Post by j365 on Aug 28, 2021 2:29:35 GMT
I paid $16 for a song (and it's not lossless!)”
Ok, so I'm updating my music library and trying to get rid of all those nasty MP3's from back in the day.
I was looking to replace my 128 kbps internet download of the song "My Love" from the mixtape "Black Monday" by a rapper called The Game.
The song couldn't be found anywhere on the internet, so I convinced a guy off Discogs that had the CD for sale to rip it in WAV format and sell it to me for $16.
Well, as I feared, it seems to not only be a re-encoded MP3 (that was pressed on CD), but it might possibly be worse than my original 128 kbps file.
Have a listen for yourself:
MP3: My Love (128 kbps).mp3
WAV: My Love (WAV).wav
And here is what the frequency analyzer is showing: higher frequencies for the MP3 somehow.
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Finally, the MP3 has a dynamic range of 5, while the WAV has one of 7.
Thoughts?
I was looking to replace my 128 kbps internet download of the song "My Love" from the mixtape "Black Monday" by a rapper called The Game.
The song couldn't be found anywhere on the internet, so I convinced a guy off Discogs that had the CD for sale to rip it in WAV format and sell it to me for $16.
Well, as I feared, it seems to not only be a re-encoded MP3 (that was pressed on CD), but it might possibly be worse than my original 128 kbps file.
Have a listen for yourself:
MP3: My Love (128 kbps).mp3
WAV: My Love (WAV).wav
And here is what the frequency analyzer is showing: higher frequencies for the MP3 somehow.
[IMG]
[IMG]
Finally, the MP3 has a dynamic range of 5, while the WAV has one of 7.
Thoughts?
