Post by Jens Dietrich on Sept 6, 2007 20:06:20 GMT -8
You assume correctly, Jon. As Wikipedia puts it...
I don't mean to belittle your efforts to digitize your collection, but to me those files wouldn't be worth the hard drive space they take up. I didn't actually start digitizing my own collection until I discovered AAC and how much, much better it sounds than MP3 in every conceivable way (my first player was a 3rd-gen iPod). I'm stunned that you would waste so many hours of your life converting your CDs to such a crummy sounding, outdated format.
I recently obtained some rare scores I'd been trying to get my hands on for years and years (Goldsmith's complete Chain Reaction, for one), but unfortunately they happened to come in 192 kbps MP3 form. I could barely even tolerate listening to them! And this is music I adore!
Anyway, Jon, you should know better. Now go and digitize your entire collection again, and do it properly.
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. AAC is promoted as the successor to the MP3 format by MP3’s creator, Fraunhofer IIS. Depending on the encoder used, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at the same bitrate, particularly below 192 kbit/s. AAC’s most famous usage is as the default audio format of Apple's iPhone, iPod, iTunes, and the format used for all iTunes Store audio (with extensions for proprietary Digital Rights Management (DRM) where used). AAC is also the standard audio format for Sony’s PlayStation 3, the MPEG-4 video standard, and HE-AAC is part of digital radio standards like DAB+ and Digital Radio Mondiale.
I don't mean to belittle your efforts to digitize your collection, but to me those files wouldn't be worth the hard drive space they take up. I didn't actually start digitizing my own collection until I discovered AAC and how much, much better it sounds than MP3 in every conceivable way (my first player was a 3rd-gen iPod). I'm stunned that you would waste so many hours of your life converting your CDs to such a crummy sounding, outdated format.
I recently obtained some rare scores I'd been trying to get my hands on for years and years (Goldsmith's complete Chain Reaction, for one), but unfortunately they happened to come in 192 kbps MP3 form. I could barely even tolerate listening to them! And this is music I adore!
Anyway, Jon, you should know better. Now go and digitize your entire collection again, and do it properly.