Sup Forums I have a confession to make.....
I'm scared to say it,
But it needs to come out.....
I used to be a full fledged MP3 freak, and thinking FLAC was for noobs and fuckers who had too much space.
Today, I listened to the most wonderful FLAC file of my life, and am now a firm believer.
Thank you Chiru.no for the FREE FLAC
AND FUCK MP3 AND THEIR SUPPORTS
FLAC OR DIE MUTHAFUCKASSSSS
Yeah, I was amazed at the quality increase when I converted my library from mp3 to FLAC format.
My ears are in heaven and will stay there
I listened to a FLAC today and it cured my autism.
that's not how it works
Now do an ABX test with AAC192/Opus 144 and FLAC. Oops, it was all in your imagination
retarded mp3-listener detected
OPUSOPUSOPUSOPUSOPUSOPUSOPUSOPUS
This is an advertising thread.
there is a huge difference in audio quality if you listen to a track on a streaming service and listen to a lossless cd rip after that. its like listening on a completely different track.(you can have good sound quality with lossy formats too but its easier to get good sound with lossless if you dont know the right settings for the lossy encoder)
Your all need to go back to school and learn how the brain and your ears respond to sounds and understand how retarded audiophiles are
flac loves you all user
Just deleted my 40+ gigs of MP3 files that I've bought over the years. Probably around 5k, but screw it.
I'm a FLAC purist now
i am saying you can't convert mp3 to flac and get improvements
I cried when I first heard Stairway to Heaven on my audiophile system. I sense great autism on this thread.
True, you can't get back lost data (mp3 compression)
tfw i cant do this because i have many rare mp3 files that arent available in any other format. many of them arent even 320 and you cant get the cds anywhere and some of them werent even released on cd.
Nice my dude
Checked
straight rip from a CD
on a related note... has anyone had EAC start crashing on startup? The thing just won't open well on an XP machine anyway did it drop support for XP and not tell me?
The question is why are you still using XP? You want to get a ransomware so bad?
If you just don't want to be spied on get Seven or the Win10 Long Term Support Branch (that has about as many features as XP).
For a board that calls shill at the drop of a hat, why did no one else notice this
Fuck me, dense!
Because literally no one is falling for it, we're just hijacking the thread to shitpost.
It's not like there aren't other shill threads on the catalog.
mp3 has been linked to cancer, so I listen to FLAC just to be safe
I was using the machine as an audio server and did a kernel hack to disable windows file protection so I could run MINLOGON.exe in place of Winlogon.exe by renaming the files It may have done other things but EAC had always worked fine it just started crashing yesterday
I un/reinstalled it but still crashes
I tried EAC on a Win 7 laptop and its OK so its just my machine
What are some good places to torrent music from? I now know that youtubetomp3.com is not the best place for that
buy used CD s from Amazon. rip and resell/.
verified. fpbp
>>>/ptg/
what.cd ;^)
maybe downgrade it then? theres nothing important in new eac releases
or
>Thank you Chirnu.no
Shill harder faggot
I'm such an audiophile that I literally stopped listening to prerecorded music as soon as I learned how to play piano. acoustic waves off acoustic instruments is the only way to listen.
I bet you don't even have a grand piano.
That's nice. Retard.
Witnessed
you bet wrong
I'm an eccentric instrument collector, I even have a hammond b3 organ
>Electric instruments
Yeah that sure is eccentric, just not in a good way
Every time
It uses ferous tonewheels and magnetic pickups. I don't think its that different from an electric guitar, its certainly not a digital instrument. Hearing a b3 in person is something to behold, and that sound ripping around the room from the high speed rotary horns of a leslie amplifier is truly a unique experience no acoustic instrument can match.
The grand piano is really nice, even when the weather is off season and my tunings are at their worst, it still rings like a living instrument. never bad, always alive somehow. always slightly different than the last time you heard it. you can hit the same note ten times in a row and each one rings slightly different than the one before it. you just can't replicate real world interference patterns and string entropy in a digital instrument.
>First be like "MP3 ftw"
>WOW FLAC SO BADASS
>Now be like "FUCK MP3"
Dumbass "audiophile".
>always slightly different than the last time you heard it. you can hit the same note ten times in a row and each one rings slightly different than the one before it.
>interference patterns and string entropy
Tbqh that just sounds like bad tuning. It's mathematically impossible to get a perfect sound on a piano, and that's what makes it beautiful, but if you can't get consistent sound out of it you either play randomly, failed to tune it, or have something in your ear.
>implying an upright piano sounds is bad somehow
Imho a grand and an upright are two different beasts and they can't even really be played the same. If you play an upright with the same attack you would a studio grand you'd be over hitting like a mother and probably just kill you own sustain because of it. If you play the grand like you do an upright you'd never open up the higher end, and probably the lowest end also, in terms of velocity. different instruments for different occasions.
>people call themselves audiophiles when they don't have perfect pitch
you can get a single note to ring without beating for sure. but even then it interferes with every tiny movement in the air
In my perception it feels like my ears are coming into the note at a different point in the wave phase. As if the start of the note is not always at a null amplitude, sometimes its like I hear it peaking first.
an extremely subtle characteristic. I've been tuning my own piano for about 3 years now and i'm definately not getting her perfect, but I can tell even when all the notes except the one I'm tuning are muted, repeated strikes never sound 100% identical. If you record them on a mic and look back at the waveforms they're extremely varying. you can line up the waveforms of all 10 strikes and they'll all look different
Personally of all the pianos I have played, nothing rivals the sound of a classic parallel strings grand. My Erard has such a clear, distinct sound instead of the almost blended together sound of a modern Stenway.
Of course it's a matter of taste, there's nothing wrong with a modern homogeneized standard piano, or even a quality upright, it's just not as colorful.
>CD's
>16bit
lol... wew lads its like your not even trying get gud
Lol kek, FLAC was only noticeable in the mid 00's. Noone cares anymore, get yo snakeoil outta'ere
where do you live?
In my neck of the woods an instrument like that would be extremely rare
The only piano I've ever seen that had parallel strings belonged to a piano professor that specialized in period instruments. and had a house full of pre Steinway instruments, mostly fortepianos and harspi's, but one parallel string Pleyel piano and it did sound good, if not a bit thin for my modern ears. I never got a chance to really play it and hear it though
Do you remember when MP3 first came out? It was revolutionary. Just like cassettes were.
What is this witchcraft?
its the future... its here already - its just not widely distributed
My new monitor has audio jack, I'm on displayport. Should I use it, or should I stick to the mobo jack? Very old machine, I wonder if it will sound any better.
It's honestly all about the mastering, not the 320kbps mp3/FLAC. When you get good audio gear, you find that it's much harder to find an album you like that was decently mastered instead of halfassed or terrible. I like Blind Guardian but damn some of that stuff was terrible. So glad they remastered stuff like Nightfall in Middle Earth.
Goes basically mastering>distribution source>rip quality>file format
I grab FLAC usually for archiving and because usually the person who puts up FLAC rips cares more about doing a good rip most of the time.
What a waste of data.
Depends entirely on the DAC/amp quality of the motherboard vs the monitor. I find monitor/tv internal DAC's are usually complete shit while your motherboard probably isn't as long as you don't have hiss from the ground plane.
I see. I guess I'll have to go for it and see which one is shittier.
Just tested. It's pretty shitty indeed, will stick to the default mobo jack, thanks.
thats because digital audio over display port / hdmi has terrible terrible jitter - here is a good science based article
audiosciencereview.com
i have been arguing with a alot of 12 year old faggots about jitter here lately..
What is FLAC btw?
A lossless audio format.
Reminds me of a nonprofit I work with that archives and scans photos at high resolution but some of the photos in the collection are off the web and screen capts etc which are jpg's and pngs. Every once in a while someone will request tiffs because 'highest quality' and they just convert the jpgs and pngs to tiffs rather than explain that if they have jpg's or pngs then they don't have any higher quality of that photo. If they have tiffs you'll get a tiff. It's pretty funny. When the folks are sent their tiffs they are happy. Makes the day go smoother rather than having to explain.
Yeah, there's a barely audible difference between properly encoded 320kbps MP3 and FLAC. Even less audible if you use more modern audio formats.
It'snice that you fell for high quality music, but lossless is a meme
gimme that sweet flacc
Depends on the content.
If it's 2017 nigger music you will hear no difference after 128kbps MP3.
I prefer highest quality VBR over 320. Sometimes 320 makes drums and hi-hats sounds grainier than VBR.
As long as mp3 isn't included, that is.
I literally rolled my eyes
I think I might be going about this wrong - I have the entirety of Bolt Thrower's discography in FLAC. I'm guessing death metal isn't really the genre to really show off the benefits of flac over mp3.
That's why he said he's gonna convert this library, not files.
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Opus 512 or 256 - Tons smaller than Flac, almost the same sound quality, even if Opus it is a lossy codec :P
Flac only makes sense to archive files. Every normal reasonable person uses Opus in the meantime for general usage :P
My car stereo only supports mp3, so opus is out of the question.
sorry, i mean general usage on Desktop or Android machines. Cars and Apple related products are a different case :)
Also, does opus support gain?
With mp3 I can apply a gain flag of -X which doesn't change the actual bytes of the music but makes that specific file playback quiter by X db. And it can be removed without hassle.
I like to automatically apply this to all my files so I won't have to adjust the volume for every song.
Upload the files and will put my HD600 to the limits.
>usage on Desktop
If you have the FLAC files, why even use the Opus ones.
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Posting my setup
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>eurobeat
Do you have eurobeat cool vol. 1-4?
>straight rip from a CD
>CD
why aren't you ripping from vinyls, m8?
Sound card
Try searching. Looks like I don't though
Opus 144 is "YouTube quality", right?
Because every person I know with good iems can spot that shit instantly.
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Can anyone confirm if FLAC is actually noticeably better than AAC encoded with variable bitrate?
ffmpeg -i FLAC_FILE.flac -c:a libfdk_aac -vbr 5 OUTPUT.m4a
There is no frequency cutoff, and as far as I can tell sounds pretty much the same.
>AAC
why would you use an inferior proprietary version of Vorbis
Damn, I didn't know it was proprietary. But still, same question. Is it?
Or if vorbis has a variable bitrate option is it noticeably any worse than FLAC?
Every time I look up information on comparisons all I see is people talking about 320kbps compared to lossless.
I want to know how VBR compares. I don't have great hardware so it's hard for me to confirm, but the audio spectra look fairly similar
VBR is always better than constant framerates.
What is the highest quality lossy encoding you can do? I trust Sup Forums more than google because google searches tell me it's aac vbr, and now searching for vorbis and opus I can clearly see that's not the case.
Depends on the track, I'd say opus vbr 256k is pretty safe.
Opus seems to have a frequency cutoff at 20kHz
I thought that was something which should be avoided