The motivation of this post was to highlight
two facts. Majority of YouTubers sharing music
1. steal this music and share to earn money, or
2. are digital immigrants and make rips of very
poor sound quality - If digitalization is made unprofessionally, then bit rate
is meaningless.
How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?
6 comments:
and where to the cd makers steal them from youtube!
I do not like sharing on youtube. I have to convert to get them into my player.
Which means that the music first gets converted to youtube, and than again to my player.
But
in the olden days, we taped from tape to tape, because import, and small labels were hard to get.
Rereleases of albums often came at the cost of quality loss
In the early internet years (let's say up to 2010) 128kbps was used and some people
burned that on cd, after which someone else made it again into 128 kbps mp3
Some bad experiences there for me. Now, with superspeed and everything available somewhere all at once, it is hard to get good rips. Old albums getting re-mastered is not always better.
I stick to what I can get, and try to improve along the way.
Does anybody have David Bowie & The Innovations - I saw you last night/Again and Again
and wouldn't you just like to hear, even a bad youtube rip?
I have asked one YouTuber (doctorsung) to make for me rips of better sound quality and that’s the reply:
“Reverb is necessary and intentional, as I have too often found recordings from my home turntable on commercial compilations after I had falsified them. Some are even sold on blogs, which I simply don't see why. So live with it, or buy the respective 45 i'd say.”
Professionally made rip always sounds better to me than commercial CD. Bit rate is meaningless, I can't hear difference between 128 and flac (my rips are 320)
I have repeatedly played 128 kbps mp3 simultaneously with wav, or flac, or 320 kbps mp3. For me the difference is significant.
I compare it in some way with a transistor radio. I hear a song, and that impression is hard to beat.
When I play the actual good quality 45 on a decent system, it blows me away even more.
If you have very good audio system (speakers) and you are listening symphonic orchestra or even Dark Side of The Moon, then you can hear the difference between 128 and flac . Definitely, no difference if you are listening old rock recorded in the 1950 by small independent label and use ordinary audio system. Absolutely no difference between 320 and flac. The problem with rips (digitalization) of old recordings is an improper (unprofessional) rip not bit rate.
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