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Kofi says...

Who cares?

It becomes a circular problem. It you let anyone cut in then the line itself becomes redundant and the cut in line becomes the new line. Such special considerations can only operate on the basis that they are few and far between. Clearly these hucksters were not already at DL and were helping people out. They pimped out their services external to the venue. Freedman would not be proud for it isn't a sustainable system and economic Darwinism doesn't apply here.

Clearly it undermines the special status given to people with disabilities and risks the future tenability of such considerations.

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swedishfriend says...

Music that is not available for sale yet... Entire album being shared at all quality levels for at least a week. Not available to buy anywhere. This person had to DL illegally to make this great promo for their music that I still cannot pay for no matter how much I want to.

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hamsteralliance says...

tl;dr: No, not really and no, probably not.

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MP3 compression methods are pretty good these days. A well encoded mp3 sounds quite good at 224k. 320k is ideal, but 224k sounds fine to me.

I think most people would be incredibly hard pressed to tell the difference between a well encoded 320k MP3 and a FLAC file.

To showcase this and hopefully answer your question through demonstration, I've put together an odd sound file here for ya: http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/837649/soundtest.wav

It's a 24bit 48kHz wav file of a piece of bright and full audio thrown together just for this (using 24-bit 48kHz audio sources). The audio loops a few times and each time it loops it's in a different format or quality.

The odd part is that I've dropped the audio volume down all the way to just barely above the 16-bit noise floor before exporting into each format, then cranked the volume back up again. Just to see what would happen.

Anyway, the play order is as follows:
1. Original 16-bit audio (sound normal, as it should.)
2. 16-bit audio re-gained (noise city - the 16-bit FLAC was the same.)
3. 24-bit audio re-gained (Sounds as good as the original.)
4. FLAC 24-bit re-gained (Sounds as good as the original.)
5. MP3 8 k re-gained (What?)
6. MP3 64 k re-gained (Sounds like a bad MP3, because it is. but, do note it's mostly just dull and a bit unstable sounding, not all weird like the 8k one.)
7. MP3 128 k re-gained (Pretty good, but still a bit dull. Not horrible though.)
8. MP3 224 k re-gained (Sounds as good as the original? Pretty close, I'd say.)
9. MP3 320 k re-gained (Sounds as good as the original as far as I'm concerned.)

This is just one test though. There are most certainly songs or sounds out there that wouldn't fare as well as this one. No idea what those would be though, as everything I've MP3-ified in the last decade or so sounds absolutely fine to me.

MilkmanDan said:

Thanks for the reply and sharing your expertise -- sounds like you'd confirm everything that the video said.

This probably just displays my ignorance more, but specifically with regards to the MP3 format, do you think it adds any noticeable compression artifacts even at high-quality settings? Part of my problem was that I was thinking of MP3 *bit*rate as sampling rate (128 kbit/s = 128 kHz, which is not at all correct). But still, MP3 is a lossy format (obviously since one can turn a 650M CD into ~60M of 128k MP3s, or still a large filesize savings even for 320k) and even my relatively untrained ear can sometimes hear the difference at low (say, 128k or lower) bitrates.

I guess that a music producer wouldn't record/master anything in a compressed format like MP3, so that is sort of entirely separate from the point of this video and your comment. But just out of curiosity, do you think that people can detect differences between a 16 bit 44 kHz uncompressed digital recording (flac maybe?) and a very high quality MP3 (say, 320 kbit)?

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poolcleaner says...

Thanks bookface. I needed another reminder of why -- oh, I'm sorry, HUMANS are crazy. But I don't challenge your inductive assessment (of other people's opinions) that Americans, being human, are also crazy. I grew up there, I know. I deal with these personalities and it warps my own personality DAILY.

It's true, but it's not everyone. Mainly a lot of fucks in charge of various institutions who have maintained their grip on our society because they're shits like this sorority bitch. Though, I'm sure my redundant and filth ridden comments don't help either -- to you overly sensitive.. here's to your fuck you fucks. lol

This letter describes most of the women in my family. They don't care about helping out with the image of our family or the dysfunction, they just gossip (PRAYER CIRCLE AT CHURCH) and then go out on the attack, hitting below the belt.

The kinds of people that mess with your head until you question your manhood -- all of the O.C. girls that I grew up with in the church youth group; sluttin' their shit on the DL, maintaining their pristine image in the light of everyone's faces, and then crying when they don't get their way. "But that's the way mommy told me things work."

I did get a lot of handjobs from slut Christian girls, so I suppose I shouldn't complain. They loooooove to impress you with stories of parties and alcohol. teehee

bookface said:

Can't imagine why the rest of the world thinks Americans are crazy.

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chingalera says...

So the guy (just signed a 147 million-dollar contract to PITCH) whose pitch went afoul goes on the DL list and the mad-batter gets a fine and suspension for a few games?

Does not seem fair-Ol Carlos there should have to stay on outta the Padres line-up for 6-8 weeks till the Dodger's pitcher recovers.

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