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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by CapstanRoller on Monday March 13, 2023 @01:28PM (#35139151)
Hearing the difference now isn't the reason to encode to FLAC.

FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is 'lossy'. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA - it's about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don't want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media. I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrange...well don't get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren't stored correctly, in a cool, dry place.

Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you'll be glad you did.

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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by andybak on Monday March 13, 2023 @01:46PM (#35139494)
You had me there for a moment.
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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by plra on Monday March 13, 2023 @02:01PM (#35139746)
Few understand this.
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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by isoprophlex on Monday March 13, 2023 @02:06PM (#35139829)
How do SSDs compare for storing lossy media? And how does temperature factor in?

Out of a gut feeling I've been taking out my music SSD and storing it in the freezer when I'm gone for the weekend, or on holidays etc, as to retard the lossy decay process. But I've never actually measured, maybe you can throw in some expertise here?

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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by a4isms on Monday March 13, 2023 @02:12PM (#35139933)
Be careful. If your freezer is really cold, you can turn your CDs into superconductors, which may not lose bits, but they do introduce quantum shuffling of bits, where the same bits physically exchange position with other bits.
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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by TomJansen on Monday March 13, 2023 @02:22PM (#35140106)
Brings back memories!
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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by makeworld on Monday March 13, 2023 @04:01PM (#35141655)
How does musl factor into this? Is Alpine the ideal audiophile distro?
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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by CapstanRoller on Monday March 13, 2023 @05:26PM (#35142999)
>Is Alpine the ideal audiophile distro?

If you're serious about this, install Gentoo so you can compile everything yourself! Are you really going to entrust your music collection to a distro full of precompiled packages of unknown provenance, likely riddled with dirty bits from cheap second-hand hardware and possibly coal-fired electricity?

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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by audunw on Monday March 13, 2023 @05:12PM (#35142751)
Had a feeling this had to be a quote/copypasta, so for the others who hadn't read this before, I'll save you a Google search.

I think this might be the origin? https://www.head-fi.org/threads/why-flac-is-better.451369/

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