What's the point of FLAC when so much music is mastered

For the music that isn't mastered for cheap earbuds and car speakers

Are you implying that making your music sound worse somehow makes it sound better on shitty sound systems?

For the music that isn't mastered for cheap earbuds and car speakers

>>71776197
this

lmaoing at your life for not being able to reach this conclusion by yourself op

Because even the music that's played mostly on shitty earbuds and car speakers is mastered with professional grade equipment and sound systems.

>>71776197
Such as? The only album from this decade I know was well mastered is Daft Punk's R.A.M.

>>71776223
>this decade
>all music that exists has been made this decade

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For albums like this, that aren't listened to on cheap earbuds or through car speakers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FW_zZf-ME8

>>71776243
I'm just talking modern music in that post but it seems like well mastered music is uncommon, regardless of decade. Maybe aside from the 70s and prior.

dude, most car speakers are better than your 500$ headphones.

>>71776240
Blackstar

>>71776293
Makes sense.

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>>71776256
my god its BEAUTIFUL

R O T A T I O N A L
V E L O C I D E N S I T Y

>>71776688
>meme faces
>three sets of dubs
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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>>71776715
you've taken a lot away from me, /mu/

you are not taking away the tears of joy rolling down my face

where has this been, my entire life?

>>71776189
>what is jazz
>what is classical
>what is anything not made for the radio
and in any case pop music doesn't sound worse in FLAC, there just isn't much of a difference (it can sound worse on some audiophile headphones though as they tend to bring out the sibilance and harshness)

ALet me break it down for you.

Hearing the difference now isn't the reason to encode to FLAC. FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is 'lossy'. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA - it's about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don't want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.

I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrange…well don’t get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren’t stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you’ll be glad you did

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That's my problem with this album, as amazing as it is, the audio quality is still shit and it feels like it was mastered for shittier speakers. The mixing is gorgeous, but the mastering is fucked.

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>>71777141
I wonder if there's any certified /mu/core with the same issues. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

>>71777186
Honestly Frances is just... fuck it makes me mad because I love the album so fucking much, and it skirts the line of wank-prog pretty much perfectly. Most other bands, a 30 minute song would be a brow-scratcher but Cassandra Gemini just fucking trashes the room with itself when it's done.