never playing mp3s on my system again

[frankiebones 10+ year member]

if i hadnt gone away to college and done the things i did (thats all i will say until admitted to the bar in NY), I would have a pretty tight CD collection.

so when i started with my system, i started to realize i wished i had taken better care of my CD's over the years.

of course there are those CDs, like Aenema by TOOL, which u can buy 5 times, but most u wont rebuy them unless they were particularly good.

today i went to a Tower Records in long island that is going out of business, and every CD was 70-90% off list price. i got 20 CDs for just over 100 bucks.

very few of those CDs were new to me, most were CDs i had owned (when i had just a simple stock system), or albums i currently have in mp3 format in 320 kbps.

prior to today, i have bought 9 albums in the past 3 weeks. after today, i will be buying a lot more.

i hereby vow never to disgrace my system with an mp3 as its source material, unless, of course, when getting a CD format of the song isnt possible for whatever reason.

after listening to these 20 albums in mp3 format for the past several months, and then suddenly having all of them upgraded to CD quality audio, i cant deal with that mickey mouse bullsh*t anymore.

i am not sure what the response to this rather overtly-self-righteous thread i just started, but im telling you, after today my eyes are wide open. i listened to at least parts of every CD i bought and when compared with mp3s, even those ripped at 320, its like driving a german sports car thats half-an-inch off the ground after driving aroud in a dune buggy for a couple months, except this dune buggy has no suspension to speak of, its tires are flat, and on its hood it has a detailed-painted-portrait of what might be the oldest ***** in the world!

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[matrxx dude 5,000+ posts]

what else is new

 

[Kenny Pollock 10+ year member]

Yeah, I bought Young Jeezy - The Inspiration today... big difference from the 128kbps bit rate copy I had.

If Best Buy sold all new CDs for $9.99 like this CD I picked up today, I'd never pirate music again!

 

[matrxx dude 5,000+ posts]

what good songs are on that album kenny

 

[rocky 59 5,000+ posts]

frankie your avatar is toolish //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif but yes i agree

 

[Exploder 97 10+ year member]

yea,, i vouched never to burn dvds any more since i got my 55" hdtv in my room. yea its free if you rent and copy,, but id rather just spend the 14 and get the case and movie... But on the mp3 standpoint,, yea there is a difference and all. but after i listen to a song so many time, ill never want to listen to it again, so buying cds is out of the question for me. but, i have bought aenima, 10,000 days, pink floyd the wall. in the past month...

 

[Kenny Pollock 10+ year member]

what good songs are on that album kenny

I haven't heard any with my system yet //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif but the ones I listen to are:

#1 Hynotize (Intro)

#3 U Know What It Is

#4 J.E.E.Z.Y.

The others are okay, I like some more than the others. This CD will be the first CD played when my wall is done in 2 weeks... I've heard some good things about the lows //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[Exploder 97 10+ year member]

hey, dont knock on frankies avatar,, is you worked out for 4 years and blah blah blah you would have man ******* to

*quoted by frankie*

 

[Exploder 97 10+ year member]

get the song jeezy, i got money,,, bama slama

 

[azimuth 5,000+ posts]

if you rip, convert, and burn yourself with good programs, the difference is nearly inaudible. do not rip with windows media player:fyi:

 

[Kenny Pollock 10+ year member]

if you rip, convert, and burn yourself with good programs, the difference is nearly inaudible. do not rip with windows media player:fyi:

Apple iTunes' Lossless format FTW

20 mb files FTL

 

[azimuth 5,000+ posts]

Apple iTunes' Lossless format FTW
20 mb files FTL

exactomundo. i don't use iTunes, but heard it works pretty decent.

 

[Exploder 97 10+ year member]

* shakes muscular pectoral muscles * ( slams a protein drink )

 

[matrxx dude 5,000+ posts]

i use nero

 

[azimuth 5,000+ posts]

i use nero

i use nero to burn. db poweramp to convert to mp3. roxio to burn dvd mp3 discs.