've sworn allegiance to v0.
My music is extra lossless as well, so it's future proofed.
lo fi is the new hi fi
>>65486240
I put all my music on top of one another in one big file in order to still get the benefits of wav but reduce file size. An added perk is that I can now listen to all my music in like 10 minutes!
>>65488595
>not having 30+ minute songs
wew
>>65488615
I have to correct you there. anything longer than 10 minutes gets chopped up and the new parts get added to the "master file". I used to use this technique to simply listen to long songs faster (sometimes I chopped up 20 minute songs into 10 parts so that I could listen to them in just 2 minutes!), until I discovered the technique I use now.
>>65488418
any straight shota of that?
>>65488824
I see you really have this thing figured out anon
Usually wav, ogg, aac or m4a, but sometimes I can only find torrents for music I like in mp3 format, so I'm stuck with that.
>>65486984
I do that for live sets,, no shame
>>65488881
Thanks!
It was only a couple months ago that my library was full to the brim, and I had no hope of ever getting through it all, but thanks to this simple trick I am now fully caught up with my backlog!
so how many of you started collecting without knowing much about quality and have a bunch of files lower than 320/lossless
>>65489194
I actually won't put something in my library until I find the highest quality version possible
Not that it has to be FLAC but I try to aim for above 320
320 for me cause im not a pretentious faggot and need disc space for vidya
>>65489253
>le flac meme XD
>>65489475
by meme you're referring to?
>>65489777
there is no difference between 320mp3 and flac
>>65486240
>>65488824
>I have to correct you there. anything longer than 10 minutes gets chopped up and the new parts get added to the "master file". I used to use this technique to simply listen to long songs faster (sometimes I chopped up 20 minute songs into 10 parts so that I could listen to them in just 2 minutes!), until I discovered the technique I use now.
>>65489455
It's for archival purpose though. you can convert a lossless file to anything but a 320 stay 320.
>>65489837
Wow you must have really fucking shitty headphones.
>>65489837
Your headphones suck. You can hear even the highest quality MP3s swizzling and hissing and burbling all over the tails of high hats and the sibilance of voices if you have even a passable audiophile sound system or a pair of $150 headphones.
Try encoding a wav to MP3, inverting the phase of one of the files in your DAW, and layering them back over each other. What you hear will be the delta between the two files, i.e. just the artifacts. You'll be surprised by all the digital thrashing and gargling you hear in the high frequencies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSVuQvLo080
>>65487003
v0 is nice size vs. quality wise, but it kinda sucks how some containers can't calculate the duration properly
>>65490073
>>65490126
there have been studies that the human ear cannot tell the difference
>>65486066
I email any one of the vast network of mixing and mastering engineers that I supply drugs to and get the stems via courier (normally for several grams of something very high quality), which I play on Protools HD through a set of customised gain-clone amps, and finally to a pair or Rogers LS5/9 BBC outside broadcast monitors (I find the LS5/8's to be coloured on account of the Quad amps they employ). I may well move to Harbeths, but for now I'm fine.
Otherwise I contact the artist directly and usually swap a copy of their masters for some kind of rarity from my vinyl archive (ripped using the aforementioned HD system naturally). I'm very persuasive.
I find the consumer 'side' of music production does nothing for the music like to obviate it from my listening practices.
