#128kbps

[otthonzulles]

mekkorát szólna rajta a soundcloud

[elle-p]

Dubbing commentary of PERSONA3 CHARACTER DRAMA CD VOL.1 and VOL.3

[bunnywand]

oh fuck, as long as the download doesn't fuck up before the person goes offline, i've finally found someone on soulseek w/ a download of colour me wednesday's 2011 sampler cd!! 😳

posted before abt how i'm only missing a handful of early releases from the diy/punk scene bands i'm in to, and this is a) the 2nd earliest thing i was still missing (earliest is another colour me wednesday cd they supposedly did in 2009) + b) one of the things i've been looking for the longest!! 😁

[penisdungeon]

where would we be as a society if you couldn't rip mp3s straight from youtube

[technicontrastron]

Cohost sucks because they only allow 5mb attachments

[leodanbrock]

so there's a store here that still sells old ipod chargers and i managed to get one so i can't wait to hopefully charge up my ipod classic + touch and see what's on there

80gb felt huge to me back then but now i'm sort of laughing nervously a bit because i'm converting all my physical music collection (vinyl, cd, casettes etc since i have the equipment for it) and putting it on a portable hard drive. i have barely made a dent and i'm already at 32gb

[ninthwav]

my default position on most things is that i know nothing about them which isn’t like, self-deprecating so much as deep awareness of my relative shallowness as a Media Engager. so Imagine My Surprise when i’m going thru gothic metal playlists trying to broaden me horizons and i know all these bands! many of them are on my old fucked ipod classic at a kbps rate that would make an audiophile cry

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

smoked a gigabyte of Purple FFmpeg OG now im transcoding 128kbps mp3s from 2006 to flac with no respect or understanding of upsampling

[horreurscopes]

digital hoarder nostalgia will have you agonizing like "should i delete this 128kbps radio rip of bad romance with a DJ yapping all over it circa 2009 that i recovered from my high school ipod... it's an Artifact...." and it's like yeah. yeah i should. same logic as the "just because it's old doesn't mean it's valuable" mindset you have to keep in mind when you go to the thrift store. but the human emotional brain is deeply hardwired to love + value history...... it's very sweet but also incredibly inconvenient

[fagcrisis]

since more and more ppl are ditching spotify, i just wanna shoutout ibroadcast. its a pretty amazing service that ive been using for almost a year now. you can upload your own music and stream ir anywhere, it has a website and a mobile app. my phone doesnt have enough space for all my music, but i do have all of it downloaded on my laptop so this is a pretty amazing option to have

the free version lets you stream at 128kbps, you can upgrade to paid to have better quality but i personally havent and its not a big detractor. unlimited storage space as well! ive uploaded well over 5000 songs so far

i know that downloading all your music is a bit of a hassle when youre used to streaming and for me ibroadcast really bridges that gap

[kdo-three]

"Howl" by Allen Ginsberg Read by Allen Ginsberg from: "Voice of the Poet" (CD)

Spoken Word | Poetry

@Archive (left click = play) (128kbps) ( Length: 21:45)

Personnel: Allen Ginsberg: Voice

Voice of the Poet: Allen Ginsberg (CD) Released 2004 Random House Audio

"Howl": Written 1954–1955 Published in 1956

[tribow]

To be truly evil, convert a 128kbps mp3 into a flac and pretend it's higher quality.

Become a true villain by distributing it.

[eightglass]

ignore this if it's too public but, what do you use for ripping audio? I've been using cobalt.tools but it's not very efficient for whole playlists. been thinking about that spotify post a lot lol

Ough.. I usually don't rip audio. not for music at least.

See, youtube, and youtube music, only streams audio at 128kbps quality (256 if you have premium). Which is... mediocre. High-quality MP3 files are usually 320kbps, and good .flac files are variable bitrate but usually end up several times higher than that. (Doesn't really matter tho, most bluetooth only streams at 320 anyways, and if you can tell the difference and want to use a cord, you already need better headphones.)

So... I usually try to find a torrent that already has the music I'm looking for, which is... not everything. If you're looking for more popular stuff, you can look up, like "depeche mode discography" and it'll be there, all high quality and decent metadata to unzip into your ~/music folder.

But for the stuff you can't find on there, your best bet is lucida.to

It's... janky and not very consistently up, prone to weird errors and random problems, but when it does work, you get good-quality music files out of it. They might come in .ogg, which you'll have to convert (i like fre:ac) to mp3 or flac if you want metadata to work, but it's usually good.

Also, don't trust any online "spotify downloader" websites; afaik, nobody has cracked spotify's encryption. What they're doing is searching youtube, finding each song, download that, and putting spotify metadata on it. Maybe the file will even say 320kbps, but that's a lie, if you open it up in the right viewer it'll be 128. There's shitty paid software available that will "rip" from spotify by actually messing with your Spotify client, making it actually play the song at a higher speed or something, and then ripping that, but... not really worth it. Piracy is meant to be free, damnit!

If you really want to rip good audio files, you'll have to, like, get a Tidal or Deezer subscription and use software to rip from that.

...Now! If you weren't asking about music, want to rip from Youtube, and/or don't care whether your quality is good, I use and love Stacher!

It's a GUI for yt-dlp, which is like, the command-line youtube downloading tool, and... it works.

Like, I used this to download all of The Magnus Archives; I just pasted the playlist url into it and it downloaded each one. It'll be great for like, podcasts, or things for which you won't really care about super fidelity? or if you want to download tons of videos, it'll do that.

Yaa files!!!!!

[randomlyandrogynousfox-blog]

back to owning and curating mp3s

i've decided to go back to own and curate my own library of mp3s. currently i'm in a transitional period where i still subscribe to spotify as well (will stop once my student discount runs out this summer).

how am i going to do this?

1. acquiring mp3s: mostly through a combination of ripping cds (it turns out my ten+ year old bluray player actually has a functionality to rip cds and save the files to a usb stick at 192kbps and my library has a large collection of cds), buying mp3s (itunes store & bandcamp), internet archive for bootlegs, or ripping it from video files. i'll mostly reserve buying cds for music that has changed my life.

2. curating my collection: i'm currently using itunes (aka music) for the curation. i'm sure there are better apps out there, but that's where all the music i gathered throughout the years currently still resides and i'm familiar with it. might change in the future.

3. listening: i bought the last generation ipod touch a few years ago, so i'll be using that mainly and my phone as a backup for when i forgot my ipod at home. i might resurrect my old ipod mini and ipod classic in the future. but that's a larger project for later

i know there are well thought out and sophisticated systems for managing your own mp3 collection and listing, but these are all tools i already have, which takes away the part where i have to invest time and energy into building up the system. this cobbled together system allows me to start right away.

i'll also be going through my old collection and konmari-ing the shit out of it. and also re-ripping cds that teenage me ripped at 128kbps where possible.