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View Poll Results: Which format for listening to music do you enjoy most?
Live Music is the Best 8 20.00%
Player Pianos 0 0%
Edison era Wax Tube 2 5.00%
Vinyl/other records 3 7.50%
8-Track 0 0%
Cassette Tape 0 0%
CD 11 27.50%
Mp3 Digital 9 22.50%
WAV Digital 1 2.50%
.Ogg Digital 1 2.50%
FLAC Digital 4 10.00%
Apple Lossless 1 2.50%
Other Lossy (which?) 0 0%
Other Lossless (which?) 0 0%
MIDI 0 0%
Voters: 40. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 04-12-2010, 05:07 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Which of these commonly used mediums do you most enjoy? Why do you prefer it?

The Contenders

  • Live Music is the Best
  • Player Pianos
  • Wax Tube
  • Vinyl/other records
  • 8-Track
  • Cassette Tape
  • CD
  • MIDI Reproductions (lol)
  • Mp3 Digital
  • WAV Digital
  • .Ogg Digital
  • FLAC Digital
  • Apple Lossless
  • Other Lossy (which?)
  • Other Lossless (which?)


If I ignored any file types hit up a mod to adjust the poll. This is an improved version of a now closed poll.
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Old 04-12-2010, 05:09 PM   #2 (permalink)
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CD
MP3

simple.

deja vu?
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CD preferably and then FLAC digital, it can then be converted to anything I like.

I have a lot of vinyl, vinyl isn't that great despite what the bandwagon riders say. 8-Track is nice for nostalgia but that's about it. I do miss cassettes and performing surgery on them when they get chewed or if they snap.
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I've a feeling MIDI will be the underdog in this one. When I was a kid I actually loved browsing the net for those little midi jams, haha.
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What I like the most are vinyls, but to be honest, I only listen to them extremely rarely so I don't think I could vote for it with a clean conscience. My second choice in the list is the ogg format. The reason is simple .. it's good (although the real difference in quality between the popular lossy formats is mostly detectable at lower BRs) and it's open source and free. Any media player can support it and so I think those who appreciate free lossy formats should as well.

The worth of lossless formats is greatly exaggerated. You need really good ears and equipment to identify better qualities at the standard BRs today and even then, reliably identifying the higher bitrates when you get to high quality lossys and up to lossless is not something I've seen or read about anyone doing. I've only seen and read about people who fail at it and know from testing that I'm no better.
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6 votes and I'm the only vote for live music?

I mean, really...
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6 votes and I'm the only vote for live music?

I mean, really...
It's hard carting all those bands and equipment around when I'm out for a drive
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6 votes and I'm the only vote for live music?

I mean, really...
Actually, a music format is a medium for recording and thus storing music, so I didn't think of live music as a proper alternative. Not until it's "stored" in one of the other alternatives anyways.
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CD is my preferred format and i always rip cds into Apple Lossless for my ipod, but i listen to a lot of mp3s as well. I would listen to vinyl but my turntable has bitten the dust.
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