Thread: going lossless
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Old 07-01-2011, 01:24 PM
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Re: going lossless
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Originally Posted by stimpee View Post
Feasible? Possible? yes.

But why? Can you tell the difference between mp3@320 and FLAC? And mobile devices dont have as much space as your desktop/laptop and dont like some lossless formats except AIFF/WAV.
Exactly! I don't think MP3 is a "shitty" format at all. 128 kbps (as the Duran Duran one you mentioned above must have been, if it's less than 5 MB for a 5 minute song) obviously sounds like crap, but once you get into 192 or above (or any kind of VBR at 224 on up) it becomes incredibly difficult to tell the differences. I've heard many times of "double blind" tests where people not only can't tell the difference but usually go for whichever one is played louder.