[QUOTE=Bomimo;34716154]Movie soundtrack. First played the scene in the movie with the low frequency sound. No hitches. Blu-ray so either 1.5Mbps pcm or either of the two 4mbps+ codecs.
Then listened to the track on the soundtrack at 320 mbps. sound is borked as shit. It's like when you're on the phone with someone and it's windy or they're breathing heavily into the mic. I've tried multiple encodes and re-encodes.[/QUOTE]
You didn't answer his question.
[QUOTE=David Tennant;34715094]They [I]still[/I] haven't gotten back to me 48 hours later, I'll give it a week and if they haven't I'll keep them, not waiting forever.
It's worrying too as I don't know where I stand legally, can they charge my card on file? Sue me or worse? It sucks, I hope they get back to me.[/QUOTE]
in the us? if they shiped the wrong thing you can keep em
[QUOTE=Aloveoftheworld;34716715]in the us? if they shiped the wrong thing you can keep em[/QUOTE]
UK, which I believe is a better thing due to the EU consumer rights/laws in this situation.
[URL="http://www.foobar2000.org/"]Foobar2000 [/URL]is awesome, but if you're looking for an iTunes-like alternative, try [URL="http://getmusicbee.com/"]MusicBee [/URL]or [URL="http://www.mediamonkey.com/"]MediaMonkey[/URL].
[QUOTE=Odellus;34714899]there's seriously no reason to be using lossless with anything mobile unless you've spent at least $3-$400 on your setup (not including the player)
320kbps mp3s are perfectly adequate and if you think otherwise you're experiencing the placebo effect, hell, I can barely tell the difference between flac 96/24 and 320kbps mp3s with my A700s[/QUOTE]
For mobile I actually convert my MP3s to 192 kbps because I only ever have cheap IEMs.
[QUOTE=garrynohome;34716333]You didn't answer his question.[/QUOTE]
Proper speakers via Optical.
[QUOTE=Bomimo;34719229]Proper speakers via Optical.[/QUOTE]
what speakers
proper ones!
The best music player I have ever used is [URL="http://www.clementine-player.org/"]Clementine[/URL]
I was a long time foobar user and switched to this.
yo flac is for archiving and was never meant to actually play music
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if you're gonna sperg out about quality go with like 192kbps aac
[QUOTE=Bomimo;34719229]Proper speakers via Optical.[/QUOTE]
What speakers?
[QUOTE=Odellus;34714899]there's seriously no reason to be using lossless with anything mobile unless you've spent at least $3-$400 on your setup (not including the player)
320kbps mp3s are perfectly adequate and if you think otherwise you're experiencing the placebo effect, hell, I can barely tell the difference between flac 96/24 and 320kbps mp3s with my A700s[/QUOTE]
I've spent £175 on my setup. £100 for headphones and £75 for a headphone amplifier / DAC.
Converted into dollars thats over $300, and by the way, I can tell the difference.
[QUOTE=hoot37;34726424]I've spent £175 on my setup. £100 for headphones and £75 for a headphone amplifier / DAC.
Converted into dollars thats over $300, and by the way, I can tell the difference.[/QUOTE]
"with anything mobile unless you've spent at least $3-$400"
"if you're comparing a really well compressed 320kbps mp3 with a high quality flac, it's pretty obvious which is better"
i just know that my music collection sounds pretty great and i also have about 1500 songs in the space of 15 gigs as opposed to about 80
Except space isn't an issue when we have 1TB HDD's.
I [i]always[/i] use foobar2000, it supports a wide range of formats and is easily customizable to your heart's content. With plugins it can do pretty much everything itunes does
[QUOTE=Chubbs;34730847]Except space isn't an issue when we have 1TB HDD's.[/QUOTE]
Really sorry to be politically correct here, but when you say we does that mean i? I think it's worth mentioning anyway.
[QUOTE=Chubbs;34730847]Except space isn't an issue when we have 1TB HDD's.[/QUOTE]
why not strive to be efficient as possible anyway
I have a 750gb HDD and a shit load of albums which consists of 50/50 Flac/Mp3. I've only used 12gb. I doubt it will even go over 50gb any time soon, space is no concern of mine.
I don't get why everyone says iTunes is terrible. It doesn't play/sync FLAC or possibly other formats, but 99% of my music is in MP3 anyway, and it allows me to Sync all of my iDevices with my entire music library. I love it.
[QUOTE=ihatecompvir;34732243]I don't get why everyone says iTunes is terrible. It doesn't play/sync FLAC or possibly other formats, but 99% of my music is in MP3 anyway, and it allows me to Sync all of my iDevices with my entire music library. I love it.[/QUOTE]
i just personally didnt like working with the program i felt like it was slow and intrusive (you go to update it and then safari is enabled by default and you accidentally install safari and bleh.)
then again i havent used it in ages and the last time i used it was on a slowish laptop that could barely handle source
[QUOTE=ihatecompvir;34732243]I don't get why everyone says iTunes is terrible. It doesn't play/sync FLAC or possibly other formats, but 99% of my music is in MP3 anyway, and it allows me to Sync all of my iDevices with my entire music library. I love it.[/QUOTE]
because there are way, way better alternatives
[QUOTE=ihatecompvir;34732243]I don't get why everyone says iTunes is terrible. It doesn't play/sync FLAC or possibly other formats, but 99% of my music is in MP3 anyway, and it allows me to Sync all of my iDevices with my entire music library. I love it.[/QUOTE]
Winamp does this.
Also plays every format.
Also it isn't slow as all hell.
iTunes isn't inherently bad, it's just that there's no reason to use it when there's so many, far superior programs to accomplish the same thing.
I use foobar2000, and VBR MP3s
No need for FLAC/lossless if you don't have an audiophile setup.
Winamp or foobar2000, people have different tastes. They both do the job just as well. But winamp seems to have a bigger presence in size of community, plus it will easily download addons, visualizations, skins inside the program, so you dont need to go to a website.
Foobar 2000 pretty much comes barebones, and to get the very best sound out of both you need to modify some stuff.
edit cause someone bumped this : RIP winamp
[QUOTE=ihatecompvir;34732243]I don't get why everyone says iTunes is terrible. It doesn't play/sync FLAC or possibly other formats, but 99% of my music is in MP3 anyway, and it allows me to Sync all of my iDevices with my entire music library. I love it.[/QUOTE]
itunes owns bones on mac but on windows it is shitty, slow, and unresponsive
[QUOTE=ihatecompvir;34732243]I don't get why everyone says iTunes is terrible. It doesn't play/sync FLAC or possibly other formats, but 99% of my music is in MP3 anyway, and it allows me to Sync all of my iDevices with my entire music library. I love it.[/QUOTE]
Let's put it this way. iTunes runs better on a Hackintosh running OS X in a virtual machine than it does in Windows natively. Its a terrible program compared to the alternatives. The only reason it is so popular is because of iPods.
Anyone who thinks that running iTunes on Windows actually works probably scored lower on an IQ test than a rock with a concussion.
Spotify's UI reminds me of iTunes except with a lot less suck. also instead of going to buy a song you don't have and later realizing it SUCKS you can just pull it up on Spotify
[editline]16th February 2012[/editline]
i imagine on a Mac it's about the same quality as Windows Media Player is on Windows - gets the job done but you're probably better off with another player
[QUOTE=Rusty100;34710798]just use Winamp, it's the best (it can also sync to your ipod)[/QUOTE]
wait wait wait wait hold on hold on
weren't you a complete foobar2000 elitist like a year ago? or was that just VLC... hmm
[editline]17th February 2012[/editline]
Anyway, I use Foobar2k with a set of different plugins and components so it looks like this:
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/foobar200.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Cheesemonkey;34722262]yo flac is for archiving and was never meant to actually play music
[editline]16th February 2012[/editline]
if you're gonna sperg out about quality go with like 192kbps aac[/QUOTE]
No, FLAC is for audiophiles and people who like to listen to their music with very high quality sound.
[QUOTE]FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back compressed FLAC files in your favorite player (or your car or home stereo, see supported devices) just like you would an MP3 file.[/QUOTE]
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