Re: [slim] The King is dead;-)

2017-06-18 Thread Pascal Hibon
Don't worry guys, the industry found yet another way to retrieve money from your pockets. This time it is called MQA. The industry doesn't care about quality, it only cares about revenues... Licencing stuff is a great way to achieve that without attracting to much attention. MP3 licencing

Re: [slim] The King is dead;-)

2017-05-17 Thread drmatt
Elvis lives in Reading, everyone knows that. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [slim] The King is dead;-)

2017-05-17 Thread Mnyb
Btw i would not rip to a lossy format for all the obvius reasons Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office:

Re: [slim] The King is dead;-)

2017-05-17 Thread Tex
cliveb wrote: > until ... well, until Elvis appears on stage in Las Vegas, or The > Beatles get back together. Though there have been sightings of Elvis I believe in Vegas I hear Paul is dead... (1) Pi 3 w/ HifiBerry Digi + Pro & piCorePlayer 3.20, (1) Touch, (1) Transporter, Samba w/ 2 TB

Re: [slim] The King is dead;-)

2017-05-17 Thread Julf
iPhone wrote: > I didn't say MP3 was dead, I said I wish it was and it would JUST go > away quietly. It won't. But it shouldn't bother you if you don't use it. It is still way better than cassette tapes and minidisks. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this

Re: [slim] The King is dead;-)

2017-05-17 Thread Mnyb
Its also very much suitable for streaming if you you want a freeish codec other than ogg . Yes 320k is pretty much not possible to tell from FLAC or WAV . Caveat use server side decoding , the mp3 decoders in for example SB3 et al are not perfect ive clearly heard artefacts there

Re: [slim] The King is dead;-)

2017-05-17 Thread drmatt
No idea why the register decided to frame it this way. It's clearly NOT dead. Sloppy headline writing. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than

Re: [slim] The King is dead;-)

2017-05-17 Thread cliveb
Simple fact of the matter is that pretty much all of the lossy codecs (AAC, Vorbis, MP3, etc) at a suitable bitrate can sound indistinguishable from the original. For sure, AAC and Vorbis can achieve this at slightly lower bitrates that MP3, but for all practical purposes they perform the same.

Re: [slim] The King is dead;-)

2017-05-16 Thread iPhone
pgnyc wrote: > ok, Mp3 is not dead, just they are now in public domain, do not have to > pay anymore to implement the coder/decoder. > > You could buy 2 titles 45rpm and 2 titles cd. > > > i am still buying cd , and 90% of the time i listen to whole album. > And i try to push my kids to do

Re: [slim] The King is dead;-)

2017-05-16 Thread pgnyc
iPhone wrote: > . > . > ...[Deleted] ... > > Back in the day, people used to buy albums or CDs then listen to the > whole thing, believe it or not. Today kids just download the ONE hit for > 99 cents and wonder why its $175 a ticket to go see their favorite > artist in concert. The

Re: [slim] The King is dead;-)

2017-05-16 Thread iPhone
Tex wrote: > FYI > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/16/mp3_dies_nobody_noticed/ . . As long as it "Throws-out" the right notes, MP3 is one of the worse things to ever happen to music and currently has very limited value or use today in my opinion. The sooner it is completely abandoned the

[slim] The King is dead;-)

2017-05-16 Thread Tex
FYI http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/16/mp3_dies_nobody_noticed/ (1) Pi 3 w/ HifiBerry Digi + Pro & piCorePlayer 3.20 Beta, (1) Touch, (1) Transporter, Samba w/ 2 TB USB Drive for files Tex's Profile: