Everybody says "192 kbps bitrate" (or whatever), I'm not confusing anything.That is the bitrate, but you're confusing it with compression rate which is a different thing.
8bit audio can be lossless purely because no compression has been applied that discards information to make it smaller.
However that 8bit audio might not have the same resolution as one recorded with 24bit, but the difference is mostly only found in the dynamic range of that track.
If you take a 24bit track and downsample it to 8 bit you get a lossy version of the track, but if it was recorded in 8bit then that's simply how it was recorded. Nothing was lost on the digital side.
Also, technically even 24bit could be considered lossy if your criteria isn't digital data but how precise the analog audio has been captured. If you take the simple plucking a guitar string and record it until it rests again you have a tone that goes smoothly from playing to stopping, and yet during digital capture you chop it up into discreet pieces instead of storing a continuous gradient.
But with 24 but resolution is so high it's virtually indistinguishable from the infinite resolution real life offers.
And even 8bit can be an accurate representation of that small infinity, assuming what you have is good enough represented by 256 steps.
Vinyl is better than CD.anyone saying that Vinyl (or anything analog) is better than CD (or anything digital) is talking pure nonsense,
8-bit / 24-bit refers to audio "depth".I still don't quite get how the difference between 8 and 24 bit and the difference between 128 and 320 kbps are different.
I think there are reasons of making copies of CDs. But with Vinyls they are more about novelty. You can still rip a vinyl to a flacThe answer is simple: CDs are easy to make a 1:1 copy of (easy piracy) and they aren't as "vintage looking" as Vinyl (hippy retro trends).
Other than that, anyone saying that Vinyl (or anything analog) is better than CD (or anything digital) is talking pure nonsense, physics and engineering would like to disagree with them. But what would I know, I'm just a simple computer scientist, not an "audiophile".
all lossless means is that the input is same as the output.My car has a cd player, but cd isn't lossless, it's just ok. CD is 16bit 48khz but lossless audio is 24bit-32bit and 96khz-768khz and is much more detailed than cd. I get mine from www.hdtracks.com
Same here, my parents collected a lot of cassette tapes in 1980s and early 1990s.I grew up with cassette tapes.
I'm doing the same, ripping for my jellyfin music serviceI too collect and rip my own CDs. Usually get them cheap off eBay or goodwill.
Force ejection?Same here, my parents collected a lot of cassette tapes in 1980s and early 1990s.
I was told that many deaf people prefer cassette tapes because it allow extremely loud music without force ejection, so not sure if it is true.
or skip, not 100% sure.Force ejection?
Digital would be best for deaf people, as it has higher frequency response in the lower levels of the spectrum, which is what you can feel - bass, kickdrums etc.
I cringe every time I see someone walk out of a store with a crosley and the like, or if I go over to someone’s house and they have one. I’ll tell them (not the strangers, my friends) it’ll damage their records, but they couldn’t care. Most modern vinyl is all shit quality anyways because most things are pressed through GZ media, who are absolute dogshit when it comes to QC. I stopped buying records because of them. I’ll only buy something if I know it didn’t come from their plant and was mastered properly.The only people who listen to vinyl are on those cheap Crosley turntables with a stylus that will damage records if you play them multiple times. Something like an Audio-Technica AT-LP120 is much better at a reasonable price than cheap Chinese garbage. Vinyl also sounds better, too, if you've got the proper equipment and have maintained them well. Since I don't have my old vinyl turntable anymore, I still have CDs that are a lot simpler to use than anything.
Compact Discs are different to vinyl and 8-track.
What type of wii takes a vinyl
A very big one, apparently.What type of wii takes a vinyl