MP3 CD vs. Regular Burned CD

[bikejunkie223 10+ year member]

I have 2 seperate Eq settings to compensate for the compression of mp-3 (ipod 60g photo) All my music is encoded at 224, or the apple lossless, but there is an obvious difference in quality between the two. I am actually going to rip a track of pink noise into mp-3 and play it on my ipod with an rta and see what exactly happens when the file is compressed and if there is a better way to set an eq to compensate for it.

 

[goodstuff 10+ year member]

I like mitsui's.

 

[goodstuff 10+ year member]

"For one, many people can't tell the difference between 320 kbps MP3 and CD Audio."

I CAN

"especially considering most people don't have good sound equipment"

I DO

"and when you throw in road noise"

SOUND DEADENING?

"it's a very, very small percentage that will actually be able to discern the difference"

I CAN

"and the difference in capacity is very large (5+ hours vs. 80 minutes)"

IPOD/HD STORGAE AND DVD CAPABLE HU'S MAKE MP3 A SUPER WEAK CHOICE IN MASS STORAGE

"No one is forcing you to download/rip music and burn it to a CD"

DID I SAY THEY WERE?

"If you want the best quality, go buy the CD and stop *****ing"

I BUY CDS ALL THE TIME FOR EXACLY THAT REASON AND TRYING TO GIVE PEEPS A HEADS UP ON THE SQ ISSUES OF MP3 IS NOT *****ING SO STUF.

 

[Ayrton 10+ year member]

Using Exact Audio Copy to rip the music and LAME to encode them to a VBR .mp3 will result in an mp3 file that 99.9% of listeners will not be able to distinguish from the original CD.

Use Nero or similar quality program to burn the disc (I use Taiyo Yuden) at 4x speed.

 

[bamaboy 5,000+ posts]

"especially considering most people don't have good sound equipment"

I DO

are you really sure about this? polk 4x6 plates...jl W0...you have the word legacy in there:uhoh:

 

[HeatSeeker 10+ year member]

are you really sure about this? polk 4x6 plates...jl W0...you have the word legacy in there:uhoh:

PWNED IN TEH BUTTOX

 

[Neostar63 10+ year member]

who cares that you can tell the difference between an mp3 and original source. If you can you can, its not impressive. you are full of shit if you can tell the difference on your system.

 

[adam71 5,000+ posts]

There's like 1 DVD-Audio head unit out right now and it sucks ... DVD-Audio is its only feature ... Sweet ...

What unit is it you're talking about??//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/product/detail/0,,2076_4023_1986436,00.html

and the

http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/product/detail/0,,2076_4023_236487217,00.html

are the only ones I know about. Are there more?? If you're saying that is there only features then you're mistaken.

 

[93 saturn sl2 10+ year member]

I cant tell a difference betweem MP3s and regular CDs

 

[adam71 5,000+ posts]

I cant tell a difference betweem MP3s and regular CDs

Well I can, but that doesn't mean I have NO use for mp3s. When I'm at home I like to listen to high quality stuff such as HDCD encoded cds, DVD-Audio, SACD or vinyl. In my car I like to listen to CDs, mp3s or XM radio. I like mp3 cds when I'm on a long trip or whatever. I never encode mp3s with less than 320kbps though.

 

[Raven 10+ year member]

If you can, good for you. If you can't, good for you. I can. Call BS, but I can hear the difference between not only MP3s and CDs, but good CDs from bad CDs, and good MP3s from bad MP3s. I have found 48kbps MP3s that will kill 128kbps MP3s.

Well I can, but that doesn't mean I have NO use for mp3s. When I'm at home I like to listen to high quality stuff such as HDCD encoded cds, DVD-Audio, SACD or vinyl. In my car I like to listen to CDs, mp3s or XM radio. I like mp3 cds when I'm on a long trip or whatever. I never encode mp3s with less than 320kbps though.

Why MP3? MP3s all give the effect that anything from silk to velvet was wrapped around the microphone, depending on the quality of the MP3.

 

[HeatSeeker 10+ year member]

werd to that, Ive downloaded 196k mp3s that sounded so much better than some I found that were 320k

 

[adam71 5,000+ posts]

werd to that, Ive downloaded 196k mp3s that sounded so much better than some I found that were 320k

I usually rip my own mp3s at the 320 bit rate. If I download an mp3 at a lower bit rate then I usually leave it where its at.

 

[93 saturn sl2 10+ year member]

I cant tell a difference because my HU has BBE MP, which is supposed to make MP3s sound like regular cds.

 

[Raven 10+ year member]

werd to that, Ive downloaded 196k mp3s that sounded so much better than some I found that were 320k

The Life of a shoddy MP3:

Person A rips the song off a CD at 320KBPS, but since (s)he doesn't think at all to tweak the MP3 ripper's LAME settings, it comes out more like 256k.

Person B downloads it off A.

Person B reencodes the song to 256kbps to save file size, in the conversion, the shoddy "free" spyware filled MP3 converter app loses about 25% audio quality, so now it's a 256k MP3 that sounds like a 168K.

Person C downloads it off B, and thanks to some heavy *** resource usage by AOL, there's now irreversable skipping and it sounds like a 128K mp3.

Person C thinks, "Hey, if I make it 320, it will sound better!" So they reencode the file to a higher bitrate. Again, quality is lost in the conversion, so it sounds like a shoddy 96kbps MP3.

Then you downloaded it. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

Then we have a good MP3:

Person A uses a fresh install of the latest version of the LAME codec to rip a song directly off a CD at 128KBPS after tweaking the MP3 quality settings. And it was on Linux, because I can vouch that Linux PwNx0rZ for ripping CDs.

Person A offers it online, you download with minimal quality loss, and have a good MP3. =)