Stop using MP3

I have noticed some of my MP3's did go bad, albeit only very few. Of course, that isn't to say that is because they are MP3, probably a case of corruption, which could happen to any format and any file.
 
Ho ho very funny:rolleyes:

I'm sure I heard of something similar really happening - it was loading a JPG into Paint or something and resaving it - JPG compression got worse and worse and worse. Could have been total bs like this, mind you...
 
Liampope said:
I'm sure I heard of something similar really happening - it was loading a JPG into Paint or something and resaving it - JPG compression got worse and worse and worse. Could have been total bs like this, mind you...
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I'm not sure if you're joking but that's meant to happen as JPEG is a compression technique - each time you save it as .jpeg you are losing a little from the original, i.e. the file gets smaller.
 
Jokester said:
Heh, I remember seeing an article in the paper comparing photos of a burger and fries bought from Maccy Ds or similar from when it was bought and then a year later just being left uneaten. You could barely tell the difference.
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I do have to confess though, when I first saw US bread lasting three weeks (as opposed to UK bread lasting three days).... I thought it was the fridge! Yep, better fridges in USA that's why! ****** preservatives.
 
OP, if you still do believe it, then the tracks you have were just badly encoded and have always sounded the same.
 
Again, what a load of crap. Ive had hundreds of 128kbps and lower (96 mainly) bitrate mp3s since 1998 on an IDE drive. They still sound like they did then. So if your theory is correct, 12 x 15 = 180kbps = they should not play at all or should have vanished from my drive!
 
MP3 is as lossy as this forum, I can't understand the post I written 6 years ago - they sounds rubbish. Your post is degrading by the second.

FLAC my post before it disappea....
 
xGaffner said:
Hearing the difference now isn't the reason to encode to FLAC. FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is 'lossy'. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA - it's about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don't want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.

I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrange...well don't get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren't stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you'll be glad you did.
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I was just reading in the papers the other week about what this 'super skunk' is doing to the kids. Your just another victim but quite able to speak the brown at an alarming rate also.
 
xGaffner said:
Hearing the difference now isn't the reason to encode to FLAC. FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is 'lossy'. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA - it's about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don't want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.

I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrange...well don't get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren't stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you'll be glad you did.
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Copypasta? :p :D
 
I totally agree with OP! I found my mp3's to degrade quality with time. It was only few years later that I discovered that if you flip your HDD power cord, making it rotate its platters the other way, it would actually make mp3's gain quality with time! Now all my mp3 collection is 320Kbs!
 
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