How deep do you dig for what you want?

[RickMason]

Every time I hear a song I like, I go find the best quality version of the song meaning the FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec). I can spend hours looking for some song or album and converting it into WAV or WAVE (Waveform audio file format) so my phone could play it and yet get the best quality I know of. Do you download the casual MP3 files or do you also dig so hard to get the song in HQ? Do you know a better way to get the songs in even higher quality then WAV so the phone could still play it?

[CosmicNoodle]

I use MP3, I love music, but CBA spending so long finding HQ versions.

[Typhlosion]

I'm content with VBR/320 MP3, and where I download my music from it is always in the highest form available, anyways. I have a few flacs on my PC, but I generally don't pay too much attention on maintaining a lossless library if the audible differences are minimal and the flacs are so much larger on disk.

The farthers I would go for FLAC would be bandcamp, but really not beyond that.

Edit: I will not, however, allow anything like 192kbps or below on my library.

[phuckphace]

mp3 because I don't have the gorillion-dollar audio setup required to get the full effect of lossless audio.

[Lost in the Echo]

I mean, I try, but if I can't find a "perfect" quality version I just give up after 5 minutes :P

[DeadEyes]

WAV 24Bits 92000Hz 5.1 Surround (for certain songs, at certain times).

[RickMason]

WAV 24Bits 92000Hz 5.1 Surround (for certain songs, at certain times).

You sure seem to know what you want. :)

[DeadEyes]

You sure seem to know what you want. :)

You bet I do haha, that's Blu-ray quality. Not sure if your phone could play that though and well, there's the storage issue, the higher the quality, the bigger the files.

[LiamC]

I try itunes quality but if I can't and I want the song but only a lower quality version is available I'll settle for that.

[RickMason]

You bet I do haha, that's Blu-ray quality. Not sure if your phone could play that though and well, there's the storage issue, the higher the quality, the bigger the files.

I tried the 5.1 songs, but they just didn't play, so I have to stick with my poor vinyl rips. :)

[Desuetude]

I buy the CD, man. Support the artist, get all the tracks, actually have it in physical form so if your computer messes up your music is all still there (plus I have like 150 so they look good in my room too xD). But yeah collect the CDs and you'll always have the best audio.

[deadpie]

I just go for 320 mp3's. In terms of how deep I dig for the music I want, I want to understand and find music that I never thought existed. That's why I use music catalog sites like discogs on rateyourmusic to find what I'm looking for. Try to find new genres/subgenre's and music from different countries from any time period. Sometime blogspot hunting for world music.

[eli_w]

It's pretty much impossible to hear a difference between 320 kbps compressed MP3 audio and lossless audio. Especially if you're just listening on your computer/car/headphones

Even spotting the difference between 256kbps and 320kbps is very difficult unless you are playing the music on a very large professional system


Edit:
I tried the 5.1 songs, but they just didn't play, so I have to stick with my poor vinyl rips. :)

Vinyl <3

[RickMason]

It's pretty much impossible to hear a difference between 320 kbps compressed MP3 audio and lossless audio. Especially if you're just listening on your computer/car/headphones

Even spotting the difference between 256kbps and 320kbps is very difficult unless you are playing the music on a very large professional system


Edit:


Vinyl <3

Though the difference isn't somehow large, I can distinguish between mere MP3 and 1411 kbps music. It lies in the volume and basses, I need only about half the volume bar to get the basses I want with FLAC, but the whole one with MP3. And before you draw the equaliser argument, let me remind you there is only so much it can do. Other than that, it would just feel like a sacrelige to get my favo(u)rite older songs to submit to the 21st century's standarts. :)