I had to discipline myself to care less about the quality and accept when
things are “good enough” I too can absolutely hear the difference in lower
bitrates (~128), and I don’t believe I have golden ears or am some sort of
audiophile. When I’m at home, in peace and quiet, listening to music yes
On 5 Jan 2022, at 21:14, Toby Leighton wrote:
OR a 256kbps AAC file
I think I've basically gone the same way as you (and this may have
happened to me, I note the use of AIFF instead as shrewd but
disk-expensive!). 256 AAC is not MP3 even at 320 (I can *always* tell an
MP3, irrespective of
That may change with Apple’s acquisition I suppose. They will let us know I’m
sure!
You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. ~ Carl Jung
> On 5 Jan 2022, at 22:55, Virginia Routh wrote:
>
>
> Thanks, Stephen. I tried Apple Music also Spotify but neither have an
> extensive
Thanks, Stephen. I tried Apple Music also Spotify but neither have an
extensive catalogue of classical music.
> On 5 Jan 2022, at 22:01, 'Stephen Watson' via Sussex Mac User Group
> wrote:
>
> Very interesting Toby and all.
>
> Atmos/Spatial should sound great on headphones. We have two
Very interesting Toby and all.
Atmos/Spatial should sound great on headphones. We have two ears and no matter
how many speakers and channels in your lounge they go into our brain via two
ears and contain the information for up, down, back, front, a little bit behind
and every other nuance.
Once tunes are showing as “matched” in Apple Music (Which it does through
audio analysis fingerprinting voodoo) whatever the original format was it
then does an incredibly basic decision of if the bitrate was 128kbps or
less it will swap it with their version. I have loads of ripped cds that I
When I signed up to AM it was frustrating to find that there were albums with
missing tracks which were available to buy on iTunes but not to stream on AM!
Gr. That doesn’t seem to be much of an issue now, it’s usually that the
entire album is missing even if it’s in iTunes.
Also, thanks
Ah, this is useful information, about the DRM on lossless. I did suspect
there would be surprises. ANd the distinction between iTunes store and
Apple Music is one I'd missed - thanks.
As for loss of tracks, I've definitely lost things by replacement; I
have plenty of AAC versions (192) of
Thanks Virginia. Youtube doesn't always offer the same quality sound as
'lossless' (though often it's very good). Also, I wouldn't be able to
organise the recordings as downloads without subscribing, and then I
would have the problem of how I organise them. I would end up putting
them in the
You (or others) may find it cheaper to use Vinegar safari extension
which removes ads and lots of other metaphorical noise for a couple of
quid! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229
Works on macOS and iOS.
cheers,
J
On 5 Jan 2022, at 8:36, 'andrew lancaster' via
Virginia, thanks for this. I also am a classical music lover and shall look
into You Tube premium. No adverts would be a boon!
Andrew Lancaster.
Sent from my iPhone
> On 5 Jan 2022, at 08:32, Virginia Routh wrote:
>
>
> I’m a classical music lover, and find YouTube excellent. I watch
I’m a classical music lover, and find YouTube excellent. I watch it on TV
(super concerts from Wigmore Hall and around the world) and also on my phone.
Their library is extensive. If you want to hear, say, a Sibelius symphony
there will be 3 or 4 versions to choose from. I pay for Premium
I looked at those Tangerine Dream albums, as I have a couple of them and
hadn't noticed that, but mine are later on 80s, Dream Sequence is still the
same. I didn't add them to my library but inspected them with get-info and
for me each song had its respective albums cover art, so I guess it's
Apple Music plan includes iTunes Match, so basically everything will behave
for you exactly as it already does!
Apple Music and the ITunes store are actually two separate things, so some
music isn't available in apple music plan, but is available to buy in
itunes, I think both vary by region too,
Hi Jason,
I can’t vouch for uploading items which may have the same name by the same
artist that is on Apple Music already as the only ones I have recorded and
uploaded were because they did not exist on AM. If you keep backups of all your
bootlegs (as it sounds as though you do) then you
This is useful, thanks. I didn't realise you could upload (you can with
Match, I thought Apple Music just gave you free access to their
catalogue). My issue is that I have a. ridiculous number of live
bootlegs, sometimes the same gig but different recordings and so on, and
I worried they would
Hi Jason,
I’ve tried to replicate, as closely as I can, my entire CD and vinyl collection
on Apple Music and have mostly done it (despite Apple’s/licencee’s efforts to
thwart me ).
Firstly, I’ve never had match or the equivalent to can’t speak for that.
I have my entire music library
Hi folks
This is one of those 'surely this is easy but no one talks about it on
the web' questions. I have a carefully collected music collection,
mostly lossless, often rare and hard to replace. I've had Apple Match
for years to get stuff on all devices and I've been wondering about
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