Daniel James wrote: > Hi Quentin, > >> This debate is the reason why it is almost hopeless to promote any >> kind of quality in music for the masses. People apparently want >> smashed rubbish tuned, background music that you hardly really hear >> anymore. We can all sell our expensive 24bit sound equipment and all >> get 8bit devices. > > Bowers & Wilkins are now promoting 24-bit FLAC as the new standard for > downloaded music, to replace iTunes etc, through their music club. > 24-bit direct from the studio, not upsampled from CD. And with a Free > Software encoder/decoder - woohoo! > > http://www.bowers-wilkins.co.uk/display.aspx?terid=3561&infid=3550 > > Cheers! > > Daniel
*smile* There's a good comment by Peter Gabriel, someone I mentioned often. FLAC is the only CODEC I know that's fine (loss free and I guess today usable for audio streams) and 24-bit is a good choice, because every modern on-board sound device can handle it. I don't know if cheap sound devices really benefit by this, but it won't harm such devices. I guess the only justification for CODECs with loss were/are audio streams for slow internet connections. Hehe :D and it's a free one! _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
