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Why does everyone download music? If you like the music that much then the band/artist deserves to have you buy their CD's or whatever. I mean I would be sort of choked if nobody bought my music because they downloaded it instead. I wouldn't be able to keep making music because my salary would be too low to live on.
I do buy albums. I also like listening to said albums on my computer without having to swap CDs in the drive for just a few songs. So I rip them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Sword Strike
And the MP3 won't die unless it's by force, like if OSes start having built-in copy protection stuff that requires you to use a proprietary format. However, simply put, MP3 is the most widely accepted format. OGG should take it over, since it's just as open of a format with better compression, but it's not up to par compatibility wise with most hardware MP3 players.
Yes, thats exactly what I do, collecting albums pawns downloads anyday. You're a good person. :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by sheezo
I also buy what Albums and such that I can... but I really have a hard time to find the rare ones. So I will download them.. and then buy them if I ever see one in my area.(After all.. since I don't burn cd's I can't listen to it my car which is where I want to listen to it anyways ;))
MP3 standards do allow for music companies to tag files and such to find pirated music; or so i have heard. I have never really done much with the evil interworkings of MPEG layer 3 (which is what mp3 is synominous for). I did hear on the news about a year ago that the standard now allows for ( i would assume somehitng to the extent of meta) tagging for files to determine where they came from and the origional owners.
This is obvioulsy more for the sites that sell mp3 downloads. With the process of mass producing a cd wouldn't allow serialization too easily.
Bipper
You...don't know what compression is, do you? You see, uncompressed audio files are huge. Compression is what makes them small and makes it to where you can fit a billion of them on an iPod or whatever. WMA, from my experience, can compress more while retaining quality than MP3 can, but MP3 is superior in many, many ways, including compatability and how much tweaking you can do with it. If it's "lossless" it's going to be huge...the reason MP3, WMA, OGG, ect. exsist is for the sole purpose of compression. WAV is the primary standard for uncompressed, lossless audio. When you compress, you lose data...that's what compression is...the job of the codec is to do it in such a fashion that it gets the filesize as small as possible while retaining just enough quality that the human ear can't tell the difference.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cloud No.9
I personally prefer MP3 to all the others, but in a technical sense, in every way, OGG beats them all...yet no players use it yet.
windows media player allows you to rip cd's into wma lossless format. still smaller than wav though. their words not mine.
Chosen by who? MP3s aren't like cassete tapes or VHS tapes where one day they stop making them and all you can get is CDs or DVDs. The people who make illegal copies of CDs aren't going to chose a format they can't distribute, that's just stupid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cloud No.9
MecaKane choosen over by legitimate retailers, i tunes, sony connect, aol, msn, amazon etc.
PEOPLE are different from COMPANIES.
People are the main influence on things like this, just because Microsoft/Apple/The Man In The Moon says to stop using MP3s and use their formats instead, doesn't mean people will.
Ogg Vorbis!
He sounds like a Viking Conqueror therefore he wins.
My MP3 player is all "What is Ogg? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me no more"
It's annoying.
yea, I know. Krissy sent me some OGG files and I can't listen to them. But if I could then I could go conquer a bunch of northern islands.
I am Ogg Vorbis! Son of Bergelmir the Giant One! Destroyer of lands! Sacker of cities! Lord of lossless compression formats!
Use a converter? Then the world is yours.Quote:
Originally Posted by eestlinc