Mark Lanctot wrote:
> Without unduly hijacking the thread, would anyone care to elaborate on
> the reasons why?
> - you notice no audible difference?
> - you don't have enough storage space?
> - compatibility with a portable player?
> - ease of conversion?
> Just curious.
"Your music library contains 2308 albums with 25738 songs by
1422 artists."
The overwhelming majority of my tracks are in mp3 with no flac
(except experiments).
Why? A couple reasons.
- Disk space, as cheap as it is, isn't always so cheap in the
eyes-of-the-spouse. I have ~250GB of tracks now, so it would
obviously be a significant multiple of that were it in FLAC or
something.
- Disk space...with unlimited diskspace, the management
of many multiple drives is still a pain in the butt, even with
rsync, et al.
- I have kids. My days of even attempting to be an audiophile
are over :-) [Small price to pay, imo, which makes me a
heretic I realize.] I listen to music in the following
places:
- My car, through my ipod. Mp3 is a requirement (without
the firmware hacks) and, frankly, who cares?
- My headphones at work. Sure, fidelity is nice, but I
don't concentrate on my music at work, it's in the
background for me.
- At home, on the stereo...which, most of the time, is
either kids' music, something piped into the kitchen
speakers during dinner, or as background. I can count the
number of times that I have taken to *listen* deeply to
music this year on one hand.
- Except at work, I almost exclusively listen to audiobooks of
some sort - whether it's This American Life, something from
audible.com, or whatever. Anyone ripping those to FLAC is a
fool :-)
- Finally, I *don't* notice a difference (most of the time) in
fidelity on tracks ripped well enough. Sure, you've got to
be deaf to not hear a difference on 128 or even 192. But I
rarely hear any difference - based on where/when I listen,
see above - if I use lame's standard preset.
Hope that doesn't kick me out of the club. I know that having
it all in FLAC or something makes my future a lot easier, but
life is full of compromises.
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