XenoBrain - Slashdot User

Submission + - JJ Abrams Find his James T. Kirk (iesb.net)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday September 26, 2007 @11:32PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "After months of speculation, industry chatter is indicating that JJ Abrams has found a front runner for his new James T. Kirk. We have been hearing his name for weeks but in the last couple of days the rumor has picked up steam with tips from several inside sources. The IESB has been told that 28-year-old Pennsylvania native Mike Vogel (Poseidon, Texas Chainsaw Massacre) is the front runner to play James T. Kirk in the 11th Star Trek film."

Comment Re:MP3 sounds bad to my ears (Score 1) 437

by XenoBrain on Wednesday September 26, 2007 @05:15PM (#20760407) Attached to: Review of Amazon's DRM-Less Music Download Store

Aside from a few "killer samples" that are specificly known to reveal weaknesses in the MP3 format, I agree you'd be very hard pressed to tell the difference between that and lossless.

But when I transcode to a 96k AAC for my portable (my desired format for bitrate/space) from that 256k MP3, it sounds worse than a file transcoded from a lossless source. No, I don't have ABX data to back this up, but it's a very reasonable assumption given previous test results.

A FLAC or other lossless file gives you the ability to transcode the music into YOUR format/bitrate of choice without additional artifacts being introduced, and this is a real plus to those of us with low capacity audio players.

Slashdot Top Deals