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By: jon oliver

jon oliver — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:11:28 +0000

thanks! glad you like it.

By: dj sunshine

dj sunshine — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:35:10 +0000

not commenting on the tech side……but this song is doooope!. Got it here a while ago, but didn’t listen. Thanks!

By: Rafferty

Rafferty — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:38:25 +0000

I’ve been hearing a lot about FLAC lately. Free Lossless Audio Codec. It seems to be the best way to compress audio, although I’m sure iTunes etc etc won’t ever touch it. Didn’t Beta have better picture quality than VHS? Dunno if that’s true or just an urban myth, but I think that’s how it’s going to go with FLAC. Anyways…

By: jon oliver

jon oliver — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:17:08 +0000

i think the vhs-to-dvd is comparable to cassettes-to-cds. the paths diverged after that but i think both are headed to high quality downloads. where else could they go after that? people aren’t going to want to go back to the “inconvenience” of physical products and the quality can only go so high.

you make a good point about the quality flow reversing. i didn’t really think about that.

we don’t really need another mp3 version if someone can create a functional metadata standard for aiffs or wav’s (unless there is one i don’t know about…probably not).

By: needles

needles — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:05:52 +0000

run out of formats? that didn’t stop the industry from moving from VHS to DVD to Blu-Ray…

on the flipside of your post, i am actually happy to see a reverse in what has been a very long progression of declining quality. from pure waveforms on vinyl, to lower fidelity analog on cassettes to compressed audio on CDs to very poor quality mp3s. if the bottom of the quality ladder was at 192 kbs, then i am quite glad to see it rise again.

as for the economics… it was economic pressure and competition that forced DRM to give way, so lets hope that trend continues as well. what we really need is someone to release a newer mp3 version that allows us to go above 320kbs. give me the option to reach 1411 kbs…

By: jon oliver

jon oliver — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:11:43 +0000

labels are definitely always on the upsell, that was part of the point i was trying to make but i guess one thing i didn’t think about until i read your comment is that, once we move up the digital food chain to completely uncompressed files, could they possibly run out formats to sell us? if so, that could be bigger news than the endless upselling (that is, if major labels are still in business at that point).

By: Flex Unger

Flex Unger — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:59:35 +0000

Well Jon
I think its like this
Music and Art they really serve no purpose in there pure form.There is nothing we are supposed to do with them.Listen Look become a part of etc.So beyond those natural things you can not really put a price on them.It would be like putting a price on breathing.However the music business has always been selling us on quality and some new format from the cylinder up to today.I do think you make a good point on something I never thought about which is “Rare Mp3s” I think that would make a very interesting list.The thing I do not like about mp3s is storage and hard drives.I do not dj in places nearly as much as I used to and if I did I am sure I would be mp3 friendly but right now I have a hard time trying to organize my records let alone mp3s.I think that there is such variety these days with all the revivals of the past music and past devices plus new music that everyone has a hard time keeping up.I think that is also an example of music and arts repetitions revolutions per minute in this era its per second.So are we to keep up with it as it happens or as we can?
I do not think half of us could listen to all the records mp3s or music we have in one lifetime so where does that leave us ?