"pamela" wrote in message
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On 08:49 18 Jan 2017, dennis@home wrote:

On 18/01/2017 02:20, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Nope. The problem with digital MP3 is not the sample rate, its
the digital compression that is applied.

Its not lossless.



Well people don't knowwhat MP3 stands for. Its MPEG layer 3
audio. It was always lossy and designed to fit videos onto CDs
and DVDs not for hifi. They soon dropped it when bluray arrived
and went for master audio which is uncompressed.


I don't mind the trade off between the size of an MP3 file and
quality.

I seem to recall a 128kps MP3 is about a tenth of the size of a
WAV/PCM and the sound isn't quite as awful as some people suggest.

As storage gets cheaper file size will be less important but at
the moment I baulk at storing FLAC files on a portable device.

Absolutely, I really only listen to music in the car, mp3 is even too good
for that