Wraith-Lunati
October 3rd, 2006, 11:57 AM
Ok first things off...
I do not support piracy. I do however believe in back-up copies incase originals are unusable.
Here is the problem. No one is on the same page. I go to search for [insert song title and artist here] and I come up with 100+ DIFFERENT copies of the same thing. Now I know that people don't realise that when they go to convert their music to mp3, their CD/DVD/BD-ROM reads the audio data at a predetermined offset. My Sony DRU-800A reads at an offset of 6 samples behind what is actually found on the CD. My LG will read at 667 samples behind. Now the RIAA is too stupid to realise all their court battles and legalities have no merit what so ever because these are half-a$$ed reproductions of their music not actual copies. IE like making a tape from a cd. (last time I checked this was legal). Now I know everyones thinking 'But wait it's still a copy'. They are nieve and would say that 96kbps or 128 is enough to be satisfied. What I don't understand is more people like quality instead of ease of downloading. So why aren't there much better quality than quantity? They both start with a Q? Why is everyone so lazy? Even programmers of Microshaft to Sorny to even iTunes. Why doesn't Limewire even have a special function to separate the tag data from the music and hash that instead to find out if 'The song remains the same' (led zepplin). I myself do not share anything I have made myself if I know it's an inferior copy. I hate limewire for this and prefer to get lossless Torrents from a site that actually supports these values because of this fact. We need some form of unity. Especially apparent when you go to download that one copy of a song (that you own of course) AND THERES A SKIP IN THE MIDDLE!
For those of you who share this view of music and would like something done about it, Let's Try Maybe? This post is for more than just Audiophiles. It's for the consumer out there that can't get a song off of a cd and has to resort to Limewire.
P.S. I put 'Offset corrected' and my standard 'lame' options in the comments of my mp3's (-c -p -k -b 192 -q 0 -m s). I believe if you have to use mp3, 192 is satisfactory for size and quality. FLAC or any other lossless codec is MUCH no... WORLDS better (in quality not size...stopping that bullet from being fired). But when your girlfriend is not computer literate and owns a mac. You need mp3's, QUALITY MP3's.
I do not support piracy. I do however believe in back-up copies incase originals are unusable.
Here is the problem. No one is on the same page. I go to search for [insert song title and artist here] and I come up with 100+ DIFFERENT copies of the same thing. Now I know that people don't realise that when they go to convert their music to mp3, their CD/DVD/BD-ROM reads the audio data at a predetermined offset. My Sony DRU-800A reads at an offset of 6 samples behind what is actually found on the CD. My LG will read at 667 samples behind. Now the RIAA is too stupid to realise all their court battles and legalities have no merit what so ever because these are half-a$$ed reproductions of their music not actual copies. IE like making a tape from a cd. (last time I checked this was legal). Now I know everyones thinking 'But wait it's still a copy'. They are nieve and would say that 96kbps or 128 is enough to be satisfied. What I don't understand is more people like quality instead of ease of downloading. So why aren't there much better quality than quantity? They both start with a Q? Why is everyone so lazy? Even programmers of Microshaft to Sorny to even iTunes. Why doesn't Limewire even have a special function to separate the tag data from the music and hash that instead to find out if 'The song remains the same' (led zepplin). I myself do not share anything I have made myself if I know it's an inferior copy. I hate limewire for this and prefer to get lossless Torrents from a site that actually supports these values because of this fact. We need some form of unity. Especially apparent when you go to download that one copy of a song (that you own of course) AND THERES A SKIP IN THE MIDDLE!
For those of you who share this view of music and would like something done about it, Let's Try Maybe? This post is for more than just Audiophiles. It's for the consumer out there that can't get a song off of a cd and has to resort to Limewire.
P.S. I put 'Offset corrected' and my standard 'lame' options in the comments of my mp3's (-c -p -k -b 192 -q 0 -m s). I believe if you have to use mp3, 192 is satisfactory for size and quality. FLAC or any other lossless codec is MUCH no... WORLDS better (in quality not size...stopping that bullet from being fired). But when your girlfriend is not computer literate and owns a mac. You need mp3's, QUALITY MP3's.