servies;410000 Wrote: > And why o why would that be the case... Oh 'chute, I really managed to make a mess of my last post, it seems! I couldn't have structured it any worse or made it any more confusing talking back and forth about flac and mp3HD without making any clear references. What I wanted to say was:
1. I would absolutely prefer buying FLAC files from music stores. But they aren't widely available. One big reason is that 95% of iPod users would just go "What the FLAC?!" 1.1 In this sense, mp3HD would make sense. Advanced users could buy it because of the lossless audio, and maybe some because "it works om my iPod" and "hey, it says HD". The latter bunch would obviously be screwed over in a way.. 2. I don't see any point in anyone with even a little knowledge maintaining their music library in mp3HD. 3. For music stores it's a format that's directly compatible with existing mp3 players, so no one could complain about not being able to listen to it. skinny Wrote: > Converting to FLAC would be no problem for me. Someone just pretty much did > it (without the FLAC part) to prove it's lossless.. servies;410000 Wrote: > What makes you think it won't have any form of copyprotection for the HD > part... Does copyright actually differentiate between lossy and lossless? The legacy mp3 part is not CP:ed, so why should the lossless part be? Anyway, in case they would decide to introduce unfair use stuff to the lossless portion, there would still be the CD-DA workaround. There would absolutely have to be a way of burning lossless -> CD-DA for mp3HD sales to make the slightest sense. And yes, I've made my fair number of burn-rip tests to convince MYSELF (and that's well enough for ME, thank you) that I get 1:1 lossless perfect results every time that way. I could lose one or two samples (offset) in the process, but who knows at what offset they were encoded originally?! Now for the record, I don't think we need another format, since there are better ones for both lossy and lossless purposes. I don't like mp3HD. But if it becomes an easy way of purchasing lossless music, then welcome as there's really nothing right now! And I don't see mp3HD happening. -Skinny -- Skinny ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Skinny's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21538 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61694 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
