Would it be considered piracy...

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
MP3's 128 kb recordings are not high quality.

I have no problem with them being traded. If you have a half decent system you will notice how hollow they sound. Highs are very flat. 320kb is where you start to equal cd quality.

CD's themsevles are finnaly starting to equal records in sound quality. what with dvd-a and scad.

Digital music is catching up. It is still young and behind tubes for quality.

Laser printers were, and still are, garbage compared to full-blown photo-offset printing. People loved laser printers anyway because they were in control. They could print nice, readable documents and decent if not 'realistic' graphics for themselves.

It's the same force behind MP3s. Personal control. You can have a huge bunch of music on a drive and shuffle-play it the way you like. Doesn't matter if it has hit the 'Top 40', or if it's 30 years old, or even if it was ever sold in a commercial music store. A little bit less sound quality is not a problem for most people. Even if they have 'high-fidelity' equipment they are used to listening to FM stereo, which is lower sound quality than 128 bps MP3s.

Meanwhile, 'ClearChannel' rides all the corporate owned radio stations and forces them to play the same 10 songs over and over for the rest of eternity, or until they go bankrupt from people tuning out and listening to their MP3s... See the reasons for MP3s?

BTW, I prefer a minimum of 160 bps MP3s.

[ June 27, 2002, 14:55: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]