Comments on: Linux Users: Kiss the Itunes store goodbye! http://www.shanktified.com/archives/linux-users-kiss-the-itunes-store-goodbye The personal thoughts, opinions and typos of Ron Shank Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:07:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: toggi3http://www.shanktified.com/archives/linux-users-kiss-the-itunes-store-goodbye/comment-page-1#comment-40059 toggi3 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:44:33 +0000 http://www.shanktified.com/archives/linux-users-kiss-the-itunes-store-goodbye/#comment-40059 not only that but reencoding always creates loss when reencoding to any lossy format, the track is guaranteed to sound worse if reencoded, unless you love the sound of overlapped compression artifacts theres no way it will be better if you reencode from mp3 to ogg. not only that but reencoding always creates loss when reencoding to any lossy format, the track is guaranteed to sound worse if reencoded, unless you love the sound of overlapped compression artifacts theres no way it will be better if you reencode from mp3 to ogg.

]]> By: Jonathanhttp://www.shanktified.com/archives/linux-users-kiss-the-itunes-store-goodbye/comment-page-1#comment-39386 Jonathan Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:05:11 +0000 http://www.shanktified.com/archives/linux-users-kiss-the-itunes-store-goodbye/#comment-39386 Interesting move for amazon. Hopefully Trent Reznor's approach to music delivery will catch on with the rest of the industry. With his new Nine Inch Nails album he's offering several different tiers of delivery including half the album in mp3 format for free all the way up to a physical optical media including dvd's and blu-ray and a $300 collectors edition(which sold out). http://ghosts.nin.com/main/order_optionsAs for converting mp3's to ogg, they will not sound better than the mp3's. Like with any lossy compression you can not get back lost information by up-converting. Interesting move for amazon. Hopefully Trent Reznor’s approach to music delivery will catch on with the rest of the industry. With his new Nine Inch Nails album he’s offering several different tiers of delivery including half the album in mp3 format for free all the way up to a physical optical media including dvd’s and blu-ray and a $300 collectors edition(which sold out). http://ghosts.nin.com/main/order_options

As for converting mp3′s to ogg, they will not sound better than the mp3′s. Like with any lossy compression you can not get back lost information by up-converting.

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