Thread of Idiocy...

...like why, in 2006, when I decided to spend countless hours ripping every CD I owned to MP3, did I encode at 192kbps (or less in some cases)?

Okay, maybe 192 might have felt like a decadent bitrate to me at the time, but "Monster Mash" sounded like arse coming out the local club's PA last night and ruined probably my favourite Hallowe'en classic for the evening.

If I could go back in time I'd like to give myself a good wallop around the head and shout "HARD DRIVES WILL SOON COME BIGGER AND AT A MORE CONVENIENT PRICE, NOW CRANK THAT SUCKER UP AND STOP STINGEING ON THE BITRATE, IDIOT!"

What do you wish you could go back in time for and give yourself a telling off about?

future dog latin gonna wish he didn't make this thread, probably

Yeah, probably. Applies to most things I post on ILX.

Selling a lot of my vinyl in 1988
Not selling more of my CDs to Amoeba in 2001
Not selling more of my CDs on Amazon in 2005

Yeah, probably. Applies to most things I post on ILX.

― village idiot (dog latin)

I think it has to do with me being new and there not being an edit button, but I find myself double posting a lot which makes me look like a moron to the oldbies. I abuse edit buttons anyway, I just keep adding to my thoughts until they become novel length.

192 (VBR) is fine

idiot

this was CBR. 192 is okay, but not if you play it over a sound system.

first time i ripped stuff i did it in WMA at 64k

idiot