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Does Portable Music Have to be Compressed?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what-lossy-eyes-you-have dept.

FunkeyMonk writes "The Christian Science monitor has an article discussing the gap between music fans and audiophiles when it comes to portable music. Would you pay a few cents more to have lossless downloads from iTunes and other online music retailers? As a classical musician myself, I choose not to download most of my music, but rather rip it myself in lossless format."

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  1. There are SEVENTY-NINE Star Trek Episodes! by CheeseburgerBrown · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think you may be being a touch literal here, pardner. Maybe your pocket-protector is cutting off circulation to your nipples.

    Besides, there were seventy-nine episodes of the original Star Trek series and everybody knows it.

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  2. Re:GIGO -- Garbage In, Garbage Out by thc69 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Bingo! You're right. 'mp3check -l' output:
    mpeg 2.0 layer 3 22.1kHz 32kbps single chann no emph --- orig ---- 2:58.11

    Anyway, it's the best sounding file I've ever heard at such a good size-length ratio.

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