Originally posted by vanquish:Why is everyone so interested in getting FLACs on their iPods. I mean it's the equivalent of putting a HD 1080p video on your phone, it's just a waste of space. Lossless should be left to the purpose of archiving CDs.
Lossless is hugely overrated as well, just like $200 HDMI cables - the vast majority of people (99.99%) will not be able to hear a difference between the lossless and a high quality vbr rip and that's with high end headphones/ sound system - with most headphones it wouldnt make a difference.
I'm quite surprised that most of the bootlegs up here are also uploaded in lossless - it is major overkill as the source (eg. the recording equipment) will in no way do justice to the resolution of the lossless format (ie. it's not professionally mastered in a studio like CDs). What should be of more concern is changing all the MP3 format bootlegs to VBR instead of CBR encodes - as that actually will make a difference in quality that people can actually hear.
You cant compare FLAC with 200 usd HDMI cables. FLAC is the format bootlegs come in, and $200 HDMI are complete rip offs since all HDMI cables are lossless up to a certain length.
And it doesnt really matter if you hear it, its also the thought of hearing stuff in the best available quality.
[offtopic]Also I upload all bootlegs encoded using VBR
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Get Backbreaker, love that one