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That’s adorable. Look, as someone who knows more about music than you, I think it’s my duty to tell you there’s a better way. It’s called vinyl. Vinyl didn’t die when Janis Joplin did. It’s still very much alive, and is vastly more preferable to listening to music in a digital format. Come, climb on my fixie.

We’ll take a trip to the record store, and I’ll tell you the four reasons why you should ditch digital for 12″ vinyl records. Your Taste in Music Will Improve Let’s play a game. Go to your local record store — every good town should have one — and try to find, which sold almost 1,500,000 copies in 2012. Okay, try again. See if you can find anything by Nickelback. Okay, now see if you can find anything by The Pixies. Student Of The Year Movie Free Download In 1080p.

What, an entire shelf’s worth? Why do you think that might be? Simple economics, my friend. People who listen to vinyl tend to be quite discerning with what they listen to.

They don’t listen to airy, saccharine, Top 40 guff with synthesized instruments. They listen to bands that have artistic integrity, and actually write their own songs and play their own instruments. They listen to great songwriting, and When deciding whether one can justify the purchase of a tablet, rarely does 'music production' factor into the decision-making process – but it should. As a result, bands that meet those criteria are the ones you’ll find in your record shop. When you listen to vinyl exclusively, you unconsciously make the decision to never, ever have to be confronted with Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus.

And that’s lovely. Record Buying Is an Experience In a tucked-away corner of my hometown is a small, independent record store called.

This has been a Liverpool institution for the longest time. Generations of Scousers have grown up visiting this place, and spending hours upon hours wandering through their expansive collection. Myself included. There’s something wonderful about buying records. It’s the type of experience that is sadly lost on the iTunes and Spotify generation. It’s the type of experience where you show up and spend hours upon hours aimlessly looking for music.

You take gambles, and you drop money on albums not knowing whether they’ll be good or not. You speak to people, and get to know their recommendations and opinions, and ultimately make friends. It’s a vastly more social experience than any app or online marketplace could ever be. Note to self: Build social music buying app; make millions. Vinyl Sounds Better Sorry, folks. This one isn’t up for debate. Vinyl sounds better than MP3s ever could.

I’m not just talking about that warm, mahogany-rich sound that vinyl is famous for, but in general. It’s just better.

Most of the music you listen to is stored and broadcast in a lossy format, where details are lost and quality is reduced. This is because File compression is at the core of how the modern web works, one could argue, because it allows us to share files that would otherwise take too long to transfer. But how does it work? In order to make it small enough to shove on a phone, or to broadcast over the airwaves. It doesn’t matter whether you’re listening to a streaming service like Spotify ( Jay Z recently relaunched Tidal, the music streaming service he acquired for $56 million. Tidal has 99 problems, and the pitch is one., which streams in lossless), or an MP3, or even to the radio. You’re still not getting the full picture of that track.

Vinyl is what’s called a lossless format. Nothing has been lost when pressing a record. It sounds as good as the producer or band intended.

There’s another, much more important, reason why vinyl is better than anything else. Vinyl, for the most part, escaped the ‘loudness war’.

You see, with the rise and rise of digital music (CDs included), it has became possible to Here's a handful of great resources for you to use if you want to learn more about how to make great music recordings. A track louder than it naturally should be. The problem here is that it has a massively detrimental result on audio quality. Indeed, it causes songs to sound distorted and become unpleasant to listen to, and strips them of their depth and texture. Because vinyl is an analog format, it’s doesn’t really suffer from the same problems. Don’t believe me?

Check out this comparison between the CD version of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Hump de Bump, and the vinyl version. Vinyl Can Make You Money When you buy an MP3 on iTunes, there is no way you can turn that purchase into an investment that makes you money at a later date. That’s because you don’t own that particular MP3. You merely license it. That’s an entirely different beast altogether.

There’s an entire industry of people purchasing, collecting, and reselling vinyl, because overwhelmingly it keeps its purchase value, or even appreciates in value. When you collect vinyl, you’re not just buying music.

You’re making an investment you can sell on a rainy day, or even pass down to your children. There are even apps and websites — — that make the process that much easier. Face It, Vinyl Is Not Going Away Vinyl is an old technology, and one that has remained relatively unchanged in the past decade.

But that’s because it’s as close as we’ll get to a perfect device for listening to music. It is, to be as straightforward as possible, simply as good as it gets. Do you agree? Do you think I’m a pretentious hipster douchebag? Either way, drop me a comment below and we’ll chat.

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WAV Don't believe the mp3 myth. It's an old storage medium, Hard drive space is huge now, downloads are quicker, I think it's bullshit that Beatport offers WAVs for $1 extra though.

Bullshit i say. MP3 knocks off the low and top end frequencies off music fact. Why do you think people invest money in all this production gear. Analog this, vintage mixers that and then the djs play everything in mp3.pfft. Music should be available in 24bit 48khz Aiff files I don't give two shits about listening tests Give up on MP3 buy your music in WAV, don't download off torrent sites. WAV Don't believe the mp3 myth.

It's an old storage medium, Hard drive space is huge now, downloads are quicker, I think it's bullshit that Beatport offers WAVs for $1 extra though. Bullshit i say. MP3 knocks off the low and top end frequencies off music fact.

Why do you think people invest money in all this production gear. Analog this, vintage mixers that and then the djs play everything in mp3.pfft.

Music should be available in 24bit 48khz Aiff files I don't give two shits about listening tests Give up on MP3 buy your music in WAV, don't download off torrent sites. WAV Don't believe the mp3 myth. It's an old storage medium, Hard drive space is huge now, downloads are quicker, I think it's bullshit that Beatport offers WAVs for $1 extra though. Bullshit i say. MP3 knocks off the low and top end frequencies off music fact.

Why do you think people invest money in all this production gear. Analog this, vintage mixers that and then the djs play everything in mp3.pfft. Music should be available in 24bit 48khz Aiff files I don't give two shits about listening tests Give up on MP3 buy your music in WAV, don't download off torrent sites.

The extra 1$ you pay in extra is probably because of the extra storage and bandwith needed on their server. But, is this bullshit? Should ask 'em Depending your music collection and how many track you want to carry with you good quality MP3 (320Kbps) is a viable solution, while WAV or any other lossless encoding format noticeably sound better. But thing always bring the next questions.

- What's the kind and quality of the PA in use - Same goes for mixer, eq, processors, limiter and so forth. Even with the best encoding, if what's after the Audio 8 is poor, or just badly tuned, end result will indeed sounds poor. The extra dollar for wave just sucks. Torrent downloads suck too. Инструкция По Эвакуации here. I used to only DL wave files but it gets spendy when you pick up 20 tracks that are $1.99 - $2.49 and then add $20 just for the larger file. With the 320 mp3 files I keep some of my hard earned $ and as an added benefit all the track information and cover art is downloaded at the same time which saves tons of time if I want all the data listed with the track.

I don't notice a difference between wave and 320 but any less than that and you betcha. It is night and day with say 128mbps tracks which is what usually comes off a torrent site. Platinum notes can't even help those files out, although sometimes that's the only way I can get a restricted track or early release. The extra dollar for wave just sucks. Torrent downloads suck too. I used to only DL wave files but it gets spendy when you pick up 20 tracks that are $1.99 - $2.49 and then add $20 just for the larger file.

With the 320 mp3 files I keep some of my hard earned $ and as an added benefit all the track information and cover art is downloaded at the same time which saves tons of time if I want all the data listed with the track. I don't notice a difference between wave and 320 but any less than that and you betcha. It is night and day with say 128mbps tracks which is what usually comes off a torrent site. Platinum notes can't even help those files out, although sometimes that's the only way I can get a restricted track or early release. What ever you like Plain and simple it dose not matter what medium you use. What ever is prompt commutable for your game that's all This has a lot of dj's confused, to be honest unless you are some type of producer it won't mean a thing in a venue what type of medium you use. PA systems get hot, and if not properly monitor you will sound awful.

I use 320Kbps and never had a problem. Traktor Pro or TS are excellent in playback period.

Don't want to sound to harsh, But this is the tool that will make you or brake you. You will still need to keep your sound in check. PS: advice, keep your wallet in check. First of all, there's a HUGE difference between a lossy (for example MP3) and a lossless (for example FLAC/WMA Lossless) compression and EVERYBODY can hear it. I have no doubts about that. But if you are using low quality computers or DJ speakers it will be harder to hear, you just don't know if it are youre speakers that are sounding so bad or your compression, and believe me a lot of speakers are really crap.

So yes sometimes I can't tell the difference because of that. Additonaly, a lot of people believe you can convert a MP3 to a WAV. Technicaly yes, but because MP3 is a lossy compression a lot of music was lost when compressing to MP3 and will NOT come back while converting to WAV. What I find weird about this discussion is that a lot of people say they don't hear the difference between MP3 and a wave (in the understanding it's correctly ripped btw) or cd, they do clame they hear the difference between vinyl and a CD. And that my friend is bogus! Altough I can hear the difference between a CD and a 320 kps within 30 seconds, I do not hear the difference between a CD and Vinyl. The only moments I hear the difference is, when A: using a worn out needle, B: When cracks are in the record C: bad turntable and I hear the rumble and D: feedback For what concerns Beatport that 1$ extra is way to expensive for that additional storage and bandwith expenses.

I have no problem paying more, but this is way to expensive. It's cheaper to buy a compilation cd. I 'm Ripping my Cd's for at least 10 years now, and have always been behind the idea that if you mahe that effort, do it good because it will last a lifetime. So I ripped everything in WMA lossless.

At the time the only avaliable lossless compression. Personaly Maybe I would have picked FLAc today, but I never tested FLAC, but the good thing about lossless compression is that you do not need to worry about quality, it is always 100% identical.

Only discussion here is the size and support by apllication. Traktor already has already more than a year unsolved issues with WMA and I believe FLAC to. If you dont care about qulity and don't want any troubles you need to go with the mainstream and MP3. If quality is a primary choice, you need to go with a lossless compression like FLAC or WMA lossless. WAV is not really a choice, due to the lack of meta tags and the bigger size than a lossless file. You do save 10% to 30% with a lossless file compared to wav. Well this is for the record books: Illustration: 1.

We need a standard in Digital medium that we can use for play back for all, we can discuss this in detail but time is money and we need to unite and request this in every Dj site. Let the statements be herd. We use to have one medium and that was vinyl, now we have CD, mp3, in different formats and so on. These days’ people don’t care what type of medium you are using, unless you are a critic fanatic. The only thing is how well you put your set together. You and only you are in control when the wheels are handed to you. Keeping your sound in check at all times is on the top of list at all times.

I could make a cheap carp sound system sound excellent. Is all about your gain and eq setting’s.

With that stated it don’t matter what digital format is used now that we don’t want to carry the real thing and that’s a crate’s of Vinyl, now we only need 2 or 4 in time code. If you are spinning your Music in a major-league venue your medium better be good quality my friend. Today’s sound systems halved bin buffed up for quality play back. Read Illustration Number 1 again if you did not get it. I would rather have a standard; I personally don’t care what is called. This is a major headache for programmers that are costly are fighting with program issues.

Standard remember.