Author Topic: Music album purchase question (Read 817 times)

Block Aloni · November 23, 2016, 02:30:12 PM

In the future, I plan to purchase a music album and I want to know what program I should use to gain access to just the raw music files.

Currently, I know about but I'm not sure if they can actually extract (or convert?) the music as mp3:

Itunes
Spotify
Google Play
Napster

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espio100 · November 23, 2016, 02:32:07 PM

youtube

Block Aloni · November 23, 2016, 02:33:25 PM

Quote from: espio100 on November 23, 2016, 02:32:07 PM

youtube

Sorry, i like my music high quality

dr_pepper · November 23, 2016, 02:40:56 PM

I'm fairly certain that iTunes can convert to mp3.

cooolguy32 · November 23, 2016, 03:54:20 PM

VLC Media Player can convert to Mp3

RedGajin · November 23, 2016, 04:03:50 PM

itunes is pretty reliable in my experience, cant speak on the other ones

Steve5451� · November 23, 2016, 04:04:24 PM

Windows Media Player can just as well but if you jerk off over the idea of listening to indistinguishable FLAC files VLC will do that for you.

Alteration · November 23, 2016, 05:06:03 PM

Quote from: Block Aloni on November 23, 2016, 02:33:25 PM

Sorry, i like my music high quality

But you're listening to mp3s and not lossless formats? Wowo lol

Windows Media Player can rip CDs in lossless .wav and (if you're a plebeian) mp3 just fine but I will use a program called CDex if WMP gacs up/can't read the disc properly. You have to type your own metadata tags with CDex though.

Darksaber2213 · November 23, 2016, 05:08:17 PM

Quote from: Block Aloni on November 23, 2016, 02:30:12 PM

raw music files.

Quote from: Block Aloni on November 23, 2016, 02:30:12 PM

mp3

Quote from: Block Aloni on November 23, 2016, 02:33:25 PM

Sorry, i like my music high quality

hah, funny joke

Steve5451� · November 23, 2016, 05:13:10 PM

Quote from: Darksaber2213 on November 23, 2016, 05:08:17 PM

hah, funny joke

http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/how-well-can-you-hear-audio-quality

Block Aloni · November 23, 2016, 05:18:46 PM

Quote from: Steve5451� on November 23, 2016, 05:13:10 PM

http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/how-well-can-you-hear-audio-quality

thiss

Darryl McKoy · November 23, 2016, 05:22:01 PM

Quote from: Steve5451� on November 23, 2016, 05:13:10 PM

http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/how-well-can-you-hear-audio-quality

Welp I got every single one of the test clips wrong lol

Thanks for posting that

Steve5451� · November 23, 2016, 05:27:31 PM

Quote from: Darryl McKoy on November 23, 2016, 05:22:01 PM

Welp I got every single one of the test clips wrong lol

Thanks for posting that

I used to be one of those FLAC jerkoffs until I took this. If anybody's skeptical I checked the source files and it's legit.

Alteration · November 23, 2016, 05:40:13 PM

Quote from: Steve5451� on November 23, 2016, 05:27:31 PM

I used to be one of those FLAC jerkoffs until I took this. If anybody's skeptical I checked the source files and it's legit.

What's the quality of your headphones? I got 4 out of 6 on my cheapo $20 cans.

Steve5451� · November 23, 2016, 05:50:38 PM

Quote from: Alteration on November 23, 2016, 05:40:13 PM

What's the quality of your headphones? I got 4 out of 6 on my cheapo $20 cans.

I'm not gonna take it again because I've already done it at least five times but with these (they were $120 when I got them !!) I typically get 6/6 guessing which isn't the 128kb/s mp3. I can't tell the difference between 320kb/s and wav.

I also run my headphones through a stereo which probably has a considerable impact on sound quality, but it gives my headphones boom and allows me to unplug them to use my speakers & sub without having to switch inputs which usually breaks sound on games.