i would be interested to know if the warp mp3's sound poor compared to the other mo3s floating around.
obviously there willbe a small loss compared to cd or vinyl. when i switched my enitre collection over to mp3 last year, i did that knowing that i would be losing some fidelity, in exchange for convenience. and i have never regretted it. music should fit into your lifestyle, not dictate it. On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Martin wrote: > > > > > if you're a professional then obviously you should be working in the mp3 > > arena. you'd want wav's i would think. > > Not sure what the above means! > > > > > but since this thread is about the warp site where you can download mp3s, > > i don't see how dissing LAME is at all relevant. > > > > you said it yourself- LAME is fine for ipod users, which is certainly the > > market Warp is going for with this endevour. For the technophiles, you can > > go buy the CD, or the vinyl. > > Well that's where it started and like I said I don't rate LAME as an encoder > nor do I think you need to use VBR either, again just MHO. I'm glad they are > doing it, as it is the way to go. I going to buy a few and test them out on > our rig, I just don't want to hear compression artefacts because if you do > use the incorrect algorithms you can hear it, like a badly mastered record. > > I will post up info on appz if users are interested, just spreading info and > I did state it was MHO, and like before easy does it. > > >