One day, when I have more cash, maybe then I will be able to afford to be a quality snob. I think I'd rather save my cash for a better graphics card or monitor, things I can tell the difference with.
Sometimes I *can* tell the difference, but I don't appreciate it - I listen to the music, not the quality. I mean, I have some music that is at 32kbits (MP3), the quality isn't great but it doesn't bother me when I listen to it, because the music takes precedent in terms of where I'm listening.
I only speak for myself, but I know that I consider it silly encoding anything above about 150kbps ABR Ogg Vorbis, because above that, I can't hear the difference. I've been used to listening to 128kbps CBR MP3s for so long that I can't tell the difference any more. Sure, they're crappy PC speakers, but why bother with anything better if I simply cannot tell the difference.
A musical friend of mine tried to test this - he played me a song twice, at different bitrates - I couldn't hear any difference. Surely you're listening to the wrong sort of music if you get distracted by the bitrate.. I mean, if it's *really* low then there's obvious reason, even I can tell at the extreme low end of the bitrate spectrum.
I'd rather have manageable filesize and reasonable quality. However, I demand more digital music players to be ogg vorbis compatible!
What I wouldn't give for one of those sleek HP jukebox jobbies..
*drools*
"Geek is chic"
Anyway. You're right to some extent, although making it truly secure is kinda hard, we're only human.
However, I agree that MS could do a better job of it. With all that cash they should be able to afford some decent coders.
Well in the UK, automatic transmission cars are a rarity.
They didn't rant about retarded end-users? How the hell do you know? Were you there?
I'd guess that you weren't. I'm sure they whined like hell and eventually got most people to behave, but then someone created a new design killing two birds with one stone.
Also, what about cases when new inventions *haven't* come along to fix end-users' petty gripes? Care to balance your argument a little?
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One day, when I have more cash, maybe then I will be able to afford to be a quality snob. I think I'd rather save my cash for a better graphics card or monitor, things I can tell the difference with. Sometimes I *can* tell the difference, but I don't appreciate it - I listen to the music, not the quality. I mean, I have some music that is at 32kbits (MP3), the quality isn't great but it doesn't bother me when I listen to it, because the music takes precedent in terms of where I'm listening.
I only speak for myself, but I know that I consider it silly encoding anything above about 150kbps ABR Ogg Vorbis, because above that, I can't hear the difference. I've been used to listening to 128kbps CBR MP3s for so long that I can't tell the difference any more. Sure, they're crappy PC speakers, but why bother with anything better if I simply cannot tell the difference. A musical friend of mine tried to test this - he played me a song twice, at different bitrates - I couldn't hear any difference. Surely you're listening to the wrong sort of music if you get distracted by the bitrate.. I mean, if it's *really* low then there's obvious reason, even I can tell at the extreme low end of the bitrate spectrum. I'd rather have manageable filesize and reasonable quality. However, I demand more digital music players to be ogg vorbis compatible! What I wouldn't give for one of those sleek HP jukebox jobbies.. *drools*
"Geek is chic" Anyway. You're right to some extent, although making it truly secure is kinda hard, we're only human. However, I agree that MS could do a better job of it. With all that cash they should be able to afford some decent coders.
Well in the UK, automatic transmission cars are a rarity.
They didn't rant about retarded end-users?
How the hell do you know?
Were you there?
I'd guess that you weren't. I'm sure they whined like hell and eventually got most people to behave, but then someone created a new design killing two birds with one stone.
Also, what about cases when new inventions *haven't* come along to fix end-users' petty gripes? Care to balance your argument a little?