Of course the thing that just baffles my mind during this whole mp3 nonsense is the fact that an mp3 is _not_ an exact digital copy of the original. A 128kbit encoded mp3 is a very lossy compression, even higher bitrates still aren't as pristine as the original. Same goes with ogg files, though I think they sound better at equal compressions as wavs. For songs I care about, I want the original wavs (read original album), so I can fiddle with the type of compression I want to use to achive the best quality level for my particular purpose. If I want to listen to a massive collection of songs via the DVD player in the living room, I'll use a different compression level than if I want to listen to a massive collection of songs on my computer speakers.
I can't believe the lossy compression argument _never_ came up during the whole Napster debaucle. The other side kept talking about how downloading the songs was no different than listening to them off the CD. That couldn't be more wrong. Either the Napster lawyers really sucked ass, or there were other agendas at work. Of course, anything further is just entering the world of paranoid speculation ... but it still has to make ya wonder. Sean On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 16:35, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 15:19, Alan Poulton wrote: > > Monday, March 25, 2002, 1:00:38 PM, John Cichy wrote: > > > > > Now for the dark side... how hard can it be to connect a digital out > > > on the cd player to a digital in on a computer and ... > > > > I was just thinking the same thing.. why not use a home stereo CD player > > and plug it into the Input of your sound card? Then it's being played on > > a non-PC CD player. It might make individual track ripping more work, > > but it should work. > > Then you'd have a degraded analog signal... -- GPG Public Key available: http://sean.gutenpress.org/sean.asc
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