[edais]

[Pauldo]

^LOL

[destroysound]

I know this thread is mostly about funny ha-ha comics, but does anyone have any good serious arc-based webcomics to share?

Here's a few I enjoy, you guys probably read these too, but just in case you don't:

Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield's FREAKANGELS: 12 psychic kids, the end of time, and chikkenz.

Tom Siddell's GUNNERKRIGG COURT: A young girl, her best friend, her fox/dragon/spirit/thing, robots, magic, science, and the meaning of everything.

Aaron Diaz's DRESDEN CODAK: Posthumanism, philosophy, nerd shit.

[justin]

[destroysound]

Hearing the difference now isn't the reason to encode to FLAC. FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is 'lossy'. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA – it's about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don't want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.

I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrange…well don't get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren't stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you'll be glad you did.

[justin]

wat

[destroysound]

[_eNdo_]

wat x3

[damon]

[edais]

Hearing the difference now isn't the reason to encode to FLAC. FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is 'lossy'. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA – it's about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don't want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.

I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrange…well don't get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren't stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you'll be glad you did.

Seriously?  If that's true I feel all sorts of stupid.

[nodsamadhi]

Hearing the difference now isn't the reason to encode to FLAC. FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is 'lossy'. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA – it's about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don't want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.

I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrange…well don't get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren't stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you'll be glad you did.

Seriously?  If that's true I feel all sorts of stupid.

it definitely is – however, if you back up your media collection onto a RAID array, having the file duplicated across multiple sectors can both improve performance and reduce the chances of data loss (different bits degrade in different files) – so if you want to preserve your mp3 collection as well as possible, you should look into a proper fileserver or NAS device.

[Ascension]

Dang, didn't know that either.

[destroysound]

The Sneaky Hate Spiral

[Nameless One]

Rotational velocidensity awareness campaign on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=270681237200&ref=mf

[Nameless One]

Aaron Diaz's DRESDEN CODAK: Posthumanism, philosophy, nerd shit.

Thanks for this!

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