From: Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] music storage
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 16:18:30 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGGHmKFa8YEhBOm51gNe-xDo+u9=h7PmhzqRrgqTpBUh1FNGQQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL6pNZ_UKxXAyG7U4Uh6Unq9Yh61yZ=hAQT4DrTV88tOrtvp6g@mail.gmail.com>
Honestly ALAC isn't half bad. I believe the compression ratio is
around 40-50%. Given how plentiful storage is these days, it was a
small price to pay for everlasting quality.
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Conor Williams <conor.williams@gmail.com> wrote:
> jees, i traded a bit of quality for space
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I gave up some time back and ripped the family's cd collection (around
>> 500 discs) to ALAC. After that I converted most to AAC for listening
>> on audio players and left the original rips sitting in storage.
>> Needless to say, Goodwill was a little surprised to find 500 discs
>> donated at once!
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
>> >> just downloading a torrent with the mp3's seems simpler
>> >> than swapping cd's. :)
>> >
>> > Just beware, in my experience of this (for research purposes,
>> > yes really!) many, if not most CD images in WAV or PCM format
>> > are in fact decodes of MP3s, and many of these where low bitrate
>> > MP3s which are nasty.
>> >
>> > personally I have moved away from compressed audio, not because
>> > I distrust compression, but I like browsing through a pile of CDs
>> > looking for somthing that matches my mood - for me the user interface
>> > is better; perhaps its my age.
>> >
>> > -Steve
>> >
>>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-09 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-09 0:30 erik quanstrom
2013-12-09 0:39 ` Jacob Todd
2013-12-09 1:40 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-09 2:44 ` cinap_lenrek
2013-12-09 3:53 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-09 3:59 ` Jacob Todd
2013-12-09 3:59 ` Jacob Todd
2013-12-09 4:11 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-09 4:16 ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-12-09 4:37 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-09 4:50 ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-12-09 4:57 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-09 6:38 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-09 7:14 ` cinap_lenrek
2013-12-09 4:12 ` cinap_lenrek
2013-12-09 20:52 ` Steve Simon
2013-12-09 21:04 ` Steven Stallion
2013-12-09 22:13 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-09 22:18 ` Steven Stallion [this message]
2013-12-09 22:53 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-09 23:18 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-09 23:37 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-09 22:39 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-09 22:51 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-09 22:55 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2013-12-09 23:09 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-12-09 23:19 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-09 23:25 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-12-09 23:33 ` Jeff Sickel
2013-12-10 0:18 ` Matthew Veety
2013-12-09 22:49 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-10 0:20 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-10 0:24 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2013-12-10 0:26 ` Lee Fallat
2013-12-10 1:40 ` Steve Simon
2013-12-10 1:39 ` Steve Simon
2013-12-10 1:52 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-10 2:22 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-12-10 2:42 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-10 3:14 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-12-10 3:26 ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-12-10 3:32 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-12-10 11:24 ` Nicolas Bercher
2013-12-10 3:39 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-10 3:54 ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-12-10 3:57 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-12-10 11:33 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2013-12-10 2:35 Winston Kodogo
2013-12-10 5:44 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-10 6:46 ` Jeff Sickel
2013-12-10 7:09 ` Conor Williams
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