Popular Post John Dyson Posted February 24, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 24, 2020 My opinion is this -- when streaming, sometimes access to an image might not be possible. In a captive environment, one might be stuck with the poorly mastered material as being spoon-fed. With a CD or digital download, when one has a digital copy of the material, there is the future opporunity to recover the original recording. If in a streaming-only environment, a person is stuck with whatever 'material' that is being spoon fed. As long as the material is captive within a single environment, I am not interested. Even though I am implementing the recovering means for the old material, even if I wasn't doing the implementation, I'd definitely want a local, unlocked digital copy as an insurance policy. 2yrs ago, I would have not considered the real, very likely advantage of a local copy, but knowing what I know now -- the situation is different. Iving, sandyk, Kyhl and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment
Popular Post John Dyson Posted June 25, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 25, 2020 35 minutes ago, Ralf Hutter said: Can you expound on this thought? I'm thinking that the good 'ol "bits is bits" theory will pop up in the discussion somewhere. If you used an old analog grab scheme -- there can be noise. Also, a lousy rip with errors can cause problems. A proper rip with good software that retries and didnt' give errors -- then all will be okay. It is all about read errors, not really noise per-se (unless there was an analog grab scheme used.) And PLEASE don't archive in mp3 or other lossy compression, unless disk space is very expensive for you. If you throw away CDs after grabbing into a lossy format -- that data is lost forever. John cjf, Teresa, lucretius and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment
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