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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hearing the difference now isn't the reason to encode to FLAC. FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is 'lossy'. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA - it's about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don't want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.

I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrange…well don’t get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren’t stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you’ll be glad you did.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just to be certain: are you really suggesting that mp3 files, if left unmodified, will degrade in sound quality over time?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Oh thank god haha. I've never been so relieved to have been baited.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's veru tastu pasta.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really hope this is satire. If not, you're way off the mark. Lossy files do not intrinsically suffer any kind of bit rot. Bits are bits, and your storage interface doesn't have any clue what those bits mean. I have MP3s from the late 90s that have been stored on the cheapest CD-Rs you can imagine, that still play perfect.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm a programmer, I know this. It's a cooypasta you dork.