Last music download???

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This is only intended as fun…we are absolutely a diverse crowd and I thought it would be interesting to see what you/we have downloaded in recent history.

I’ll start off; my last download was the song Laid by James…great song!!!

How about you?

C-
 
i like singing karaoke, so the last thing i downloaded was some sunfly tracks...
soul/motown
 
None. Downloaded music is compressed with a lossy compression. Good enough for an ipod and $20 earphones. Woefully inadequate for any audiophile equipment. What's the point of good, expensive amps, speakers, headphones, etc when the source sounds like crap?

On the other hand, for some types of modern -- don't want to say music because thump, bump, thump isn't music -- programming, quality doesn't really matter much. All one needs is a pair of those ****ty Kickers and it's done. Downloading that stuff and compressing the he** out of it won't hurt it in the least.

Best regards,
Frank
 
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fc3 said:
None. Downloaded music is compressed with a lossy compression. Good enough for an ipod and $20 earphones. Woefully inadequate for any audiophile equipment. What's the point of good, expensive amps, speakers, headphones, etc when the source sounds like crap?

On the other hand, for some types of modern -- don't want to say music because thump, bump, thump isn't music -- programming, quality doesn't really matter much. All one needs is a pair of those ****ty Kickers and it's done. Downloading that stuff and compressing the he** out of it won't hurt it in the least.

Best regards,
Frank
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Spoken like a true grandpa :grin: I can't imagine that the hi-fi system in your boat or car gives you studio reproduction quality? 8 tracks weren't that good either....ok, just giving you a hard time.

Of course you are correct, Frank. But the reality is that nobody sits at home in front of some expensive audio equipment anymore. Car audio, boat audio, mp3 players are all adequate but not perfect therefore the music doesn't need to be perfect. The downloaded music nowadays sounds great compared to the mp3's that we used to download from Napster.

Most Amazon mp3's are 256k and all are DRM-free. They sound great and you save a ton of money buying only the songs you want. Entire albums are cheaper than CD's too. There have been advances in downloadable music so you shouldn't write it off completely.

Back on topic: my latest downloads were Michael Franti via Amazon.
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No. Spoken like an audiophile with music training.
 
Breaking Benjamin
 
HMMM... Ok!

Muse - Uprising
Jay-Z - Empire State of Mind
Pitbull - Hotel Room
Kaiser Chiefs - Never Miss a Beat
and..
Deadmau5 - Ghosts and Things..

I guess I've been spending too much time listening to BBC1 on Sirius/XM...
 
The compressed formats are getting better every year. The download revolution IMO has broken the barriers to mediocre audio CD's. The 16bit audio CD format is OLD, outdated, limited. The path to 24bit audio, higher sampling rates etc... are now available to the masses, the remaining record companies now have an opportunity to deliver what the consumer wants. If they want a small MP3 file great. If they want the highest available quality, they can have that too and it will be far beyond what we have been used to. This revolution is just beginning and is gaining momentum.

So squeak out the last remaining life from your CD players and then throw them away. Its the dawn of a new era in music consumption.
 
Closer to Fine - Indigo Girls (back to the college days)
Lose Yourself - Eminem
Into the Fire - Disturbed
Chasing Pavement - Adele
Run to the Hills - Iron Maiden

I have a very eclectic music assortment on my ipod. Ranges from classical to heavy metal to rap to alternative.
 
TurtleTone said:
The compressed formats are getting better every year. The download revolution IMO has broken the barriers to mediocre audio CD's. The 16bit audio CD format is OLD, outdated, limited. The path to 24bit audio, higher sampling rates etc... are now available to the masses, the remaining record companies now have an opportunity to deliver what the consumer wants. If they want a small MP3 file great. If they want the highest available quality, they can have that too and it will be far beyond what we have been used to. This revolution is just beginning and is gaining momentum.

So squeak out the last remaining life from your CD players and then throw them away. Its the dawn of a new era in music consumption.
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I've only found a few titles in 24 bit 192 kbps lossless format. Some jazz and classical. Still pretty limited.

Best regards,
Frank
 
a friend had a 60th b'day party last week, and wanted to hear some 60's karoake music.

-VtSeaRay
 
TurtleTone said:
The compressed formats are getting better every year. The download revolution IMO has broken the barriers to mediocre audio CD's. The 16bit audio CD format is OLD, outdated, limited. The path to 24bit audio, higher sampling rates etc... are now available to the masses, the remaining record companies now have an opportunity to deliver what the consumer wants. If they want a small MP3 file great. If they want the highest available quality, they can have that too and it will be far beyond what we have been used to. This revolution is just beginning and is gaining momentum.

So squeak out the last remaining life from your CD players and then throw them away. Its the dawn of a new era in music consumption.
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New era?

I can believe that. . .but if anything I am seeing regression in audio quality. iTunes music is mush.

And none of my friends even notices the difference. None of my friends buy CD's anymore. I don't think any of them care about 24 bit music.

Me? Call me cranky and old. I want to BUY my music. On physical media. ( I would buy 24 bit music) No hard drive crash is wiping out my music library! Of course. . the second I buy a new disc, I immediately burn a copy for my car and rip the tracks into my ipod. . . .

I can tell the difference between an iTunes CD and a regular CD in my main car stereo. In the boat. . .I can't even hear the radio above 3200 RPM unless my head is below the windscreen level.
 
fc3 said:
I've only found a few titles in 24 bit 192 kbps lossless format. Some jazz and classical. Still pretty limited.

Best regards,
Frank
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It's coming. It takes a little bit of time for a sick dying dinasour to turn around.
 
I have to agree with TurtleTone. I have ripped and put away my music CDs and the majority of my DVDs.... but do keep some of my vinyl around for novelty! Even scanned all my family photos, digitized family movies and have everything available electronically via my media center at home, backed up to the cloud, available for viewing on demand from the net, and a copy of everything on the boat. (With a bit of thanks to Apple Inc. and a mobile me account, it's all done automatically) I consider all my electronic media as being more secure in electronic format. (My brother 10 years ago lost all family video, photos, music, etc. in a home fire and I have personally lost a truckload of CDs and DVDs by lending them out and forgetting to whom I gave them : )).

I used to consider myself an audiophile, am a musician and have spend a fair amount of time in studios. (Even have a home studio). I have learned that quality is really only a matter of personal preference and the subtle differences between compressed and lossless can only be detected with a frame of reference. For me personally, I don't find that compressed music takes away from the listening and music experience. In fact, having any of my 4,000 tunes in my library readily available makes me enjoy the listening experience more. We also find ourselves viewing home movies and family photos more when they are instantly available.

I have personally started to enjoy listening to my vinyl again, as it tends to have a warm and more "full" sound than its digital counterpart on some types of music. The argument of compressed vs. lossless has being going on for 40 years with various characters in the same role, (vinyl vs. tape, tubes vs. solid state, premixed vs. separate channel for all, types of speaker cords, analog vs. digital, glued speakers vs. woven, e.q. settings verses flat, etc. etc. etc.)

My brother once called me on my one-time audiophile snobbery when I was listening to some old crackle and pop 20-30's jazz. (He also mentioned that the level of one's "audiophileness" was always directly proportional to the cost of their stereo). It was then that I realized that the actual "music" was the important thing.

From that moment on... I will see a symphonies in a setting that doesn't necessarily meet my personal acoustical criteria and have also started eating caviar from non-porcelain spoons. : ) hehe

Opps, forgot to answer original post...... Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack. Starting this year, I play it always while coming into the Marina and while docking. Let's my neighbors know I'm back home!

Thanks,

Mike
 
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VTSeaRay said:
a friend had a 60th b'day party last week, and wanted to hear some 60's karoake music.

-VtSeaRay
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if anyone ever wants any, ive got 30,000 karaoke tracks. each one comprises a mp3 and a cdg. the cdg has the words etc. you can play them on a computer and hook to a system or convert to music cd if you know the words.

the average track is maybe 4mbs (including cdg). so i could email them if your provider allows large files or send to ftp if not.

im sure the computer specialists round here will have a better way of distributing them...

just saying, makes a great party!
 
Too $hort Blow the Whistle!

Jay Z Run This Town "What's Up?"


Can tell the difference between compressed and non compressed but only on aftermarket high end 12 volt and my Anthem system. As you can see from my last 2 downloads, they aren't exactly Sheffield recordings! For the most part just easier to have it all readily available on an Ipod or Escient hard drive.
 
Vladimir Horowitz and Arthur Rubinstein were fantastic pianists. But if the piano is out of tune, it's not much fun to listen despite the virtuoso's technique.
 
fc3 said:
Vladimir Horowitz and Arthur Rubinstein were fantastic pianists. But if the piano is out of tune, it's not much fun to listen despite the virtuoso's technique.
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I disagree, Horowitz would make an untuned piano sound good! : ) I remember watching "Horowitz in Moscow" in the late 80's. It's unbelievably good...... His Rachmaninoff is second to none. And... it even sounds wonderful on a VHS. : )
 
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