[Trevor]

On 28/02/2017 11:40 PM, Mike Rivers wrote:
On 2/27/2017 11:33 PM, Trevor wrote:

geoff (or maybe it was Nil) wrote
Another factor is that some popular music programs like Apple iTunes
and Windows Media Player create low-quality files by default. You can
change that, but I'm sure most people don't know how or care.

Disagree. Most people who could be bothered to encode their own files,
rather than simply download someone else's, know what they are doing.

Again, we have the "most people" argument. While I haven't taken a world
wide poll to prove it, I firmly believe that most people don't encode
their own files. That's too much bother, both to obtain an unencoded
source, and then figure out how to encode it and what to do with it.
"Most people" just let iTunes take care of that business. Really.

That was MY point, "most people" don't. So those who do usually care a
little more.


If you ever looked at the illegal sites you'd see they have
almost universally been at 256 or 320kbs for quite a few years

Show me an illegal site.
And then, show me that what they're deliving at 256 or 320 kbps were
encoded from full resolution files.

OK find a file less than 256kbs on newalbumreleases dot net amongst the
many thousands they have if you can. Plenty of FLAC there too.
NOT suggesting you should actually download any illegally though!!

Trevor.