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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm
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Location: Belfast
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http://www.techradar.com/news/audio/app ... at-1266086Apparently it's so good you'll feel like you're minted whilst avoiding tax and asking other people for millions 
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am
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Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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Four letters.... FLAC.
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saspro
Site Admin
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:53 pm
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Location: location, location
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To make FLAC really good they need to improve the source they encode it from
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm
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So, basically, not a U2 album then.
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BigRedX
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:33 am
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Surely lossless audio file compression is just about dead by now? Increases in internet bandwidth and storage, plus the continuing drop in price per TB of storage means that the minimal spacing savings are irrelevant.
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big_D
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Lossless compression? No, because storage is still finite. Especially on mobile devices. I would agree, there shouldn't be any more need for lossy compression. What Apple and U2 seem to be working on is a new format for music, not a new encoding codec. I.e. how the music is packaged, what extras etc. come with it, how they can improve the experience, not how they can compress the hell out of the music.
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tombolt
Spends far too much time on here
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Location: Dorchester, Dorset
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What's its Weismann score?
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Paul1965
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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You can improve your experience of music by not listening to U2.
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jonlumb
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It does seem particularly amusing that a band with a reputation for (music taste / ability aside here) making the most atrocious quality recordings should be involved in such an enterprise.
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big_D
What's a life?
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Location: Bramsche
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I have to admit, I don't think I could name a single hit off the top of my head.
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