From: Lee Fallat <ircsurfer33@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 19:26:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKzHxzHBQJZV8-da+=tHuwSp+8a45oNz0GDdDZ7VxbifxSxg8w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <905cee36936662adabfec7ba2d46d809@ladd.quanstro.net>
He is saying that some people will use mp3 compression, then convert
to WAV/PCM. Maybe some artists record directly to mp3 then convert to
have them play on audio players.
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 7:20 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> i don't understand this claim. all standard audio cds are in pcm format.
>
> - erik
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-10 0:26 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
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 [this message]
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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