Lossless music

[johnson]

Anyone else target lossless music now. I got a 13mbit connection and it just makes sense to get flac and ape files now over mp3.

Lets put these bigger hard drives to use now eh

 

[johnson]

yeh dont concern yourself where I legally get them from, that wasn't the question.

 

[johnson]

ok apart from the lack of mainstream music available in lossless formats to download....

There are few mp3 players that will play them
The ones that do play them see a much shorter battery life through playing them
There are few mp3 players available that store more than 60GB and thus you might start running out of space
The difference between a GOOD mp3 (encoded at a high bitrate) and a FLAC file is mostly placebo (I did some blind testing at the weekend on my hifi (NAD C352 amp, NAD C542 CD player, JMLabs Focal Chorus S speakers) and I really struggled to hear a difference.

fini

I Suppose it is really hard to hear a difference with a highend mp3. I've not got a decent hifi yet so Im thinking when I do have a better one I can always go back to wav.