Sound quality: CD vs FLV/MP3

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Humberto

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So as to not have to carry my (sometimes rare and highly prized) classical CDs in the car with me, I located some of my favourite tracks from these CDs on YouTube and converted them to MP3 files, which I put on a memory stick to play on my car's radio.

I can confirm that the sound quality of these MP3s is audibly poorer than that of the actual CDs.
 
That's not because they are MP3s it's because they are from Youtube.

If you rip a CD and encode to a high bitrate MP3, I very much doubt you'd be able to tell the difference.
 
copacetic said:
That's not because they are MP3s it's because they are from Youtube.

If you rip a CD and encode to a high bitrate MP3, I very much doubt you'd be able to tell the difference.
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Pffft, FLAC is where it's at. Don't come here with your high bitrate MP3 tendencies.
 
copacetic said:
If you rip a CD and encode to a high bitrate MP3, I very much doubt you'd be able to tell the difference.
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You're welcome to double blind test me using my audio equipment, clipping and compression even at 320kpbs is aweful. In fact, with semi decent sound equipment anyone other than the tone-deaf will probably be able to tell. MP3 is crap. Ultra crap. They'll do if you're using a R120 pair of earphones something, for anything decent I wouldn't touch them. FLAC for me, thanks.
 
Oj0 said:
You're welcome to double blind test me using my audio equipment, clipping and compression even at 320kpbs is aweful. In fact, with semi decent sound equipment anyone other than the tone-deaf will probably be able to tell. MP3 is crap. Ultra crap. They'll do if you're using a R120 pair of earphones something, for anything decent I wouldn't touch them. FLAC for me, thanks.
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He's in a car...
 
I agree though, obviously (regarding FLAC) - It's not as if we don't have space these days for a lossless format.
 
Oj0 said:
You're welcome to double blind test me using my audio equipment, clipping and compression even at 320kpbs is aweful. In fact, with semi decent sound equipment anyone other than the tone-deaf will probably be able to tell. MP3 is crap. Ultra crap. They'll do if you're using a R120 pair of earphones something, for anything decent I wouldn't touch them. FLAC for me, thanks.
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And 6180gb of music. No thanks.
 
Oj0 said:
You're welcome to double blind test me using my audio equipment, clipping and compression even at 320kpbs is aweful. In fact, with semi decent sound equipment anyone other than the tone-deaf will probably be able to tell. MP3 is crap. Ultra crap. They'll do if you're using a R120 pair of earphones something, for anything decent I wouldn't touch them. FLAC for me, thanks.
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Not everybody inflates their ePeens by splashing R20k+ on a sound system.

OP: As said above, just rip directly from the CD, not from Youtube. Rip it to 320Kbps and it should be fine for your car.
 
TehStranger said:
Pffft, FLAC is where it's at. Don't come here with your high bitrate MP3 tendencies.
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I've listened to music in forms of flv, mp3, FLAC etc...

On numerous systems except in the car.. I don't notice the difference..

Is there a difference ?
 
Humberto said:
I located some of my favourite tracks from these CDs on YouTube and converted them to MP3
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You converted Low Quality to to compressed format (MP3).It will sound crappy.
Rip your CDs to 320kbps MP3.

I don't think there are car systems out there that can play FLAC yet,but that is under correction.

Edit:It seems there might be some players.
 
Gary M said:
I've listened to music in forms of flv, mp3, FLAC etc...

On numerous systems except in the car.. I don't notice the difference..

Is there a difference ?
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There is a difference. FLAC is lossless compression - so you get the actual quality of the music from whichever source. MP3's compression results in quality loss, even at 320Kbps. I can hear extremely slight differences between 320kbps MP3 vs FLAC on my Audigy 2ZS + Logitech x540 system...but it's really negligible. If you have a very high end sound system you'll clearly hear the difference though.
 
Fail if you think mp3 is ok.
The compression alone just destroys the dynamics in the music.
 
FLAC are overrated and too big. For car use, conversion from cd to mp3 at 320k is fine. Using FLAC you might get 4 albums on a 4gig stck - not worth it!
 
320kbps for a car is fine, I agree.
But as mentioned above, don't think a youtube rip is 320kbps because it says it is.
 
I used to do it all FLAC but it becomes a bit crazy.

So I've settled on the middle ground of high bitrate iTunes MP4's now which I can't even bull**** blind test myself with so that works for me.


Why on earth you would rip music off Youtube...especially if you have it on CD is beyond me.
 
SauRoNZA said:
I used to do it all FLAC but it becomes a bit crazy.

So I've settled on the middle ground of high bitrate iTunes MP4's now which I can't even bull**** blind test myself with so that works for me.


Why on earth you would rip music off Youtube...especially if you have it on CD is beyond me.
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I thought I was the only one that found this rather odd
 
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