Comments on: MP3 Sound Quality & Organizing a Digital Music Library

By: john davidson

john davidson — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:30:35 +0000

Tiger Direct is selling 300 gig internal drives RIGHT NOW for $89. Outpost.com is selling them for the same price (with rebates involved.) You can easily get 300 GB of storage for $100, and next year at this time it is likely that that number will be 500GB.

By: Syd Schwartz-Digital Music Den » Blog Archive » Friday Soundbytes 12/9/05

Fri, 09 Dec 2005 23:31:07 +0000

[...] Wired continues their series on digital music formats with A Music File by Any Other Name, an article comparing the most common lossy formats, and discussing which ones are the most future proof. As I mentioned in yesterday’s posting, the only truly future proof way to store digital audio is to use a lossless codec like FLAC, Shorten or Apple Lossless Codec and convert to compressed lossy formats as needed. Hard drive space is getting cheaper and cheaper…I’ve gotten no fewer than 3 emails this week alone from places like buy.com offering external 320 gig hard drives for about $170….so at about 50 cents per gig and considering you can store about 3 albums per gig in FLAC format it seems pretty economical if you want the maximum quality possible. Wired plans to cover lossless formats in a future article. Wired has gotten a lot of feedback on their music articles published this week and opinions vary widely…take a look here to see what readers have to say. [...]

By: Computerworld Blogs

Computerworld Blogs — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:36:59 +0000

Stressed by compressed media files

If you’re like most digital music users, you’ve probably done a double take when listening to certain songs in your collection that sound a bit strange. Maybe it’s a general tinnyness, or a cymbal that seems too sharp, or complex arrangements that a…