hey what are you listening to t swift buddy
converted a youtube rip to lossless and it sounds amazing it's like there's a
tawny taylor playing in my brain um actually that's not how lossless
music works at all but it's high bit rate that's
more realistic the only reality is that you're taking
up way more space in your mobile device for no reason do you have any idea what
happens when music is converted from one file format to another
no okay
so when taylor swift is in the studio cutting her new album her voice actually
does get recorded as lossless audio which means that the computer stores as
much of her song as practically possible in digital form that essentially is what
lossless audio is it means that the song was originally recorded at a high bit
rate and hasn't been compressed since but
whenever a record label puts their music on youtube or on a service like spotify
it gets compressed and not just a little bit
lots of streaming services compress music down to about a tenth of what it
originally was to save space and they do this by discarding a lot of the data in
the original file so you can't truly convert back up to lossless it's a bit
like trying to take a well done steak and get all the medium rare juices back
into it and besides like good steak most people can't tell the difference anyway
whoa i'm a golden eared audiophile i even got a certificate from the
appropriate subreddit look did you take a test for that yeah i did
i had to listen to a bunch of sample tracks and then blindly say which ones
were the high bitrate ones took me like at least five minutes and i got them all
right please don't tell me you used those headphones yeah so
dude you got lucky beyond a pretty low threshold maybe
around 128 kilobits a second it's pretty
hard to hear quality differences using low end equipment low end this cost me
like 22 dollars all right look
the reason cheap speakers and headphones don't let you fully enjoy high bitrate
audio is because at higher bit rates you might be able to hear more subtle parts
of the track that would get discarded if it were compressed any further lower end
hardware just simply can't replicate sounds like that correctly so i have to
like buy expensive headphones and then subscribe to tidal or spotify premium
well it depends
as bit rates get higher and higher many people can't hear the differences
between them if you have a good pair of headphones or speakers you might be able
to hear the difference between a regular and a premium stream on spotify but it's
less likely that you'll be able to hear the difference between a 320 kbit
spotify premium song and a lossless track on title
and even if you can hear the difference think about your typical day are you
really the guy with the dedicated listening chair or are you walking down
the street enjoying some tunes without really focusing on every nuance of every
note of the song so what you're saying is lossless music is like pretty
pointless no what i'm saying is
before plunking down tons of money on expensive equipment and subscriptions
maybe try out some solid mid-range gear with free high bitrate or lossless music
you can find online if it's easy for you to tell the difference between that and
a standard stream it might be worth exploring some higher end options but
there's also no shame in just rocking out to low quality mp3s of your favorite
weird al parodies if that's what makes you happy thanks man i don't want to contribute to
jay-z's bugatti fund anyway right on
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