What prog is on your cell phone?

^^I'm sorry but you're wrong. Phones are now for music. Lamps are for making phone calls. And CD Players are for lighting up dark rooms. Get with the times. This is 2014, not the 12th century.   

Edited by The Doctor - July 31 2014 at 15:02

^^^ Then Vinyl, CDs, MP3s will be of no use!

Edited by ProgMetaller2112 - July 31 2014 at 15:04

ProgMetaller2112 wrote: ^^ I don't see the need to have music on phones.

Bringing your vinyls and hi-fi system on airplanes can get cumbersome.

What am I supposed to use when I go for a walk?


Edited by javajeff - August 02 2014 at 00:17

Padraic wrote: ProgMetaller2112 wrote: ^^ I don't see the need to have music on phones.  Bringing your vinyls and hi-fi system on airplanes can get cumbersome.

A lot of today's music wouldn't make it through airport security anyway.

Padraic wrote: ProgMetaller2112 wrote: ^^ I don't see the need to have music on phones.  Bringing your vinyls and hi-fi system on airplanes can get cumbersome.

Portable CD player with headphones.   

The Doctor wrote: Padraic wrote: ProgMetaller2112 wrote: ^^ I don't see the need to have music on phones.  Bringing your vinyls and hi-fi system on airplanes can get cumbersome. Portable CD player with headphones.

Did this in the 90s, feel no compulsion to return to it.

Well the phone has a built in MP3 player.  There is no reason to carry both.  I only have 8GB on my phone, but that is enough for me to keep serveral albums at 320Kbps.  This is my first smart phone, and I immediately sold my mp3 player.

javajeff wrote: progbethyname wrote: I'm shocked at the amount of people that stream or download compressed digital music files in general. Another music store bit the dust in my area once again CD or FLAC is always prefereable,  BUT Lossless formats are not always cheap.  I buy many digital downloads, and the sound quality is very good.  Very high quality lossy satisfies most people that listen on their phone, car, or computer.  I have an excellent stereo, but I rarely use it these days.  My only request is that all digital download stores offer a Lossless format, because I do not need the plastic.

Well it sounds to me if you really had a stellar stereo set up you would be opting for the plastic.
Anyway. I think your right about some of these lossy codecs. I'm starting to come around. FLAC and for surround sound purposes Dolby AC3 mix sound quite pleasing to my ears with my gear.
For instance I ran Jethro Tull's A Passion Play boxset from Steven Wilson, who offers a plethora of audio formats to choose from and I have to say that the Dolby AC3 was not bad. Instruments sounded very realistic and their wasn't any compression I could detect. Anyway. That's with the home theater. Lets talk about your phone. My only advice is to invest in a portable DAC to pair with your phone. You will be amazed how much life you will give to your music files, especially since most portable DAC's carry a built in amplifier. You can support headphones that have an impedance range anywhere from 32ohms to 600ohms. I highly recommend the FiiO E 17 DAC/amp. It's incredible for the money sitting around 150$. Long story short. Getting quality headphones and this DAC with a decent copper cable interconnect will make your portable music listening experience ethereal.

One problem though. You'll never want to listen to your music in a straight pure digital signal again.
Add a few 1's and 0's to those ears of yours. Analog is a wonderful difference.
Try it. You won't be sorry.

Happy listening.

progbethyname wrote: 320kps refers more to the size of the file, not the frequency range. Just do 24/192khz. It's the same quality in terms of resolution (bit depth and frequency range) And you'll save on space. 8gigs is not a lot of room if your choosing 320kps. It's a waste of space.

320kps loses the least amount of sound quality to the compression.  If I wanted to save disk space, I would choose the extreme variable bit rate.  I still want the best sound quality that I can get.