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preferred music format

music format

  • mp3

    Votes: 5 31.3%
  • radio

    Votes: 1 6.3%
  • cd because it is better than vinyl

    Votes: 1 6.3%
  • vinyl because it is better than cd

    Votes: 4 25.0%
  • cassette because the hipster in me demands it

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 8 track because i'm a blackbelt hipster

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • wav and flac

    Votes: 1 6.3%
  • lossless digital

    Votes: 3 18.8%
  • redneck band playing a banjo

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • what is music

    Votes: 1 6.3%

  • Total voters
    16
Melting is my problem with vinyl. Many years ago I actually ironed my Woodstock album because it had become so warped. It pretty much worked....kind of.
lol I had to do that once to two albums but I used a hair dryer and a stack of books. It worked quite well, almost completely flat.
 
Import from CD into iTunes using lossless conversion. That way I can have an equalizer setting for every band, album, and occasionally song...
 
vinyl is my favorite, though it is the least portable. i probably listen to MP3 and CD formats the most. i also dig 8 track, but mostly because it is so clunky, inconvenient, yet nostalgic and somehow awesome.

Someone digs 8track? I actually put it as a joke, the format had potential to beat records and cassettes, but the feed mechanisms to 8track pretty much ruined it's potential. Wierdly cassettes on a well tuned cassette player have the same quality as cd's yet most people had junk cassette players and pre recorded were garbage. 8 track on the other hand never had one last long enough without being eaten to ever degrade in quality.
 
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I have noticed alot of new music comes on lp, which I currently buy them that way. The neat thing is if you buy the lp's off amazon and they are new records, most have autorip, which gives you the mp3s for free, and a physical disk with artwork that can double as a blunt object.

I used to play LPs once and record to high quality cassette tapes....

Later one of my daughters bought a mildly used 1990's Le Baron.... Never saw many of those tapes again. Some of her friends never saw cassettes in action.
 
I used to play LPs once and record to high quality cassette tapes....

Later one of my daughters bought a mildly used 1990's Le Baron.... Never saw many of those tapes again. Some of her friends never saw cassettes in action.

Never saw cassettes in action? Their nickname was the 1980's icescraper, as the case always make the perfect icescraper in frigid weather.
 
Interesting on the cd's, I knew cdr and rw were known to deteriorate after a few years, but had no idea commercially recorded ones would do the same.

The one thing that bugs me with cd music is how terrible it sounds for alot of newer cds, and the cds are the same now as they used to be, but the encoding changed. Starting in the 80's there was a thing called the loudness wars, where each manufacturor aimed to encode cds in a way to make them louder than normal encoding allowed. After a certain threshhold the encoding practices turn into lossy formats, some commercial cds sounding worse than low bitrate mp3's.

Some cd makers have gone away from it, others still use them, Things like itunes pretty much block high loudness encoding.

I have a handful of early early CDs and yes... They are quite muted compared to the later ones. You really notice it in a 25 or 50 CD carousel. I actually had to segregate a number of quieter CDs so that I didn't have to work the volume too much. (The old amp had manual only volume adjustment).
 
Never saw cassettes in action? Their nickname was the 1980's icescraper, as the case always make the perfect icescraper in frigid weather.

My daughters would ask: "An icescraper? For making snowcones?"

Southern California raised. Snow was a rarity you visited on a mountain..
 
Someone digs 8track? I actually put it as a joke, the format had potential to beat records and cassettes, but the feed mechanisms to 8track pretty much ruined it's potential. Wierdly cassettes on a well tuned cassette player have the same quality as cd's yet most people had junk cassette players and pre recorded were garbage. 8 track on the other hand never had one last long enough without being eaten to ever degrade in quality.

Donated last 8-Tracks to a friend who still collected. Along with a bolt-in "Stereo" car 8-track. Stereo meant sound came out two speakers and wasn't real stereo.
 
My daughters would ask: "An icescraper? For making snowcones?"

Southern California raised. Snow was a rarity you visited on a mountain..

Yeah no I remember the yucca valley blizzard of late 08 early 09, right before I shipped off to basic, and that was the desert. Here I texas we need em in the winter too, and too often I forget mine and use dumb stuff like for example use my trucks scraper at work and forget to bring it home, so I use either a cd case or my spatula.
 
Someone digs 8track? I actually put it as a joke, the format had potential to beat records and cassettes, but the feed mechanisms to 8track pretty much ruined it's potential. Wierdly cassettes on a well tuned cassette player have the same quality as cd's yet most people had junk cassette players and pre recorded were garbage. 8 track on the other hand never had one last long enough without being eaten to ever degrade in quality.

i bought an almost unused 8 track player at Goodwill for four dollars in 2006 or so, along with Fleetwood Mac Rumours. listening to the album in that format was a cool experience. what i like about 8 tracks is that you have the illusion of fast forward / flipping sides, but the format is basically **** you, and listen to the album as it was intended.
 
i bought an almost unused 8 track player at Goodwill for four dollars in 2006 or so, along with Fleetwood Mac Rumours. listening to the album in that format was a cool experience. what i like about 8 tracks is that you have the illusion of fast forward / flipping sides, but the format is basically **** you, and listen to the album as it was intended.

Almost want to buy an 8track player and some 8tracks to do sound comparisons, but too pricey for me as no one makes em. My current setup is a 5 in 1 nostalgia, which plays records and cassetes and cds with bad reviews. The sound is awesome but my power button stuck on after the second use, others had horrible sound for bad connections to speakers, or skipping record players.

A decent 8track player is a fortune, as is a decent oldschool cassette player, as the last decent ones were made in the mid 90's. Also my experience on sound quality was they sucked, my great aunst though has an old double sided 8 track player, with a crapload of double sided 8tracks, basically a normal 8 track with 2 reels of film instead of one, you could play a single in a double but not the other way.

The sound on her high end system was awefull, but the vast rarity of it would sell for a fortune, but she refuses to sell them, sh has sworn for the last 25 years she will convert them to cd and has never done it.
 
Almost want to buy an 8track player and some 8tracks to do sound comparisons, but too pricey for me as no one makes em. My current setup is a 5 in 1 nostalgia, which plays records and cassetes and cds with bad reviews. The sound is awesome but my power button stuck on after the second use, others had horrible sound for bad connections to speakers, or skipping record players.

A decent 8track player is a fortune, as is a decent oldschool cassette player, as the last decent ones were made in the mid 90's. Also my experience on sound quality was they sucked, my great aunst though has an old double sided 8 track player, with a crapload of double sided 8tracks, basically a normal 8 track with 2 reels of film instead of one, you could play a single in a double but not the other way.

The sound on her high end system was awefull, but the vast rarity of it would sell for a fortune, but she refuses to sell them, sh has sworn for the last 25 years she will convert them to cd and has never done it.

The problem with 8 tracks is that most of the time they chopped a song in half between programs.

If you want music on tape you need to go with a reel to reel. The ONLY reason they made 8 tracks and cassettes was to make something that would work in your car (or, later on, your Walkman).
 
Almost want to buy an 8track player and some 8tracks to do sound comparisons, but too pricey for me as no one makes em. My current setup is a 5 in 1 nostalgia, which plays records and cassetes and cds with bad reviews. The sound is awesome but my power button stuck on after the second use, others had horrible sound for bad connections to speakers, or skipping record players.

A decent 8track player is a fortune, as is a decent oldschool cassette player, as the last decent ones were made in the mid 90's. Also my experience on sound quality was they sucked, my great aunst though has an old double sided 8 track player, with a crapload of double sided 8tracks, basically a normal 8 track with 2 reels of film instead of one, you could play a single in a double but not the other way.

The sound on her high end system was awefull, but the vast rarity of it would sell for a fortune, but she refuses to sell them, sh has sworn for the last 25 years she will convert them to cd and has never done it.

man, did you ever see this cassette changer?

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my buddy borrowed one for a week when we were teenagers. it was awesome.

i have a really good turntable, as well as a decent dual cassette deck. my 8 track is not doing quite as well, but it still works ok.
 
man, did you ever see this cassette changer?

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my buddy borrowed one for a week when we were teenagers. it was awesome.

i have a really good turntable, as well as a decent dual cassette deck. my 8 track is not doing quite as well, but it still works ok.

That seems about as proprietary as double sided 8 track, surely worth a fortune just due to rarity.
 
The problem with 8 tracks is that most of the time they chopped a song in half between programs.

If you want music on tape you need to go with a reel to reel. The ONLY reason they made 8 tracks and cassettes was to make something that would work in your car (or, later on, your Walkman).

Reel to reel beats vinyl and cd, but the average person can not afford r2r, that is something more for recording studios who want perfect recordings before they transfer them to other media.
 
FLAC would be fine but the file sizes are huge and I just can't justify the disk space for the difference in fidelity.

except now its 2021 and you can get a 10TB external hard drive for 160$, or a 512GB micro sd card for 70$,
 
What is your preferred music format, mine is analog, and I prefer records but I have a strong like of cassettes, since I grew up with them and a walkman was the thing then while a cd walkman was for rich people.

To keep it simple, most mp3's have terrible audia, they are a lossy format but convenient, while lossless digital audio keeps all the sounds but clearer than analog. Analog though has imperfections that made alot of older bands sounds great, and much less so when remastered.

You didn't make multiple choices possible, big mistake.
The trick to mp3 is to avoid using the standard bit rate which is somewhere between 64 and 128 kbps.
Try using the 320 kbps setting instead.
Still incredibly small file sizes but the higher bit rate cures a multitude of sins.

I love analog pre-amps and amplifiers but my sources are a mix of analog and digital.
 
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