Burn a music cd from flac files and the same cd from 320kbps mp3. Played on a decent stereo, the difference is discernible. But not as much as playing the mp3s on your phone connected to the same stereo analog to analog.
*Makes your headphones sound like shit*
Isaac Nelson
Kevin Gray
Are people actually trying to play flac audio from their phone onto fucking analog headphones???
Lmfao no wonder they think it sounds the same
Wyatt Baker
pretty sure flac is supposed to be used for storage to prevent degradation
that said, I have noticed a difference listening to an album I listened all the time before in 320 mp3
this was using an LG V30 phone (they have a dedicated DAC) and high impedance headphones using 24bit 44,1 KHz flac files
but I've also listened to flac that was shit, depends a lot on what they did the encoding from and how and what you use to play it back I'd say
Jose Morgan
It's not just the file that matters but the original recording quality too. If you have shit taste, you wont see a difference either.
Xavier Richardson
>pretty sure flac is supposed to be used for storage to prevent degradation
This. Rotational velocity affects all audio files encoded with lossy compression. These include mp3, aac, and ogg.
The most notable effect of rotational velocity is the loss of bitrate in files. A lossy audio file will lose an average of 12kbps a year. But, this can vary greatly depending on the type of storage media used (rpm).
Examples:
SATA HDD: ~12kbps
IDE HDD: ~15kbps
SCSI HDD: ~7kbps
DVD: ~16kbps
CD-R/RW: >21kbps
This can be overcome by compressing audio using lossless formats such as FLAC, APE, or TTA. These formats are designed to never lose quality over time, even when subjected to significant rotational velocities, and will sound the same right now as they will in 10 years.
Angel Bennett
yeah, flac is much more resilient to wear with repeated listens than mp3s.
Zachary Campbell
>Burn a music cd from flac files and the same cd from 320kbps mp3. Played on a decent stereo, the difference is discernible
Sure it is, if you happen to be a dog.
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Benjamin Long
so you'd see no degradation on an SSD?
Elijah Reyes
You will. Electrons in an SSD still rotate (quantum spin), even faster than HDD plates.
I dont know the actual degradation rates for SSDs from the top of my head, google is your friend.. but flac is still necessary.
Robert Green
No, I meant streaming google music 320k on your phone, and connecting that to your stereo. Or just mp3 files on your phone connected to a stereo.