25 Jun
2007
25 Jun
'07
11:23 p.m.
While I could[n't] care less what media people
like (Vinyl, tape, cd,
etc) I do wonder why people rip to MP3 in this age of cheap storage,
why not use something lossless and capture all of the original music?
Well, personally, I don't. Just a few days ago I replaced a "200G"
(actually more like 186G) drive with a "400G" (ditto 372G) drive to
hold ripped CDs - the first thing I do with a new audio CD is to rip a
copy. (No, I don't distribute the result.)
But I speculate that people do it for many reasons: (1) habit; (2) not
everyone can afford hundreds of gigs of disk for their machines; (3)
mp3 is good enough - or at least is perceived as good enough - for many
people, who don't have playback systems capable of exposing the
difference between the original and the mp3, or who don't have ears
capable of hearing the difference.
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