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People prefer mp3s over other higer quality file formats study says.

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StaedlerMars:
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/the-sizzling-sound-of-music.html


--- Quote ---He has them listen to a variety of recordings which use different formats from MP3 to ones of much higher quality. He described the results with some disappointment and frustration, as a music lover might, that each year the preference for music in MP3 format rises. In other words, students prefer the quality of that kind of sound over the sound of music of much higher quality.
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The author than makes a link between this and the crackle records have.

What do you guys think? Is familiarity more important than sound quality?

Daft pun:

--- Quote ---The context changes our perception, particularly when it's so obviously and immediately shared by others. Listening to music on your iPod is not about the sound quality of the music, and it's more than the convenience of listening to music on the move. It's that so many people are doing it, and you are in the middle of all this, and all of that colors your perception.
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This is a big factor, I think. Add to this the clipping (see the Loudness War) of music in general, so sound quality doesn't matter as much because the source material is getting worse.

The extra letter:
I like mp3s when I'm listening to music on the go on my iPod or at my computer (which has a pretty craptacular soundcard).

mp3s tend to sound... flat on my stereo, so I still tend to use CDs for speakery listening.

ThePianoMan:
Well, I finally got around to comparing 128 kbps mp3 to CDs again, and I'm glad to say I can actually hear a difference now. Or maybe not. Now I'll have to re-rip all the stuff I have and 128. It's not really the night and day difference people talk about, I'd say, although I'm guessing as my ears improve it'll get worse. I can't imagine anyone preferring the mp3 sound, however.

Koremora:
There is zero reason to have MP3 in 128 (read: shit) kbps. 192 is the lowest I'll tolerate, but VBR or 320 is so easy to come by for most music that there's really no reason to have shit quality MP3s. Even if you get shit quality from iTunes, just download the album from a music blog somewhere, safe in the knowledge that you already paid for the album. If you have the CD, you can set up any ripping program to rip at 320 kbps, and even 192 kbps is almost inaudibly different from CD quality.

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