frank79
Hi DJs.
Just a question.
Is there any quality difference between a MP3 file legally dowloaded (from beatport.com, for example) and a MP3 file dowloaded from eMule?
Just a question.
Is there any quality difference between a MP3 file legally dowloaded (from beatport.com, for example) and a MP3 file dowloaded from eMule?
geposted Wed 11 Jun 08 @ 4:04 am
tayla
the higher the bitrate the better the quality
geposted Wed 11 Jun 08 @ 4:20 am
vidanes
It depends on how the file has been ripped and form what source it has been ripped. With something like beatport you can know for sure that you will have good quality. With an illegal download you are always exposing yourself to bad rips.
geposted Wed 11 Jun 08 @ 8:39 am
roapr5150
When you're downloading illegally, even if the file bitrate is 320.....sometimes it's not.
Beatport, itunes, etc have respectable bitrates (190 I think) but I'm not sure if there is a difference between Beatport and the other one you mentioned.
I use Platinum Notes for equalizing all my mp3's. The software is good if you have really bad mp3's to begin with but most of my stuff has been ripped from cd's and vinyl so the sound quality is already decent and Platinum Notes hasn't really made much of a difference in sound quality. In some cases, Platinum Notes makes my stuff sound worse.
Beatport, itunes, etc have respectable bitrates (190 I think) but I'm not sure if there is a difference between Beatport and the other one you mentioned.
I use Platinum Notes for equalizing all my mp3's. The software is good if you have really bad mp3's to begin with but most of my stuff has been ripped from cd's and vinyl so the sound quality is already decent and Platinum Notes hasn't really made much of a difference in sound quality. In some cases, Platinum Notes makes my stuff sound worse.
geposted Wed 11 Jun 08 @ 6:59 pm
djderricke
As they say, you can't shine a turd! If you put crap in, you will get crap out. No program will be able to make a bad MP3 sound good. As Roapr5150 said, it will just make it sound worse. Beatport uses 320 MP3s across the board. (I get enough music from them to know.) You can also get the files in the WAV format and encode them yourself if you feel they are taking too much space. But with Emule and Limewire, etc... you never really know what you are getting. The same kinda goes for Beatport. You can pretty much trust that most of the labels are professionally getting their tracks mastered. But some of these guys on Beatport are bedroom producers and master their stuff in house (meaning in THEIR house). The artist uploads the tracks to Beatport, they don't do quality control. I've gotten a couple of horrible sounding tracks from there, but I would say that accounts for about %1 of the tracks I've gotten.
geposted Wed 11 Jun 08 @ 8:58 pm