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I have always purchased MP3 downloads of Bruce (with or without the Noisemakers), and I have purchased everything he has had made available, but should I be stepping up to FLAC? Is it a noticeable difference in fidelity–or I guess I should ask it this way: Is it a noticeable increase in fidelity when played with/listened to with (usually) an iPod and sports headphones?
Dear Hwy —
Yes.
Yours,
T
P.S. In the past when I cheaped out on MP3s (Primus live, Pearl Jam live for exs.) the sound q had a noticeable difference after subsequently trying the upgrade. ALSO, and this is such a pet peeve of mine that everyone in my immediate circle rolls their eyes when I get going about it, but MP3 shows usually have that IRRITATING “blip,” the very noticeable interstitial shit between tunes that, even if you have your fave burn program set to edit it out/remove it, you (or I 👿 ) can still hear it — I hate, hate, hate that with a passion. As you can tell, duh. So, as they say…once you go FLAC, you never go back. Sorry, had to do it. 🙄 😆
The FLAC option might be worth it as a “future-proof” option, in that in the future you may choose to do your listening on equipment with high enough fidelity to reveal the difference.
With “sport” headphones, depending on exactly what that means, I’d be surprised if you can tell much difference especially if the live downloads folks did a decent job on the encoding (MP3 has come a ways since the 128 kbps napster dreck that permanently turned off many folks). And for that matter, your iPod will not be able to play the FLAC’s directly, although it is easy to use a program like Scott Brown’s xAct to transcode them into Apple Lossless (full fidelity) or MP3/AAC (possibly better suited to portable use) to work with your iPod. Shoot me a PM if you need help with that.
Will_S wrote:The FLAC option might be worth it as a “future-proof” option, in that in the future you may choose to do your listening on equipment with high enough fidelity to reveal the difference.With “sport” headphones, depending on exactly what that means, I’d be surprised if you can tell much difference especially if the live downloads folks did a decent job on the encoding (MP3 has come a ways since the 128 kbps napster dreck that permanently turned off many folks). And for that matter, your iPod will not be able to play the FLAC’s directly, although it is easy to use a program like Scott Brown’s xAct to transcode them into Apple Lossless (full fidelity) or MP3/AAC (possibly better suited to portable use) to work with your iPod. Shoot me a PM if you need help with that.
Thank you very much for the great info. I just downloaded xAct, and I will try it out as early as tomorrow.
(I do think that the mp3s at Bruce Hornsby Live are of rather high quality, but I’m up for the experiment.)
Thanks again sincerely.
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