Digital formats poll

Jakerock · **Joined:** Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:32 am **Posts:** 449

Ok, there are quite a few formats these days for digital audio

Lossy (audio information is lost to make the files smaller)
mp3
aac
m4a

Lossless
(File compression is achieved without losing audio information)
.wav (no compression = big files)
.aiff (no compression = big files)
.ogg
.flac
.wavpack
.monkeysaudio

Lossy formats have come a long way in the cause of sounding good, but still pale in comparison to the lossless formats. Some of you are hip to this already I reckon, and are into one or the other...

I am going to make future releases available in various formats, and am curious as to what you use.

I would also like to know if you happen to use one that isnt listed here!

Thanks, Jake

Mongo · **Joined:** Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:48 pm **Posts:** 89

I'm ALWAYS 10 years behind on all technologies. So I voted MP3.

Reason being - it depends on what I'm listening to... if it's demos and live stuff - I want to hear the ideas and melodies, so MP3 is fast and dirty, cheap and easy :-)

Suits my MP3 player too...

If it's Radiohead live on the moon in the year 4000, I'd probably prefer the CD or WAV.

carlos_hatedeverysong · **Joined:** Thu May 22, 2008 11:31 pm **Posts:** 47

anything Physical cdr or even a tape .
thanks again for sharing

screechingdeath · **Joined:** Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:23 am **Posts:** 66

I prefer wav over MP3 as far as audio quality but it takes forever to download. I hate FLAC. Can't put it on my cdrs.

screechingdeath · **Joined:** Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:23 am **Posts:** 66

I prefer wav over MP3 as far as audio quality but it takes forever to download. I hate FLAC. Can't put it on my cdrs.

Jakerock · **Joined:** Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:32 am **Posts:** 449

screechingdeath wrote:

I prefer wav over MP3 as far as audio quality but it takes forever to download. I hate FLAC. Can't put it on my cdrs.

Do you mean that you cant back up .flac to a CD-ROM, or that you cant make an "audio CD" (playable in a normal CD player)?

I guess to make an audio CD from .flac, you have to convert them to .wav's first... Yes, that is a pain in the ass!

Oh... Check this out!

Burn4Free FREE DVD COPY CD COPY DVD BURNER
http://www.burn4free.com/

Top features:

1. Burn4Free burn data (CD and DVD) and audio from different files types (WAV, FLAC, WavPack, WMA, M3U, MP3, MP2, MP1 OGG and CDA (normal cd audio tracks))

I think that I just read that there are format converters (plugins) for Nero that will allow you to burn these formats straight to an audio CD too...

screechingdeath · **Joined:** Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:23 am **Posts:** 66

I can't put it on an audio cd. Is there some kind of freeware that'll let me convert to wav? My computer won't let me do it.

Thanks for the DVD thing.

Jakerock · **Joined:** Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:32 am **Posts:** 449

I think thats what the Burn4Free app does...
Thats why I highlighted the formats like that.

Havent tried it myself.

-Jake

screechingdeath · **Joined:** Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:23 am **Posts:** 66

I only managed to get stuff on there strictly as data, but that was a DVD. I'll have to play with is some more; I'm not very technology savvy.

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