A question regarding MP3 traded CD's

[meanmachine73]

I saw in the 'rules' of this section that MP3 CD's of concerts should NOT be traded due to the 'poor' quality.. I have quite a few nice concerts (some early shows) which I traded as MP3's tracks on DVD's for the ease of the trade, converted them back to regular CD's for the car etc. I am more than happy with the sound..

Am I missing something here?

Please let me know before I start to try and trade with people on here...  Cheers..

[fieldsy]

Basically for your own personal use, MP3's are fine for like ipods etc.  However if your trading you should always trade in loseless audio, the quality is much better than mp3's.

[meanmachine73]

Ok, sorry to sound a total lamer here, but as I received MP3 tracks, can I convert them 'back' to lossless audio?

[WhatIsItMan]

Lossless is SO overrated.? ?  What's wrong with an MP3 ripped at 320 kbps?

[Blackrose]

Lossless is definately not overated. put a genuine lossless recording up against a MP3 at any bit rate on a decent hi-fi system and the difference is astounding, MP3 destroys dynamics and fidelity.
Oviously it depends on the quality of the original recording, for low quality audience recordings it probably does not make much difference, but for better quality sources such as Dankrass' recording of the may 15th show and studio recordings it makes a huge difference.

And no once converted to MP3 you can not convert back to lossless effectively as the quality of the recording is lost in the conversion to MP3.

And yes MP3's are fantastic for use in car audio systems as it is very difficuclt, if not impossible to get a perfect sound inside a car, then you have vehicle and road noise that interfere with the sound.

[Mr. Redman]

Lossless is SO overrated.     What's wrong with an MP3 ripped at 320 kbps?

Agreed.

[gnr2006]

Lossless is SO overrated.     What's wrong with an MP3 ripped at 320 kbps?

There are three reasons why people say things like this:

1. They are lazy
2. They have a shitty stereo and have never compared the two on a real system
3. They are too stupid to figure out how to use a .flac file

What's your reason?

[gnr2006]

Lossless is SO overrated.     What's wrong with an MP3 ripped at 320 kbps?

Agreed.

An mp3 ripped at 320bps is missing 2-3khz of sound off the top of the wave chart - that's what's fucking wrong with it.

I'm so sick of people not understanding this it's so SIMPLE

LOSSLESS = EXACT RECORDING
LOSSY = LESS THAN EXACT RECORDING

why would you want LESS THAN?

[Steel_Angel]

people just want to transfer them to their ipod or psp...

[nygiants82]

I am new to the whole flac thing, so it confuses me when I try to download one flac file, and one song is about 25 MB. Why are the files so much bigger than MP3s?