a sauna tent would fix me
Hearing the difference now isn't the reason to encode to FLAC. FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is 'lossy'. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA - it's about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don't want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.

I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrange…well don’t get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren’t stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you’ll be glad you did.
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Show threadrugkFeb 26
@eal or well… maybe a file system like #btrfs that can detect bit rot? https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/796997/146739
How to protect against both bit rot and device failure with Btrfs

How can you protect simultaneously against bit rot and device failure with Btrfs? Because btrfs only checks data integrity on files when it reads them. The only solution I can think of is using two

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Show threadchristina | twyn!bFeb 26
@rugk poe's law strikes yet again
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Ah Uups thx, yeah. Should had some /s marker or so.

Is this some concrete parody/reference don't get?

Show threadPixelcode 🇺🇦Feb 26
@eal @luap42 Same with images. My HD family photos saved as JPEG from 10 years ago all look like 360p now, even the printed ones are degrading (although much slower and barely noticeably). If you don't want to lose your relatives, switch to PNG like I did!
Show threadluap "kein Müsli" 42Feb 26
@pixelcode @eal oh really?? I have a bunch of important SVGs, praying they stay alright...
Show threadKateFeb 26
@eal playing wav files from a ramdisk gave best sound
then moved on to memory play, initially SQ was worse.
found that a function called memcpy was the culprit, most memory players use memcpy and this is one of the reasons why memory play sounds worse ie digital sounding. Fortunately there is an optimised version of memcpy, using this version removes the hard edge produced by memcpy. the other thing I did was to close the file after reading into the buffer.
also most players use malloc to get memory while new is the c++ method and sounds better.
Also making the loop a while x > 0 and decrementing the counter at the end using --x helps (1 cpu tick). Does a while loop sound better than a for loop ? there's something to ponder.
Show threadmossfet -> EMF 2026Feb 26
@eal my reading of this went from "oh good bait" to "oh my god they're actually serious" to "no this is definitely bait"
Show threadWolf480plFeb 26
@eal
after the first two sentences, before I recognized the copy-pasta, I thought this was gonna be about archival and preservation of the bit-exact historical artifacts
Show threadlunya :neocat_flag_plural::neobot_floof_devil:Feb 26
@[email protected] ohhh. that's why the mp3 files on my music player had skips, makes sense