It depends on the music for me. I typically notice the mp3 compression most in very "noisy" songs, eg. World's end girlfriend's stuff or Kashiwa Daisuke's.
I archive my music/CDs in FLAC but as far as listening to music on my phone or laptop it's stored as mp3. Yeah I doubt I can tell the difference between 320kbps and FLAC.
I can't tell the difference between 320kbps and FLAC.
I'm downloading mp3 only. I don't care about the format - i mean mp3 or flac is for me the same. I would compare analog or digital source.. I have a old technics 1210 mk2 and of course listening to vinyl is different than listening to mp3.
It's for the discerning ear and sometimes even depends on the way the final product was produced / recorded. Honestly, there are too many variables to make a generic observation.
Let's compare FLAC
I'm looking at 3 releases:
- Hans_Zimmer-Inception_Music_From_The_Motion_Picture-OST-CD-FLAC-2010-FORSAKEN | 229.22 MiB
- [TEAM ELITE] Hans Zimmer - Inception - Original Soundtrack - Flac | 499.89 MB
- Inception 5.1 Soundtrack (2010, Hans Zimmer) FLAC | 1,045 MB
1. is a scene release. If we look at the NFO the presets are: 640 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels preset.
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2. Is a p2p release which is double the file size.
3. Is a p2p release, 24bit/44khz. Pretty sure its an extra from the 2 disc edition of the film. Double the size again of previous rls
Spectrograms:
How are you supposed to read these? I know they're supposed to be a visual representation to a track but what exactly do the colours mean? A brief game of spot the difference reveals there appears to be more red in the scene track ... meaning?
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2. 12 - Hans Zimmer - Time.png
3. Still downloading
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