Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.

• Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m just not sure how transcoding an existing MP3 file to ogg would restore its quality given that the bits are already gone, is all

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You just need special ears like mine.

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    • Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Maybe you’re right, I don’t get it. Because from where I’m sitting, ears don’t have anything to do with it, any loss in quality already happened when the music was encoded as an mp3. You can’t magically restore the missing bits by transcoding it to a different format, even if that format is lossless, because the loss already happened.

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      • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I can hear the missing bits. I use Monster Cables.

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