whats your personal favorite format of music?

[Anoebis]

Ripped from Isratrance, but interesting never the less... So what is your most-used/favourite format of music? (and no discussions about quality here )

 

physical:

cd

vinyl

tape

 

files:

mp3

wav

flac

ape

[Anoebis]

ah yes, my choice

 

Physical:

Cd all the way, and vinyl in case the tracks were never released on cd

 

Digital:

.WAV files

 

But all together CD wins by far

[Rotwang]

CD for me too.

[NEMO.BOFH]

vinyl

wav

mp3 (320 from Beatport is the best, the rest has been proven to be encoded like shit!)

[sunwolf]

CD

 

&

 

FLAC

[Ormion]

CD

[Basilisk]

CDs and FLAC/WAV...

[Penzoline]

High quality mp3/Flac, I would love flac even more, but my comp is old as hell and it lags a couple of times during a song : (

 

CD's, I hardly play them, I only buy them if I really want to support the artists, or if I can even find some.

That reminds me of, Psyshop(The only one that takes Visa Electron) still hasn't gotten new copies of Heliopolis, Sky Input and Opus Iridium, I would definitely buy those 3, but jebus, it looks like I'll never get the chance ;[

[2kijad]

High quality mp3/Flac

:drama:

[frozen dream]

ape - since i am one! prefer cds though, they don't suffer from hd crash

 

but your house could burn down as well

[Otto Matta]

CD

[sunwolf]

I back up music on 2 harddrives.

 

It's important as many things I don't own on original. Don't want to copy a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy.

 

Also if harddrive fails I don't want to have to rip everything again to listen to it on computer.

 

CDs get worn, lost, etc.

[Daniël]

vinyl & wav.

[Darkarbiter]

CD. It's just nice to have a cd and the artwork etc. At least if its a cd I don't like later, its a cd on the shelf rather then a file thats not listened to.

 

Vinyl=ripped and never touched again (although possibly shown off)

 

Format: Anything lossless. I'm not sure my codecs support ape, but a quick google and I will be able too.

[sunwolf]

Anyone else only listen to CDrs and just have their CDs in a nice shiny display?

 

(OK not really more like in boxes)

[Malevol3nt]

DAT's ftw!

 

As for filetype's, I'll go for....

 

.fxp ()

[damon]

1. Vinyl (till the end of the world )

2. CD

3. Digital (don't care if it's wav, flac or high quality mp3)

[Insejn]

MP3 vbr. I rarely play my CDs and I just buy them to support the artist and to have some good music when I borrow my parents car. Most of my CDs just goes straight to the shelf without even beeing played in the CD player

[Abatwa]

vinyl number 1 for sure. love di huge artwork as well as the good old vinyl feel in your hand.

for digital, wav then mp3. qualitywise. mp3 320s good spacewise.

[mars]

CD and VBR MP3.

Wavs are only for things that are close to my heart.

[rino]

"Physical": vinyl - one and only, call me old fashioned, I passionately love all of my vinyls with inexplicable intensity!

 

"Digital": 320kbps MP3 - I play these everywhere, be it my portable music player, kitchen stereo while doing the dishes, computer, bed room stereo...

[abasio]

Well, I love vinyl but as my taste has gotten more ambient over the years CDs have taken over. Ambient on vinyl needed care beyond my rough grubby hands.

 

For portability I go for mp3. I think my hearing is not as good as many other people's as even with mid level mp3 rips I can't tell much difference. For me the physical product encourages me to give more time to albums I may not have loved instantly.

[Moai]

physical:

cd or vinyl (But i need a vinyl player^^).. I prefer the vinyl sound and feeling over CD.

 

files:

flac. the idea of lossless quality but half the size of a wave is nice. Otherwise mp3 VBR V0

 

physical vs files: The convenience of storing your music in a library for fast easy access is appealing more than CD/vinyls etc..

[frozen dream]

i've had a terrible cockup yesterday when encoding flac to ape, when using the highest compression level, it's recommended to not use or have any other app open to get max security, as some parts were left out or muted (could be the encoder or goddamn vista as well )

[fluffymushi]

i like .ogg