why I haven't bought apple products since iphone 4

[ClancyDaEnlightened]

lol .wav

 

[godreborn]

afaik, wav is superior to mp3, but it's also around 10 times the size.

 

[ClancyDaEnlightened]

I believe .wav is digitized, but uncompressed

 

[godreborn]

maybe, I think the best might be flac but I don't know for sure.

 

[ClancyDaEnlightened]

There's Ogg vorbis

 

[godreborn]

maybe they know most wouldn't redo their entire collection. I think flac is compressed like mp3 but there's no loss in quality. that might be why wav is better. it's not compressed. I think before mp2 they had something called .mod. I'm just trying to remember. it was a step up from midi.

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

I think wav might be comparable to cdda or how it appears on a pressed disc. though, I don't really keep track of that stuff or haven't for a while at least.

 

[ClancyDaEnlightened]

Modtracker, also .xm (fasttracker iirc)

 

[godreborn]

that might be it. I remember getting video game soundtracks in that format. at the time, there seemed to be only wav and midi. I was a kid then, so I might be remembering wrong. then, mp2 was a major step up. dunno if there was ever an mp1. I think I looked it up once and couldn't find any info about it.

 

[ClancyDaEnlightened]

Yep .mod are modtracker files

 

[Vovajka]

2022: just pay 2000€ & Apple sends you a certificate of spent money.
If you expect something material you're a worthless peasant.

 

[godreborn]

2022: just pay 2000€ & Apple sends you a certificate of spent money.
If you expect something material you're a worthless peasant.

I read a story where supposedly a man got a ticket for running a red light by way of one of those cameras at innersections. it showed his car running the red light, so the guy sent the police a photo of a stack of money. not pleased, the police sent him back a photo of handcuffs.

 

[smileyhead]

I swear by 320kbps mp3 files, because they are relatively small (about 8 MB for a 3-4min song), you can't really hear the difference between them and FLAC files anyway (if you do, it's either placebo or your ears are unusually sensitive), and it's not like I'm going to be using audiophile headphones to listen to music on the bus.

 

[Seriel]

maybe they know most wouldn't redo their entire collection. I think flac is compressed like mp3 but there's no loss in quality. that might be why wav is better. it's not compressed. I think before mp2 they had something called .mod. I'm just trying to remember. it was a step up from midi.

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

I think wav might be comparable to cdda or how it appears on a pressed disc. though, I don't really keep track of that stuff or haven't for a while at least.

flac uses lossless compression, meaning absolutely no data is lost in the process.

There is no conceivable scenario where wav can be considered "better". In the case of listening to music, it's a pathetic waste of your storage since flac files are exactly the same but with less size.
The only thing a wav file is useful for is as the output of a recording program, since it takes less computing resources to just stream it to wav (Which is what one is, just a dump of sound data) than to compress it on the fly.