What is better then free live music?!? Nothing! Its the best!! Lets talk here and get some stuff up. There has to be some new stuff out there. And btw...for the people who do love the free live music. If anyone is willing to be the official flacdownloaderwhoconvertstomp3thenbecomestheuploader would be considered god in the area of the message board. So ... who wants to be god??
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6 posts • Started 4 years ago by PJ • Latest post from Marissa
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Posted 4 years ago on November 9, 2007 LINK
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You're SUCH a dweeb!
I'll be your flac bitch.
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From etree.org--http://wiki.etree.org/index.php?page=Shorten
"Lossy compression schemes are the opposite of lossless. The MP3 format is one such example. Lossy means that parts of the original recording are thrown out as the compressor does its business. The lower the bit-rate of the MP3 file, the more data is thrown out. This results in very small file sizes, but that lost data is gone forever. You can hear this clearly if you listen to low bit-rate MP3 files on a decent set of headphones or stereo system.
The danger of trading mp3's is that, like high-generation cassettes, the sound quality rapidly declines. When you burn a mp3 to CD, give it to someone else, and they rip it to mp3 again, their mp3's are a lot "emptier" than yours. Remember, more and more music data is squeezed out with each mp3 conversion. Do this a few times, and you end up with very poor sounding music.
Lossless compression schemes (like Shorten or FLAC) don't have this problem. The music is always exactly the same as the original, and you can be sure the music won't degrade into white noise a few trades down the line.
If you trade only mp3 files, never converting them to wav or CD and back again, you won't suffer this multi-generataional loss. The problem with this is you can't rely on others with whom you trade to do the same thing. The tempation is always there to burn the mp3's to CD. Once that's done, it's easy to rip mp3's, and the vicious circle starts again. However now that portable mp3 players have become popular, it is no longer necessary to convert mp3's to wav's in order to listen to them.
Moral of the story: stick with lossless encoding for trading!"
Posted 4 years ago on November 10, 2007 LINK -
Its SO easy to convert! No one should be scared of it...and the music will sound better. I have talked a lot of people through it, so if anyone ever needs any assistance in doing it I would be more than happy to walk you through it. Its pretty easy.
In the next few days I can write up a little tutorial thing if some people think they might need it. I can start a new thread with the "converting for dummies" instructions. Its really easy once someone walks you through it!
~ JenPosted 4 years ago on November 11, 2007 LINK -
Hearty agreement with the previous two posts. I think that converting to mp3 to share one song here and there (see "Take a download, leave a download" thread) is cool, but if you want to hear better quality stuff in larger quantities, you have to do it the right way. Don't be scared. Archive.org, etree, etc. are your friends.
I use MacFlac and Shorten on my mac for flac and shn, respectively, and both are completely painless.
~Elizabeth
Posted 4 years ago on November 12, 2007 LINK -
I agree. I didn't want the earlier post to sound preachy, but I really think that is the best way to trade whole concerts. For a long time now, my husband has been doing B+Ps and downloading FLACs and SHNs for Pearl Jam, DMB, John Mayer, Matt Nathanson, etc. For a long time I was really intimidated by the process, but over the last summer while he was working on a project in Mexico, I decided that it was time for me to learn how to do it all by myself. Over the last months, I've gotten a lot more familiar with the different programs and now I feel confident with the process. If anyone has questions regarding a certain program or the process, speak up! I know that those of us who download will be as helpful as we can!
Posted 4 years ago on November 13, 2007 LINK
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