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i listen to music on youtube only , I don't understand why people use spotify. Just get an adblocker and it's easy.
IDK about spotify, but the yt compression is shit. I know a lot of people have a hard time tellling the difference, but once you get accustomed to it, it's annoying to listen to lower quality audio. mp3 @ 320k is fine, but 128kb is obvious and frustrating. Youtube supports opus audio but it often suffers from audio loss in transcoding.

mp3 has a shelf where audio is cut off in ranges that the human can hear. Lossless audio has a wider range:
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CD Audio:
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mp3:
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With physical copies of media you own the CD, Vinyl, DVD or Blu-ray, which you can copy, convert to MP3 or lend to friends. Apart from the original cost of buying the media there are no other costs involved and as long as you look after the media it should last a lifetime. With streaming you own NOTHING, consider it media rental, it's most useful for the latest movies which haven't been released on Blu-ray or movies you would only ever watch once. I prefer a balance of various methods, physical copies, Bit-torrent/downloading and streaming.
 
IDK about spotify, but the yt compression is shit. I know a lot of people have a hard time tellling the difference, but once you get accustomed to it, it's annoying to listen to lower quality audio. mp3 @ 320k is fine, but 128kb is obvious and frustrating. Youtube supports opus audio but it often suffers from audio loss in transcoding.

mp3 has a shelf where audio is cut off in ranges that the human can hear. Lossless audio has a wider range:
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CD Audio:
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mp3:
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holy audiophile i kneel.
 
holy audiophile i kneel.
Opus is actually a better format to transcode to than mp3 but people uploading to jewtube usually have the original files as mp3 so its a lossy to lossy transcode so the audio quality degrades. My funkwhale instance transcodes to 96kbps opus files from source flac files to my phone.
 
Funny, I just had a former friend's Crunchyroll account on my Xbox One stop working. I'll admit it was convenient while it lasted, and a part of me misses it.

NOTHING is stopping me from hooking my laptop into the TV to go on some anime stream pirate site and watch my anime in 1080p. In fact that's probably what I'm going to do from here on.

As for physical media, I've never stopped. I got shit tons of movies and anime on blu ray and DVD, and it's night and day with the bit rate alone. Also no ads or server lag. Just raw unmolested video. Hit play and it runs until its done.
 
Funny, I just had a former friend's Crunchyroll account on my Xbox One stop working. I'll admit it was convenient while it lasted, and a part of me misses it.

NOTHING is stopping me from hooking my laptop into the TV to go on some anime stream pirate site and watch my anime in 1080p. In fact that's probably what I'm going to do from here on.

As for physical media, I've never stopped. I got shit tons of movies and anime on blu ray and DVD, and it's night and day with the bit rate alone. Also no ads or server lag. Just raw unmolested video. Hit play and it runs until its done.
Sheet nigga, I just plug that shit into sonarr at the start of the season and when it airs it just shows up on jellyfin and I watch that shit just like I got whatever a crunchy roll is.
 
mp3 has a shelf where audio is cut off in ranges that the human can hear. Lossless audio has a wider range:
Gives me flashbacks of What.cd and waffles.fm. That was the golden era of music trackers. Filled quite a few of those rare requests on both.
I think there's only one tracker like that now, Redacted, but I also hear you gotta be 24 hrs in IRC for an interview, sometimes even weeks. Fuck that shit, I'm too old for that level of commitment and FLAC (is it fake?!? OMG this nigger converted an MP3 to FLAC) analyzing in Adobe Audition. At least I got most of the music I loved in lossless and the rare instances I need something new, rutracker tends to have.
 
You zoomers are pretty retarded.
First you cry that audiophiles are stupid; then you moan that the 128kbps slopaudio you get served on streaming is too low quality; you probably have some shitty gamer headphones that muddy everything too.
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3: poor audio quality
tidal and apple music have lossless but most are not as high quality as CDs not a big dealbreaker for me but worth mentioning
retarded romanian
 
Redacted, but I also hear you gotta be 24 hrs in IRC for an interview, sometimes even weeks
I got on the invite list and waited like 3 months before they sent an email invite, that expired after like 5 days. By the time I saw the email it was already too late.

I saw this chain of comments in the piracy megathread a few years ago, and it's made me reconsider my activity on private trackers:
It's an antisocial habit. Stop being a nigger.
Since then I've been making a conscious effort to share more on public trackers. He's not wrong, I encourage all PT members to cross-seed their shit to public sites.
holy audiophile i kneel.
TBH, I couldn't even aspire to the autism levels of the average audiophile. Check out a head-fi thread one day :lol: All the autism of HAM radio, with half the utility. I've tried both hobbies and don't hardly cut it. Maybe model trains might be more my autism range, idk.
 
Gives me flashbacks of What.cd and waffles.fm. That was the golden era of music trackers. Filled quite a few of those rare requests on both.
I think there's only one tracker like that now, Redacted, but I also hear you gotta be 24 hrs in IRC for an interview, sometimes even weeks. Fuck that shit, I'm too old for that level of commitment and FLAC (is it fake?!? OMG this nigger converted an MP3 to FLAC) analyzing in Adobe Audition. At least I got most of the music I loved in lossless and the rare instances I need something new, rutracker tends to have.
Nigger if you were on what you could have gotten on red easy you stupid gyppo, stop larping
 
How?
I simply continued to use waffles until that died too, by that time RED was pretty much locked down. I didn't make any private connections on either tracker so there was no way to just hit up some friend and get an invite.
Well thats because you are a retarded gyypo

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Nigger if you were on what you could have gotten on red easy you stupid gyppo, stop larping
I had an account on what, and that other short-lived site they ran called Blue(?). Do you just pop in IRC and tell them your associated email account?
The invite I mentioned above was through an 'invites' thread on a different tracker site. It seemed to be automated, so I didnt bother trying to ask any questions after my invite expired.
 
I had an account on what, and that other short-lived site they ran called Blue(?). Do you just pop in IRC and tell them your associated email account?
The invite I mentioned above was through an 'invites' thread on a different tracker site. It seemed to be automated, so I didnt bother trying to ask any questions after my invite expired.
bluetopia was a curry nigger website pth was reds old name should have gotten in at that time, should have gotten in at other sites while what was still alive. PM with proof.
 
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