Silver, may I presume that you've done some sort of double-blind listening tests and that you have extremely hifi equipment? for topical reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec_listening_test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fidelity#Ascertaining_high_fidelity:_double-blind_tests http://www.soundexpert.info/ continuous online testing
cheerio, Ben PS - No, it does not seem like going backwards to me. I listen at 192kbps and I don't think I can tell the difference above that. So, on the contrary... for me, anything above 192 seems like a waste of disk space. :) On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:55 AM, silver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're paying for 256k MP3's? > > I can barely stand listening to 320k MP3. > > I can't understand paying for music provided in a lossy format. Or maybe > I'm > not understanding Amazon's solution. If, along with the MP3, you also > receive the original PCM stream which you can transcompress as you see > fit, > then that would be cool. > > Like flac, ape, shn and wavpack or recent TTA (True-Audio) format which is > open source. > > And even MPEG-4 ALS or SLS formats (not sure if decoder is yet available > for > any common players). > > And there are the proprietary lossless formats. Of course for downloading > from iTunes Apple ALAC (decoding only) . > And the WMAL (closed source) format. > > At any rate isn't 256k MP3 going backwards? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rob Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:48 PM > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] AmazonMp3 store > > > For single songs they let you just download the mp3 straight via the > browser. For full albums you need the downloader. Nice to know it > works on Linux. I've been preferring Amazon/mp3 over iTunes Store > lately just b/c they're DRM free and higher quality 256k encoded. > > -Rob > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >
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