>mp3 files degrade

FLAC for me from now on

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Listen m9, an mp3 is a sequence of 1s and 0s stored in the memory. These 1s and 0s stay the same unless you decide to manipulate them.

What do you think will happen? Perhaps an elf comes and starts eating digits?

This is the most retarded take I've heard in a while. mp3 files are just 1s and 0s, but so are jpgs, you would never argue that jpgs don't degrade in quality though.

They don't, why would they?

Rotational velocidensity affects all audio files encoded with lossy compression. These include mp3, aac, and ogg.

The most notable effect of rotational velocidensity is the loss of bitrate in files. A lossy audio file will lose an average of 12kbps a year. But, this can vary greatly depending on the type of storage media used.

Examples:

SATA HDD: ~12kbps
IDE HDD: ~15kbps
SCSI HDD: ~7kbps
DVD: ~16kbps
CD-R/RW: >21kbps

This can be overcome by compressing audio using lossless formats such as FLAC, APE, or TTA. These formats are designed to never lose quality over time, and will sound the same right now as they will in 10 years.

>Rotational velocidensity

HAHAHHAHAHHA

Guys, using Yea Forums will give you braincancer, it's because of the electropifluxfactor.

trust me im a scientist.

t. brainlet

Let me break it down for you.

Hearing the difference now isn't the reason to encode to FLAC. FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is 'lossy'. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA - it's about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don't want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media. I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrange...well don't get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren't stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you'll be glad you did.

It's a shame that most music is just completely unlistenable static by now. We really need to do something about mp3 rot.

Great pasta.

Holy shit it's true
I thought it was a stupid meme so I found my Boulevard_Of_Broken_Dreams.mp3 and gave it a shot and it sound like shit now

Funny i find this post on today of all days. I dug out all of my old CDs and found about 2/3 of them are already starting to rot pretty bad. I keep them properly stored, too :/

CDrot is a real thing though. Unfortunatly.

brainlet newfag /r/indieheads refugee here, does storing mp3 files on an external ssd reduce the inevitable degradation of sound quality ?

the equivalent of this is happening on mass every single day in hard drives across the world and yet the mainstream media remains suspciously silent

and why? who stands to gain the most from streaming becoming the only form of music consumption? the media are moving us away from a model of ownership to a stream/rental consumership. they want our digital music libraries to become unlistenable within 5 - 8 years.

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Perhaps over the course of hundreds of years.

because those 1s can become 0s and those 0s can become 1s

There's poorly fabbed CDs from the'80s and '90s that got disc rot within a few years of release. It was a lot more common with laserdiscs than audio CDs though.

how? what causes this process?

Don't say "rotational velocidensity"

how nu r u?

Based

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it's bidirectional codescaling

they lose magnetic orientation

I know it's a meme, I'm just enjoying the effort put in by the bullshitters that's why I keep this up.

MP3s don't have magnetic orientation. Magnetic orientation is a material property.

where are your mp3s stored