Depends on how you define lossless. CDs are already compressed in AIFF
which downsamples to 44Khz at 16bits. Maybe studios are doing 48, 92 or
higher Khz with 24 bit or higher depth. Not sure I want to download that
kind of file size :) Even the audio within the AIFF is often times
compressed so that the softest parts and loudest parts are not that much
different. This dynamic range compression seems to have been a side
effect of the pop/rock genre so people wouldn't have to fiddle with the
volume control. There was a perception that louder is better so bump
everything up just to the point where it pegs the meters.
CB
Jacob Schmude wrote:
In the case of lossless, we should have a choice. I don't have the
diskspace I'd need to store every album I have in lossless, as nice as
that would be. And there's the matter of which lossless codec to use,
but they could give us a choice in that as well.
On Dec 10, 2008, at 00:10, Chris Smart wrote:
At 11:12 PM 12/9/2008, you wrote:
Now if the studios would just do MP3s for all music from all
download services.
Heck, with so many of us having broadband access, why not a lossless
format? Everybody wants instant access and portability, but what
about sound quality?
Chris
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