Re: music quality -- lossless worth it?

AV3 <arvimide@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks to you and nospam for the input. I was indeed of the mistaken
impression that there was loss during copying and/or reloading of mp3's.
While I seldom download mp3's for my iPod, those I have downloaded were
immediately burned to CD to prevent further deterioration, then the CD
tracks were copied to my iTunes Music files in AAC-format, DRM-free as well.

If you downloaded from the iTunes store, then you gained nothing in that
process.

if you burned MP3 discs, you actually lost a lot of data in the process,
since they had to be converted to MP3 to do so. If you burned data
disks (that is, just stored the files as data in a non-playable disc
format), then nothing is lost, but nothing is really gained either.

If you stripped DRM, then you probably lost data in the process, though
I will be very surprised if you (or any human) could tell the
difference.

I used to get all tied up trying to save every last bit of every last
piece of music I obtained. I finally realized that

1) I have more music than I will ever use, and will not miss a 'lost'
track ever.

2) I do not use my music professionally, and have no need for
oscilloscope perfect tunes. If I ever do, I will probably need to
reaquire better source material anyway.

I now discard (throw in trash, forever gone) any song that I find I
don't like. If it bothers me as background, or when listening directly,
into the trash it goes. No need for backups. No need for "what if some
day I decide I wanted that song?" because the odds of that are so slight
that I can pay the 99 cents if it really does somehow happen.

I now have 7,249 songs in my iTunes, each of which I actually like, and
each one of which plays completely fine and clear and no need to lose
sleep over whether they are technically perfect or not.

Life is too short to worry about such little things that will not matter
one whit by next week...

--
- Burt Johnson
MindStorm, Inc.
http://www.mindstorm-inc.com/software.html
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