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MP3 vs. MP4 vs. FLAC vs. WAV for DJs
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golem
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Posted : Sep 7, 2009 00:35:04
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Hi. I was wondering that what is the current situation for audio formats...?
I am currently buying almost all of stuff from beatport on 320kbps MP3, but am considering upgrading to a better format.
How does currently DJ-programs support these formats...? If you use solely WAV:s are the programs as stabile as with MP3 (as the harddisk probably needs to read with ten times higher rate bytes from the hard disk as with MP3s.
How about FLAC? I noticed that DJ-programs are reluctant to add that format.
Tell about your experiences. I am reluctant of converting my whole library into WAV because it would have difficulties getting fit into one hard drive. Thats why I am interested that are some of the alternatives satisfactory.
I am especially interested about Ableton, Virtual DJ and Serato, because I use those mostly.
 
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reversus
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Posted : Sep 7, 2009 17:07
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wav always...Wav is the audio format most used in digital audio and it supports the highest quality of a recording. mp3 cuts some high and low frequencys and flac is a rip from a wave file so ..
I guess that might help
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bukboy
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Posted : Sep 7, 2009 18:12
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FLAC is as lossless as WAV, but does give some compression, although not much, maybe 50% or 33% |
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PsYmOrPh
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Posted : Sep 7, 2009 21:45
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upgrade from 320kbps to wav?? the quality will be the same, nothing changes....in music upgrade quality is impossible, just downgrade 
flac is the better option to save music, to play convert to wav, will not loose quality |
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Fuzulu
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Posted : Sep 8, 2009 01:46
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wave is the best ... but there are many deejays using 320 now days ... i wud prefer listening to waves on big sound anyday . |
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ultraviolence
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Posted : Sep 8, 2009 01:50
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Zero-Blade
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Posted : Sep 8, 2009 15:22
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smehoparanoya
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Posted : Sep 8, 2009 15:43
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FLAC and WAV, I play Wavs only, you'd be noticing a difference if you have a good audio interface and speakers
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subconsciousmind
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Posted : Sep 9, 2009 16:35
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realtime
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Posted : Sep 15, 2009 08:37
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vegetal
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Dharma Lab
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Posted : Sep 15, 2009 20:07
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Traktor from native Instruments supports FLAC....
Keep The Faith,
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bukboy
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Posted : Sep 15, 2009 22:49
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Golem - do not convert your collection. You will be wasting time converting your mp3s to wav's as the information once lost can never be regained. Only way is to rip your cds again into wav or flac. (flac is lossless) |
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Psyloxin604
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Posted : Sep 18, 2009 08:30
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All I have to say it's, that for me some files marked as 320 just sounds like shit. I don't think every 320kb mp3s out there, really are 320 quality.
- Somebody please tell me what you think about this.
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-=Mandari=-
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Posted : Sep 21, 2009 15:09
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