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When people are way too smug about their wrong answer.

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Technically, an issue with lossy formats is if they get saved, moved, and/or re-encoded then there is a risk of media degrading over time, over iterations. So you could potentially hear the difference.

But FLAC is lossless.

If the user likes the MP3 sound better then clearly they actually enjoy the lossy hum and buzz of compressed audio. I'm sure they would enjoy Vinyl.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Yes, transcoding. At least re-encoding, I'm not sure if simply moving the file degrades it...

All of this talk is making me miss what.cd. You'd get the boot if you uploaded a transcode

[–] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What.cd was the greatest collection of obscure music the planet has probably ever seen. I dont even particularly care about lossless codecs, I was fine with 320kb/s mp3 as it was more convenient but even their mp3 rips were way better than other places, and you knew everything would be tagged and sorted correctly. And they had EVERYTHING you could think of, it was wild.

[–] moopet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

I ended up buying more things because of the interviews they had on what than ever before, and it kickstarted my bandcamp collection.

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