Music Preferred music format?

I much prefer to have my music on a physical medium and I'm not fused if it's CD or vinyl. If I have to have it digitally then I would ideally like FLAC or OGG, but 9 times out of 10 I settle for MP3 as that is all there is.......or that is supported.

 

I usually listen to www.di.fm and click on their AAC+ streams. I really am not fussed about the difference in quality from MP3/AAC/CD. when I am listening to music in the background while doing other things I dont even notice any sound quality difference.

 

.WAV for lower cpu power needed to decode as I sometimes like to listen to music on very old computers. Also my music collection I intend to still be in use in 50 years time and WAV is a very simple format that is far older than any of the other pc media formats on here. It's also losses and can be transcoded (is that the right word) into any other format for mp3 players easily.

 

I put mp3 for compatability.
However, I rip my CDs into FLAC for storage, and then convert to mp3 for my mp3 player. Most of my music is still in mp3 though.

 

320K MP3 for me.

 

MP3, but I'm tempted to try out FLAC.

 

I voted mp3, because I'm too lazy to use other formats.

Slightly off-topic:

• It's funny to notice that people talk about vinyl and CD, but not about tapes (I remember when I had to record/buy everything in tapes if I wanted to listen to music on the go).
  
• Maybe you should add DAT (Digital Audio Tape) to the poll (or merge it into the tape section).
  
• DVD-Audio is too expensive and SACD, apart from expensive, is a totally closed technology, and this sucks (you can't make homebrew SACDs).

 

I picked other. I use whatever my streaming service of the day happens to be using. I have very little music stored on my computer and I only use it when I can't get the net and I still really want some music.

 

if i actually buy a cd, i rip it to flac. might as well have a lossless copy, and my DAP can handle it. but really, i don't notice any difference between 256kbps mp3, 256kbps ogg, and flac.

 

80% is in mp3 (192k-320k) remaining is FLAC. the only complain I have with flac (.wav) is that, you can't store ID3 tags and album art. but the audio quality justifies it I guess

 

too right

 

Everything I rip: FLAC (lossless because I have the space, and I can transcode to other formats without a quality loss)
Stuff I get from compressed sources: OGG (I like how it sounds more than MP3)
Some stuff I've been keeping around forever: MP3 (back when there was only MP3)
Backup on my multimedia hard drive: OGG (thankfully my hard drive can playback a lot of formats)
Stuff on my thumb drive attached to my head unit: AAC (because I don't feel like paying $20 for Winamp so that I can get the MP3 encoder)

 

I ripped to MP3 at the early stage but then move to OGG once we got the Cowon (iAudio) players. Also good for Squeezbox

However the new car cam with the AMI inteface for the evil iPod so I've kept the old library and converted the OGG to MP£ for that. Currently in a retagging nightmare.

If I was starting over I'd rip the CDs to FLAC, but there would be gaps where some have been lost. I don't buy downloads. Physical CDs are far better value.

 

I would say vinyl, but the only reason for that. Is all my own made music is pressed on that format.

I wish i could multivote on different formats:
MP3 for compatibilty
DTS for kewl suround sound
Vinyl for nostalgia

etc

 

squeezebox is very nice (or the transporter if you really want the best)

its good to have 500gb music at your fingertips and if you use a Nokia N800 as a remote, you really cant beat it

 

That's because (cassette tapes right?) they sucked lol.

I found a cassette tape the other day, guess what was on it.

Hidden: Hanson

 

MP3 like you said, compatible with everything!!!!

 

CDs for pure fullness of sound are the way to go, although I've never tried vinyl so wouldn't be able to compare. Usually if I have bought a CD, would convert it to 512kb ogg vorbis (or at least 300kb). Those with bitrate / space requirements, ogg vorbis really is a lot better than aac, mp3, wma etc at the lower end of the scale (comparatively), and I would choose a 64kb ogg over a 128kb mp3 any day. It's a better choice at the higher end of the scale purely because it compresses better.

Media Monkey - Ogg Vorbis - Creative X-Fi Xmod

Those who said they couldn't tell the difference between low bitrate mp3s (128kb eg) and the higher bit rate Ogg and FLAC music, try turning the volume up and hearing it distort and crucify any music with bass (of course this is subjective and depends on your headphones/earphones).

 

well theres your problem, a set of headphones will never sound as good as a proper amp, with proper speakers, where you can really tell the difference
Plus a decent set of cans is like £150 or somthing crazy like that

 

After that post, all creditable knowledge on audio has been thrown out the door.