Am I the only one that hates it when someone wants to burn a cd? It seems like whenever someone new comes to the house, they want me to burn an old-fashioned red book cd.
In the olden days, cd burners were a novelty, but now they are practically necessary for archiving large amounts of data. It bothers me that people think I just make cds all day. If I wanted to put music on a cd, I’d leave them in mp3 format so that I’d get 8-12 hours instead of a lousy 74-80 minutes. Needless to say, I have a portable mp3 cd player, a car mp3 cd player, and my dvd player also plays mp3 cds. Maybe I just hate old technology, but it seems like a waste to take 75MB of mp3s and use them to fill up a 700MB cd.
Well, given that the 44/16 data sampling standard for an original Redbook audio CD is quite acceptable, and that mp3’s squash that said data by a an average of 90%, it’s not unreasonable to note that the great majority of mp3’s contain audio artefacts which tend to diminish the quality of the original recording.
Hence, one could argue that if you were a true music lover, that it’s a waste to listen to mp3’s when you could instead be listening to the real thing.
However, if you’re one of the seemingly huge majority who regularly state that “I can’t hear any difference at all”, then the subtley of my point will probably be lost on you.
I’m talking about making cds. Everybody knows mp3 is a lossy format. If I am going to make a cd from mp3s the resulting cd won’t won’t be any better than the mp3s themselves. For the record I typically get high quality mp3s encoded at 192, not those 2nd rate 128 and lower you find on Kazaa.
Yeah, I know what you mean. One of my friends has a really annoying and dimwitted wife whose first response to anything I say regarding a new band I’ve heard is to demand I burn her a cd. On one of my blanks. After the first two times she did, I just stare at her and then continue talking to her husband.
