Which is the best music tracker.

The point is I am not in sync with the music world through radio and stuff. So I usually don't know what songs are good. A good community usually shares such things, i think what? will suffice.

What do you guys think?
 
ringhunter said:
APEs > FLACs (till they get corrupted at least). Honestly I'm not trying to be offensive but FLACs seem to be the biggest thing right now, while they're only popular because of its high tendency to overlook corruption/errors, but APEs are still a far superior encode format.

People care about the size of the file, so they save it as a FLAC rather than as a WAV (which is beautiful because it can save the different instruments to different channels, like photoshop does with layers), but APEs do that better. People reason that FLACs have more leeway for corruption, but in this day and age, with torrenting having in-built anti-corruption methods, I'm sure that's not a problem. That's not all, I'm sure a few people would be willing to code a file re-builder for APEs when/if they become a huge thing.

I'm just sick and tired of the hordes of people running around asking for FLACs when they don't know jack about quality formats (I've used APEs for as long as I remember) and probably can't even hear the difference.

/morning rant (not aimed at you anon)
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There is no audible difference (I have no idea what the hell you're going on about with that sort of thing). If you uncompress an APE and uncompress a FLAC file of the same original WAV, the resulting WAV will be a bit for bit match.

The only things that differentiate lossless codecs are the features included in the codec. People like FLAC because it's open source and offers good compression and uncompression speed. Also correct me if I'm wrong but APE can't handle multichannel lossless files can it?

WavPack is also a decent codec but since FLAC is being adopted as the standard, there's really no need to use anything else. The resulting audio will be bit for bit identical from the different codecs.
 
What.CD is the best in terms of archive size.
Its closely followed by Pedro's as it has a mixture of new or mainstream music as well as old school stuff.
For Jazz, Classical and world.. E is pretty good.

//n00bEdit: Try to use the 'search' button next time.
 
b3owulf said:
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rofl!
 
I never said the quality is different, I just said APEs were a far superior compression format. They scale down to a smaller size. The source code is out there, APEs are just not licensed as open source. As I said before, FLACs are only superior when handling encoding corruptions, which is a non-issue with today's filesharing protocols.

You're correct on the multichannel issue, but it's a trade-off as there's a java version of Monkey's Audio which can help it play on many different stereo (non 3.1/5.1/6.1/7.1) systems, that do not support FLAC but support java (example: most cell phones, natively).

I agree that there's not much we (I) can do, as FLAC has already been instated as the standard. I will go with it if it becomes universal, but that doesn't mean I like it. A lot of superior formats always end up dying because the consumers don't actually know what they actually want. The same way Betamax lost, the same way HD-DVD lost, it's time for APE to lose (WAV is still used as the industry standard for music recordings, it will be a while before that's outed).
 
It's highly dependent on your tastes, if you listen to mostly mainstream, or old popular music, what.cd or waffles should do great for you. Stay away from mediafires, rapidshares and the like unless you don't mind a few trannys here and there.
 
@n00bz0r, I did search before this. I dint any relevant searches. Maybe the reason is that I dint try hard enough. But yeah this tread has turned out to be productive I must say. Now I happen to have a small idea as to what encoder and stuff to use :D

Thank you anon-sbi and ca_aok.... maybe others will find this thread helpful too.

What.cd and waffle it is for now.
 
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