pfarrell;479806 Wrote: > dsclar wrote: > > But an ipod won't play FLAC files natively, and even if it did I have > > > 1TB drives filled up with high quality music rips. No mp3's for me > > other than a few very old things and some old baseball game rips I > > made. > > This is silly. My library of 800+ albums, all in flac is well under > 500GB. > > There is no need, zero, for flac in a car. Once you move, the road, > engine, and wind noise removes the ability to replay high fidelity. > > High rate OGG or MP3 are fine. > > > I totally disagree that the Squeezebox makes no sense in a car but > to > > each their own. I use mine all the time and it wonderful to have > 4000 > > CD's with me. > > You actually own 4000 CDs? Wow, I've never heard of anyone with that > many. I've heard of folks with a thousand or so, and others with many > tens of thousands of songs. > > A few years ago I worked at a company (we predated the iTunes store > idea) that bought and ripped 10K cds. We had nearly everything in > print. > Then we got a VC round and they said we needed more. So we ripped > another 30K albums. Total was 40K cds. > > It was not all of the known universe of CDs, but it was 99.9 percent > coverage of the CDs that Americans actually bought. > > Like books, music has a wicked fall-off. The popular stuff sells like > crazy, but one you fall out of the top-100 artists in the mainstream > genres, nobody sells any volume -- 2 thousand copies of an album is a > success if you are not the Rolling Stones or a Country group. > > -- > Pat Farrell > http://www.pfarrell.com/
Well I'd have to respectfully disagree. I can surely hear the difference between mp3's and flacs in my Lexus with the Levinson sound system. Of course XM radio sounds even worse than many mp3's but I can surely hear all the processing they're doing. If you can't hear the difference I guess that's good for you. I should admit that I'm an audio engineer and have been listening to music production critically for decades so I know the sound of recorded music fairly well. Perhaps I'm cursed for being able to hear so many abberations in music reproduction, but that is also a part of how I earned a living. I think that also may allow me to enjoy the better recordings more than most. As for having 4,000 CD's, that's really not all that many. I surely know people who have collections that dwarf mine. When I eventually get around to needledropping all my albums that will probably take me up towards 2TB. I've heard of people that have around 10TB of flac files. As for 2,000 sales being a success I'd wish that was the case. I had a CD of one of my old recordings released in 2003 and it's sold about 3,000 copies so far. I surely don't think of it as a success as it didn't even recoup it's meager costs. -- dsclar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dsclar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33404 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68009 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
