Hello Bj”rn Felten!

** On Saturday 01.01.22 - 19:08, Bj”rn Felten wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

Actually it may be one of the POFs I was talking about?
I'm still at IIS 5 and I've got reports that sometimes
downloading with http is really slow, considering that
I sit on a 100/100M fiber.

I was referring to playing the files AFTER they are downloaded.
But even if I could play/stream your files directly, my DSL
speed at about 650-800Kbps wouldn't be good enough.

And regarding another comment, my FLAC files should be
totally uncompressed. That was the whole idea behind
going from MP3 to FLAC...

For totally uncompressed, WAV ought to do it. But FLAC offers
a modicum of space/storage efficiency.
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Hello Wilfred!

** On Saturday 01.01.22 - 20:30, you wrote to me:

I only mentioned it because it too operates XP, and seems
perfectly fine with AppleLossless versions.

I don't know about AppleLossLess, and how it compares to
Flac.

And I only mentioned it because I find iTunes (as a local
program) operates very nicely as a music database. I didn't
want to mess around with transferring/importing my all my music
files and relearn yet-another music program when iTunes is
pretty darn good at what it does. It even supports streaming
files across a LAN to another pc that has iTunes.

..The fellow has a fine hifi system. He found no
discernable differences.

There shouldn't be any difference. They all produce the
same bytes that go into your DA converter for playback.

Short of hooking up a scope and/or other measuring devices, our
audio tests were very specific. We tested recordings with
quiet passages, and specific recordings that featured super low
pipe-organ notes. They all seemed to reproduce in FLAC and
AppleLossless equally well.
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Hi Bj�rn,

On 2022-01-01 03:11:44, you wrote to All:

[Disclaimer: I don't consider myself an audiophile ;)]

Well, since they are digital copies there is not much more you can do here. Just make sure the cd's are clean before you start ripping, so the chance of uncorrectable reading bit errors is minimal...

It would be nice if they were grouped on an album basis! ;)

What could improve playback experience a bit is if you apply "replaygain" to your files. This doesn't change the bytes that represents the music, but adds some calculated values for the music that can improve your playback experience:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReplayGain

With commandline flac you just add --replaygain when encoding the files. Or you can have it added afterwards if your software doesn't support it directly.

Bye, Wilfred.

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I'm still an audiophile.

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Hello Ward!

** On Sunday 02.01.22 - 15:40, you wrote to me:

I have some ABBA material on CD too. I could compare
some of those and your tunes with my modest system.

I haven't bought a CD in ... pfftttt ... 15 years. I only
got vinyl.

I have a modest collection. Only about 800-1100 LPs. Maybe
about 400-500 45's. I haven't put them to much use since the
quality of sound is noticeably not as good as I remembered some
of them to be. The speakers are fine, and professionally
rebuilt. Maybe my ear is conditioned to the more consistent
sound from a CD. However, I learned that a new needle/
cartridge pair is probably long overdue. It is recommended that
the needle be replaced every few hundred hours of play.

What make/model of record player do you have?

I've gone through several, but ultimately received a fine
Pioneer PL-A35. I love the steampunk look of the balancing/
pressure mechanism with the wire and weight.

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On 02 Jan 22 12:14:00, August Abolins said the following to Ward Dossche:

What make/model of record player do you have?

Dual 1242 in the living room. Garrard D-20 in my bedroom. My daughter has a Gemini manual direct-drive in her room.

Nick

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