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It happens that I preview a track in Beatport and it sounds like shit (heavily distored). I think that more important than bitrate is the audio quality of the track in terms of mastering but also source. I also believe that some people can hear the difference on certain setups (I’m not talking about hi-res audio here). My aging ears can’t tell the difference and I’m pretty sure my audience can’t either in the settings I play. I’ve done multiple A/B tests on more than decent headphones and speakers. I’m the first to admit that I won’t be able to tell the difference between a properly mastered and encoded MP3 file and the lossless version of it. Storage is so cheap these days that’s not really a factor any more.Ībout one third of my collection is in ALAC (because I still rely on iTunes for music management), the rest is 256/320 kbps AAC/MP3. Unless steps are taken to reduce the digital level of the track before encoding this can result in audible distortion in the MP3 version.įinally, if you can get a better quality version of something, why not? Yes the cost is a little more, but downloads are still massively cheaper than vinyl ever was. If you play MP3’s and record your set, if you want to then publish it for others to download, it usually ends up being compressed again to MP3 at least once and possibly twice if you upload to a streaming service, at which point the losses from the multiple compressions I suspect will start to become more of an issue.Īnother issue is MP3 encoding of tracks that have been mastered very hot (i.e. There are still a few reasons to stay with uncompressed formats though in my mind… the biggest of which is recording sets.

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Not because I think people can tell the difference between straight playback of a well encoded 320kbps (or even 256kbps) MP3, because they can’t – blind tests show that. I prefer AIFF to WAV as it handles meta data / cover art. Let’s learn from each other. Off you go.ĪAC AIFF ALAC audio file audiophile file mp3 Pioneer DJ WAV XDJ-XZ Remember that it’s much better to positively express the reasons for your choices than attack those who do something different.

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Or do you simply not buy into that audiophile piffle and knock out 128K YouTube rips to a full bar? Has any DJ been audited by punters for file formats because they can only dance to lossless? Has any punter ever complained about the clearly inferior sound quality of your 320K files?Ĭonsider the can of worms open. Where do you buy them? Can you get everything you need in lossless? Or do you sometimes slum it with MP3? Do you do anything else to them? Extra tagging? I’m also interested in the process you employ to get your files.

It’s only we DJs that care about these things, I guess so the crowd doesn’t have to. I’m especially interested in the reasoning for lossless formats (FLAC brought us here), especially when the accepted truth is that a room full of wasted clubbers cannot tell the difference between a decent MP3 and a lossless format.

Instead, I want to know what you use and why you use them. This is not an educational piece as such - it’s easy enough to find out all about the plethora of lossy and lossless formats without me walking in front of a virtual blackboard like a professor. So it’s time to find out what our lovely community thinks as far as file formats go. But the issue of FLAC use has come up repeatedly over the years. And by the extension of principle, me too. So I nipped that in the bud and decided to give the subject of audio formats its own article.Įssentially the issue of the new Pioneer XDJ-XZ not being FLAC compatible has arisen, much to the annoyance of some. I knew as soon as I hit the “Post as Mark Settle” button in Disqus comments that I’d possibly derailed the XDJ-XZ story into decidedly off-topic territory, a place I despise with a passion.