• prole
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    7 hours ago

    Yes, transcoding. At least re-encoding, I’m not sure if simply moving the file degrades it…

    All of this talk is making me miss what.cd. You’d get the boot if you uploaded a transcode

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      2 hours ago

      In the context that automated systems will compress files for transfer to save bandwidth then it could potentially result in loss.

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      4 hours ago

      What.cd was the greatest collection of obscure music the planet has probably ever seen. I dont even particularly care about lossless codecs, I was fine with 320kb/s mp3 as it was more convenient but even their mp3 rips were way better than other places, and you knew everything would be tagged and sorted correctly. And they had EVERYTHING you could think of, it was wild.