I ain't getting into this debate.

To me.

It is of a noticeably higher quaity.

With all due respect, and I'm not trying to be a dick here or anything, but it's not a matter of debate, it's a matter of fact. You can't get a better sound than what's on the CD, because any data that would have allowed you to get a better sound than CD was lost when the audio was converted to the CD format. You might think it's better quality, but it definitely isn't as this is physically impossible. Ripping a CD to a higher quality format and getting a better sound, would be like converting a VHS to a DVD and getting DVD quality video.

You'll definitely get better quality than if you'd ripped it to .mp3, because data is lost in the process of creating an mp3, but you're not going to get better quality than the original CD. The only way you'll get a wave file that sounds better than the CD, is if you get Devin's original wave files.

Sorry for not just dropping this. I'm a massive, pedantic, nerd. One of my many character flaws. I'll try to drop it now.

Pedantic to the point where you continue the arguement after the other side has seen their error?

Read the posts man, then maybe smoke a J or something.
Either way, chill out bro.

Pedantic to the point where you continue the arguement after the other side has seen their error?

Read the posts man, then maybe smoke a J or something.
Either way, chill out bro.

Yeah, I didn't notice that when I originally wrote my reply, as I misread that post the first time.
And my post wasn't intended to be taken in an angry or argumentative tone, but on the net it's hard to phrase these things so that they come off with the tone that was intended.

Anyway, back to what everyone else is talking about, I must be one of the few people that still rips my mp3s at 128k, as my ears are totally shit, and generally can't tell the difference. I guess this is what I get for listening to my personal stereo too loud as a teenager Was totally worth it though.

It came... hooray.

Listening to MP3s on my shitty laptop speakers I liked half the tracks, but listening to the CD on good speakers every single track is amazing. This is so good.

Uhhh, you guys should seriously rip your CDs using EAC and the LAME encoder set to V0 (Variable bit rate of the highest quality)

amazing rips can be had. Tutorial here: http://blowfish.be/eac/index.html

Go through the whole thing, it's worth it.

Here's an example of what's lost on 128K MP3 compared to FLAC/WAV:



Basically, don't use 128K if you enjoy music at all

pfft, fuck all that techy stuff. im hardcore. i listen to midi files through a nokia 3310. none of the quality and more annoying tones than you can shake a stick at

pfft, fuck all that techy stuff. im hardcore. i listen to midi files through a nokia 3310. none of the quality and more annoying tones than you can shake a stick at

Congrats, you just killed all the audiophiles within earshot

~Josiah

ALL HAIL MIDI, or maybe SID, i dont know which sounds shittier.
behold, the technology of true high fidelity format music!
KI, the way it was meant to sound!
http://www.sendspace.com/file/llqqwb

[swervedriver]

ALL HAIL MIDI, or maybe SID, i dont know which sounds shittier.
behold, the technology of true high fidelity format music!
KI, the way it was meant to sound!
http://www.sendspace.com/file/llqqwb

That is still amazing! Takes me back to my old gaming days where all sound was produced by a shitty pc speaker. That version of Ki would've really fit in a game like Space Quest or Quest For Glory.

Why not release 96kHz & 24bit lossless FLAC files straight from the master data if you want better quality?

There's no need to stay in the "CD quality" nowadays. However, it's a standard, ayé.

ALL HAIL MIDI, or maybe SID, i dont know which sounds shittier.
behold, the technology of true high fidelity format music!
KI, the way it was meant to sound!
http://www.sendspace.com/file/llqqwb

Awesome. I want the whole song in this super high quality! (I'm serious actually)

canyon.mid up in here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIW4F285QjA

Devin should definitely cover this for the next album, it would be rockin

got the cd today!!finally..and I only listened to the sample that was on myspace...its funny listening to the cd when my next door neighbours baby is screaming

Where do you edit the LAME decoder?

Lame is an encoder, not a decoder. In other words: it can convert audio files to MP3, but it does not play MP3 files.

And if your audio converter program uses the Lame encoder, it will probably have some menu where you can set the parameters, most likely a slider bar with the tradeoff 'fast and lousy'/'slow and good'.

If you use Lame from command line (or you can set command line options), the parameters you should type are '-q 0' for good quality or '-q 9' for bad quality.

Dev, Thank you so much for this amazing record! I just got it. Sounds amazing! In Disruptr.... I am hearing some Ulver influences...