128kbps MP3s were fine

[Vecr]

Lame with the --vbr-new option is quite good. The quality's not perfect, but I think it might be a bit better if you pass -q 0 as well.

 

[seri0us]

You are allowed to be an audiophile, anyone is allowed to be an audiophile,

Tell that to the record stores I'm not allowed within 500 feet of....

 

[A Gay Retard]

Streaming lossless corded to my stereo over 5G on my unlimited data

 

[Near]

Wav chads stay WINNING

 

[Ed Special]

Imagine not having so much storage space on tap that you have to compress your audio. 12tb external hard drives are like $100 if you know where to look and will handily store so much lossless audio that it'd take you literally years to go through it all.

That said, if you MUST have compressed audio, VBR is the way to go. Fixed bitrate lossy audio is for niggers.

 

[llllIllIllIIIIllI]

Note how everyone in the thread who showed up to sperg their particular irrelevant unimportant psuedo-opinion on their particular autistic use case opinion on how to listen to music, in the vain hopes that they will be noticed in the crowd of other audio turd hipsters, have no reactions of any kind, even from other audio niggers. Maybe that's because being an audio faggot is something you only do to pretend to be better than everyone else and when other audio retards show up, they don't want you to be here either so that they can pretend people cared about their opinion more, all the while nobody actually giving a shit. Incels in training

 

[Neodanthril]

I would do YouTube still but sometimes sounds on the extreme sides will get compressed to shit and I can hear the wave go from a wave to a vertical and it sounds real bad

 

[Would]

It's 2024.
You can fit a house worth's of CDs in an external SSD at lossless quality and anything short of a toaster can run FLAC efficiently.

MP3s are for normies who can't hear.

 

[DavidS877]

I just leave it all as flac. By the power of 1TB microSD it even fits on my phone.

 

[Anti Alien Alarm]

I just leave it all as flac. By the power of 1TB microSD it even fits on my phone.

The correct move. Caring about audio codecs and their supposed positives and negatives in 2024 is gay and retarded. So long as it works, it's fine.

 

[emosimp7]

It's 2024.
You can fit a house worth's of CDs in an external SSD at lossless quality and anything short of a toaster can run FLAC efficiently.

MP3s are for normies who can't hear.

But what if I get all my music from obscure artists on youtube?

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

[edit it was mitsumi]

Mitsumi drives were always garbage.

 

[Would]

But what if I get all my music from obscure artists on youtube?

Well if it can't be helped then I guess that's fine.
Though most of em also add their music to Tidal/Deezer/etc which means you can rip FLAC files from them using open source programs.

 

[Ged!]

There's really no reason to go below 320kbps, with the possible exception of long form talk radio/podcasts. I took the time to check some of my Art Bell/Bill Cooper recordings and they're all in the lower 100kbps range with few exceptions, but I wasn't the guy to encode them so who knows how low you could go without causing any real problems. If you can afford a computer and an internet connection you can afford a hard drive big enough to contain more 320kbps mp3s than you will live long enough to listen to.

FLAC is only good for idiot-proofing vinyl and CD rips, which is to say it really shouldn't be necessary at all. There is not a difference between 320 mp3s and FLAC, or to the extent there is you cannot hear it. To paraphrase Alan Parsons, audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to music, they use music to listen to their equipment.

 

[Calandrino]

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

The True Black Metal way is audio ripped from 64kb .rm files pressed onto limited-edition bootleg spooky blood red vinyl

 

[Meriasek]

The True Black Metal way is audio ripped from 64kb .rm files pressed onto limited-edition bootleg spooky blood red vinyl

Nah, listening to tapes using a crackly, wobbly Walkman is the one true way. Vinyl is for posers and bands with a record label.

 

[Staticness]

Embrace modernity, use an 8-track.

 

[jertzog]

Human audio recall isn't 128 kbps so I can probably go lower.

 

[Meriasek]

Embrace modernity, use an 8-track.

Based. Build a portable 8-track player so you can listen to your tunes on the move.
I actually have an old car stereo sitting around that I wanted to try and turn into a Walkman with that cool slot-in mechanism.

 

[FATTESTCUNT 2.0]

I rip to FLAC and download FLAC whenever possible, but I wouldn't call myself an audiophile and I don't claim that I can tell the difference between FLAC and MP3 at a decent bit rate. I listen to a lot of music on YouTube, obviously cos you get the videos too, but also cos it's decent for discovery IMO and there's a surprising amount of rare stuff on there.

I only use Windows PCs and Android phones to play music these days, so FLAC file support is not a problem and I have ample storage space. I have just over 3,000 albums on my PC and about 150 on my phone.

I remember the days of taping songs from the top 40 on Sunday evenings using a mono cassette deck and separate AM radio, and playing 7" records on one of those turntables that looked like a briefcase and had a built-in speaker. Strangely, those kinds of turntables seem to have regained popularity in recent years, but they're still shit. I never had anything decent, in terms of hi-fi, until I was in my mid-20s.