So take your FLACs and compress them as much as you wish for use on your portable device. At least you've still got the original source material to both listen to on your PC and to re-compress the files again at a later stage if necessary.
Besides, this is a problem that will go away soon enough, with the ever-increasing size of storage. At that point you can just copy your FLACs straight onto the device... assuming you had any in the first place.
Think of it as insurance. A 1TB hard drive is so cheap these days, and big enough to store the music collection of anyone but the most avid collector. Once you have all your music in FLAC format, you know that you have the original data, exactly as it appeared on the CD, and that's never going to change.
While I'm not disputing it's possible to hear some difference between 16 bit and 24 bit, if "all the crispy" is coming out of your mix when you convert, you're doing the conversion wrong. After all, CDs are 16 bit, and they're not universally lacking in "crispy". Are you using a proper mastering tool to do your sample rate / bit depth conversion, with decent noise shaped dithering?
I have to agree with you about disc space though. Why worry about what bitrate is "enough" for MP3s when you can buy 2TB of hard drive dirt cheap and store everything as a FLAC?
"Impulse buy" is a relative term. It's not an impulse buy in the same way a candy bar is, certainly. But it's barely more expensive than a game, and that puts it in the range of impulse buys for any console owner.
Simply create a Truecrypt volume and set up Firefox to store its profile there. Then you can let Firefox remember all your site passwords, safe in the knowledge that they're perfectly secure if your computer is stolen.
No, you feel free to go ahead. If it's not too presumptuous of me, I shall probably reply by questioning your parentage while employing the rhetorical device of ALL CAPS.
I'm still not managing to reconcile that with the definition of acceleration as "a change in speed". Am I just clinging to an incorrect definition?
I would have thought that the inner ear is simply detecting the orientation of the liquid within it, and the force of gravity acting upon the liquid is affecting the orientation that it assumes.
When hanging upside down from a bar, this sense allows you to tell that you are upside down. You are not moving in any direction, your current speed relative to your surroundings is zero, and this speed is not changing. How does this have anything to do with acceleration?
Einstein was a patent clerk with free time on his hands
It certainly explains the current state of affairs at the patent office, if the average clerk there is too busy daydreaming about the speed of light and so on to give any attention to mundane matters like patents.
Let's see... they're basically studying the way the of the brain perceives pain inflicted on the body. The spinal cord links the brain to the body. Now we have this astonishing discovery that the spinal cord is involved in this process. I am truly humbled by such revelations.
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You've got a dead cat on your hands there after just one iteration, unless you constantly feed it. Oh, hold on, maybe that's right after all...
Deep Throat?
So take your FLACs and compress them as much as you wish for use on your portable device. At least you've still got the original source material to both listen to on your PC and to re-compress the files again at a later stage if necessary.
Besides, this is a problem that will go away soon enough, with the ever-increasing size of storage. At that point you can just copy your FLACs straight onto the device... assuming you had any in the first place.
Think of it as insurance. A 1TB hard drive is so cheap these days, and big enough to store the music collection of anyone but the most avid collector. Once you have all your music in FLAC format, you know that you have the original data, exactly as it appeared on the CD, and that's never going to change.
Don't be ridiculous. We're trying to reduce the non-Hertzian frequencies.
While I'm not disputing it's possible to hear some difference between 16 bit and 24 bit, if "all the crispy" is coming out of your mix when you convert, you're doing the conversion wrong. After all, CDs are 16 bit, and they're not universally lacking in "crispy". Are you using a proper mastering tool to do your sample rate / bit depth conversion, with decent noise shaped dithering?
I have to agree with you about disc space though. Why worry about what bitrate is "enough" for MP3s when you can buy 2TB of hard drive dirt cheap and store everything as a FLAC?
"Impulse buy" is a relative term. It's not an impulse buy in the same way a candy bar is, certainly. But it's barely more expensive than a game, and that puts it in the range of impulse buys for any console owner.
Simply create a Truecrypt volume and set up Firefox to store its profile there. Then you can let Firefox remember all your site passwords, safe in the knowledge that they're perfectly secure if your computer is stolen.
Yeah, that Anonymous Coward bloke really does talk some crap, I don't know where he gets it all from.
So wait... do you agree with him or not?
Economy not responding? Try turning your stimulus off and on again.
No, you feel free to go ahead. If it's not too presumptuous of me, I shall probably reply by questioning your parentage while employing the rhetorical device of ALL CAPS.
I'm still not managing to reconcile that with the definition of acceleration as "a change in speed". Am I just clinging to an incorrect definition?
I would have thought that the inner ear is simply detecting the orientation of the liquid within it, and the force of gravity acting upon the liquid is affecting the orientation that it assumes.
The force is always acting on me, but it is not causing any acceleration.
Hmm, I fear we are descending into one of those pointless disagreements that only ever happen on the internets. :)
When hanging upside down from a bar, this sense allows you to tell that you are upside down. You are not moving in any direction, your current speed relative to your surroundings is zero, and this speed is not changing. How does this have anything to do with acceleration?
unashamedly embracing the archetypes that made RPGs what they are
Or "little more than a collection of tired old genre cliches and tropes"?
If a fault is detected the throttle goes completely off and the car has to be turned off and turned back on to recover.
So your advice is to trying turning it off and on again?
Very angry.
I wonder if I can try that with the RIAA/BSA?
Sure you can. Good luck, and be sure to let us know how you get on!
Einstein was a patent clerk with free time on his hands
It certainly explains the current state of affairs at the patent office, if the average clerk there is too busy daydreaming about the speed of light and so on to give any attention to mundane matters like patents.
the spinal cord is involved in the placebo effect
Let's see... they're basically studying the way the of the brain perceives pain inflicted on the body. The spinal cord links the brain to the body. Now we have this astonishing discovery that the spinal cord is involved in this process. I am truly humbled by such revelations.
Ever see a Scottish Sheep Farmer?
FFS, it's Welsh. At least get your racial stereotyping right.
Submitter: are you sure you've picked the right place to call "choosing your favorite desktop distribution" a mundane issue?
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Ah, that explains it.
Exactly.
But most people agree that picking the best parts off a buffet is at least questionable.
I think "most people" would agree that the whole idea of a buffet is picking the bits you like best.
If anyone needs me I'll be leveling my L.O.R.D. character.
No problem. I doubt anyone's going to need you. :)