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Saying differences past 190kbs are beneath human hearing is just so very wrong. Such differences are able to be heard. Not everyone can hear them, but they are audible. |
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http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=LAME http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Transparency There is no "better sound" once you've achieved transparency. Below that? Yes, Vorbis can be superior to LAME/MP3. Above? Nope. Quote:
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Have you heard of LAME, for example? It stands for: LAME Ain't (an) MP3 Encoder. And officially, it isn't. It's an 'educational implementation' of the MP3 algorithm, 'enhanced with some new features.' In the beginning, LAME wasn't even available as a binary. The reason is that it isn't a program, and thus doesn't infringe copyright, as long as it's not compiled. You had to do that yourself. Still, later LAME became available as a binary, and has been, for many many years. Nobody ever got intro problems because of it, AFAIK. Never saw any news messages of people being arrested. LAME is so good and mature that it hasn't been updated for five years. (Just like FLAC: the format is still the same as in 2007, and the first bugfix/code cleanup release came in 2013.) Probably, it'll never change, apart from making it compile with newer compilers or on different/newer platforms. This is just the encoder part... there are also open source developed decoders for MP3. In short, the industry will just go open source if they want to have MP3 support. Now they can, because all patents have expired. |
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For people who are going to flip and tell me that this is of no use, let me explain. If you convert an MP3, which is lossy, into another lossy format, the quality will degrade. However, if you convert the MP3 into FLAC, the FLAC file will contain ALL the contents of the MP3-file.... and because FLAC is lossless, you can convert it to any other lossless format without degradation. You can also create lossy formats from that FLAC file, as often as you want, without degradation. I've done this with some sound tracks I got with games at GOG.com. The newer games have them as FLAC files, but older ones as MP3 in 192-320 kbps quality (sometimes, because FLAC wasn't even available then). To make sure I get _at least_ the quality of the starting MP3 upon conversion in the future, I've converted those sound tracks to FLAC. |
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Why? They won't sound any better than they already do as MP3 files, they'll just be bigger in size. Now that the MP3 format is patent free, it's actually a better format for archiving than it ever has been.
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Format shifting from a lossy format won't do any good. What you'll need to do is to re-rip to FLAC and then you have source files you can convert (or use as is) to any format you want as FLAC is lossless. So when you rip your CDs to FLAC, you get all the bits.
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If you do decide to re-rip from lossless sources to FLAC then I suggest ripping as single files (ie, one CD = one file) and CUE sheets so you not only get all of the bits but also all of the track timings. |
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Since I retain any original CDs, re-ripping to flac seems pointless. I'd still also need mp3 files to play my music. I guess I may be an anomaly since I don't stream music from the cloud. |
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