Why do some groups release with FLAC audio? It only inflates the filesize

why do some groups release with FLAC audio? It only inflates the filesize.

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It gives them a sense of superiority.

It depends heavily on your audio equipment. I'm surprised that groups don't also release 320kbps .mp3s, though.

You gullible little shits actually think that anime has high enough quality audio to justify FLAC? They can't even animate above 720p, don't even fucking bother.

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.

>It only inflates the filesize
Caring for the filesize

So that people who spend $10 000 on an audio cable tell themselves that they didn't wasted their money.

fuck off! commie devs

8/10 not bad

Autism.

Gee, why don't we just store all our anime in Lagarith then?

Paging Dr Daiz

because they think it makes their subs better. looking at you commie

t. apple headphones user

Midriff. Even 3DPD has me in the bag if they show some navel.

The only problem about FLAC is that my TV can't play it, otherwise I don't give a shit if its FLAC or MP3

Placebo audio quality.

The real answer: archival. They're distributing a lossless source which future generations may be able to encode to superior lossy codecs than we possess today. This is a good thing.

This is nonsense.
Animation and recording are pretty different.
Whether it's justified or not, the highest quality comes with a sense of authenticity.

nice b8 m8


...well, I hope it is anyway...

Daiz summoning thread?
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actually, the man knows what he's talking about, albeit, petty or nonsense to most people. when i've gone back to some really old mp3's from way back 'in-the-day' (90's, Napster, 56k modem) most of my mp3 library sounds like crap, mostly due to the technologies available at the time. i notice an unusually large amount of "pops" in a lot of songs and a 128k rip sounds more flat than a new 128k rip (both sound terrible regardless). anybody who knows how data is written to a disc would know that bits do get lost over time.

i'm an arrogant, elitist, analog snob with 2 vintage hifi systems (1 solid state/1 tube based) that can expose every imperfection in an mp3 file. it absolutely cracks me up when people think their crappy OEM soundcard, crappy best buy cables, and crappy desktop speakers are suitable benchmarks for judging sound quality.

it's pathetic how nowadays people have allowed themselves to compromise quality over convenience and cost. i'm only 34 but just as bitter and scornful as someone twice my age. just wait until i get my FLAC vinyl rip blog up and running!