Steve Jobs writes: "Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat."
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Member since:2005-07-06
Please, I listen to music ranging from Rammstein to Bill Evens, from Korn to Ravell, from Miles Davis to The Swingle Singers - and I can tell you, the music quality is definately noticable.
Just because the vast majority of people out there are tone deaf who can't notice audio defects during playback doens't mean there isn't a difference.
I've ripped Rammstein, and you don't actually stop hearing a difference until you start encoding at around Ogg quality level 8; anything below that the music is boxy, the gritty guitar rifts either come off as distorted or an electronic whine/metalic sound coming through. Swingle Singers wich are an acapella group, their voices aren't as crisp and natural sounding when played back - not on standard ear phones, I refuse to use the shoddy crap included with mp3 players, with $100 ones, and believe, like Rammstein, you can hear the difference.
Maybe I'm pedantic, but I like to hear my music as it was intended rather than some sort of badly mutated version which has had the life ripped out of it for the sake of saving a bit of bandwidth and space.
Member since:2006-11-22
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2006-01-12
Unless you are a big fan of harpsichord music, I doubt you will notice the difference.