128kbps MP3s were fine

[Rock hard as a Flintstone]

Spending 35 minutes downloading gundam-wing-knights-of-fire.mp3 encoded at 128kbps over Kazaa was an early internet rite of passage but anything encoded at less than 320kbps in a modern context is unlistenable IMO. Zoomies and Alphas with good ears might not even like that.

Still don't know how they managed to fit a season of your favorite anime into a 2mb executable on file sharing platforms back then though.

 

[AgendaPoster]

The music piracy scene sure used to be autistic, didn't it? It probably still is, but I haven't paid it any mind in ages, now that everything I could ever want is either on Soulseek or YouTube.

I miss what.cd and waffles.fm dearly.
It's 100% true that going on a run or just walking around the city, I don't really need more than YTMusic or Spotify streaming. I don't even need great headphones either, just gimme something half decent with some volume, proper phone controls, and as much IP protections as possible in case of rain or just me being careless.
But at home I got proper monitor speakers and a nice audio interface, and I want lossless as often as possible

 

[Meriasek]

As an enjoyer of underground Black Metal distributed on homecopied tapes I can say that 128 kb/s is corksniffing audiophile territory.

 

[Shroom King]

WAV works everywhere. You can get 128 GB usb flash drives for under $15. Space is no longer an issue.

Use EAC to rip to WAV and have EAC make a .cue file for the metadata and track placement of the CD.

WAV can also handle higher sampling rates and bit depth than Redbook CD standard for digitizing your needle drops and reel-to-reel backups.

 

[Wood]

MP3 at 128k distort certain frequencies REALLY badly, especially hihats and SSS-es. If you notice it you won't be able to unhear it ever.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

In Defense of the 128 Kbps MP3: The Greatest Music Media Format Ever

You can always settle for less, but 128 Kbps MP3 has obvious problems, with some songs encoding worse than others. Jango serves up 128 Kbps MP3 or 64 Kbps M4A (AAC), and you can tell when you hear a dud.

192/256 Kbps is probably fine. 320 Kbps or lossless FLAC for the purists or archival purposes. I think the average lossless FLAC song is probably around 30 MB, which means an 8 TB hard drive could store over 200,000 of them.

 

[Enig]

FLAC for local storage, 224 or 256kbps AAC in soundKonvert so I can just throw a folder of converts on a USB drive to move onto an old macbook and load my final gen iPod touch up some more.

 

[Caesar]

Spending 35 minutes downloading gundam-wing-knights-of-fire.mp3 encoded at 128kbps over Kazaa was an early internet rite of passage

I find it wild WinMX is still going, that was the first one I used over 20y ago. Loved Gnutella back in the day aswell. Torrents and Soulseek are still king though, with usenet not far behind.

 

[vanta pilled]

As an enjoyer of underground Black Metal distributed on homecopied tapes I can say that 128 kb/s is corksniffing audiophile territory.

Even using an amp is too high-fidelity, real bm musicians amplify their guitar with a table:

 

[Meriasek]

Even using an amp is too high-fidelity, real bm musicians amplify their guitar with a table:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=h6scAS4V_U4

Indeed. Even a guitar is almost too much.

 

[llllIllIllIIIIllI]

Anyone got the audiophile-faggot mspaint comics?

Also that shit about retards paying $2,000 for the extremely rare PS1 that came with RCA out.

Also that shit where audiotards pay $500 for fucking crystal rock things whatever they are and tape it on the cable. All audiotard products are really lulzy. Also that shit where they pay hundreds of dollars for cone shaped table risers so that the table is now making as little contact with the ground as possible while they use a completely digital system on top of it with no moving parts.

Edit: Here's one.

 

[Whitney Houston On Crack]

Last year, I converted my entire mp3 collection to 128kbps. Saved a fuckton of space, and now I'm able to put 2000+ songs on my 8 gig Philips mp3 player.

 

[Thé au lait]

Anyone got the audiophile-faggot mspaint comics?

Also that shit about retards paying $2,000 for the extremely rare PS1 that came with RCA out.

Also that shit where audiotards pay $500 for fucking crystal rock things whatever they are and tape it on the cable. All audiotard products are really lulzy. Also that shit where they pay hundreds of dollars for cone shaped table risers so that the table is now making as little contact with the ground as possible while they use a completely digital system on top of it with no moving parts.

Edit: Here's one.

Ver archivo adjunto 6346834

Most of my audiophile friends are musicians who can hear incredibly subtle differences in pitch, it's less that they're listening to the quality to justify the expense and more that they're so autistic about the quality that they think the expense is worth it.
Not saying I agree with them, but just what I've noticed.

 

[llllIllIllIIIIllI]

Most of my audiophile friends are musicians who can hear incredibly subtle differences in pitch, it's less that they're listening to the quality to justify the expense and more that they're so autistic about the quality that they think the expense is worth it.
Not saying I agree with them, but just what I've noticed.

You are allowed to be an audiophile, anyone is allowed to be an audiophile, if you want to blow your money you can on whatever you want, the only reason why anyone cares is because they're all copies of the same faggots who get online and post the same 3 things over and over again about how they're superior to everyone else. Every audio fag I've met IRL who isn't a musician is always fat and acne. Audio niggers are like vegans, if 15 mins goes by without them telling someone about it, they'll explode

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

fuck these losers 128kbps ftw, nothing wrong with the good ole fashioned. I dont want 4k resolution, i dont want 400 hz, i dont want FLAC.
If it works, it works and theres no need to fix what is not broken.

 

[Anti Alien Alarm]

codec compatibility is most important for me nowadays. youd be surprised how many shitty car and tv stereos only play wav, mp3, and wma. 128kbps mp3 addresses this problem perfectly, while still keeping manageable file sizes.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

I miss the hiss of tapes tbh

 

[Quijibo69]

16kbps songs because I have a crustly fedish.

 

[Baraka Obama]

128kbps was not good enough with early 2000s encoders. I found 160kbps VBS to be more reasonable while still having good size reductions.

These days I rip CDs to ALAC (apple lossless) and 320kbps constant bitrate MP3 because there are a surprising number of things which still only play MP3s (ex: my car's built in mp3 player) but space isn't a concern to me anymore.

I was really surprised to find MiniDisc LP2 mode to have excellent quality, I have a really hard time telling the difference vs source CD even with careful listening. LP2 is ATRAC-3 at 132kbps, and they did this in 2000.

 

[Chen Stirner]

I listen to 128kbps MP3 only if there's no other version of the album available. This is usually the case with really obscure metal demos. I prefer 320kbps MP3 because it strikes the perfect balance between quality and file size. I download FLAC only if I really, really like the album. And yes, I absolutely can tell the difference between 128kbps and 320kbps MP3 files. 128kbps always sounded compressed and sometimes contained strange audio artifacts, while 320kbps is richer and fuller. You can hear all the finer details that were absent in 128kbps.