About CD's
- Thread starter Brian Martin
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From what the J Mac showed me, I'm burning things at an optimal quality. However, I can still hear a difference. It's not enough of a difference to make me avoid getting the MP3 version altogether, because when it comes down to it, I still need the song. However, it's enough of a difference to make me want to stick with buying CDs instead of downloading albums online.
There's also the fact that CDs come with album art and track listings. That sort of thing helps me find songs easier.
You can believe what you want, Rob, but I'm hearing a difference and I have to make adjustments on the mixer more with MP3s than CDs. To each, their own I suppose.
There's also the fact that CDs come with album art and track listings. That sort of thing helps me find songs easier.
You can believe what you want, Rob, but I'm hearing a difference and I have to make adjustments on the mixer more with MP3s than CDs. To each, their own I suppose.
Something I really don't need to worry about with CDs, which is one of the many reasons why I prefer to purchase CDs over MP3s.
You are absolutely correct there is a difficeintcy between what you can Download and what you can get when ripping from your own CDs... absolutely.
Most of the stuff from Amazon is either low quality 192 or at best 256k
But, when I rip from CD I rip at 320 High Quality, Stereo, CBR versus the above....
What you describe above it is no wonder you see a difference.. you are taking something that someone else ripped and burning it back to CD... you are now subject to any and all flaws of the downloaded material.
This is not a good comparison of what a "High Quality MP3" vs CD. You have to start with High Quality first... you are not.
Any good DJ program can download album art... and can search and browse a data base for track listings based on the album name. So I'm sorry what was the need for the CD sleeve again?
See above.... the comparisons you are drawing are between a substandard MP3 that you have burned back to CD.
You missed the point.... you rip to MP3 so that you don't have to play from CD... and you use the highest quality standards to do so... and therefore wont need the CD unless you have some sort of touch issue with not being able to feel a CD in your hand....
Okay, so then you're relying on your sound card, a software program that could potentially have bugs, and an operating system the could crash or cause your program to crash at anytime. So instead of having lesser-quality music, you've got no music until you can reboot your laptop?
Oy!
Nobody says you have to play from mp3 or from CD it's a matter of choice.... the point is... there is little perceptable difference between high quality mp3s and CD.... except for the need to carry the CD vs a Hard Drive.
And yes, I do have the touchy-feely thing going on with CDs. It's called thinking before I play instead of dragging in a song and letting the software do the work.
Yes and you are relying on a CD deck that could malfuction and cease to even open to allow you to put a CD in and your point is?
I thought the whole point to this thread was the whole doom and gloom about CD stores going out of business.
CD decks have this problem less often and take far less time to reboot, but I suppose that argument is for another thread. To each their own.
Steve LeBlanc
DJ Extraordinaire
I've never had an issue.....never had a client complain.....Come to think of it, no one ever complained about quality when I was playing crappy cassettes back in the early 80's
Same could be said about a well maintained computer.... I have never had one fail at a show... if I do I have a backup and if that fails I have my decks (which are brand new and have never even had a disc in them no need as my computer has never crashed)...
I don't think digital media spells doom and gloom for CD sales... I still buy them.... but, rip them to my computer for a better and easier transport of my library.
Are you saying that discs don't scratch and decks don't break down?
Wow! I'm switching back to CDs.
Are you saying that discs don't scratch and decks don't break down?
Wow! I'm switching back to CDs.
I wonder if Gemini has a good deal on "Never Fail" CD Decks.
I wonder if Gemini has a good deal on "Never Fail" CD Decks.
Actually, my Gemini worked like a charm. It was the Denons that kept having to be fixed.
Steve LeBlanc
DJ Extraordinaire
Here we go again....:sqerr:
I have a touch feely thing with the big ball on my mouse....
The software doesn't pick the next song...you know that right?
there's a motor in that cd player that does all the work too.....