Music Question!

[Kotyara]

So what's the lowest bitrate I can go for gigs?

not less den 320, next step is pure wav.

[BentoSan]

not less den 320, next step is pure wav.

or FLAC - which is a compressed .wav that useless lossless compression. A flac is kind of like a zip, you compress the file but dont actually lose any information, unlike mp3 where you lose information in the file compression process.

[djhipnotikk]

or FLAC - which is a compressed .wav that useless lossless compression. A flac is kind of like a zip, you compress the file but dont actually lose any information, unlike mp3 where you lose information in the file compression process.

so.. WHY ARE WE ALL NOT USING .FLAC?

[BentoSan]

so.. WHY ARE WE ALL NOT USING .FLAC?

because the file size is still rather large and traktor doesnt support storing grid data in the file - instead it stores it in its database.

[djhipnotikk]

because the file size is still rather large and traktor doesnt support storing grid data in the file - instead it stores it in its database.

ah, makes sense. still seems like we're in search of that "perfect" filetype.

[Jester]

yep. 20 mb mp3 @ 320kps + over 200Mb as a FLAC. Unless you have a multi terabyte HD thats not exactly practical. I have used them tho and they sound fantastiche!

[rvltion909]

+1 for .flac!!

Storage space is super cheap these days so its not much of an issue (for me).

Very interesting what Bento said about Traktor not storing grid data for them though. I have no clue what this means however.

[zarazuat]

wow i just checked the bitrate of my songs in my collection and half of them ran from 56 to 192. should i delete those and try and start off fresh?

[basspenetrator]

wow i just checked the bitrate of my songs in my collection and half of them ran from 56 to 192. should i delete those and try and start off fresh?

wouldn't go lower than 192.. maybe delete some and try to get the jewels in a higher bitrate.


diskspace isn't the problem, but I wouldn't like to carry a harddisk around all the time.

got some flacs, but don't really use em. quite an issue for me is that most mp3players out there dont support flacs.. there aren't many stores around that sell much flacs, are there??

[zarazuat]

ok so should i just delete all the lower bitrate songs and try to find another subscription service to download them?