#128kbps

[otthonzulles]

mekkorát szólna rajta a soundcloud

[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!! 😁

[technicontrastron]

Cohost sucks because they only allow 5mb attachments

[marioclash]

man cds are great

[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

[xpander]

finally found the obscure nu-metal album i’ve been looking for on soulseek. unfortunately the only person sharing it has the username ‘minority_eradicator’

[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

[hana-uranai]

平成維新 - Microburst

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

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

[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!!!!!

[misoka]

「武満徹さんの話ですけど、戦争中に空襲に遭って防空壕に逃げ込んだら、居合わせた将校が、蓄音機でシャンソンをかけた。もちろんノイズがいっぱいだったんだろうけれど、その時もの凄く感動して、彼のその後の音楽活動の原点の一つになったんだそうです。だから、“音のS/N”と“音楽のS/N”って全然違うんです。MP3の128kbpsでギザギザの音でも、心を大きく揺さぶることはできる。必ずしも『高音質＝音楽性が高い』というわけではないんですね」

坂本龍一氏に訊く、これからの音楽のかたちと価値とは - PHILE WEB

[sledbedar]

Several Brobecks W's today

The "complete" version of their first album The 4th Of JuLive has finally been obtained in way higher quality. Previously we only had 128kbps MP3s from way back in the day. And we did not have original mixes for the tracks that were cut from the album.

But now we have a rip of an original CD before the tracks were cut.

This is pretty significant, to visualize

Previous best audio quality

New best

Slightly higher quality rip of the bands 2003 demo disc has been obtained too (previous best was 320 MP3, now lossless rip)

And original mixes of the bands 4-Track Tapes, instead of the 2021 remasters have been obtained (though I can't share all of those)

The wiki will be updated soon with downloads for what I can

[zaptap]

320kbps puts nintendo music above youtube music (256kbps, with regular youtube videos only being like 128kbps) and soundcloud (paid tracks are 256kbps apparently, otherwise 128kbps) and on the same level as spotify (also 320kbps)

amazon music, apple music, deezer, qobuz, and tidal all offer lossless music, so it's not as good as those

if someone finds a way to rip from it (which is somewhat likely since that's happened for all the ones i mentioned) i hope they add lossless quality so we can get that for all of the games on it that didn't get soundtrack releases (or at least those of them that use streamed music, which thus far would be pikmin 4, mario kart 8 deluxe, and maybe the wii channels).

320 would still be good, but prevents you from making it into, say, vbr v0, without losing quality by doing a lossy to lossy conversion (which is like the audio form of saving something as jpeg multiple times)

anyway i suppose if someone does figure out how to rip the music it'd just end up on the same sites that upload other nintendo music, so you wouldn't need a tool to do it yourself like with the other streaming sites probably

[veetri-bitcrush]

I literally cannot imagine what society would be today if linkin_park_-_crawling[128kbps].mp3 hadn't existed.