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Are you an iTunes Music Store addict?
Authored by: DougAdams on May 10, '06 07:20:36AM
Maybe it's my age, but I just don't listen to music the way I used to. There was a time when I had to have the most pristene versions of new releases, sat for hours in front of the speakers just listening. That thrill is gone. Maybe it's because I'm a jaded former radio guy: to me it's all just Music Industry product anyway. While I can appreciate and respect listeners who prefer the highest quality audio, frankly, I just want to hear my favorite music while I'm doing something else like working, driving, cooking, entertaining. Does that make me a bad music consumer/aficionado? So the iTMS is a great convenience. I have purchased over 1500 tracks (and over 500 from eMusic) and DRM is a moot issue. Plus, do I need a bunch of CDs I never reach for taking up space on my DVD shelf? I've ripped the CDs I like and then tossed 'em. I'm starting to feel about CDs the way I feel about tape: ewww. Except for CDs I use for my audio work, I pretty much prune my CD collection every few months based on the amount of dust collecting on them.

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Are you an iTunes Music Store addict?
Authored by: kirkmc on May 10, '06 07:52:11AM

Doug, I gotta disagree on one point. Today, you're listening to music in whatever compressed format you've chosen. (FWIW, I use 160 kpbs AAC.) However, tomorrow, with terabyte iPods, you'll want to re-rip some or all of your CDs. When lossless hardly makes a dent on the capacity, then you'll rip different. (I know I will.)

This said, I agree about the more general eewwwiness of CDs, and I've got several thousand of them. (Many in the basement.) However, regarding classical music, which is about half my collection, I do fish them out every now and then to read the liner notes, or the libretti for operas.

Kirk

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Are you an iTunes Music Store addict?
Authored by: frgough on May 10, '06 08:52:51AM

I'll bet money that I could take the same song, rip it to lossless, then to 128 AAC, segment the audio, stitch random clips from the two rips together into a seamless track of the original, burn it back out to CD and you would be unable to tell which was lossless and which was 128 AAC under your normal listening environment.

It's called threshold of detection and for nearly every human being on the planet, 128 AAC falls below it.



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Are you an iTunes Music Store addict?
Authored by: jctull on May 10, '06 05:30:12PM

Can you cite some sources for your claims? Otherwise this is purely another opinion. I would be happy to see how this claim has been rigorously tested, but I doubt that it has. Feel free to prove me wrong.



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Are you an iTunes Music Store addict?
Authored by: macgruder on May 10, '06 08:20:47PM

My Japanese wife has started popping CDs into the computer which is hooked up to the stereo. Asking her why she wasn't listening to the stuff she ripped to iTunes at 320. "It doesn't sound as good. His voice sounds flat." Hardly, a scientific survey but an idea that normal people can tell the difference.



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