• stewie3128@lemmy.ml
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        Then for you it doesn’t matter. But it may matter to people you share your music with, and I think higher-quality should proliferate instead of lower-quality.

        Also I listened to that A/B test - glitchy mess on my android phone for some reason, but still got 23/25 with my $10 Panasonic earbuds.

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          Most people can’t tell. That’s why 128kb streaming is doing so well. It’s also why “hifi” streaming is just snake oil, and FLAC and any bitrate above 128 is a waste of space. Anybody’s who’s into music should take that test and figure out if they should be storing FLACs and paying for things like Tidal.

          But it takes all sorts, like for example listening to FLAC with $10 Panasonic earbuds.

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      Maybe for you rich people who can afford $10 for a 256gb ssd.

      Kidding aside, I’ve been collecting digital music literally since Napster, and a lot of it is mp3 because storage was a commodity for a long time - getting flacs meant I had better quality of less music.

      Now that things are changing, when I want to listen to something old, and I notice it’s a lie quality mp3, I had over to see my cousin Roman. (Was that dude Russian? Does that euphemism work? How about My Friend Vlad or something. Russian torrent sites. I’m talking about Russian torrent sites.)

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          Holy duck, the days of slsk chat having thousands of people in the channels, having active channels for every genre under the sun - and some that weren’t - those were the days. Straight up chill chat, no chat history, no scoring system, no hierarchies, no gatekeeping - and the only lists of friends you had were private, not like collections your could be evaluated by. The only reputation you could develop was by being an active member of the community - and you were forgotten the day after you stopped posting…

          You were judged by how many files were in your share folder, and how well organized it was.

          So wait are you saying it’s still alive? Could it return?? Are we taking back the Internet from Facebook and Amazon???