Calling all audiophile
I have 3 question for you guys.
1.Is there a name or some sort of word for the kind of rhythm in the voice of the singer in the two following song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHS3qJdxefY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmkHqUwa4zg
2. What's the difference between FLAC and 320kbps mp3 audio files? All I got so far is that the mp3 format get rid of anything above 16khz which is not a big loss since most people are 18 can't even hear anything above 16khz. Am I missing something else?
3. What's up with the hundred and hundred of different music style. I swear the next generation of music style will be named after band. There won't be anymore Rock, but A7X genre, Linkin Park genre, etc.
July 21, 2012
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In order to really hear the differences between FLAC and Mp3 320, you would need a decent pair of headphones or speakers, an amp, and a DAC.
I may be wrong though. :O
Hey, I'm all for a Mike shinoda genre.
[quote=Mang]kinda. if you have to ask the difference, you probably won't hear much of the difference.
and mp3 are compatible with more portable devices if that's a factor.
and re: subgenres, to an extent, some music within a genre is so different that the differentiation needs to be made. but when it gets to like sub sub sub genres, it gets kinda ridiculous. metal is the worst for this.[/quote]
This EP had a riff that sounds-kinda like Darkthrone playing a Megadeth song, so I'll label it as Blackened Post-Classic Thrash Metal Revival with elements of Djent b/c of the time signature change at the end of the song!
[quote=WontPostMuch]Whatever you do, don't become an audiophile. Out of all the nerdy hobbies out there, this one is really bad. Just get 182-320kbp files, some headphones that are decent and don't look stupid and like 99.99% of people, you should be satisfied. Oh and internet nerds trying to categorize every sound ever is what creates all these subgenres.
PS: It doesn't even make sense to be an audiophile and listen to A7X. Have you listened to the stuff audiophiles listen to? It's boring ass crap. Don't bother.[/quote]
I mentioned audiophile because they were most likely the one with the answer to me question. I'm not one and won't ever be.
Whatever you do, don't become an audiophile. Out of all the nerdy hobbies out there, this one is really bad. Just get 182-320kbp files, some headphones that are decent and don't look stupid and like 99.99% of people, you should be satisfied. Oh and internet nerds trying to categorize every sound ever is what creates all these subgenres.
PS: It doesn't even make sense to be an audiophile and listen to A7X. Have you listened to the stuff audiophiles listen to? It's boring ass crap. Don't bother.
FLAC is pretty much the smallest possible filesize for lossless media. So a 800 MB CD would probably be around 300-400 MB FLAC. A 320kbps MP3 would be 100-200 MB, and a v0 MP3 would be around 80-160 MB.
v0 is arguably better if you want lossy MP3s, because tests have shown that both are indistinguishable from the source, with the human ear. If you want to archive, and have the space, go with FLAC. Else, just go with v0 MP3.
[quote=patrickpi666]So unless I'm 5 years old and really want to hear the 16+khz I can just skip the FLAC version and go straight for 320?
@NoNsensical
I meant subgenre in general. I heard there was even a such thing as mathcore and much more.[/quote]
Metal is the most notorious for splitting itself into so many subgenres that most people nowadays can't even agree on whether or not to label Amon Amarth as Viking metal or melodic death metal or melodeath or Swedish metal. That's why I threw that out there. I can't explain what the hell is going on with other genres splitting into hundreds of different subgenres, but I can explain that metal is separated as it is because metalheads can't ever agree on anything and like to have their own personal labels and genres to separate one band from another in order to create the illusion of one band being more elite, true, and kvlt.
So basically, the reason music is split up so much is because we're a bunch of pricks.
[quote=Mang]2.FLAC is a lossless codec, which means all the original audio is retained, you lose no quality. mp3, some of the original audio quality is lost. pretty much like you said; when the file gets compressed, it compresses the harder to hear/less audible sounds more than the rest.[/quote]
So unless I'm 5 years old and really want to hear the 16+khz I can just skip the FLAC version and go straight for 320?
@NoNsensical
I meant subgenre in general. I heard there was even a such thing as mathcore and much more.
1. I guess you're looking for [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncopation]syncopation.[/url]
2. No idea.
3. I guess you're talking about [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_subgenres]metal subgenres, huh?[/url] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_metal]Death metal[/url] supposely got its name from the band, [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOXLc3rmK10]Death.[/url] However, one could argue that Death's name was plain and simple enough where it could be incorporated into a genre. I doubt we're going to see A7X as a genre anytime soon.
@finkle
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Respectively, I can't seem to point out exactly what I'm trying to say. :S
Yeah there are a lot of subgenres.
But it was always like that. "Back in the day." If we're talking about forms of music, you would have song cycles, concertos, operas, oratorios, symphonic poems, sonatas, fugues,
preludes, inventions, music dramas, and the list goes on.
Now we just lump all of the above into "classical."