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 absolutely I want the lossless files, or put on a record and listen to it, and sometimes rarely now even put a CD in the player. However when I’m out and about lossy music on my iPhone while walking about or driving is absolutely acceptable. There’s all the noise of the outside world so you aren’t in “perfect listening conditions” so the MP3s or AACs are fine.
The bit of this that Apple Music/iTunes Match nails for me is I don’t need to curate two versions of my library, a lossless one at home and a second compressed one to take with me. AIFFs and CDs are at home in the computer, and they are instantly available to stream to my phone without having to do anything extra. Likewise I can think of something to add out and about or recognise something with Shazam.. add it to the library and the lossless Apple Music one is waiting for me when I get home. On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 12:55, 'Jason Davies' via Sussex Mac User Group < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 bitrate, and hate them). > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/CAEjhqLSHVTWc2HWS00qCD%2BAZNT75J8Cf73cUEmybVz9YjyeFDg%40mail.gmail.com.
