CDs are DEAD, produce music in 24 bit not 16 bit

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[skorpi0wut]

No matter what advancements there are, people will always want physical copies of music. Vinyl's are far from dead, and I don't see why people think CD's are. If everything went digital, what would happen to album booklets?

[DJVespers]

@skorpi0wut If everything went digital, more trees would be alive and less fossil fuels would be burnt by shipping around breakable and inferior media that winds up in our landfills. That's what would happen.

[Neojhun]

Oh those who want to straight convert 24bit to 16bit with out remastering is awefull. It will cause many wierd issues with out alot of work. And not many consumer mp3 support 24bit, ipod and phones don't (Sep 2011).

[DJVespers]

@Neojhun Any decent audio program can easily dither 24 bit down to 16 bit. iTunes can. Oh and iTunes is capable of 24 bit playback BTW. It'll convert to 16 bit for your iPhone or iPod from what I understand. I meant this more for playback by DJs at shows though where audio quality is more important on larger systems. You don't want to produce to the lowest common denominator with your music if you're concerned about quality at all.

[stripes5150]

Seriously, Pal, I don't see why everything doesn't go 96kHz and 64bit

[DJVespers]

@stripes5150 64 bit audio playback doesn't exist. And 96kHz captures frequencies beyond the range of human hearing. Not really relevant.

[DJVespers]

@GoingSolar Keep that up and I'm gonna call your mom and get her to wash your mouth out with soap ;) Feel free to comment mate, but dial down the haterade a bit. Keep it amicable around here. Cheers.

[waterfall32]

does a sound card allow for a higher quality audio file when rendering or does it only make a difference when your using it for play back on systems?

[alakingjoe]

so what's better when uploading a video to youtube? a 16 bit audio or a 24 bit one?

[RaheemdaplayaO4]

I would agree with this until yesterday, I decided I would burn my old cds onto my laptop because I wanted them in lossless quality. And I know no other way of getting digital music in lossless quality so I still like CDs just for that.

[MrLiberty1972]

well, i'll change everything to 24 bit and see how it goes with cpu etc...I still like to make CDs of my finished tracks, so will it make no difference if i export audio at 24bit and then burn to CD? I'm assuming it will transfer with no problems, and just automatically do so at 16?

[ploki2120]

@FrenkDublin It's idiotic... Lossless audio takes up half the space, offers better quality, and the workflow is the same as for CD. Really makes no sense today. DJVespers is completely right.

Vinyl is *different* than CD, but CD is just an inferior digital medium, we have better now. We don't have better analog mediums than vinyls though. :) (Well tape, but we all know how much money and time that takes to service and maintain.)

[ploki2120]

@PanCakeMixer101 It's not a fixed scale like 24bit at which every bit corresponds to a certain dBFS value. I.e.: the resolution of 24bit file at certain level is actually 16bit. 32bitfp is used for internal processing, so if you lower the level your relative resolution stays intact, but level lower. i.e., you lower a 24bit file it doesn't end up 16bit, it just get "shifted" down along the fp scaling. (Dumbed down version). It's rather complicated, but simple answer: 32bit only for processing.

[PanCakeMixer101]

Hi I am a student in sound design.I wanna know what is 32bit float.

[Zebra902]

@DJVespers And moonbeams will twinkle 'round your head, fairies will dance at your feet, and the trees sway to the lovely music of the wind......and my CDs will be a tangible object to pass down to my children.......just like the platters for my crank up Victrola. I certainly hope you don't own a car or use toilet paper!