TheProdigy

Majin wrote:


They are for circuitous MP3s.

Numark TTX1

WayneB wrote:

Oh, are those like Laser Disc but for music?

Majin wrote:

What? No, don't be stupid.
Think more like Blu-Ray, but at HQ 320KBPS (Lossless)

I listened to this track a few seconds ago and it's very good Prodigy tune.

Martinstatic wrote:

16-bit Lossless is 1411 kbps, 24-bit lossless is even higher. MP3 320kbps is lossy as shit. Don't be stupid

Elitists

With a proper mpeg rip at 320/kbs bit rate and 48K Hz sample rate, it´s not far from physicly impossible for a human to hear any difference from a, say FLAC.

Listening to lossless copies: pointless. Ripping from a lossless copy, obviously better than ripping from CD audio...

Back to topic: /thread soon?

FrankTheTank wrote:

Depends how good your hearing is. Also, CD audio (wav) is considered lossless digital. We can go back and fourth for days so let's leave it at that <3

OT: Not feelin' this tune as much as the Experience era original work.

When I bought my comp I got the top of the range Soundblaster card with the big external control until that has the X-fi setting to make MP3 sound CD quality. They sound great, but put a CD through it and it sounds truly amazing I have to say. I can hear a slight difference in the high end between MP3 and CD, but that is all.

We started off taking the piss, not sure where we are now. Feeling afraid.
I'll just post this anyways...

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.

Martinstatic wrote:

Who in the hell told you that?

Anyways.....

I thought I had heard every Prodigy tune until I heard this remix Made in Two Minutes, Cheers for the link and of course I knew WayneB would have this in his collection. Good on ya Wayne!!!

Jungle Vibes wrote:



Ha-ha, cheers bro. Nice to see you on here again.

Martinstatic wrote:

ROFL !