[Eug-lug] AmazonMp3 store

[Ben Barrett]

Silver, may I presume that you've done some sort of double-blind listening
tests and that you have extremely hifi equipment?
for topical reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec_listening_test
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fidelity#Ascertaining_high_fidelity:_doub=
le-blind_tests
http://www.soundexpert.info/ continuous online testing

cheerio,

Ben

PS - No, it does not seem like going backwards to me.  I listen at 192kbps
and I don't think I can tell the difference above that.
So, on the contrary... for me, anything above 192 seems like a waste of disk
space.  :)



On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:55 AM, silver <silverlining2007 at gmail.com> wrote:

> You're paying for 256k MP3's?
>
> I can barely stand listening to 320k MP3.
>
> I can't understand paying for music provided in a lossy format. Or maybe
> I'm
> not understanding Amazon's solution. If, along with the MP3, you also
> receive the original PCM stream which you can transcompress as you see
> fit,
> then that would be cool.
>
> Like flac, ape, shn and wavpack or recent TTA (True-Audio) format which is
> open source.
>
> And even MPEG-4 ALS or SLS formats (not sure if decoder is yet available
> for
> any common players).
>
> And there are the proprietary lossless formats. Of course for downloading
> from iTunes Apple ALAC (decoding only) .
> And the WMAL (closed source) format.
>
> At any rate isn't 256k MP3 going backwards?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rob Hudson" <rob at cogit8.org>
> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <euglug at euglug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] AmazonMp3 store
>
>
> For single songs they let you just download the mp3 straight via the
> browser.  For full albums you need the downloader.  Nice to know it
> works on Linux.  I've been preferring Amazon/mp3 over iTunes Store
> lately just b/c they're DRM free and higher quality 256k encoded.
>
> -Rob
>
>
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