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Do not message moderators for help with your issues. Either message the mod team if relevant, or make a post on the sub as normal. Browse by filters: Related Subreddits • • • • • • •. Even if you can't hear the difference, there is one very good reason to prefer flacs over any bitrate of mp3 (or any other lossy format) it can be transcoded to any other format for maximum quality of the target format. Transcoding from one lossy format to another is a bad thing, if you've got 192k mp3s or 320k or whatever ALL you have is the mp3s.

If you've got flacs then you can convert to any format you want, 128k mp3 for limited storage on my phone or.ogg or any other format du jour. I originally had my entire music collection in 128k mp3, lost or gave away the cds. I've since scrapped the lot and re-acquired everything as flacs and now know that I can even produce a bit identical copy of the original cds if I ever want to. Whatever future formats get produced I know I can easily convert my music collection to it should I ever have the need • • • • •. I am 100% sure that I can hear the difference.

However, it would be hard to tell the difference if I compared a flac and 320kbs mp3 of just an acoustic guitar playing. It's only when there are a lot of different sounds with different frequencies. The sound is much more pure and you can easily distinguish each element and instrument.

I almost always notice sounds that I didn't know was there before when I hear the lossless for the first time. For mp3 it's more like everything gets mixed up in a big mess and all sounds overlapping each other. I'm no expert, but maybe it has to do with the fact that I haven't reached the age of 30 yet. I know a lot of people over that age can't hear high frequency sounds. It's just an accepted fact that in most cases, the sounds included that contribute data in > 192 kbps music are those that are above the frequency that can be heard by the average human ear(given that the 192 kbps track was properly encoded). You can hear more sounds with high end equipment, but still none above certain frequencies. I believe that there are certainly reasons to keep lossless copies of music, however.

It is important to be able to transcode it to lower file sizes later without lossy-lossy transcode data loss. However, when someone claims to hear the difference between lossless audio and, say, MP3s at 320 Kbps, I would challenge them to take a test so that they might get a reality check.

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Music as part of our daily lives is deeply rooted in the cultural diaspora we are and in 2016, the music industry has redeemed itself from the its lumbering growth in the previous years. According to an article published on Rolling Stone, the industry has hit a revenue of 7.7 billion US dollars in 2016—the highest gross since 2009. The drastic growth can be attributed to the growing popularity of various paid live events, social media channels, and the easy access to music production tools, especially software has replaced the major music distribution channels of yesteryear.

2018 music technology puts Spotify on the top trend with its remarkable growth over the past few years amidst the 1.6 billion copyright lawsuit it's facing while remains to struggle to maintain its place in the industry despite laying off 40% of its workforce and shutting down offices in London and San Francisco. While streaming is slowly reaching its prosperity, sales of compact disc continue to slow down with only 99.4 million physical albums sold in 2016—the lowest number since 1986. Nevertheless, the music revenue worldwide is projected to reach 57 billion US dollars by 2021, according to Statista.