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TK420@lemmy.world 9 months agoNo, quality is a thing which is why I’m using wav files. Audio files are tiny compared to video files. I’m approaching 1TB of music, where my video library is much larger, approaching a factor of 10 times as large….and also compressed. I’m not ripping my CD library in its entirety over again. I did various mp3 versions over the years and am done doing that to a different format again.
victorz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
My university signals processing teacher a decade or so ago said something which I forgot, namely that there’s a difference between quality and fidelity. Fidelity is what I meant to use 😁 whereas quality is the measurement of how little data you can use to store equivalent signals.
Which springs to mind, did you consider FLAC? You’d save a small amount of data, I guess, but it’s lossless so you have both the true fidelity and higher quality (less data). 🙂 I’d be interested to hear if you explicitly discarded it as an option. Maybe the gain is negligible for you, e.g.
(By the way, thanks for yapping on about this with me!)
TK420@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I used to fight the uphill battle against iTunes and my music. For home listening I had it all as Flac, because Flac, but for mobile I could then swap Flac for Apple Lossless kinda easy. iTunes would not recognize Flac files natively years ago (probably meow, but I don’t know).
Once Plex became my [media project] life, I didn’t want to fuck with all of that [converting CDs mentioned before] and just stuck with wav files. The OG so to speak and I’m pretty happy I’m not re-ripping music anymore. Now, new music, yes those eBay purchases get washed, ripped and stored in a binder, which is so much fun.
Do I hear a difference, maybe. What I do know is my quality issue is once it goes out of my phone via Bluetooth to my headphones. I hope one day that’s not the bottleneck. Could already be there I just don’t know.
victorz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Cool, thanks a lot for sharing!
I remember when I had the intention of owning all the music I liked on CDs. I really had to limit myself to favorites when my Spotify follow list grew to like hundreds (thousands? Can’t remember) of artists. I’d be ruined getting all of their discographies.
You mean between FLAC and WAV? Shouldn’t be a difference since they’re both lossless, but maybe you meant something else.
But I feel you about the Bluetooth bit. I have an old colleague who won’t buy a phone still without a 3.5 mm jack. Has to listen to music on the go, in high quality, all the time. 😅
TK420@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I can hear a difference between some of my old MP3’s and lossless, but no difference between lossless formats.