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Posted by
ChomskyHatesAnrchists
promoted 6 months 1 week ago, posted 6 months 1 week ago
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What audio format did you grow up with. (middle school and high school).
music
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cassettes
42.42%
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cds
30.30%
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8 tracks
0%
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vinyls
12.12%
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mp3
6.06%
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wax cylinder
9.09%
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I went backwards. Started out with cds and now im currently working on expanding my vinyl collection.
vinyls i buy for some nostalgia and/or collection purposes. sometimes the crackling on some of the more aged discs are soothing.
basically mp3's are generally shit quality (if you're a music boff) and these formats are higher quality soundfiles in similar sizes. unless you're playing your audio through very fine equipment you really won't notice much difference.
basically mp3's are generally shit quality (if you're a music boff) and these formats are higher quality soundfiles in similar sizes. unless you're playing your audio through very fine equipment you really won't notice much difference.
some argue that even a properly trained ear cannot distinguish between 320 and lossless (flac, etc). i do nowadays only download 256/320/v0. i, most honestly, do not hear a difference, and i've come across a few sound rigs. for reference i use an album i know very well, dark side of the moon, in a v0 mp3 rip (generally ~220-280 kpbs VBR) compared to a flac of the exact same release (a 2000 something remaster). lossless just isn't worth the drive space!~
Lossless — True Audio
Lossy — Vorbis or Musepack
Lossless for all the goods stuff, lossy for everything else.
I got one maybe a year or two after later and kept it for as long as I can remember.
I still listen to my cassette of Gorillaz, but it just feels like a relic from the past
I got one maybe a year or two after later and kept it for as long as I can remember.
I still listen to my cassette of Gorillaz, but it just feels like a relic from the past
ha yea man i was the same. didn't have a walkman for years, had a small portable stereo with twin casette decks tho - ghetto blaster-ish but noway near as cool. when i did get a walkman it was my pride and joy. was infactuated with the prodigy from early 90's so painted it up the old black and white prodigy circles kida like this top design:
and this:
my prodigy mix tapes were my pride and joy and every one had i handpainted prodigy logo's n designs over them. shit i was a geek. still got that walkman despite it's breaking. fuck i was only about 9/10. kept that walkman til way after cd's came out. i think i got my cd walman when i was about 16/17. took it to uni with me and kept it until it broke. mp3's are only something i've started gathering over the last 5years or so.
basically mp3's are generally shit quality (if you're a music boff) and these formats are higher quality soundfiles in similar sizes. unless you're playing your audio through very fine equipment you really won't notice much difference.
Flac has been around for almost 10 years. If people have only found it now, that is a COMPLETE FACEPALM.
Twice as long as necessary.
Ahh, my old US Robotics 56k V.90.
Then in 2001 my savoir, finally I could play online:
I got one maybe a year or two after later and kept it for as long as I can remember.
I still listen to my cassette of Gorillaz, but it just feels like a relic from the past
I just finally got an MP3, my teenager's hand me down... lol He loaded it up for me w/ my fav music.... He gets irritated when he finds me listening to the radio.
I used to make my own cassettes off the radio, when in elementary, thought it was awesome... in reality, they were really shitty. lol
I still, kinda dislike CD's, they scratch way too easily and if you leave them in your car in the summer.... argh.