All right, Sup Forums. I've been here about five years now...

All right, Sup Forums. I've been here about five years now, and it has become apparent to me that while Sup Forums is generally well-informed (and far more informed than the general population), you guys have a fundamental misunderstanding about a vital aspect of music.

There seems to be a lot of misconceptions in the music community regarding the differences between 320kbps mp3 and FLAC format. It is true that 320kbps is technically as good as FLAC, but there are other reasons to get music in a lossless format.

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.

does a pepsi car go faster

Wake me up

bumping for the truth

Post instructions for the can car?

1. Drink can
2. Cut can like so
3. Glue can
4. Put on table

does it work with a bag of milk

Who drinks milk out of a bag

t. ontario

Thanks, I'll go convert my MP3's into FLACs right away!

yes

Please everyone, check your mp3s for bit rot.

bump for awareness

"velocidensity" isn't even a real term
the fact that most of Sup Forums is going to believe this shows how technologically retarded you all are. Digital files don't degrade. I have MP3 files from 7 years ago ranging in quality from 64 kbps to 320 kbps. They sound exactly the same. If they really did degrade the 64kbps files wouldn't even be listenable right now.

If you get ran over by that do you die of can-car?

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This will never stop being funny. I love you Sup Forums

I really missed this copy pasta

>even if they weren’t stored correctly, in a cool, dry place.
every fucking time

>rotational velocidensity
classic meme
7/10

i hope this is post post ironic

wouldnt a lossless file suffer the same fate? it's still bits getting out of place
should i back everything up onto a high density data tape?

please ban this stupid pasta