Songs from the Front

[Dzierzan]

Wav is better than mp3? I have to check it.

[pariah]

Trust me man, it's totally worth it. MP3s are good for storage (if you have a small flash drive, like me), since they are so small, but if you want good sound quality, they just won't do.

[Dzierzan]

I convertered one mp3 to wav, and for me music is the same, no changes. Only difference in size of file, from 5.5mb to 30mb. Anyway i will use mp3, because i need more space in my HDD.

[pariah]

Well, there are certain factors you need to take into consideration:

-How good are your speakers/headphones?
-How good is your sound card?
-How good is your hearing?

It may depend on what type of music you listen to too, but i'm not sure about that.

[NunsNAmmo]

@DzierzanPL
You can't change mp3 to WAV because WAV is a higher quality format. You can retrograde codecs (i.e. FLAC to MP3 or WAV to MP3), but you can't improve the sound from nothing.

[Dzierzan]

Well, there are certain factors you need to take into consideration:

-How good are your speakers/headphones?
-How good is your sound card?
-How good is your hearing?

It may depend on what type of music you listen to too, but i'm not sure about that.

Well pariah, i want listen music, no matter how it's good, i want hear it .

1. Headphones are good, new, good quality. But speakers are old (2 speakers + bass speaker), so i intend to buy new and better.
2. Realtek HD Definiton Audio
3. LOL

And i'm listening everything, from heavy metal to classic music.

@DzierzanPL
You can't change mp3 to WAV because WAV is a higher quality format. You can retrograde codecs (i.e. FLAC to MP3 or WAV to MP3), but you can't improve the sound from nothing.

I don't know. I have program to convert music but i'm mostly using this to convert something and put this to my telephone. Maybe you have right, it's not working to improve quality.

[Alex Cottrell]

You can't convert an MP3 to Wav (or indeed any higher quality audio format) and get better quality. Once the audio has been compressed there's next to nothing that changing the codec will do.

With MP3s it's important to maintain a high bitrate (always 320kbps!) to ensure a decent listening experience without the usual aliasing and artefacts. With that said, I garauntee the average listener can listen to MP3s with a bitrate as low as 128 and not tell the difference between that and a Wav or a FLAC. For me, personally, as a composer and producer, I would say that there is absolutely nothing wrong with storing high bitrate MP3s as your primary means of listening to music. Sure, if you listen hard enough you will find better quality in less lossy formats - but a good tune is a good tune!

I keep all music that I record personally backed up in Wav and occasionally FLAC or Ogg Vorbis to ensure there is always a 'master' version at the highest possible quality that can then be transferred as an MP3, if necessary. Don't be ashamed of MP3s! They are lossy and they can be buggy at low bitrates - but they are not shit!

[pariah]

I have a program called "Free RIP", which converts sound files into other sound files. I spent some time comparing the various audio files it has available, and i found Wav to be the best (and 1 of the largest), and MP3 to be the worst (and smallest).

[Alex Cottrell]

It's not what you're converting into, it's what you're converting FROM that makes the difference. Are you converting lossless formats (FLAC, Wav etc) into lossy formats (MP3, WMA, Vorbis) and/or vice versa?
You should find that any MP3 above 160Kbps will be indistinguishable from CD quality audio formats.

[pariah]

I like to copy my music from the C.D. to my computer, since it makes things so much easier. And while i'm at it, i might as well convert them to a better quality. The standard conversion file is W.M.A. i think, which is pretty average to me, so i convert them to Wav.

[Dzierzan]

One question, where we can find music "The Red Tide" in EF? In menu i didn't hear it. Maybe this will be music for SU in battle, because right now they have WH music.

[Alex Cottrell]

It's a small bug that will be fixed in the next update I believe.

[cephalos]

I want choir like in here

Russian Red Army Choir - Warszawianka


.... please,please,please,please,please,please,please,please,please,please,
please,please,please,please,please,please,please,please,please,please,please,please,please,please,please,please,please,please,please,please,

please,please,please,please,please,please,please,please,please,please.

[Alex Cottrell]

Well I can't afford the tech required to get choirs at the moment, but there is that donate button in my signature...

[pariah]

How much do you need?