Buying Music
So I was thinking about the number of times and variety of formats that I have paid for a particular album. No surprise one of the many is Elton John’s Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. Originally I bought it on vinyl, then bought it on cassette and finally on CD and I have to say that each media averaged $12, so essentially I’ve paid $36 for the same album three times.
This is absolutely ridiculous and I’m not doing it anymore. Of course, I’ve decided this after buying two CDs I owned only on vinyl. So I was talking to Power Ranger, our audiophile at work, about my decision and his viewpoint is this is precisely why I should buy all of my music online. I pay for it once, burn it to CD and since it’s digital, I am free to do whatever I want with it!
Now for being the audiophile he claims to be, he totally shocked me because I firmly believe that any compression is never good. Whether I'm burning a CD from AAC, WMV, MP3, etc. there is still compression resulting in degradation of the original source. Any opinions?
mp3 at 192 or higher bitrate is considered good quality.
ReplyDeleteAnd sites like that Russian one I directed you to allow you to chose what bitrate you want your mp3s when you purchase them.
Actually WAV is the best format, because it's not compressed.