Should I get over my prejudice/ignorance/snobbery for WAV and change to mp3?

[Jack Bastard]

We're going way off topic.

You seemed to be quite happy to go there when you thought he was wrong.



In an effort to bring this back OT, in my experience if you're playing on big systems regularly then buy uncompressed, if you're just playing house parties/small bars/at home get 320s.

[sarasin]

Thats the general consus of this thread yes.

On a bigass rig...and you getting PAID....get the better format.

In a club etc, it is not THAT important.

If you like Wav and can afford it, get it.

[MrPopinjay]

Bandwidth Costs a lot more for a lossless file - simple really.

Personally I can understand completely why they charge more, I researched building a site hosting DJ mixes / tracks as just MP3 files even and the bandwidth costs via S3 or similar high speed service were astronomical when I ran the numbers even on a pretty small user base.

No it doesn't. Look how all these other sites can happyily toss around bandwidth like it's nothing- dropbox gives you near unlimited bandwidth and 5 to 20 gigs of storage completely for free. Hell they will bump it up by another 32gig for $10 and you still get near unlimited bandwidth with that.

Do you see why I think it's absolutely ridiculous that sites feel it's ok to charge extra for a measly 30megs extra bandwidth that we are already paying for? Bandwidth and storage costs practically nothing.

[ekwipt]

Beatport is making a freakin killing off the extra $1 bandwidth my ass

[MrPopinjay]

Exactly ekwipt.

Hell, let's look at other sites, like imgur, the free image hosting site-

http://imgur.com/C67cg

That image has used 13.35 GB bandwidth. They host it 100% for free. Half of the people who viewed it would have seen a direct link and not even seen the ads on the site...

What about sites like zippyshare? I downloaded hundreds of megs off there yesterday since I downloaded some free compilation albums- did they ask me to pay a dollar for every 20megs? Hell no.

Fuck I pay £10 a month for my phone and that gives me (in addition to phone calls and texts and their services) 1 gig of bandwidth.

Do you see why I think that "bandwidth is expensive" argument is insane?

[JonathanBlake]

Further to that - we as 'private' subscribers will never know what an organisation like beatport actually pays for bandwidth, but it sure as hell is a preferencial (or 'bulk') rate.

[Jester]

its all about the benjamins.

[ekwipt]

Plus all the record companies pay to have exclusive advertisements on Beatport.

They're double and triple dipping

[JonathanBlake]

Do you see why I think that "bandwidth is expensive" argument is insane?

Yes. South Africa is one of most expensive countries in the world. Totally insane Mr. P.

[MrPopinjay]

Sorry? What do you mean Jonathan?