>calls themselves a Free Software advocate >doesn't

Rms? Rape me silly? Tf you saying senpai?

Yeah like converting lossy to lossy is a smart idea.
I use ogg whenever sensible, for example when available, or when I have lossless to encode from.

>>59029138
MPEG-3 is a proprietary codec, and as such, restricts your Four Freedoms. Liberating yourself is always a smart idea.

I do that already, but I don't consider myself a free™ software advocate.

All my music is FLAC

>>59029079
But I already do. I'm just too lazy to get all my old music in ogg format.

>>59029079
But all my music is Opus transcoded from FLACs.

>>59029258
There are some good mass sound converters. Just plop all your mp3s into it and convert.

>>59029340
Why???

>>59029340
Converting lossy formats to anything will mess up the quality. Converting should only be done in a single direction, lossless to lossy.

>>59029363
Well lossy to lossless is an acceptable last ditch method in the case of archival when an original does not exist or can't be acquired, but is only really relevant to dead formats

>>59029461
Wouldn't keeping the lossy in that situation be the most sensible option?

>>59029157
The patents have expired on it though, and LAME has been around forever.

FLAC for archive and Opus for portable use. I have a lot of aoTuV songs as well.

>>59029561
Not if the format is dead and playing it is getting difficult

>>59029639
Which dead format needs this treatment, VQF or something?

>>59029683
some people archive for 10+ years, some for generations

Yeah like converting Windows to Linux is a smart idea.
I use Windows whenever sensible, for example when available, or when I have computer to compute from.

My music is better than yours.

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>>59029079
何

My music's ALAC

I could care less

>>59032209
Learn English.

>>59029079
Never transcode from lossy.

Also .ogg isn't an audio format. Ogg is a container. Vorbis and opus (better) are audio formats.

>>59029079
I have all my music in FLAC you shithead

>>59032110
shntool

>>59032243

wakatta onii-chan :3

>>59032273
What?

>>59029639
I'd focus on writing a clean, portable implementation of a decoder for the format, instead!

>>59029157
It isn't though.
It *WAS* but no longer is as the patents have expired and is therefore public domain.

There also exists FOSS/Libre MP# encoders and decoders that were previously (but no longer) encumbered by aforementioned patents.

Don't use AAC though.

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>>59029079
i encode in FLAC

>>59029363
Don't be stupid. The main method people should use nowadays is lossless to lossless. Plain wav files are big. You use a lossless format after those and call it a day.
I assume people aren't autistic spergstations that must have 9,000,000,000 songs in their collection on 64kbit each.

>>59031586
Being autistic about very long-term archiving has been a dead meme since about 10-15 years ago. We were archiving songs at max 128 or 192kbit mp3 at first and now lossless files can be found within seconds. I will literally not care too much about losing almost all of what I have today.
I mainly keep it as a CATALOG, not so much as an actual data storage if you know what I mean.

>>59029079
I convert FLAC to .Opus
But if I can only get .MP3 I just leave them like a normal person

>>59032791
As you should. Converting a lossy format to anything else would be retarded.

>calls themselves a Free Software advocate
>doesn't exclusively listen to GPL/CC BY(-SA) music
Honestly, what would rms think

>>59032919
iirc RMS has an exception for art

>>59032932
yeah I know
should you? do you WANT botnet music?

>>59032970
I want to listen to the music I like.

>>59032919
>implying I didn't relicense my music to CC-BY-MAAUTHORITAH

get outta town.

>>59032993
>I want to play muh games that I like
how is that different from what you said? if you don't care about your freedoms just say so

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>>59029079
I listen to all of my music on YouTube
It's so convenient

>>59033030
How is it?
To live by 'stallmans' rules is to deny myself the freedom to watch, listen or play what I want to, because of arbitrary reasons I'm not in control of.

Fuck that.

>>59033081
>willingly entering into a BDSM (botnet downloading sissy man) relationship with your computer

>>59033118
Can you please explain in detail how a music file that is not licensed in CC-BY-SA or GPL is a 'botnet'

>>59029324
>tfw downloading all my music in flac just to convert it to opus
>all this saved space
>this quality improvement from some shitty mp3 I had

The best feeling

>>59033140
if it denies you you're 4 freedoms and uses you're CPU/GPU/hardware cycles it's a botnet

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>>59029324
This. I see no reason why FLACs should be kept aside from archival purposes when codecs like Opus offer transparency and filesize advantages at relatively low bitrates.

>>59033155
So you don't actually have a reason, you're just a turbo autist...

Good to know 99.999% of the population can just keep on listening to what they want to.

Thanks for the clarification.

>>59033178
>give me a reason
>gives u a reason
>lalalacan'thearyoulalala
if you don't care about you're freedoms then just say that?

>>59033202
I think I care about my freedoms more than you.

You censor what you can listen and read (and therefore say and think) based on an arbitrary condition that is outside of your control.

I just listen to and read whatever I want.

I don't really give two shits about commercial licensing, piracy is fine too. I still just watch, listen, read, think and say whatever I want.

I'm not the one being restricted. I love my freedom so much I exercise it all the fucking time.

>>59033247
>I care about my freedoms
>that's why I support the botnet
lolok

>>59033261
>You're only free to do X if you meet my restrictive conditions, you are not free to do it otherwise as then you'd be a botnet supporter.
meanwhile, Anon just does whatever they fuck he wants, since he's not under oppressive thought control.

>>59033308
>I care about my freedoms
>that's why I support the botnet
lolok

>>59029117
this better be bait

>>59029079
>ogg
>not flac
FAG

>>59033510
that's like saying
>mkv
>not h264

>>59034158
FLAC is both a container and a codec.

>>59034177
my point is that you can put flac in ogg, they're not mutually exclusive
you can also store x264 video standalone in its raw bitstream format as well

>>59034207
You can put x264 in ogg too, your point is?

>>59029079
Actually, I nuked all of my old pirated music.

Piracy of proprietary media makes them think it has more value than it actually does and reinforces their ideals. I threw away the trash and don't leave myself open to exploitation and imprisonment because of a fatally broken copyright system.

Grow up, kiddo. Leave your proprietary society behind and join us in the creative commons.

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>>59034235
i just--

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>>59032919
>>59032970
>>59033030
>>59033118
>>59033155
>>59033202
>>59033261
>>59033317
Very nice, you're certainly persistent. Had a good laught reading through your conversation with that poor anon

>>59032305
>>59032305
Not true. Check out mp3licensing.com
There is a big debate over whether mp3 is free now or not. Why do you think LAME isn't bundled with a lot of software by default? Because the maintainers don't want to pay royalties. But there are very few cases of the mp3 owners going after people. A lot of free software projects will not include MP3 encoding/decoding by default over licensing fears.

$: ls Music/
Richard Stallman - Free Software Song.ogg

>>59035915
$: ls Music/
RMS - Free Software Song.ogg
Free Software Song (Club Mix).ogg

Free software is a crime against white's. Day of the rope comes for you communist cucks.

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>>59036024
>there are people who actually think like this
>there are people who unironically use the word "cuck" to describe people who challenge their way of thinking

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>>59029117


ALL MY LIFE WAS A LIE ?

>>59029079
mp3 is no longer patented here

BTFO OP

>>59036579
Where do you live? In the US it's still a gray area

>>59036579
Still patented in clapistania

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>>59036579
>>59036596

Only in the US.