There's more to life than mp3, page 1

HI -- whoops on thread title - Theirs more to life than Mp3

Mp3 & Ogg are fine.

Though if you have a Digital Audio Player that can play  lossless Flac Audio ( as many do now ) & have a high speed/bandwidth internet connection their is no reason why Tribal mixers can't  allow up-loaders to share torrents linked to Flac Audio files .

Having more buttons & or fancy skins is great & tribal mixers truly is a fine www site, though something that enhancers the sounds quality is a genuine improvement of what it's all about.

THe Music  

well... this has been advised before. by SpasV, - pretty much the only person on tribalmixes capable of acquiring (recording off of xm/sirius) and sharing music as flac, and even he, afair, decided not to do it (i might be wrong on this 'decision' of his, possibly it was me who didn't wanna work on it, i don't remember, it was over a year ago, i think)...

so basically, my counter-question is: do you know any other sources (except xm/sirius and their broadcasters, such as direct-tv) that are rich enough in sound to allow to produce real flac recordings? not something upcoded from 192kbps stream into mega-awesomely-high-quality of flac, but something real, something that broadcasts in flac (or close to flac but exceeding mp3 standards) sound quality?

it's cool to be driven away by new toys sometimes. i've just renewed my cell-phone contract (changed to family plan) with 2 free phone replacements... got motorola zine for my girl, and nokia 5310 for myself. those are marvelous toys, i've played with them for 2-3 days, especially the zine's 5.1 megapixel kodak camera with xenon flash drove me crazy, - a half-professional  camera in your cell phone, no less!!!  the main thing here is not to get driven away too far from the mainland... there are no sources of 'rationally free music' that can be saved as flac without upencoding... unless dj plays vinyls (or cds, but not mp3s) and has a direct line-in connection to the mixer, so that no sound is lost... then that dj could save music as flac.... but still it seems to me, that it's not yet time for this kind of introduction....

mmm....? well I'm not clued up as far as the club scene goes ( apart from the sounds coming out of it) & thus have no contacts directly with people within the music industry so as to find any source's/Dj's   that recorded there music  digitally directly to a lossless format.But yes re-encoding a mp3 of any size to flac is completely pointless because the sound has already been taken out. I just guessed that Dj's were recording 'live' club or 'home' mixers in 'wave' etc then encoding them down to mp3 for promotion/distribution purposes over the internet.

So why not encode directly to flac?. But from what your saying 'the scene' is pretty much still mp3 .

I asked the question because I recently bought a new Digital Audio Player capable of playing Flac.Now I'd been listening to one of my own songs everyday for a month or so.I'd encoded it direct from the mastered 'wave' to 320 kbit mp3 .
Apart from my ears   I use westone 3 In Ear Monitors for listening to all my music.They are very precise ( 3 speakers per ear) & can vibrate the finer details / rhythms / layers  etc that many of the mixers on tribalmixes have.

Now as soon as I heard my song in flac I noticed a difference.I Doubt you'd notice on speakers because it was more a fuller feeling of the ear drum.I could detect the extra sound that encoded to mp3 320 kbit had previously taken out .Now it's not a big difference, simply tiny subtle vibration within the finer details of some more gentle percussive sounds .
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So my song encoded in Flac certainly had me listening with a little more focused attention to the finer details of the music.

And attention to detail is what makes the difference  

Oh yes thX for sorting out my grammar on the thread title