431: City of Chips
Accidental Tech Podcast
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What if I Want the Remaster, but I Don't Want the Lossless?
Once you get below 128, especially if it's mp3 and especially if it was encoded by a bad encoder, I can hear that's not great. That's one of the reasons why I always like to have things on CD, because then you can always re-rip them in higher quality. And so lossless is not useless to you if what you're coming from is a 96 kilobit mp3 from 2002. Because then that CD quality lossless is a big step up. Now really what you should actually do is just take that CDquality lossless one and recompress it a 256 kilobit or maybe Apple can do that for you.
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