Who in their right fucking mind actually PAYS for music?
Quote from: Mistanosejob on January 24, 2015, 11:29:22 AMQuote from: Numb Digger on January 23, 2015, 09:38:15 PMWho in their right fucking mind actually PAYS for music?People who actually care about what they listen to.Downloading music illegally = pleb qualityYou have got to be shitting me.
Quote from: Numb Digger on January 23, 2015, 09:38:15 PMWho in their right fucking mind actually PAYS for music?People who actually care about what they listen to.Downloading music illegally = pleb quality
Quote from: Nexus on January 24, 2015, 12:14:46 AMOnly fags still pirate shit quality music.Arky pls.
Only fags still pirate shit quality music.
Quote from: Kupo on January 24, 2015, 06:42:39 AMQuote from: Flee on January 24, 2015, 05:56:08 AMQuote from: Kupo on January 23, 2015, 10:37:41 PMQuote from: SecondClass on January 23, 2015, 09:36:03 PM>21st century>paying for musicFucking lol, are you 10?>pirating music>shitty MP3's>not listening to 16-bit stereo WAV files sampled at 44100 Hz>2015You have lower standards than a prostitute.I'm not sure why people still think this. Not all piracy of music involves 128kbps MP3's ripped from youtube. It's entirely possible and actually pretty easy to find entire albums ripped losslessly in 16-bit stereo WAV or FLAC at 44100 kHz.But then that's... big files. Really?Well yeah, the file size is going to be larger, but It's still very much possible and perhaps even more convenient than physical stuff, especially with the recent switch to digital stuff and home media systems. Besides, if you're a real music enthusiast, spending a 150$ on a 5TB HDD that'll store 150,000 songs in the highest definition imaginable is hardly an extreme purchase.
Quote from: Flee on January 24, 2015, 05:56:08 AMQuote from: Kupo on January 23, 2015, 10:37:41 PMQuote from: SecondClass on January 23, 2015, 09:36:03 PM>21st century>paying for musicFucking lol, are you 10?>pirating music>shitty MP3's>not listening to 16-bit stereo WAV files sampled at 44100 Hz>2015You have lower standards than a prostitute.I'm not sure why people still think this. Not all piracy of music involves 128kbps MP3's ripped from youtube. It's entirely possible and actually pretty easy to find entire albums ripped losslessly in 16-bit stereo WAV or FLAC at 44100 kHz.But then that's... big files. Really?
Quote from: Kupo on January 23, 2015, 10:37:41 PMQuote from: SecondClass on January 23, 2015, 09:36:03 PM>21st century>paying for musicFucking lol, are you 10?>pirating music>shitty MP3's>not listening to 16-bit stereo WAV files sampled at 44100 Hz>2015You have lower standards than a prostitute.I'm not sure why people still think this. Not all piracy of music involves 128kbps MP3's ripped from youtube. It's entirely possible and actually pretty easy to find entire albums ripped losslessly in 16-bit stereo WAV or FLAC at 44100 kHz.
Quote from: SecondClass on January 23, 2015, 09:36:03 PM>21st century>paying for musicFucking lol, are you 10?>pirating music>shitty MP3's>not listening to 16-bit stereo WAV files sampled at 44100 Hz>2015You have lower standards than a prostitute.
>21st century>paying for musicFucking lol, are you 10?
Well yeah, the file size is going to be larger, but It's still very much possible and perhaps even more convenient than physical stuff, especially with the recent switch to digital stuff and home media systems. Besides, if you're a real music enthusiast, spending a 150$ on a 5TB HDD that'll store 150,000 songs in the highest definition imaginable is hardly an extreme purchase.
I agree, that's worth it if you want the sound quality >.>But a 3 minute WAV file is like, 30 MB. How does one not get caught downloading a 500 MB WAV CD illegally? Or have the patience to sit through TOR download speeds, for example?
Any quality above 320 kb/s mp3 is a placebo and only needs to be used for archival. Most ISPs outside of murrica don't care, and inside murrica, a $40 per year VPN is more than enough to safely saturate your connection with torrents.
Quote from: RC on January 24, 2015, 01:47:40 PMAny quality above 320 kb/s mp3 is a placebo and only needs to be used for archival. Most ISPs outside of murrica don't care, and inside murrica, a $40 per year VPN is more than enough to safely saturate your connection with torrents.Ah, ok >.>Well, you can hear the poor MP3 quality when you crank up the volume on a speaker system. AAC quality is superior though.
You wouldn't be able to hear the difference between a properly compressed 320kbps mp3 file and a FLAC file on any setup.
>people think piracy is that tracked
Yeah, that is what I was accounting for. At 50mb per FLAC / WAV song, which a generous average, you'd get a 100,000 songs on a 5tb external HDD which you can get for around 150$. That's a CD library of 10,000 albums that you can store for 150$. You'd need an entire room filled with shelves costing you a lot more than that to store the physical albums, and you won't lose any quality. Plus, working with sound systems like Sonos, you can play them anywhere through any speaker in the house by just using your phone as a remote. It's brilliant.
I can assure you that they don't care. And if you're really that worried, use a cracked torrent client that lets you block any trackers and outgoing traffic in combination with a (free) VPN and peerblock. You won't lose any download speed, and you're not going to get in trouble.
Quote from: Kupo on January 24, 2015, 02:08:51 PMBut this actually makes me want to try it for myself. What do you mean by "a properly compressed 320kbps mp3 file"?There isn't that much room for interpretation here. He means a .mp3 file that is properly compressed and rendered at 320kbps. Coming from someone who's using 300$ headphones and a great sound system at home, there is little to no difference between a 10mb 320kbps .mp3, and a 40mb FLAC. Unless you have a state of the art system that's worth thousands of dollars, any difference is going to be inaudibly neglible.
But this actually makes me want to try it for myself. What do you mean by "a properly compressed 320kbps mp3 file"?
Keyword being "shared". They don't generally care about the people who simply download music for their own use. It's when you actually start hosting and sharing them yourself that you might get in trouble.
Quote from: MattyFez on January 24, 2015, 04:18:04 PM>mfw people buy songs in analogue/physical formats>mfw each time they use the format they degrade the medium>mfw glorious digital master race can be reproduced perfectly over and over>mfw glorious digital master race can adjust bass and treble of the song to suit your personal preferences>mfw glorious digital master race can be accessed anywhere in the world thanks to the internet>mfw glorious digital master race can be compressed if need be to allow for storage devices to contain many more songs>paying money for files>actually spending real currency on intangible digital content when you could pay the same to get a physical version you actually possess, or just get the same content for free
>mfw people buy songs in analogue/physical formats>mfw each time they use the format they degrade the medium>mfw glorious digital master race can be reproduced perfectly over and over>mfw glorious digital master race can adjust bass and treble of the song to suit your personal preferences>mfw glorious digital master race can be accessed anywhere in the world thanks to the internet>mfw glorious digital master race can be compressed if need be to allow for storage devices to contain many more songs
MFW seeing people pay for music in non-physical formats
