Comments on: Celebration Doesn’t Care About The Vampires Anymore http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/03/25/celebration-doesnt-care-about-the-vampires-anymore/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:21:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: CELEBRATION, profiled by Ian Svenonius | ARTHUR MAGAZINE - WE FOUND THE OTHERS http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/03/25/celebration-doesnt-care-about-the-vampires-anymore/comment-page-1/#comment-174085 CELEBRATION, profiled by Ian Svenonius | ARTHUR MAGAZINE - WE FOUND THE OTHERS Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:51:48 +0000 http://www.arthurmag.com/?p=5958#comment-174085 [...] all the hubbub around Celebration this week (see their exciting statement of intent here; check out the crystal-manifesting video for “Evergreen” here), we thought it’d [...] [...] all the hubbub around Celebration this week (see their exciting statement of intent here; check out the crystal-manifesting video for “Evergreen” here), we thought it’d [...]

]]> By: John Coulthart http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/03/25/celebration-doesnt-care-about-the-vampires-anymore/comment-page-1/#comment-174024 John Coulthart Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:53:34 +0000 http://www.arthurmag.com/?p=5958#comment-174024 Fair enough but at least give music lovers some choice. AAC and OGG are both superior to MP3 at comparable bitrates while FLAC is superior to all, being lossless. There's also the Long Now argument: master tapes get lost/destroyed, hard drives crash. Recordings are often delivered to posterity via the medium which reproduced them. Giving listeners a FLAC option means you're seeding the future with a far better reproduction than a collection of destructively compressed audio files. Fair enough but at least give music lovers some choice. AAC and OGG are both superior to MP3 at comparable bitrates while FLAC is superior to all, being lossless.

There’s also the Long Now argument: master tapes get lost/destroyed, hard drives crash. Recordings are often delivered to posterity via the medium which reproduced them. Giving listeners a FLAC option means you’re seeding the future with a far better reproduction than a collection of destructively compressed audio files.

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