Dumb question: Lossless v. MP3

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When downloading concerts (many of which have pretty bad sound to begin with), is there a difference between downloading a 4 MB mp3 file and a 50 MB shn or flac file? What kind of difference does this make, either immediate or long-term? Or is this just something that nerdy internet losers like to pretend is significant?

― It's all difficult, Monday, 12 December 2005 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

I don't download concerts, generally, but I can guess that the difference is not significant. Live sound mp3 to wav is not going to be a great improvement.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 12 December 2005 02:47 (nineteen years ago)

most likely, you're only going to notice if you're burning the files to cd and re-ripping it to copy it later. the mp3 will lose fidelity with every generation.

― Quinn (quinn), Monday, 12 December 2005 05:32 (nineteen years ago)

Of course there's a difference between a 4 MB mp3 and 50 MB FLAC. 46 MBs of difference. Of course, if the audio was not good quality to begin with, or you don't have good speakers/headphones, you may not be able to tell the difference.

― ludwig_van, Monday, 12 December 2005 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

I love My bloody Valentines Lossless! My favorite album of theirs. Who is MP3? sorry for being ignorant.

― tektronica, Monday, 12 December 2005 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

We kind of had this thread recently, some very good info:

do aac's sound better than mp3's?

― BeeOK (boo radley), Monday, 12 December 2005 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

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