[Super Mario]

Siphoning MySpace tunes using Safari | The Register

Until myspace plugs the hole.

[mduell]

Couldn't you also get them with netstat and wget?

[Railroader]

So, we are discussing pirating music? Lame.

[analogika]

This is news?

As in, how long have we been able to do this via the Activity Viewer?

As in, how long ago did I STOP bothering because all the crap on MySpace is at 96 kbps anyway?

[Jawbone54]

Originally Posted by analogika 

As in, how long ago did I STOP bothering because all the crap on MySpace is at 96 kbps anyway?

I've already been questioning all of the music I've bought via iTunes. I've been on a CD-buying binge to try to offset the crappy quality of all the music on my iPod.

[Railroader]

Cue arguments about humans not hearing quality differences on anything better than 128 MP3s:

I am on your side Jawbone54. 128 kbps annoys me. I encode at a minimum of 192 kbps. Even then, the drums/snares sound too "warbly/muddy"

[Super Mario]

I'm going to rip my vinyls at 2 mb/s

[Jawbone54]

Originally Posted by Railroader 

Cue arguments about humans not hearing quality differences on anything better than 128 MP3s:

I am on your side Jawbone54. 128 kbps annoys me. I encode at a minimum of 192 kbps. Even then, the drums/snares sound too "warbly/muddy"

What kind of headphones do you use?

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by Jawbone54 

What kind of headphones do you use?

Some Shure in-ear models I got from headphone.com. But even on my car speakers or on my home stereo with Paradigm speakers I still get annoyed at anything less than 192 kbps.

[ballison]

anyone who thinks that 128kbps sounds like the cd just doesnt listen...it doesnt matter which headphones or speakers you use its still a noticeable difference. if you can, compare a raw cd file, and then encode it as 128 kbps mp3. compare them back to back with quicktime and listen to the high end...its really quite noticeable once you know what to listen for

[Jawbone54]

I kind of forgot the difference until the past few weeks. I read somewhere about how much data is lost in the conversion to MPC or AAC, and so I went out and bought some CDs. I'm not an audiophile, but I could still tell a noticeable difference.

Plus I've been getting nostalgic for the days where people had massive CD collections and preferred listening to an entire CD (or at least part of it) instead of going through 10 artists in 10 songs.

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by Jawbone54 

Plus I've been getting nostalgic for the days where people had massive CD collections and preferred listening to an entire CD (or at least part of it) instead of going through 10 artists in 10 songs.

I have felt the same way lately as well. I am just not a shuffle kind of person. Some songs I can't listen to without listening to the whole album, such as most Pink Floyd albums.

I hope, with the consumers ability to buy songs individually, that artists don't drop this "feature". And It's a shame some artists don't seem to really think out their song order.

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by Railroader 

And It's a shame some artists don't seem to really think out their song order.

Most of the time it's not up to the artiste - it's up to someone else in the chain. And we're mostly too busy posting on Internet forums to be bothered what the song order is.


OK, OK, OK </Leo Getz>, here's a word to describe what's missing when one encodes that MP3 at too low a bit rate: Air.

[Super Mario]

Originally Posted by Jawbone54 

Plus I've been getting nostalgic for the days where people had massive CD collections and preferred listening to an entire CD (or at least part of it) instead of going through 10 artists in 10 songs.

Buy Sam's Town by The Killers. First time in long time I enjoyed a whole album by a single artist/band. Quality.